Gaming peripheral outfit Razer is launching a smartphone. Yep, just when you thought the year was winding down and tech reviewers could finally take a breather, this newcomer to the smartphone race has thrown its hat into the ring for the first time: hello, Razer Phone.
Razer Inc. (stylized as RΛZΞR), is a Singaporean gaming hardware company founded by Min-Liang Tan and Robert Krakoff, with headquarters in Singapore and San Francisco. You must have heard about its Razer Blade Pro or Stealth Ultrabook.
What you need to know:
The Razer Phone's core specifications are quietly impressive. There's a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor inside, complete with 8GB of RAM and 64GB of storage that’s expandable by up to 1TB via microSD. Keeping things running is a massive 4,000mAh battery. It comes with Nougat 7.1.1.
On the front is a 5.7in 120Hz 1,440 x 2,560 IGZO LCD display, complete with a pair of 12-megapixel cameras on the back. One is an f/1.7 wide-angle unit; the other is an f/2.6 2x telephoto zoom effort.
So, it's made for game gods as it is purely performance-centric. It would be really unreasonable to miscalculate it by comparing its aesthetics to top flagships which come with bezel-less displays and strikingly superb cameras.
Performance:
Razer Inc. (stylized as RΛZΞR), is a Singaporean gaming hardware company founded by Min-Liang Tan and Robert Krakoff, with headquarters in Singapore and San Francisco. You must have heard about its Razer Blade Pro or Stealth Ultrabook.
What you need to know:
The Razer Phone's core specifications are quietly impressive. There's a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor inside, complete with 8GB of RAM and 64GB of storage that’s expandable by up to 1TB via microSD. Keeping things running is a massive 4,000mAh battery. It comes with Nougat 7.1.1.
On the front is a 5.7in 120Hz 1,440 x 2,560 IGZO LCD display, complete with a pair of 12-megapixel cameras on the back. One is an f/1.7 wide-angle unit; the other is an f/2.6 2x telephoto zoom effort.
So, it's made for game gods as it is purely performance-centric. It would be really unreasonable to miscalculate it by comparing its aesthetics to top flagships which come with bezel-less displays and strikingly superb cameras.
Performance:
That’s certainly no surprise; inside you’ll find Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 830 powering things, with 8GB of RAM and 64GB of expandable storage. In our benchmarks, yet again, everything was neck and neck.
Graphics performance is a similar story. Running GFXBench’s Manhattan 3.0 test recorded a native resolution onscreen result of 40fps, and an offscreen score of 63fps. It appears that despite the 120Hz display, the Snapdragon 830’s GPU is unable to handle higher framerates at 2K resolution.
In a nutshell:
Razer seems to have done just enough to make a decent impression with the Razer Phone. It might not be the last word in cutting-edge design but with its unique 120Hz display and a laundry list of high-end components, it really does set itself apart from 2017’s other flagships.
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