what is a phone for gamers exactly is it
a no compromises mobile experience for
the most discerning of consumers or is it a mediocre expensive product
that hides its flaws behind flashy marketing and an eye-catching industrial
design maybe
just maybe it can be a little bit of both
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the razer phone both on paper and in practice is one of the fastest mobile
devices on the market with high light specifications including a
totally insane snapdragon 835 processor
truly insane performance and insane eight gigabytes of RAM and an adreno 540
GPU that i think could only be described as
insane all right uh
okay razer so back on earth none of those things would
actually get you strapped into a straitjacket and in fact all of them can
be found on the cheaper oneplus 5t so
i guess it's my job then to help the average consumer differentiate between
your phone's totally normal features and
its standout ones that's fine the first thing they did
well was cooling razer is a long way away from being able to design and or
fabricate its own mobile processors like giants apple and samsung do so to
differentiate from competitors all they can really do is get the most out of the
generally available parts on the market and they did just that the performance
difference between the razer phone and another phone is totally sane insane
performance but it's also measurable i wouldn't personally notice this kind of
a bump in day-to-day usage but i would never say no to free performance
the second thing they did well is the battery
in spite of razer's choice of an impressive but neither insane nor
unprecedented 4 000 milliamp hour battery they've actually taken some
flack over benchmarks like screen on time
but as someone who relies on a more anecdotal approach to phone battery
longevity i had no problems with it at
all and even with the screen configured to 120 hertz the razer phone lasted me
through even the most demanding days with lots of gps navigation and video
watching leading us to the third thing that razer
did well and not as well the screen
the good is that the 2560 by 1440 120
hertz panel from sharp is a total
game changer i already experienced this kind of
fluidity with the ipad pro but a high
refresh rate display when used with variable refresh rate technology to keep
unnecessary screen updates from sucking back battery while you're just staring
at a static screen not doing anything is a pure
no compromises solution it's insane for real this time other
than some stutters now and then that i hope razer can continue to tune in
future firmware updates animations and scrolling are so much smoother that
because of the additional responsiveness you would swear that the device is more
than just marginally faster thanks to a beefy
cooling solution the bad though is that other than the
refresh rate nothing about the screen stands out
compared to an OLED we do lose the burn-in concerns but it can't display a
clock or notifications all the time by illuminating only the necessary pixels
compared to a more color focused lcd it's not especially bright and this is
actually a big one for me compared to some of the ultra wide aspect ratio
displays that are out there now the razer phone wastes far more of its face
on bezels and on-screen buttons though
maybe waste is an unfair word call quality on the handset in
particular was pretty unexceptional but when it came to playing games or
watching movies that wasted speaker space was an absolute
godsend now i went out of my way to praise the pixel 2 and pixel 2 xl for
their spectacular front-facing speakers even though it did cost us a headphone
jack and razer is going to get the exact
same treatment here great speakers guys wish it had a headphone jack
yes somewhere in there and the skin is actually another
highlight they're using a nearly stock Android skin that seems to kind of
borrow from the oneplus playbook nothing razer added feels like bloat and
their game booster which lets you tune performance versus battery life on a per
game basis is pretty cool so no complaints here other than the usual
warning that comes from buying a low volume Android phone the expediency of
razer software updates and how long you
can expect to get them on their first generation product are both unknown
quantities at this time and that isn't the only buyer beware
statement that i've got about this phone here are a few more in no particular
order one it's not waterproof for careful people this might not be a
huge deal but ip67 ingress protection is
quickly becoming industry standard and this omission is made worse by number
two the razer phone's ergonomics are not great
i understand why they went with this blocky shape it's cheaper and it gives
them much more internal space for heat pipes than batteries compared to a phone
that's similar in size on paper like the pixel 2 xl but curvier
but the hold-ability drawbacks compared to devices with a more
natural hand-like shape are something that stood out to me
3. razer says the camera is going to
improve a lot and it might
but right now the best thing i can say about it is that it actually is capable
of capturing decent or even pretty good pictures
the worst thing i can say about it is that the camera app is best replaced
with a third-party one off the play store the low light performance
is not very good and that i haven't experienced shutter lag
like this in years it's just
not very competitive right now and if all i had to go on was my knowledge of
razer's long-term support of their first gen products and how difficult the
software tuning required to get even identical hardware up to par with apple
and samsung or even oneplus would be
i'd have to say i sincerely doubt that it will get there before work on a new
uh snapdragon 845 based new razer phone start sucking up all of
razer's dev time which brings us to the last buyer beware price
when a new razer product comes out
to its credit the razer phone is significantly less expensive than other
top-tier flagships like the iphone 10 and galaxy note 8. but compared to the
next level down kind of second-tier flagships like the galaxy s8
iphone 8 oneplus 5t its flaws become
much harder to overlook so bottom line then i'm not switching to the razer
phone but razer has still done something insane remarkable here that is
especially remarkable given that this is their first attempt they've managed to
create an identity for this product line that gets me pretty excited for where
they're gonna take it in the future it might not be great at everything
but it's the best at something butter
smooth gaming and that is a lot more than most me too phone manufacturers can
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