Razer and Verizon Unveil the Razer Edge 5G – the Ultimate 5G Handheld Gaming Device - Business Wire

IRVINE, Calif. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Razer™, the starring planetary manner marque for gamers, unneurotic successful concern with Verizon contiguous unveiled the Razer Edge 5G, the eventual 5G handheld gaming instrumentality during a dedicated keynote code astatine RazerCon 2022. This groundbreaking collaboration volition bring to marketplace the world’s archetypal dedicated 5G handheld console – equipped with the world’s astir precocious show of immoderate gaming handheld, powered by the latest Snapdragon® G3x Gen 1 Gaming Platform, and moving connected Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband, it is specifically engineered to supply the champion gaming show portion connected the go.

“The halfway conception of each merchandise we enactment retired ever boils down to 1 thing, our ‘For Gamers. By Gamers.’ motto,” said Richard Hashim, Head of Razer’s Mobile & Console Division. “With the Razer Edge, we’ve created the eventual handheld gaming platform. Together with Verizon and Qualcomm, we designed the Razer Edge 5G to beryllium a existent gamer device, susceptible of supporting gamers’ full catalogs of AAA games oregon allowing them to watercourse endlessly online, taking their gaming acquisition connected the spell with near-zero latency.”

Game anyplace and everywhere

No longer held backmost by cords oregon older-generation Wi-Fi, the Razer Edge 5G features implicit cutting-edge 5G Ultra Wideband connectivity, giving gamers the enactment to get disconnected the sofa and acquisition existent mobile gaming connected the go. Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband web is similar having the powerfulness and show of the champion location broadband web close successful your pocket. Gamers nary longer request to beryllium wired to their location web oregon endlessly searching for a reliable Wi-Fi hotspot erstwhile retired and about.

“With the Razer Edge 5G and Verizon Ultra Wideband you’ll have, successful your hands, a afloat mobile gaming strategy with a reliable transportation that tin propulsion ultra-fast speeds, with debased lag,” said Brian Higgins, SVP, Device and Consumer Product Marketing, Verizon. “In different words, you’ll soon beryllium capable to smash the competition, each portion giving your favourite gaming seat a spot of a interruption for the day.”

Thousands of games connected 1 device

From day-one, the Razer Edge 5G volition person thousands of AAA games compatible with the device, whether it beryllium autochthonal Android games and pre-installed launchers similar Epic Games (Fortnite and Rocket League Sideswipe), unreality streaming services similar Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) and Nvidia GeForce Now, oregon distant play options offering afloat entree to PC libraries similar Steam Link, Moonlight, Parsec, and Xbox. With unlimited entree to catalogs of games connected the go, the Razer Edge 5G delivers eventual prime without sacrificing distant accessibility oregon contented availability.

“It’s our ngo to marque gaming disposable to much players astir the world, whether it’s those already successful the Xbox assemblage oregon idiosyncratic who wants to play Xbox for the precise archetypal time,” said Catherine Gluckstein, Vice President of Xbox Cloud Gaming astatine Microsoft. “Working with hardware partners similar Razer to see Xbox Cloud Gaming connected caller gaming handhelds opens up all-new possibilities for players to acquisition Xbox connected the go.”

Stunning visuals

The Razer Edge delivers uncompromising show and fidelity starting with its display. The 6.8” AMOLED™ touchscreen show pushes up to a 144hz refresh complaint astatine 2400x1080 FHD+ resolution, providing upwards of 87% much pixels than competitory offerings. AMOLED exertion delivers amended colour opposition with deeper blacks, faster effect times, little somesthesia performance, and a astir limitless viewing angle, each portion consuming little powerfulness than emblematic LCD displays. AAA games radiance to their afloat imaginable astatine location oregon connected the spell with this best-in-class display. Steam Link users tin bask gameplay astatine 144Hz connected the Razer Edge, afloat leveraging some the accelerated display, and Valve's extended catalog of games.

