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a couple of weeks ago razors shocked a lot of people when they announced their brand-new spec tout smartphone that they're calling the razor phone and in today's video you're gonna be spending a real day in the life with me and this phone as I check out it's 120 Hertz display the dual 12 megapixel cameras and even that 4,000 milliamp hour battery and we're gonna see how it all does in the real world and spoiler alert it's kind of dope alright guys so we're starting our day this is the front facing camera so you know the audio and video quality is what you could expect from here so we got a few things to do today I got a couple packages that I need to send out it's 11 o'clock we're at 100% battery and we're just going to see how this thing lasts throughout the day but first stop ups so what you're looking at guys are a bunch of giveaway prizes that I'm finally sending out it takes a while to get these out sometimes because we're working on videos and it's kind of hard to stop to go to the mill or a post office so finally we're getting it done now one of the special things about this phone is that it has 120 Hertz but because I'm not playing a game right now you can actually see the benefit when just going through regular menus so I got to pull up the addresses for these giveaway prizes and even in doing that I get to see the benefit of 120 Hertz it makes the screen look really smooth whenever I'm navigating through things I know this isn't the first phone to do it but I love the fact that there's a fingerprint scanner right on the power button I feel like this just makes sense you need to jump into your phone you just hit the unlock and boom you're already in this is really convenient I feel like most phones should have it right here on the power button it just makes sense this is where it should be and I figured we'd take a quick look at the phone itself and I got a save in the hand there's no denying it this is a pretty big phone and even though this is a pretty big phone I feel like razor gave some nice attention to detail here like the fingerprint scanner on the side which is also the power button you notice it's kind of low same thing with the actual volume keys they're actually low on the screen so I can access it even though I'm holding the bottom end of the phone so if I want to access everything boom and did you catch those sounds listen to this it makes those nice little sounds whenever you turn on and off the phone some people might not be crazy about that but I actually like the way it sounds makes it feel pretty cool now since this is a really big phone I'm usually pretty uncomfortable with leaving it as is I'm always scared of dropping it be due to it being a bit unwieldy but this thing has some really good build quality I actually don't feel compelled to throw a case on here even though it's a really big phone I know the thing has some really big bezels at the top and bottom thanks to those speakers but I promise you guys it is so worth it I'll show you a bit later but it is so worth to have those speakers now what's great about this phone is that it is running stock Android with like no bloatware the only things I think that come on the phone are these little three apps right here which are just a couple of games to demonstrate the abilities of the phone but that aside you get a pretty stock version of Android it's running Android 7.1.1 so it's going to get updated to Android audio in the future but you do get a premium version of Nova Launcher so for all of you guys who love Nova Launcher just comes built into the phone and if you want to keep it super super stock you can go ahead and download the Google now launcher if you want but it's cool that they offer the option of having a nova launcher since that thing is super customizable alright guys so right now we got a little Cookie Monster over here and we're actually gonna be headed to a dog park so I'm gonna actually have to find one because there isn't one that's close by here so time to go find one using the GPS to actually go to the one we find and see how that's we've got about a 20-minute drive ahead of us we'll see how much it impacts the battery what do we say it was at 87 right alright so 86 percent 20 minute drives and that razor phone is on a wireless charger right now but unfortunately it doesn't have wireless charging built into it so it can't take advantage of that feature but hey at least we can continue testing the battery without worrying about that all right so we made it to the dog park cookies ready to go hang out with some dogs let's see here we have about 83% left we've got an hour and 30 minutes of screen on time very good so guys take a look at this place there are a lot of nice colors here and this is perfect to try it out that rear camera and see what kind of quality we can get here I see if we can get a shot off let's see this is pretty good Octus big red tree awesome so when you initially zoom in it looks super blurry but it gives give it a second and then it loads up and it looks pretty good those clouds the color looks awesome it looks like it's an HDR shot I actually didn't have HDR on but I'm gonna turn it on now this looks pretty well let's see okay yeah that thing is throwing me off the fact that you have to really wait for it to load the image clearly but it looks good actually actually feel like the first image without HDR looks better let's try one more yeah this is not a great shot at all the trees are completely dark the clouds look pretty cool and all but there's something it's overexposed a bit but you can't see these trees at all this is that's a bad shot so I'm noticing a couple of things here as I'm using the camera the HDR mode doesn't seem to have great dynamic range if that makes any sense when I actually turn off HDR I'm seeing a lot more dynamic range I'm not sure why or