Razer FINALLY Sent their new Phone - Classic Unboxing
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,510 words · ~7 min read
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Linus did you see the razer phone Linus
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where's your unboxing of the razer phone Linus why haven't you reviewed the razer
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phone yet well because i didn't get one
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but that changes today razer just sent over
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a care package this is it
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the 64 gig and only version of
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their new flagship first ever mobile device the
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razer phone
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oh that's how the box opens okay so there's a big long letter about
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how much you love razer okay that's good
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then razer's characteristically excellent
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packaging we've got
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a razer sim removal tool wow that's actually a really cool sim removal tool
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all right cool and got my attention so far we've got
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well it's there so there's a type c to three and a half millimeter adapter
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a type c to type c charging cable a wall wart
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and the razer phone itself
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so i watched the keynote i have a pretty
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good idea of what to expect from this device but what i actually didn't do is
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watch anybody else's unboxings or reviews of
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it because i really wanted to save my impressions for myself
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and first impressions this is a really
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really big phone like i might not have grabbed the right devices for
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kind of hands-on size comparison here i've got
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an iphone 10 and you can see it absolutely dwarfs
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that this is definitely a phablet size device i've got a galaxy s8
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all right there it is next to a pixel 2
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xl so those are much more similar in terms of their size it's not actually a
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lot bigger in terms of its total width or its total
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height compared to the pixel 2 xl but there is something about blockier phones
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that makes them feel bigger in the hand with that said something that
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i think razer has found a good balance of here is that
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it's still because of it because it's got nice flat
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edges you can still kind of support it like this and using it one-handed is not
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going to be the end of the world in a pinch especially if you're someone who has larger hands than i do
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okay this is just not working so let's try 2.4 gigahertz
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maybe i'm just entering the password wrong twice in a row i'm just gonna
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pop the sim out of my 5t
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since i'm actually done writing up my review on that one and i'm ready to
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start using the razer phone as a daily driver and we'll see if maybe throwing a
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sim in it it's gonna give us enough of a data connection to get through the setup
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process here yeah sure well i guess i'll just do this 250 mag
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update on my mobile data um
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hopefully it fixes the wi-fi issues
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maybe that's what it's for you know what it's okay
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everybody needs an update now and then we have successfully updated razer phone
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let's start over hey look at that all right we have a
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wi-fi connection no problem i'll be right back once i've signed in
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wow the display has kind of a blotchiness to
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it i'm not sure if you're going to be able to pick that up on camera but you can really see on white white
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backgrounds that it's not quite a pure white can you see that
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has kind of like a grid kind of pattern to it interesting you know so far it
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actually reminds me a lot of like one of sony's older xperia phones it's got the
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fingerprint sensor on the right it's got the kind of squarish
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blocky shape unlike sony though it's
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using a basically stock Android with
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just a couple of modifications
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oh it looks like that 120 hertz display is enabled right out of the box wow that
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feels smooth i'm still seeing that slight pattern but
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honestly it's the kind of thing you could probably get used to in exchange
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for that sort of buttery feeling to the
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interface i'm liking that oh i could get used to
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that okay so first thing i want to do here is get the developer options enabled so
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that i can turn on the yeah there we go okay
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interesting so we've got a live frame rate counter
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that's telling us exactly what refresh
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rate the display is running at here so you can see
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that when the image is static it's actually turning way down
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to as low as 20 frames per second
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then when you move around actually you could see it hitched there while it
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kicked in it's jumping up to 90 frames per second
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really cool okay i'm gonna just fire up the google play store and
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get a game that i know supports 120 hertz we interrupt this video to bring you the
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real reason that i couldn't connect to the wi-fi alex here walked in
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complaining that he couldn't get a device on the wi-fi
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and i realized we're out of ip addresses
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wasn't razer's fault that's probably also why all the smart
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light control modules aren't connecting probably yeah so i'm calling tech
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support on my razer phone
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which sounds okay i guess
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this voicemail box is full please try again later thank you for calling
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goodbye worst it guy of all time
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look at all this crap look at all these devices why are there
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so many devices what is bad address
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nobody names anything you know what let's just kick it off
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we found the button so i'm just gonna open it right up
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to all the way down to
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let's say 30. and hopefully
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we don't step on anything
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okay try and connect
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well give it a second okay yes problem solved
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okay and back to you Linus
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okay so we are back to our unboxing of the razer
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phone let's go ahead and fire up simpson's tapped out a game that
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supposedly supports 120 FPS on this 120hz display
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and of course there's an update
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not as many as this phone's getting
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okay age to continue i don't like it but i'm 31.
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oh shut up go away
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tap to play anonymously to start playing while the game something's in the
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background you know what that uh pattern that i
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noticed before really only noticeable on
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plain
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can have more white flowers than your pretend friends
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wow those speakers get really loud
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i gotta say i was impressed by the speakers on the pixel 2 and the
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pixel 2 xl but these absolutely
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blow them away okay i'm not sure that this is the kind
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of game that benefits like the most
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from high frame rate but
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that's cool i mean the zooming
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when it's not hiccuping here is really
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smooth
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okay next order of business we could try another game um the ones that are
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included world of tan they don't have a lot of
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color in that game titanfall ass
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hey okay between now and the full review i'm gonna have to spend some time in
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that one like i'm i'm picturing giant robots like like twerking you know like
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no no brandon no oh wow all the all the no
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over there okay that's fine i'll i'll spend more time on the gaming aspects of
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the phone before the full reviews the last thing i just want to have a quick
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look at is the camera
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now this is something that razer has already even acknowledged that
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they're going to have to improve a little bit um you know other than like
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a quick test shot of something i'm not going to be able to do much with it now
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but
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i mean other than some you know aliasing around his head or whatever i'm not
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seeing anything that immediately
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makes it stand out as being like terrible
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here's a pixel 2 xl
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so yeah there's clearly some finer detail in this guy already but
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you know really it's going to come down to how usable it is in the day-to-day so
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there you have it unboxing of the razer phone
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