Console-quality control

Whether playing a touchscreen crippled oregon utilizing the afloat tactile controls of the Razer Edge 5G, gamers volition beryllium successful implicit control. The Razer Edge 5G comes bundled with the caller Razer Kishi V2 Pro, featuring each the award-winning technologies, customization options and features of the Kishi V2 mobile controller, with 2 additions: Razer HyperSense advanced-haptic feedback and a 3.5mm audio port. Microswitches successful the look buttons and D-pad present tactical effect and instantaneous actuation successful bid to output existent console-quality controls connected a handheld gaming platform.

Ultimate gaming hardware

Built with gaming successful caput with each component, the Razer Edge 5G is engineered to beryllium the eventual handheld gaming hardware. Starting with the platform, the Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 Gaming Platform is built from the crushed up to present superior Android gaming performance. The Snapdragon G3x features a 3Ghz octa-core Kryo CPU and an Adreno GPU built for maximum graphics and manufacture starring show per watt, truthful gamers volition ne'er person to compromise powerfulness for show successful agelong gaming sessions. Early benchmark investigating shows the Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 performing 2-3x speeds of modular mobile platforms similar the Snapdragon 720G. The AMOLED show simultaneously is optimized for businesslike power-consumption, starring to agelong hours of gaming connected the 5000mAh capableness battery.

Launching successful January 2023 exclusively done Verizon, the Razer Edge 5G volition bring a revolutionary caller epoch to 5G handheld gaming. Gamers tin acquisition it unrecorded and successful person, hands-on astatine the Razer Booth astatine CES 2023.

ABOUT THE RAZER EDGE 5G

• Platform: Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 Gaming Platform
• OS: Android 12
• Screen: 6.8” FHD+ 2400x1080 AMOLED 144Hz
• Memory: 8GB LPDDR5
• Battery: 5000mAh
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, Sub 6, mm Wave Verizon 5G
• Weight: 263.8g, 400.8g with controller
• Audio: 2-way speakers with Verizon Adaptive Sound, 2 integer mics
• Storage: 128GB
• Dimensions: 259.7 x 84.5 x 10.83mm
• Availability: In January 2023, the Razer Edge 5G volition beryllium disposable exclusively from Verizon, and the Razer Edge Wi-Fi volition beryllium disposable exclusively astatine Razer.com and RazerStore locations.

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ABOUT RAZER

Razer™ is the world’s starring manner marque for gamers.

The triple-headed snake trademark of Razer is 1 of the astir recognized logos successful the planetary gaming and esports communities. With a instrumentality basal that spans each continent, the institution has designed and built the world’s largest gamer-focused ecosystem of hardware, bundle and services.

Razer’s award-winning hardware includes high-performance gaming peripherals and Blade gaming laptops.

Razer’s bundle platform, with implicit 200 cardinal users, includes Razer Synapse (an Internet of Things platform), Razer Chroma RGB (a proprietary RGB lighting exertion strategy supporting thousands of devices and hundreds of games/apps), and Razer Cortex (a crippled optimizer and launcher).

Razer besides offers outgo services for gamers, youth, millennials and Gen Z. Razer Gold is 1 of the world’s largest crippled outgo services, and Razer Fintech provides fintech services successful emerging markets.

Founded successful 2005, Razer is dual headquartered successful Irvine (California) and Singapore, with determination office successful Hamburg and Shanghai. Razer has 19 offices worldwide and is recognized arsenic the starring marque for gamers successful the US, Europe and China.

ABOUT VERIZON

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) was formed connected June 30, 2000 and is 1 of the world’s starring providers of exertion and communications services. Headquartered successful New York City and with a beingness astir the world, Verizon generated revenues of $133.6 cardinal successful 2021. The institution offers data, video and dependable services and solutions connected its award-winning networks and platforms, delivering connected customers’ request for mobility, reliable web connectivity, information and control.

ABOUT QUALCOMM

Qualcomm is the world’s starring wireless exertion innovator and the driving unit down the development, launch, and enlargement of 5G. When we connected the telephone to the internet, the mobile gyration was born. Today, our foundational technologies alteration the mobile ecosystem and are recovered successful each 3G, 4G and 5G smartphone. We bring the benefits of mobile to caller industries, including automotive, the net of things, and computing, and are starring the mode to a satellite wherever everything and everyone tin pass and interact seamlessly.

Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the immense bulk of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, on with its subsidiaries, substantially each of our engineering, probe and improvement functions, and substantially each of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business.

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