Razer Phone Review By PhoneArena

This is the new razor phone, the latest handset, trying to make a name for itself with the help of some new display technology for other phones this year, that might have met ultra-wide screens with the razor phone. The stories all about silky smooth frame race, thanks to its ultra motion, 120 Hertz screen, will that automatically make it a win for gamers and how's the rest of the user. Experience hold up well, I'm Steven shank, with phone arena. Answering those questions right now, as I review the razor phone in a market dominated by phones with barely-there bezels and smoothly sloping curves, the boxy conservative looking razor phone is almost an anachronism. It's got a big 5.7-inch screen, flanked by dual front-facing speakers, all tucked within a big metal rectangle. While this is razors first phone, the company acquired robbing maker next bit back at the start of the year, and it's impossible to ignore.

The design similarities between these two phones, for as large as the handset is racer keeps its phone usable through a few smart decisions. The volume buttons are mounted relatively low on the left side, helping with one-handed operation and the side mounted. Fingerprint scanner is much easier to reach, and the scanners we've seen on other recent phablets, like the Galaxy Note 8, still not everything's perfect here. That fingerprint scanner, for instance, still requires a physical press, while other phones would unlock with just a glancing touch and well pretty much everyone else out there right now is making their smartphones waterproof, razors decided to go without that feature for its inaugural model. The real star of the show here, though, is the phone screen, or at least certain elements of it, using what racer, dubs ultra motion tech, the panels capable of her fresh rates up to 120, Hertz or twice as fast as your typical smartphone display that spells for some smoothly animating UI elements, but you'll have to manually tweak things for the best results as the phone ship set to just 90 Hertz mode, even at 90 Hertz, the screen looks great, but you may struggle to see what's going on and bright outdoor environments, that's because the razor phone screen is disappointingly dim and one of the weakest contenders we've seen in a while circling back to ultra motion.

What does that text spell for apps Racer does deliver a nicely executed game booster mode? It allows you to dial in the performance. You want to specify things like CPU speed, in addition to ultra motion frame rate, all in the interests of balancing high-end operation against power consumption, but even with everything set as high as it can go. Many apps are frame rate limited in software, meaning that they simply won't take advantage of a phone like the razor that can go all the way to 120 Hertz. A situation may improve in time, but don't expect the razor phone necessarily outperform other flagships right out of the box with a snapdragon 835 processors. Under the hood, the razor phone understandably operates up near the top of the currently available Android pack, a situation, that's not hurt by the more than adequate presence of eight gigabytes of RAM, like the ultra motion screen, simply dropping that kind of hardware on existing games won't necessarily supercharge them in the blink of an eye.

But it's some nice flexibility to have all the same storage comes at an adequate 64 gigabytes, and you're free to expand upon that with a micros card. The interface here isn't too special and Racer keeps things pretty close to stock, though, with the nice bonus of a Nova Launcher at the forefront the phone ships with nougat, but an android or RED update is on track for early next year. You'll find a theme store for dressing up the UI. A little and in addition to those game, booster controls for configuring display and performance settings whoare, also Dolby Atmos software for setting up sound profiles. The software there is a little clunky, though, and a lack of better preview options makes it difficult to appreciate the impact of you req adjustments.

Speaking of sound, the racer phones got a big pair of stereo speakers at the top and bottom of the phone screen. Well, the speaker grills are big anyway, even if the driver elements inside them are much smaller. That said, they do produce some big satisfying sound bass. Reproduction could use some work, but the stereo separation is good as our volume levels, unfortunately, there's no built-in headphone jack and razor ship's phone with a USB type-c adapter like other adapters of this type. They sound very good, but it does little to offset the annoyance of having to carry one around just to use your existing headphones and note.

The razor phone does not come with USB earbuds of its own. The razor would be happy to sell you a pair for an extra $80. The razor gives its smartphone a four thousand William hour battery, but don't get too excited about that big fuel tank in our custom tests, the razor phone scored just under 9 hours of screen on time, roughly the same as the iPhone 10 or pixel to XL, though both of those have much smaller batteries. So, while that's decent battery life, it also suggests that the razor phone is not being very efficient with its power. One consequence of simply throwing a big battery at the problem is that recharge times are also on the longer side, taking over two hours to refill.

Finally, we've got to talk about the camera, and this is easily the weakest point of the razor experience on paper. It sounds decent dual 12 megapixel cameras offering a standard and a telephoto lens, a setup we've seen work great on other flagship handsets, but then you notice it's missing things like optical stabilization, and it starts to become clear. This camera isn't quite in the same league, but the real problem here is camera software, and this is nothing short of a mess. You can count all the shooting options on one hand, the interface is utterly nonsensical. Why hide the settings menu behind a hamburger menu as the single option it contains and it's just outright missing.

Some obvious features. The most glaring there is giving users no way to switch between the dual cameras, no toggle to jump back and forth from standard to telephoto view. Now. Yes, you can pinch to zoom, but there's never any indication which camera you're using and no ability to separate a pure optical zoom through blurry digital zoom mess. It is garbage.

We might forgive a little of that if the pictures look great, but they're, only okay, low-light shots leave a lot to be desired and focal problems weren't uncommon, HDR can help, but taking over four seconds to process each shot. It's annoying to use video recording similarly works, alright, but a lack of stabilization can result in shaky shots and again there just aren't enough filming options. Racer is planning an update to improve camera functionality and fix some performance, but there's no excuse for shipping a phone with this pour of a camera setup. Razors first smartphone is very hit-and-miss. It's got a high frame rate screen, but we need more games actually taking advantage of that Tech and the lack of overall brightness does not help, and while performance is good, it's not significantly better than that of a lot of other Android flagships for every plus.

This phone has its feels like there's a corresponding ?, and then we have minuses like the camera and the lack of waterproofing, for which there's no plus at all. Frankly, at $700. The razor phone costs way too much for such an inconsistent user experience. There are some perfect ideas here, but either save your money for the second gen razor phone. Keep your fingers crossed at those forthcoming updates completely overhaul the software experience I'm Steven shank with phone arena thanks for watching and be sure to subscribe.

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Source : PhoneArena