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Performance
The Razer Phone comes with the latest Snapdragon 835 processor, Adreno 540 GPU, as well as 8GB RAM.
Benchmark figures tell one side of the tale – the Snapdragon 835 doesn't do as well as the iPhone 8 Plus and its Bionic A11 chip, but relatively speaking it is still a good result. After all, the Snapdragon 835 is Qualcomm's top dog at the minute.
In practice, however, I had no issues at all with the phone. Everything is lighting fast, and the high refresh-rate display helps everything feel super smooth.
Software
Moving onto software, the Razer Phone is currently shipping with Android Nougat 7.1.1. However, we have been told to expect Oreo by Q1 2018, so that is obviously on the horizon.
Android itself is very ‘stock', with no ‘Razer' skin or anything like that placed on-top.
In-fact, The Razer Phone actually ships with Nova Launcher Prime as the default launcher – Prime being the paid-for version, so that is certainly a nice touch and makes it easy for users to customise the experience how they like.
Other than that, I had no issues with the software – it is definitely vanilla Android, or as close to it as a third-party manufacturer can come.
There is one piece of Razer software pre-installed, though, and that is Game Booster. Essentially this lets you configure the performance settings of the phone on an app-by-app basis. So if you want to run some games in 1080p to save battery life, you can do that, or you can specify a lower refresh-rate as well. It's a simple but nifty tool which allows a more fine-tuned experience.
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