what conditions are causing that but I'm seeing way better shots with just a regular camera mode so we are in Petco where's cookie so chances are we're gonna be here a while so I might as well can I sit somewhere I see chairs well I'm gonna find a nice wall to post up on and maybe watch a YouTube video or something I said I'd watch a YouTube video but nothing beats watching some anime so I got some Dragon Ball super playing over here and I got to tell you guys the display looks so good colors are nice and vibrant and even though everybody's loving oled displays right now this screen still looks awesome and those speakers remember I told you the speakers are no joke so right now we've got it at about less than 50% here this is enough to hear in the store with no problem if you want to get obnoxious throw it up to here and that's being obnoxious but if I throw it up this this is grounds to to get told to turn down the volume this is loud alright guys so as you can see it's a bit darker right now and we're back in the studio because we just have a lot of work to do it never ends but just to give you guys an update it is officially 10:53 p.m. I've been using the phone for regular stuff social media making calls just checking up on NBA scores and we are at 27% battery life the screen on time we are looking at 4 hours and 48 minutes with 27% left this is killer battery life guys now I didn't play any games but one thing I want to mention is that this is with the phone running at 120 Hertz for the screen so it still got that buttery smooth setting on and I've also got it at the max resolution so full quad HD 1440p so that's using the max res and using the 120 Hertz with those options off I could probably get even more battery life but with that aside we do have to get to the most important part of this phone and that's the gaming aspect so let's dive into that so this game right here is in fall assault this is one of the games that come pre-loaded onto the razor phone so with this you know they kind of want to show off what this phone is capable of it runs super smoothly especially at 120 Hertz everything looks buttery smooth and there's so much going on at the same time you know what that new Snapdragon processor it runs really nicely but when you do have it on higher quality one thing that I did notice is that the phone tends to get a bit warmer it's actually quite warm right now and you can bring down the quality of the game to you know kind of help with that decrease the temperature as well as lower the performance a bit but I rather go all the way that's what the point of this phone so if it has to get a little hot that's fine it's not too high it's not uncomfortable at least not yet but if you're one of those folks who don't like their phones to get warm at least you do have that option to decrease the quality what's great here though is that even at 50 percent you're getting some pretty good quality if you turn that up and you didn't hear a lot of what's going on all right guys this right here is probably my favorite racing game when it comes to a smartphone or any mobile device oh there we go get out of the way you see well I guess that guys this is my favorite in terms of mobile devices come on don't oh but on the razor phone this thing is also really nice because you got some awesome music that you're gonna enjoy with this speaker and even without it it's just really really smooth on the screen it looks great but that's not to say that this game is optimized to work with the razor phone it's a smooth experience and it looks great but razors working with a bunch of different game developers to get their games optimized to work on the razor phone the way they wanted to but I don't think this is one of them now if you're planning on picking up this phone for gaming I wouldn't expect any kind of razor phone exclusives that you can find on here this is not like a console but like I said Razer is working with some game developers to make sure that those games are optimized for this phone I told you guys I saw a Final Fantasy 15 redone which in chibi form but should be pretty interesting I can't wait to see that actually hit this phone so if you're really big into mobile gaming I think this one's gonna deliver a pretty good experience the Google Play Store has a ton a ton of games that you can take advantage of this phone with but I am gonna be keeping an eye out to see what games Razer plans to make sure our optimized for this phone so far Final Fantasy 15 that's a good way to start all right guys so the phone is finally dead it took all day like seriously all day and I checked it right before it died I got about 5 hours and 57 minutes of screen on time which is the most I've ever gotten on a phone ever we've we've done quite a few new usually range in the for our int mark this one just like got just about 6 hours which is just amazing but four thousand milliamp hours all-day battery life and not only that this thing also has quick charge 4.0 the first phone to have this feature right out of the box it's a lot of juice but let's see how it does I'll let you guys know how quickly it charges in the wrap-up but battery life amazing so you guys got a peek into what it's like to use the phone for a day and I gotta say guys overall I was pleasantly surprised with this phone I expected a lot because of that spec sheet but when it comes to actually using it that's a whole nother ballgame this thing has a great 5.7 inch display and even though it isn't OLED and everybody's loving OLED right now I found this to be very nice and vibrant looked really good and it's also got those awesome speakers accompanying it and some people might not be crazy about the bezels but when you actually listen to this guy in person you'll appreciate it 100% when I play the Dolby Atmos demo for area for the first time even she was blown away and I really didn't even expect