This is the Razer Phone

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I don’t think that one was released in the US.

I seem to recall a Lumia device shipping with a 120Hz display, too, but I might have imagined that since I can’t find it now.

It is heavily.implied that it will have a headphone jack. Should be sub 600$ and if my OP3T is any indication the software experience and lasting ability of their devices certainly up there with any other major manufacturer.

Cons: Chinese company, so you never know who is looking at your data. They do let you root and unlock bootloaders, though. So there is that.

You need to install the Google pixel camera app to get camera performance that matches other flagships. Thankfully my 3T got the app ported without root and I would expect the same for the new upcoming phone.

Curious what you do for yours and how you would change it if this phone had come with some slide-out joysticks and the like.

I read that quality control was an issue so I bought it from Microsoft's website so if there was a problem I could bring it into a MS store. But I haven't had a problem with it.

my brother in law got a new razer gamepad, a Sabertooth, and the joystick won't go to 11 o'clock, only 10 or 12

i got a Razer Onza gamepad , secondhand but like-new, the R trigger jitters, if youre holding it all the way down, it flickers between 100% and 0%, but if you hold it say 90% of the way down, it stays at 90%

also won a new razer keyboard, an Ornata, in a competition, the clickiness of the keys is extremely uneven, some are very soft, some are very clicky, and the lights are also non-uniform. It works fine, but why pay a premium for low-quality uneven goods?

Also, a non-QA gripe, you have to install a big blob of razer software, and sign up for a razer account, and be online, to change the lighting effects, lol. There is open source software to change the lights that requires none of that.

I will never ever ever recommend razer hardware based on this sample of 3 different products that all suck and cost a huge premium over stuff that doesn't suck. The gamepads are twice as much money and lower quality than the microsoft or sony ones?

Throwing that stuff on the pile since it really annoyed me.

I've only dealt with Dell and Lenovo products, and their QA is all over the place...from very poor to very good on identical products.

I suspect Razer has their laptops made by Foxconn or Asus or Large_Manufacturer_X. Foxconn not only manufactures a lot of products and components for Apple, but they also make laptops for many other manufacturers. I'd not be at all surprised to learn they have the same 18-19% failure rate as the other big names since they all are born from similar processes.

There is a certain pucker factor when you roll the dice on an expensive Windows box these days that shouldn't really be there.

Apple's failure rate over the same period of time is 10%.

The only downside is that repairs are expensive and require shipping the machine to the shop which will take weeks. (Though I haven't had to send mine in, yet.) I wish they sold new batteries separately so users out of warranty can replace them themselves.

Though I agree the specs and the GameBooster doesn't seem to offer enough for people to buy one of these. So what does it offer over the flagship phones?

I can see it being impossible to pair to anything Bluetooth with the phone also rebooting at random. I'd also expect it to force updates during a call.

Though it's missing the neon LED's all over it. Sad!