Razer hasn’t made a smartphone successful a while, but it conscionable released an Android-powered gaming handheld, the Razer Edge. The instrumentality is built precise overmuch similar a smartphone arsenic you tin spot successful the teardown video by PBKreviews. Only a fewer things acceptable it apart, e.g. nary cameras connected the backmost – but determination is 1 connected the front, connected the agelong borderline of the show since this is intended for scenery use.
The archetypal happening to travel retired is the paper slot, which is designed to clasp a nanoSIM and a microSD. This peculiar instrumentality is the Wi-Fi lone model, truthful it lacks 5G (indeed immoderate cell) connectivity. If online play and crippled streaming connected the spell is thing you want, Verizon started selling mmWave enabled versions of the Edge last week. Later connected successful the video you volition spot the places wherever the mmWave antenna was expected to go. This exemplary lone has Wi-Fi 6E connectivity.
The Snapdragon G3x Gen 1, RAM and retention stacked unneurotic • 5,000mAh battery
The Edge has immoderate passive cooling with graphite movie connected the integrative backmost panel. However, determination is besides progressive cooling with mesh-covered vents and a tiny instrumentality tucked inside. This pulls vigor from the chipset done thermal pads, thermal paste and a furniture of copper tape. There is simply a vapor enclosure connected the different broadside of the committee that expels vigor done the display.
Active cooling instrumentality connected the Razer Edge • Copper tape, thermal paste and thermal pads implicit the chipset
The basal Razer Edge comes with 6GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 128GB of UFS 3.1 storage, some of which are stacked connected the G3x Gen 1 chipset. This 1 is priced $400 connected Razer.com. Verizon’s 5G exemplary ups the RAM to 8GB and adds sub-6GHz and mmWave connectivity, it starts astatine $10 a month.
PBKreviews gave the Razer Edge a repairability people of 6.5/10. The large ailment is the constricted availability of replacement parts.