her to appreciate it but she did and of course gaming on this thing is a very nice experience because you've got that 120 Hertz display that makes it all buttery smooth and even if you're not a gamer having one 20 Hertz on your screen makes the entire OS look way more smooth and snappy it's just an overall great experience just use the phone and that battery life whoo best battery life I've ever used hands down it is an awesome battery 4000 milliamp hours is no joke now even though you might set your phone to 120 Hertz razor has software built-in so that it has a variable refresh rate so that means that if you're not playing a game or doing anything intensive on the phone it'll go down to lower lower refresh rates so that it's not consuming a lot of your battery so that helps you to have optimal battery life even if you want that nice smooth buttery refresh rate and if you want to go nuts and get even more battery life you can bring down the refresh rate to like 60 Hertz and even bring down the screen resolution to get a little bit more out of the phone now while all that stuff is top notch where I wasn't too crazy about this phone was with the camera this thing's got dual 12 megapixel cameras but they honestly weren't that great you can get some pretty decent shots out of it for sure if you have the right lighting in low-light shots I didn't feel like you got anything too spectacular out of it a lot of photos came out soft I often dealt with a lot of blurry photos especially if you have HDR on and you don't have a great lighting situation video quality also wasn't really that great for me so I don't know camera quality is where this thing takes a hit a lot of the issues that I found with the camera seem to be software based and Razer is working on updating their camera app so we should see some improvements in the future but as of right now it is in the strongest camera in the game and surprisingly the front facing camera produced some really good shots with sunlight but I found that in low-light shots the pictures did turn out to be a bit soft but in terms of a regular during the day selfie Harry gave her her seal of approval take her word for it she's the selfie expert not me and it's a fact that the Razr phone is missing a few key features but if you have the gamer in mind I can kind of understand the logic behind it and one of those features is wireless charging but usually a lot of the phones that we see with wireless charging built-in they usually have a more frail body while this has a matte black aluminum finish which gives it quite a bit more durability and if you're a gamer and you're playing with your phone you're moving it around a lot you're going crazy with it you might drop it or something you're gonna want a little bit more durability than your standard glass back or something that's a bit more fragile also the fact that this thing comes with quick charge 4.0 kind of makes up for that I was able to get around 50% when charging this for 30 minutes that is a lot of juice back and you wouldn't be able to get that with wireless charging so I kind of get it it's also missing water and dust resistance but if you had those features built into it you'd have to sacrifice on those speakers and with this being a multimedia device you're not gonna want to sacrifice on those speakers after hearing it you will not want to sacrifice on those speakers but I asked you guys in my last razor video if you guys cared more about the speaker or waterproofing and a lot of you guys chose the speaker so I think it's a pretty safe bet that they took and I think it works out well and the last thing that's missing here is the headphone jack at first I couldn't wrap my head around why they would remove it especially considering gaming headsets are a thing and this is a gaming phone but when you think about the target audience mobile gamers you got to think about how they're interacting with the phone and if you're moving the phone around you're doing all these kind of movements you might not want a cable dangling on the side of the phone weighing it down or you know just getting in the way so Bluetooth headphones are the way to go with this guy and I guess that makes complete sense if you put yourself in the shoes of a mobile gamer now don't get me wrong I'm not trying to make excuses for this phone it's still missing those features but at least I can understand some of the logic behind it and luckily they include an adapter that's supposed to have a 24-bit DAC so that it's giving a little bit more juice to the headphones to give better sound quality and I tried this against another headphone adapter that I had lying around and I didn't see a huge difference between the two maybe slightly but honestly it wasn't big I had to really listen in to see the difference but it does give you the ability to use it and it's in the box so it can't make any real huge complaints there but all-in-all guys I think for what Razer was trying to do with this phone which was built something that's great for gaming and consuming media for their first try I think they hit it out of the park this is a great phone I personally love it and considering this phone retails for about $6.99 feel like you're getting a lot of bang for your buck when you're getting performance that's equal to a lot of the flagships out there you're getting stock Android and specs and hardware that leads to tangible results that you can actually experience in the real world I think this phone is a good bye guys razor is not a sponsor I'm not getting paid to say this but if you are looking for a good phone I think this is one that you should definitely have on your list but that about wraps it up for this video guys hopefully you enjoyed it if you did be the cool guy or girl that gives this video a thumbs up and of course I'll catch you guys in the next one till then is your average consumer peace