Razer's New Top Secret Project
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,394 words · ~6 min read
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check them out and get a free trial at freshbooks.com Linus ces
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so here i am at ces and once again razer has an utterly
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crazy prototype project linda thing that
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they're showing off that actually really isn't that far out there so in
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front of me i have what appears at first glance to be three razor blade stealths
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but one of these things is not like the other
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or in sort of different terms two of them are
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not like the other this is a regular razer blade stealth it has an Intel core
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something or other processor it has a screen it has a battery it has a GPU of
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some sort some RAM some storage these ones are totally different so
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we've actually seen concepts like this before where you take
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whoa did he just press that button where you take your phone
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and you just put it into kind of a dumb shell and take that CPU that RAM that
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storage that battery that Android experience and make it larger than life
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and razer is showing off actually a more
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finished version of this than i probably would have expected so they moved the
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keyboard up so there's no power button here anymore the power button is now on
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the side of the phone so your fingerprint is going to work just fine
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as long as you use the right fingerprint because normally you would set up the razer phone with your thumb because it's
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kind of on the side anyway don't worry too much about those details then you've got a 1080p screen up here which may or
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may not ever be a real product at all so will it be 1080p i don't know but in the
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future they do say it will be touch screen so
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um how are you able to clarify that it will have some specs but you can't say
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that it will have others because it might not ever be a pro you know what
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it's not the point the point is you got a big screen up here that would be touch screen you've got a small screen down
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here that you can use as a second screen slash use as a gigantic trackpad the
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speakers are actually built into the phone and then they're going to have some other functionality built into this
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guy as well so it's going to have an extended battery so you're not going to
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have to worry about the still impressive four thousand milliamp hour battery but
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maybe not good enough to power this screen for a long time battery you're
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going to be able to get hopefully a fair bit of use out of it it's got a full
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size razor grade keyboard so that means nice clicky keys in the case of the
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razer blade stealth as well as full RGB lighting it's got an illuminated razer
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logo on the back and they're working out a way to use usb on the go for expanded
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storage so it's not clear whether that would be through a microsd slot or
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whether that would be through storage that's actually built into the chassis
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itself in terms of io right now the
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project linda version of it has a headphone jack
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so razer does know we still need those how about that it's got a type c input
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that can also be used for charging and power and then it's got a type a over on
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the other side so the idea here is that whether it's for larger screen gaming or
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whether it's for some you know lightroom i mean phone processors are getting so
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powerful that you can legitimately oh right sorry this one's tethered down
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they didn't want me lifting that one up sorry so you can legitimately do
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productivity type work on your phone processor the idea is now you've just
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got a bigger screen in order to be able to have a better experience so
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they're not talking about pricing if i had to guess i'd say based on just you
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know the aluminum construction the sort of quality of the components and all
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that i don't think it's going to be cheap so let me know what you would
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think would you consider buying like a shell accessory like this that is for
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one specific model of phone although we don't know what razer's plan for the
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future of the razer phone is maybe they're going to keep this form factor for a bit i don't know but would you
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consider an accessory like this to have a more laptop-like mobile experience
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with your phone device and if so please leave a comment letting me know
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how much you would consider paying for something like that
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but wait don't go away hold on hold on there's one other thing that i wanted to
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show you guys here today check this out so this is cool i
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actually asked razer they had no idea if this was going to work or not but hey
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usb is usb right and this thing for a
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project type product not product project um it's in a
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fairly functional state actually check this out this right here is the razer
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mamba hyperflux it is a wireless mouse that
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requires no battery and no wire whatsoever because it is using inductive
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charging now you might say well hold on a minute Linus logitech has
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had that for months and you would be right but that's slightly different because razer's
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solution doesn't have a battery
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so when you take it off the pad you have
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to plug in the cable or it just doesn't work at all
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and you might go but Linus that sounds terrible
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well hold on maybe it's not terrible maybe it's just a different use case
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because unlike logitech solution the mamba hyperflux is extremely light so
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what it has in it is a capacitor that charges up over a span of about 30
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seconds because i mean it's got to use all the rest of the power so for all the
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you know chroma RGB lighting and everything on it and then that gives you
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about five to ten seconds of you know liftoff timer like oh i accidentally
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went off my mouse pad but i want to make sure that it's working right away and
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there it is completely wireless mouse and uh
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all yours for the value price of just 249.99 us
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so anyway thanks for checking out our video from here in the razer suite at
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ces 2018 and a huge shout out to freshbooks for allowing us to be here
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ces Linus ces thank you Colton we're
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going to have that linked in the video description
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so thanks for watching guys you can just like you can like it won't hurt my feelings either way um i'm just gonna
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assume that if you disliked it was something to do with racer not to do with me uh while you're down there you
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can check out where to see the rest of our ces videos sure let's link the playlist down there or
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something like that yeah cause you can't buy any of this
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stuff that's the problem with ces i can't use my standard outro it kills me