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santé I wonder if we can mount it against anything to stand up straight I actually I usually just I usually use my business card I mean dude that'll fall over as I'm gonna be interacting with this because I'm gonna need to come around or we could just put the award right here and put it against it can you get I entered Authority I put it right here well we might talk about how it's a best of CES so it might be worth putting it here like maybe we could do it and that I leave ya outside then you can see the front of it hopefully doesn't slide oh yeah yeah we do have to be done just a little little peace we tape it to the back or something this is a live shot or tape delay or it's gonna be live on gun - yeah you yep t-mobile's only carrier we're talking oMG GSM networks so I think it forgot blocked for GSM networks yeah yeah she mostly had to like blade and stuff you hi everybody this I'm David and I am here with Razer today because they won our best of CES award and we just wanted to talk about the new project Linda as well as some other projects that they're announcing some new partnerships so why don't you tell me a little bit about project windows yeah definitely so this is the concept we're showing off at CES 2018 it's project Linda and basically what we've done is we've taken our razor smartphone and added the versatility of a laptop to it by docking it into the touchpad area using it as a touchpad in its most basic form but our real concept is lighting up both screens and having unique content on both screens so you could have user interface down here if you're playing a game you could get your score your inventory yeah if you're doing creative work you can get tools down there so a really innovative way to use the Android platform in a laptop format yeah I've noticed you guys have done that before with the original blade Pro it had the separate keys and all the separate screen on the side so you can do websites and stuff can you kind of interact with different web sites on that screen too so yeah our vision is really to be able to do anything with that screen so whether it's taking parts of an application and bring them down there like tool sets or galleries or having a complete separate application running there so if you're playing a game maybe of a YouTube walkthrough video running on the small screen though the possibilities are really limitless when you unlock the potential of both devices yeah are you are you planning on maybe making any sort of partnerships with different app makers like Lightroom or I don't know different apps that would work well on the razor phone well you have something going on the laptop yeah we have an extensive history of working with different developers on a lot of different projects we definitely are very open minded and welcome everyone to develop for this kind of platform so we expect you know developers out there that have those great apps to really embrace the idea of having a whole second screen that they could take advantage of right right and I wanted to ask you when we actually went to do our hands-on I think I forgot does this use those speakers at the razor pro because I know that that's a huge feature okay so it does yeah so that was one of the benefits of using the razor phone for this device is it's such a great platform to start from not only does it have the Qualcomm 835 and eight gigs of ram in the beautiful hundred and twenty Hertz ultra motion display we have that amazing speaker of stereo speaker set there sounds awesome in the phone and sounds awesome in project Linda okay yeah can you talk a little bit about the specs of project Linda you know it's not just a docking station mmm it's got some it's have its own components as well yeah so you know obviously keyboard and screen are the most visible ones but on the inside we've got a battery in project Linda and that acts as a power bank charging the phone while it's docked so the idea is why you're working you're gonna walk away with more charge than when you start it on the phone right we also have internal storage so if you want to backup the phone to an offline device you could do that or if you want to offload content apps that you're on coming to use in the mobile platform you could do that as well so keep some music or different movies that you want to stream off your phone yeah awesome I don't I see you've got a USB a port and here in a USB C port yep so do peripherals like mice or hard drives are they gonna work just as well yes definitely anything basically any USB device that android supports it's going to work just fine with Project Linda we've plugged a new on numerous things into it including our new Mamba hyper flux and Firefly hyper flow wireless power my mouse and mouse pad work beautifully right out of the box no need to do any type of tweaking or setup interesting okay so I know that that's not directly associated with Android but with the Mamba hyper flux and the hyper flex pad do they connect over Bluetooth or is that so you can plug in the mousepad and then you can just use the mouse exactly yeah so it's you know for the power delivery its inductive charging to a capacitor that's in the mouse so no need for a battery makes the mouse super light great for FPS games and then the wireless transmission is done via a proprietary 2.4 gigahertz right and then if you do want to just take it on the go you can unplug from the mousepad plug into the mouse and you have a wired mouse Wow nice do you see anyone using mice and keyboard in mobile games cuz I know that at least with professional shooters and that kind of stuff on desktop you have a huge advantage of it using it might come out something keyboard look do you see people interacting with it in that way in games like there's a lot of new RTS games that are popping up right now yeah definitely I think a lot of developers are open minded for a supporting mouse and keyboard yeah and why they might design it for touch the ones we talk to they're really open minded to letting users play the way they want to play so if they want to hook up a mouse and keyboard they want to support that yeah yeah that's interesting because then you can kind of take the entire RTS experience and really get hands down with it on your computer totally so I think something that a lot of people are a little nervous about is like can I really use my phone while I'm using this laptop like why would I move my entire phone into a laptop what are you doing to make sure that you can really handle all of the features of your phone but in a laptop perspective yeah so what we wanted to do is add a lot of functionality but we also want to be conscious to not take away functionality from the phone so for example communication if you're doing voice or visual calls we have a webcam built in the top with the dual array microphone if a call comes in it'll pop up just like it does on your Android device you can accept it on project Lynda you could quickly undock and take it on the handset