What's your opinion on Razer as a potential smartphone manufacturer?

[HarmFull]

Razer recently bought Nextbit, a small smartphone manufacturer that pushed a cloud based/optimized custom version of Android and (at least at the time) an interesting smartphone.

Known for their successful line of gaming gear and presenting lots of weird/cool concept devices over the years, Razer is known to not be afraid to experiment.

 

What's your opinion on the fact that Razer might be a potential smartphone manufacturer?

[Guest]

pliz don't be rgb phone pliz

[Ashiella]

5 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

pliz don't be rgb phone pliz

What if the rgb included all types of blue, and made it... Excessive.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Ashiella said:

What if the rgb included all types of blue, and made it... Excessive.

RGB not B

Red Green Blue

 

[Ashiella]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

RGB not B

Red Green Blue

 

Blue is still there.

[Guest Kloaked]

5 minutes ago, Ashiella said:

What if the rgb included all types of blue, and made it... Excessive.

 

4 minutes ago, Ashiella said:

Blue is still there.

What are you even trying to say?

[handymanshandle]

13 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

pliz don't be rgb phone pliz

What if it had blue LEDs?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, wcreek said:

What if it had blue LEDs?

 

8 minutes ago, Ashiella said:

Blue is still there.

This has to stop now I think.

[handymanshandle]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

 

This has to stop now I think.

Is it...

 

[Ashiella]

6 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

 

What are you even trying to say?

He loves blue. I was convincing him that rgbs are good if they are blue.

[Princess Luna]

They would all be overpriced phones like iPhones either ways.

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[handymanshandle]

Personally, I don't think a phone from Razer would make that much sense. It seems kinda silly for them to do that. Yet at the same time I could see them doing that.

[C0LL0SS0S]

The Smartphone market has advanced so far that, alteast for me, the most important feature a phone has is software its update cycles which is a huge benefit for both apple and google since they make they software for their phones. 

But maybe nextbit has some nice cloud software that razer wants to use in their next products though I really don't see how a blade or a stealth would benefit from deeply integrated cloud storage since they have quite a lot of onboard storage

[DildorTheDecent]

Probably be one of these stupid "gaming phones" like a Nokia N-Gage. 

 

They'll end up using a Tegra processor "cuz ma mobile geams" and wonder why it overheats and does itself in

 

Please no Razer. At least keep it with the crazy Asian market. 

[Technomancer__]

1 hour ago, deXxterlab97 said:

pliz don't be rgb phone pliz

its razer it has to have RGB!!!

 

if they do it i hope they add a button or something to switch them off

[arbellason55]

(Razer): But guys, don't you want a phone with a GTX 1050, I5 7***, watercooling and a 17" 4k display. Oh and RGB of course.

(Normal Person): Dafuq are you smoking cause I want some.

(Razer): We're smoking that cash you people give us and we want more!

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, arbellason55 said:

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A water cooling phone with a dedicated gpu is pure stupidity

[Sniperfox47]

I highly doubt the nexbit acquisition was about phones. Their cloud expertise was more likely.

 

That being said if they do make a phone, I'm calling it right now. RGB Cloud Gaming phone with active cooling, analogue sticks and buttons built into it that uses some Nvidia Gamestream cloud gaming solution like the shield does.

[Froody129]

Enemy RGB phone inbound.

[KenjiUmino]

razer phone? nope.

 

seeing how the build quality of razer products has been going downhill over the last decade while the prices are still high as ever, it will just be an overpriced fashion item without real quality.

 

we already have enough of those on the market.

[spellmanuk]

im excited for this in the same way that im excited for that 3 screen thing they had, sure it would be cool but would i get one nope.

 

their phones need to beat Samsung and apple as the two big players in the premium phone market, if google cant get people to move to their phone how the hell are razer a company that almost no one outside of gaming knows of going to be able to successfully shift units. 

 

i feel like they would have to something crazy like put a kayby lake pentium prossessor in there and 16gb of RAM and 512Gb storage 

 

i personally wouldnt buy one anyway im to locked into iOS due to my depedancy on imessage, facetime and the apple watch 

[MaxBunny]

The Razer Phone is their way to promote their Razer Pay (zgold/zsilver) and further their ambitions in the Android and payment markets. People would buy it just because it's Razer and because they probably get some bonus Razer Rewards for it towards other stuff relevant to them (discounts on hardware/games instead of "FREE 1 year DirectTVNow subscription").

 

In terms of quality, I expect it to be about as good as their current software. So it'll probably suck donkey balls, which is fine since that's about as good as an iPhone.

[TetraSky]

The smartphone market is over-saturated as it is, "newcomers" trying to make a place for themselves and failing at it happens all the time. Not expecting Razer to have any kind of real success in that market.

[roymiller]

I would like to ask, what if  rgb included all types of blue, and made it.