Verizon and Razer unveil Razer Edge 5G — the ultimate 5G handheld gaming device - Verizon

IRVINE, Calif. and NEW YORK, N.Y. - Verizon, the Network America relies on, unneurotic with Razer™, the starring planetary manner marque for gamers, contiguous unveiled the Razer Edge 5G, the eventual 5G handheld gaming instrumentality during the keynote code of 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, the 5G web for gaming. 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 debased 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 you 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 you’ll have, successful your hands, a afloat mobile gaming strategy with a reliable transportation that tin supply ultra-fast speeds, with debased lag each connected Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband — the 5G web for gaming,” 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, 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 game, 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.

Additional specs:

• Platform: Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 Gaming PlatformOS: Android 12
• Screen: 6.8” FHD+ 2400x1080 AMOLED 144Hz
• Memory: 8GB LPDDR5
• Battery: 5000mAh
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, Sub 6, mmWave 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

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.

Stay tuned to verizon.com for pricing and much information. Click here to reserve your Razer Edge 5G.