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so back in January Razer bought next bit the company that made the robbing an awesome and quirky phone and since that acquisition Ridge has been kind of silent about what their mobile plans were well now now we know meet the razor phone and typical razor fashion there's a lot crammed into this completely aluminum shell so razor took a different approach to the design a lot of manufacturers are going bezel lists and rounded rounded curves and rounded screen razors got a more industrial approach the phone is made as a material in there that's in their laptop so it feels premium it's got a cool metal feel to it it's also more rectangular than what we've seen before it looks very reminiscent to what we saw with the Robin quite obviously you've got a fingerprint reader in the middle the phone on the right hand side you can press in it's really nice to have it there and then you've got two buttons on top almost identical to what we saw on the rub and they're located right squared the middle of a phone coz rager tells us this phones meant to be used when you're playing games or watching movies in landscape it's let me get this one out of the way cuz they're gonna be a billion questions it's gonna cost six hundred and ninety nine bucks you're gonna get a lot for that money or you get 64 gigs internal storage of course you can expand it up to I think it goes up to two terabytes right now typical razor fashion they wanted to cram a lot in here so you've got eight gigs of DDR four RAM which is insane to have the screen is where a lot of the story I think takes place it's a 5.7 two-inch XO LCD panel it's two cases 1440 by 2560 we didn't get a little bit dressing those with the refresh rates 120 Hertz here and what that's gonna mean in like real-world usage and not just on a spec sheet scrolling through stuff is gonna look incredibly smooth it's like a psychosomatic it looks better but it doesn't really when you try this phone you can get it in a store you pick one up and start scrolling through anything it looks incredibly smooth and also when you're watching movies or YouTube videos because a higher refresh rate things should look also smoother tends to be the theme of the razor phone they also went for a wide color gamut so where other devices might give you kind of a bluish hue to the whites this is gonna look actually white so all that stuff is great but I think since it's ray the big reasons behind that refresh rate when it comes to games it's a variable refresh rate so if you're playing a game that needs the full 120 you can do it it'll scale itself down as well if using something that doesn't need the full refresh rate it's kind of dynamic so you can get an insane refresh rate on the phone so they're gonna drain battery which I should mention is four thousand two milliamp hours so you're getting a big old battery in this device other specs are things you'd expect from flagships right now it's got the Snapdragon 835 with the audrina 540 built into it so on the camera front it's got 30 of them and as is in vogue right now it's got two on the back both are 12 megapixel one's wide-angle and one is telephoto 8 megapixel on the front it's shipping with Indra and you get out of the box race has been pretty good updates on the laptop side and presumably a pretty good updates on the phone as well and they did say on the record that got plans for Oreo soon so we're gonna hold them to that when the cool things on the software front the phone is actually shipping out of the box with Nova prime as the default launcher which is awesome if you haven't used Nova it's my go-to for launchers it works really well on out of the box swiping to the right it's also gonna give you Google now so looking at this phone you're gonna you're gonna notice gigantic speakers on the top and the bottom this isn't like a fake like grill it's a sort of psyche out these are gigantic speakers that we had a chance to test out here and check my Buffalo offices and they wouldn't let us benchmark you to see how loud they got because their units still a little running some pre-production software but it got really loud I think more impressively than the volume didn't sound tinny it had a lot of bass especially coming from a phone it's not gonna replace your home theater system but if you want a phone that sounds really good and maybe easy to play some songs for some friends the razor phone does a really nice job with it so writing out the specs no headphone jack does have USB C and they're gonna give you in the box a dongle if you plug in set Dongo you're gonna get a THX certified 24-bit DAC so you can get some high-quality audio in those cans pre-orders are available now link to it down below it's gonna be shipping on November 17th at least in the US the phone will work right out of the box with 18 t-mobile no CDMA support here unfortunately for Verizon and Sprint I did ask her age about that and they said probably not so if you want to pick up this phone either switch to AT&T or t-mobile or if you're on those two carriers then thumbs up for you so all the phone looks and feels pretty awesome there are some things here that might leave you scratching your head and wondering why first there is no waterproofing here razor set it's because of the mesh on the speaker grilles and also it's metal on the back you're not going to have wireless charging so if one or both of those things are important to you it could be a little bit disappointed so no wireless charging for me is a bummer but when you do plug it in to charge it didn't get access to Qualcomm quick charge for plus so it'll charge fast is really what it boils down to the last summation Bluetooth 4.2 it doesn't have bluetooth 5.0 in here so we need that long range bluetooth if you want to share music with friends it's not here so here's the deal with the phone at least for me and why it kind of stands out a little bit so at that $6.99 price point it's not the cheapest throw in the world and it's competing against really the creme de la creme of flagships you want to get this phone if that screen matters to you seeing the refresh is awesome if you watch a lot of movies on your phone you think you might play a ton of mobile games incredible device if you consume a lot of content you're gonna want to look at this phone if you're creating a lot of content you may want to see what else is available wireless charging is important to you if you take your phone in the snow or skiing then you're gonna want to make sure you get a phone that has sort of that IP certification in here it's competing in really crowded waters especially at that price point but the speakers are awesome the screen is really good we'll see how that fares though in our for you but first impression I feel pretty positive about the razor phone it's not cheap it's not bringing everything to the table you can get with competitors but what it does it appears to do what but is that enough for you guys to want to pick it up again six thing that I will put all the links down below if you want to preorder one and if you can pick one up on November 17th when those pre-orders start to arrive then what you guys think and let us know especially what you want us to test as we got this guy in our lab put it through the paces hope you guys enjoyed the video a thumbs up we appreciate it the next time John right here you