Earlier today, Razer has confirmed to unveil its first smartphone on November 1st. While there are several smartphone brands playing to their strengths, Razer with its gaming DNA might offer a true gaming smartphone that can easily handle the graphics intensive games.
Though the upcoming Razer Phone will be the first smartphone with Razer branding, the company has earlier acquired the smartphone maker Nextbit which has already launched a successful smartphone called as Nextbit Robin.
Along with all the assets of Nextbit, Razer also brought its core management and employees. We will be knowing more information about the involvement of the Nextbit team in developing the Razer Phone on the launch day. Now, let’s talk about the specifications of the gaming-centric, Razer Phone. While there are no official details, the GFXbench listing revealed the key specifications of the Razer’s first ever smartphone. The name of the smartphone is mentioned as Razer Phone and will be running on Android 7.1.1 Nougat out of the box.
Instead of the stock UI, the Android OS on the Razer Phone will be coming with a customized UI. On the front, we will be looking at a 5.7-inch display with Quad HD (2560 x 1440 pixels) resolution and regular 16:9 aspect ratio. Under the hood, the Razer Phone comes powered by 10nm Snapdragon 835 octa-core processor clocked at 2.4GHz and Adreno 540 GPU. Talking about the GPU, it now fully supports DirectX 12 & Vulkan APIs. The device also packs 8GB of RAM which should be good enough for offering seamless gaming experience.
It also includes 64GB of internal storage and there is no information about the presence of MicroSD card slot. In terms of optics, the Razer Phone sports a 12MP sensor on the rear and an 8MP sensor on the front. It comes with a single SIM card slot and offers connectivity options like Bluetooth, GPS, and NFC. There is also a bunch of sensors including accelerometer, barometer, compass, gyroscope and light sensor. We will be knowing the official details along with the complete features of the device on the launch day i.e. November 1st. Stay tuned on Phone Radar for more details!
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