If you are anything like me, you enjoy playing games on
your mobile phone.
Now that is because your mobile phone is with you all the time
and there's always a great catalogue of games that are
available in addition to things like remote play,
Xbox game pass.
Those are all features that you love.
I really don't want to bring a full size controller with me
wherever I go, but I do love playing games.
Now, that is where this is going to come in.
This is the Razor Kishi and this is a ninety nine dollars
game controller from Rieser.
This one is made for iPhone, though they do have a version
made for Android.
And the question is whether or not you should buy this and use
it for gaming, whether it's using Apple Arcade Remote Play
or Xbox Game Pass.
Now I am like this is tech 24/7 TV and we are going to evaluate
this and see whether or not you should purchase it.
Let's get started.
As I mentioned in the beginning, this is the
razor Kishi and it cost ninety nine dollars.
It's available on Amazon, Best Buy and a few other
websites which I will link down in the description below.
Now in terms of compatibility, this will work with any iPhone
from the iPhone six as Onyewu.
What's unique about the Razr Kishi is how it connects
to your iPhone.
Now, what you go ahead and do is there are two pull tabs pull
open and then once it opens, there is this this ribbon cable
that is available in the back.
And this stretches to fit your iPhone.
Depending on what iPhone that you have, you might need to
change these inserts that are in here now inside the box,
they do include the inserts for different models.
So that's something to go ahead and keep in mind that you can
go ahead and swap out the inserts if you have
a different phone.
Now, I'm using the iPhone 12 Permax here and I'm going to
insert it into the lightning site first.
Now, once I pull it in there, I wrap the other side around
the iPhone and it is active.
Now, the Razr Kishi will use the lightning port on the
iPhone for gaming.
So there's no Bluetooth connection and there's actually
no battery inside of the Razr.
So you don't have to worry about powering it.
It draws a very minimal amount of power while using from your
iPhone when you're doing the gaming.
So that's the thing to keep in mind.
You can charge your iPhone through this pass through
lightning port that is here on the bottom.
You don't need to worry about kind of plugging anything
in weirdly, but it does support that.
But unfortunately, unlike the backbone one, this does not
support lightning audio.
So I say that's the downside there.
So if you have a pair of lightning headphones and you
don't own a pair of Bluetooth headphones, you will
need to go had an upgrade because this is the only way
that you can use this with audio.
Assuming that it's not on speakers with a pair of
Bluetooth headphones at ninety nine dollars, I would say that
this is decent.
It's more expensive than a game controller like the Sony PS4
controller or even the Xbox controller, but it is
offers little bit more compactness.
You don't worry about bringing a separate charger,
always pairing your iPhone.
That's the benefit of this.
Now, once you have your iPhone inside of the Razr Kishi,
I tend to notice that there's a little bit of flex right here
inside of the controller where I would say that you wouldn't
expect that for a hundred dollars.
I would say it's based on how it is designed and with its
flex cable along the back.
Gaming is going to be good.
It does have nice responsive controllers.
The analog sticks.
Not only do they function both up, down, left and right,
but they also function to go and push in the face.
And no buttons do have a good feel to them.
I would say that they are responsive.
The one thing that I'm just not a fan of a personal preference
is whether or not these buttons have a matte texture
and they don't.
They actually have a gloss texture.
Now, what is cool is that the top buttons here are a little
bit protruding out from the bottom buttons and it's very
easy to see or feel which buttons that you're pressing.
Now, there are three reasons why I would not buy the razor.
So first and foremost is that I don't like this this
backplate here, the way that it wraps around the iPhone,
I think that is very chintzy for one dollar product.
Now, what I would love to see is a durability test of this
back pan here, seeing how quickly it would fail from
opening and closing, it's not even easy to try to
put it together.
So here, I'll just close this like, I don't know, like I
expect it maybe to to click first, and it doesn't.
There we go.
So you see, it's not necessarily simple.
Once you have it closed, you tap that close.
And obviously this the Razr Kishi is going to have a
smaller footprint than the backbone one.
You could see that here they are, the razor.
She's probably about an inch, inch and a half shorter.
The second thing is that this lightning port here doesn't
support lightning audio.
It's kind of ridiculous.
At a hundred dollars, it doesn't support
lightning audio, nor does it have a three point
five millimeter Jack.
So if I want to use, let's say, my air pods Max,
with the lightning port, sorry, with the three point five
millimeter Jack, I can't do that either.
The third thing, and this is going to be the most important
for anyone that is gaming out there, if you plan to
use this, let's say if you're going to broadcast your games
to either twitch or YouTube, you cannot broadcast you cannot
use your iPhone as a video source with this controller.
So that is a very, very big downside.
So if I was using the backbone one controller, not only can I
use the lightning port for audio, not only can I go
and use this lightning port for charging, not only does it
have a three point five millimeter Jack, but I can put
my iPhone here and broadcast the screen from there, which is
a very big advantage.
What I would say is that if you are thinking about
getting this, I would hard pass it.
Ninety nine dollars unless you got it as a gift.
Ninety nine dollars it doesn't support.
Let me pass through audio.
It doesn't support three point five millimeter Jack.
It doesn't have the integrated app launcher that is found on
the razor kichi it and it doesn't really feel like
a dollar product.
That's really the end of it.
At the end of the day, I think this from a design and
experience perspective is inferior.
This feels much more like a solid product.
Now, if you're in the market for a game controller or maybe
you already own a razor, Kishi, let me know what your
experiences have been.
Again, I am not a fan.
I think at ninety nine dollars this is actually
way overpriced.
I think this could be like sixty nine dollars and it would
be maybe more appealing to people based
on its functionality.
But at ninety nine dollars when the backbone one is ninety
nine dollars, the backbone one is clearly the superior
gaming experience, especially if you have
lightning headphones, three point five
millimeter headphones, or if you want to broadcast or
gameplay to the Internet using a lightning cable
pass through.
So that is it.
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