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The hype around the Razer phone has been nothing short of Apple fandom. It was a great surprise from one of the best gaming laptop makers out there.\u00a0 But not all is well in the land of the matte black and green.<\/p>\n
Here are my initial thoughts on the new Razer phone and what I think of it after using it for 3 days.<\/p>\n
I’m going to save all the specs for my full review, but I’ll break this down into\u00a05 sections.<\/p>\n
If I take all 5 of these things and clump them together into a rating, I’d put it at 8.5 out of 10.\u00a0 But that is a little misleading.\u00a0 So I’ll break them down in a different way.\u00a0 Separately.<\/p>\n
This is about the easiest thing to talk about.\u00a0 it’s a big, fat, square metal slab.\u00a0 You know it the minute you pick it up out of the box.\u00a0 It’s very well made.\u00a0 It’s has very good fit and finish to it. The only thing I can see that is even remotely something, is that on the front facing camera and sensor, it looks like there is a “depression”.\u00a0 And I’m not sure if that is the correct word here.\u00a0 It’s like it bends inward right around that area, then goes back to being the perfectly flat speaker grill.\u00a0 I guess the best analogy is if you slightly pressed your pinky in a cake before you put on the icing.\u00a0 \u00a0Score: 9.8<\/p>\n
Well this ain’t your normal rodeo here cowboy!\u00a0 It’s a glorious thing to see.\u00a0 Buttery smooth.\u00a0 Good color representation.\u00a0 It is up there where it needs to be.\u00a0 Plus, having the choice to change the refresh rate is something that is amazing.\u00a0 I found myself moving to 120 Hz for games, and then back down to 90 Hz for everything else.\u00a0 Yes I could have kept it at 120 Hz and never cared.\u00a0 They did an excellent ob here.\u00a0 Score: 10<\/p>\n
The only set of speakers that even come close to these are the ones on the Nexus 6 and HTC M8.\u00a0 That’s it.\u00a0 Nothing else is even in the same ballpark.\u00a0 They are scratchy at full volume, but that is to be expected.\u00a0 But turn them down to about 60% or so, and you are right in the sweet spot.\u00a0 Once you have these, you will NEVER<\/strong> want anything that isn’t front facing.\u00a0 Score 10<\/p>\n This is such a subjective thing.\u00a0 While some like to use all their battery and never charge during the day. Others, like me, charge up when I have the time.\u00a0 So I can’t say that this thing lasted me 27 hours with 6 hours screen on time and still have 35% left.\u00a0 I’m not that guy.\u00a0 But, what I can tell you, is that in the course of my normal day, I didn’t really think about charging it up.\u00a0 I plugged it in, if I just happen to have seen the USB-C cable.\u00a0 But to be honest, I never gave it much thought.\u00a0 Which if you think about it, is EXACTLY<\/strong> how it should be.\u00a0 And this battery life does exactly that.\u00a0 Score: 10<\/p>\n I’m sorry to burst everyone’s bubble, but this camera sucks ass!\u00a0 It just does.\u00a0 It’s so bad that I have had to carry my HTC U11 around with me to make sure I don’t miss a picture.\u00a0 It’s slow, missing a lot of features and just plain sucks.\u00a0 I’ll give you one little example of what is so frustrating about this phone.\u00a0 Every phone, that has the ability to have removable storage, gives you the option in the camera settings to choose where you want your pictures saved.\u00a0 Either internally or to the SD Card.\u00a0 This phone doesn’t have that option.\u00a0 So you have to pray that the photos are being sent there and not taking up your internal storage.\u00a0 That in and of itself is crappy.\u00a0 They need to really focus on improving this big time!\u00a0 Score: 4<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So if you take those score and do the math, you get 8.76 for the average score.\u00a0 And that is kinda sad that the camera brings the phone down that much.\u00a0 Since the rest of the experience is so good. This phone is a media and game consumption power house.\u00a0 There’s no denying that.\u00a0 But for it to become the phone that replaces the Samsungs, HTCs, LGs and others, it has to step up it’s game (no pun intended) on the camera side.<\/p>\n While this\u00a0phone is the perfect gaming phone, it’s not the perfect overall phone.\u00a0 And until they make it that, it’s going to have a very hard time replacing the big dog’s of the phone world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The hype around the Razer phone has been nothing short of Apple fandom. It was a great surprise from one of the best gaming laptop…<\/p>\nBattery Life<\/h3>\n
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