or start on one and then undock and mid call and continue on the end so so it will come right out and it'll just transfer you yeah it's super easy to dock and undock we take a look at that now a little demonstration so up here this is the dock undock button we press that to disengage the phone simply pull the phone out of the chassis here we got a nice soft material so there's not a lot of metal on metal and then when you want to put it back in you just drop it back in and hit the button there in lights right up there comes right back to the sentier desktop so what you're seeing there is senti Oh desktop it's an app available in the Play Store we've worked with them to modify it a little bit for this project but what's great about it is this brings as desktop familiarity to the Android operating gasp them so you get you know ability to launch a menu of applications two fingers scrolling alt tab to switch between apps splitting windows all that supported really smoothly with that overlay yeah I noticed that this kind of overlay is very different a lot more like Windows you know when I in my video a lot of the comments for oh I think it runs Android like I don't really want to use something in a laptop form factor to run this Android cuz we've seen in the past people that try to make tablets into laptops yeah and they really don't work very well because Andrew it just isn't really optimized for a computer you know so when I saw this you know it looks a lot like Windows yeah so I think a lot of people are probably going to latch onto that yeah we wanted to make that transition really smooth for people yeah I'm so for people that are familiar with Windows but they also know Android kind of the best way to merge those two and I think sentía has done a great job with that application and do you unlock the laptop the same way you don't lock your phone I say the same yes so we've got the power button fingerprint sensor available so if you register your thumb might be the easiest way to get to it when we're sitting in front of it that way you're opening the lid and also unlock in the exact same time nice so how far back do you guys conceptualize this because I mean you only came out with the razor found a few months ago it's already got a lot of good press it's a really great phone how long ago do you start thinking about this laptop because I know that you guys probably plan it pretty far ahead for these CES projects yeah I don't know the exact start date of the project but definitely started ahead of the phone launch yeah we've been working on it for we staunched at November first a man working on it well before that I think we also had a leg up in the sense the design idea of our phone and our laptop is very similar yeah they both are cnc aluminum they both have similar edges and lines to them so getting it to look and feel like they were born together was was you know naturally easy the engineers would probably kill me for saying that it was easy for me hard for them I'm sure yeah well it's very beneficial because I know that you guys the same metal as the razor blade on top so you're you're pretty much just sticking in a missing piece yeah exactly yeah so talk anymore pricing and availability we don't have either of those set right now so what we're doing out here is we wanted to show off this concept we got it to a point where it was you know refined enough that we could bring it out to the show start getting some hands-on feedback it's actually the first time at CES we've ever taken a concept prototype put it on the show floor for general attendees to get hands-on with they get feedback fryer right oh yeah but for people to use up there I remember last year what was the project project Valerie Valerie she was behind a big piece of glass yeah yeah that one we limited the hands-on experience to just you know partners and press mainly on this year we wanted to widen the net a little bit and get more feedback from the rest of the population at CES right and it's been a tremendous success I can't tell you how much awesome feedback we got really helps us refine this product and hopefully bring it to market so yeah I've got to say like it's one of the most refined prototypes I've ever seen you know from you guys from anyone thank you so I'm really excited about this product personally one last thing a lot of people worry worried about the longitude e of the product like you know there's gonna be a razor phone to eventually probably okay I can't say that but you know yeah but how are you going to deal with being able to put in a second look you know theoretically a second phone because phones are year-over-year different you know yeah so I think it's definitely something we'll need to be conscious of you know should project Linda develop into a commercial product we'll need to be conscious of that roadmap decisions for the phone in the future I can't speak towards future product development but what I will say is take a look back at our blade history for that that product line in the five plus years we've had it we've done very subtle modifications to the overall design of it you know can't say that'll hold true for the razor phone but we'll definitely be conscious of the threat right the chassis have stained very similar and all of the all the blades over the years great well this is fulcrum all right I just wanted to make sure yeah so we've got chroma running on there we've got an Android chroma configurator we're calling it app that gives you a lot of similar functionality to synapse in terms of customization yeah I'm not as deep on the number of layers you can go but you can get reactive effects motion effects static effects and really customize each individual key with 16.8 million colors can this run the full Razer synapse application so currently we don't have a full version of synapse for Android but the chroma configurator thinks the most critical one for that project okay because other than that there's really not about a lot of other things the phone already has a game booster on yeah um so that's already kind of taken care of from the phone side so just when we brought it to project lindo is really taking control of the chroma lighting there I needed to add in yeah and you're looking to put this at 120 Hertz as well right yeah ideally we'd want to replicate the experience from the phone display which is 120 Hertz Ultra motion display onto here so we'd want to make a touch-enabled 120 Hertz quad HD resolution great well do you want to talk about any of the other announcements that you made here I know that I wrote a story yesterday about how you are partnering with Philips you kind of get the chroma experience which i think is really cool because you put those bulb throughout your house you're totally immersed in that game you know over watch your ultimate ability comes up and your entire house turns orange you know I can't think of a more immersive yeah it was really exciting to see how chrome was really evolved and spread across not only our product line in the