- If you've never heard of Razer
they started out making computer mice for gamers
then they moved into headsets, laptops,
and it goes on and on.
For gamers by gamers.
Sometime in 2011 though well before their super popular
Razer Blade, Blade Pro, and Blade Stealth laptops were out
they announced at CES they were working on a prototype
called the Switch Blade.
Min-Liang the CEO of Razer grabbed top talent
from Apple, HP, and Dell to develop a portable gaming
device.
This small laptop essentially featured the state of the art
intel Atom processor at the time
and a clever keyboard comprised of small screens
that allowed it to change out keys as needed
for games, keyboards, et cetera.
Kinda reminds me of the El Gato Streamdeck at the moment.
It also worn People's Choice Award that year
at the convention.
Unfortunately though it never made it past the concept
phase.
But it would appear that almost seven years later
Min-Liang has not quite given up on the concept of
a portable gaming device.
This is the simply named Razer Phone
and as is Razer fashion it has a crazy spec sheet.
Firstly it's encased in a very Razer-esque CNC
machined aluminum unibody with the oh so familiar
Razer three-headed snake etched into the back.
No.
It doesn't light up.
But there will be a limited edition model
that will at least have the snake in green.
Instead of Windows, Razer is using Android
and it's built on the Snapdragon E35 processor
with eight gigs of RAM.
It also has 64 gigs of internal storage
with a microSD card slot that can support up to
two terabytes to expand the storage
along with the ability to install apps and games
to the SD card using Android Marshmallow's flex storage
ability to format the SD card so that Android sees it
as if it's internal storage.
Important obviously for a device that is geared
at gaming.
The screen is a 5.72 inch 2560 by 1440 IGZO display.
The same display technology from their laptops
by the way.
But it has a 120 hertz refresh rate
that can dynamically be altered to go to the higher end
for smoother gaming and the lower end to conserve power.
The volume and power buttons on either side of the device
are symmetrically located for a reason.
Razer says the device was designed for gaming
and meant to be used in landscape mode most of the time.
With that in mind we have two stereo speakers
on either side of the device
and even though I only had a small time with the device
they are properly loud.
As in might be the loudest speakers on a phone
I've ever heard.
(whistling and birds chirping)
There is no headphone jack and instead they just
have a USB C port.
Razer did mention that they'll be including a
USB C to 3.5 millimeter dongle that isn't just an
adaptor but also contains a DAC certified by THX
a company that they recently bought
to improve the quality.
Around the back of the device we have dual 12 megapixel
cameras.
One telephoto with a 2.6 F aperture and a wide one
with a 1.75 F aperture.
On the software side Razer is going with stock Android
with only a few apps they've added to help with gaming
and a few other things.
Even the camera app is basically the stock Android camera
app without any buttons to switch lenses, portrait mode,
or any of that stuff.
The device instead just automatically switches from
the wide to the telephoto as you pinch into zoom.
Simple.
The launcher on the device might also seem a little
familiar.
And it's because it's one of my favorite third party
launchers actually called Nova Prime
and it's included for free.
Razer told me why even go through the effort
of making a launcher when the majority of their users
are going to replace it with Nova anyway?
And I honestly can't argue with that.
Another choice that I have to give them credit for
is an unlockable boot loader which I'm told
will work easily with the normal Android ADB commands.
Now if you're curious about what that means et cetera,
don't worry I'm actually gonna do a video on this
separately when I get a review unit.
The device also packs a 4,000 milliamp battery.
Also obviously important for gaming
and is the world's first worldwide available phone
to offer Qualcom's quick charge 4.0 plus
to be able to charge that massive battery.
It'll do 50% in 30 minutes but keep in mind
that's 2,000 milliamps in 30 minutes.
The device cost 699 and is available for preorder
right this moment.
It'll then start shipping November 17th.
There you guys.
Really quick rundown of all of the latest info on
the new Razer phone.
If you want more info on it though you can click the link
below to check it out.
I don't know.
Kinda cool.
I thought it was really interesting.
It doesn't have like our 18 by nine aspect ratio
and the small bezels and it's not IP rated by the way.
They told me it's because of the speakers.
Like to have those kinds of speakers
you just couldn't do that.
So I don't know.
Like it's not quite what we look for
when we think of like a flagship phone but
I don't know.
I don't know if that's a bad thing necessarily.
There's still something about it that's unique,
that's kind of appealing.
And of course you know if you have one of those laptops,
now your phone matches your laptop.
Bonus.
But yeah I'm sure there's a market for this.
I think my biggest question is
is it really going to be that much better
at gaming then say any other Android phone out there?
When I get the review unit though
I'll take a look and let you know.
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