A Phone for “Gamers” by Gamers. Razer is famous for making good gaming peripherals and now it has reached to the phone market coming up with a Smartphone that is targeted towards gamers and to appeal to gamers only. Razer Phone, with good specs and a great 120Hz screen it sure is to appeal many people about purchasing a phone that is targeted specifically for gamers.
But are gamers really going to be interested in the smart phone gaming market? Already PC/Console gamers consider people who game on a smart phone to be casual gamers even though there has been a certain number of games released on the android platform which people used to enjoy back in the old days of gaming such as GTA San Andreas the real appeal would be if Razer making developers believe that there is a focus towards gaming on a smart phone and more games need to be developed for it or even some remasters/ports.
Razer Phone Price:
The Razer Smartphone costs $700 MSRP which is some price point for carrying a smart phone in which you can build a good budget PC or get around 2 PS4’s although some people tend to spend a lot of money on getting an iPhone or a good smart phone device they would consider changing to this phone as it appeals to the gaming standard.
Razer Phone Specifications:
| Processor | Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 835 Mobile Platform |
| System Memory | 8GB dual channel (LPDDR4, 1866 MHz) |
| Storage | Internal: 64GB UFS External: microSD (class 10, 2TB max.) |
| Display | 5.7-inch IGZO LCD 1440 x 2560 120 Hz, Wide Color Gamut (WCG) Corning Gorilla Glass 3 |
| Rear Cameras | 12MP AF f1.75 Wide 13MP AF f2.6 Zoom, Dual PDAF Dual tone, dual LED flas |
| Front Camera | 8MP FF f2.0 |
| Sound | Stereo Front-facing speakers Dual Amplifiers Audio Adapter with THX certified DAC |
| Power | 4000 mAh lithium-ion battery Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 4+ |
| Wireless | 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Bluetooth 4.2 NFC |
| Bands | GSM: Quad-band GSM UMTS: B1/2/3/4/5/8 LTE: B1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/17/19/20/25/26/28/29/30/66 TDD LTE: B38/39/40/41 TD-SCDMA: B34/39 |
| Size | 158.5 x 77.7 x 8 mm 6.24 x 3.06 x 0.31 in 197 g |
It somewhat reminds us of the Xperia smartphone line up from Sony, just the shape that is.
Gallery: Razer Phone, First Gaming Smartphone
Pre-orders should go live shortly, and it’ll ship in North America and Europe on November 17th.