 Yep, this is the Razer Edge, and this is Razer's latest portable mobile gaming device. And as you can see, you can take it anywhere and game the way you want. The whole idea of this device is to give you mobile access to your gaming without having to reach for your smartphone or your tablet or anything of that sort. And also its price point is supposed to be more inclusive for gamers. So what do we have here? Let's first take a look at the hardware. Now the Razer Edge is not just one device, it's actually two when you split it open with you actually have the tablet itself and the Razer Qishi V2 Pro controller. Now, looking at the tablet face, it's got thick bezels. So just put that there, the bezels are thick and I'm not a big fan of that, but it's still a bright display, 144 Hertz. So of course, fast refresh rates. This is very key, especially if you're playing high refresh rate games on Android or on GeForce Now which actually supports that. There's a front facing camera which honestly looking at this video here, just skip it, it's not even worth it. This does have a 5000mAh battery and at the back you can see six line vents three on the top, three on the bottom that also houses a fan underneath which actually turns on and you can hear it most of the time while you're gaming. So a headset is more preferable. Now you do have buttons on the top volume as well as also the power button. There is no fingerprint sensor so you do have to punch in your security code each time which is rather annoying. There are two speaker grills on either side. I feel like large bottom firing speakers so this is loud and honestly just take a listen. Project Armstrong turned out to be a real bomber. I wanted a cool robot arm, not a target on my head. So we have that and then we also have a USB type C port with some fast charging. Charging is pretty solid, it's fast, that's not an issue but you care about specs and performance. So what do we have here, specs in this device here? We have the Snapdragon G3X Gen 1 on this device. Remember this a few years back, I showed this device at Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit and this is the final iteration of what we actually have in-house. What does that give us for performance? Well, let's start off with our Geekbench 6 scores. So we have a single core performance of 1553 and multi-core of 3595. Now you might go, wow, that's lower than what we have this year with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Yeah, but it's more in line with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 device. So it's in good categories to play Android games. When we now go to 3DMark, we do have a pretty low score of 1450, roughly, which I ran a couple of scores, I didn't get anything higher. I wished it was higher, but we have to see what performance brings to us. So when it comes to gaming performance, we're gonna be checking out a bunch of categories for you here. We're gonna start off with Android games and we went with just two that cover the spectrum. Call of Duty Mobile, which usually we run on a lot of systems to see how it performs. We're able to run this here, of course, at a solid 61 frames per second. You're going, but I've seen higher. And yes, you've seen higher at lower, of course, graphic settings. There is no higher graphic settings or there is no higher settings for the higher frame rate yet, but I'm sure that will be updated. But it's quite capable, especially it looked like it wanted to go past 61 frames per second, which was good. Now, when we get to Genshin Bay Impact, this one was quite interesting. Genshin actually played rather well all the way through, but I could not get it at a steady 60 frames per second. It started at 61 and then it dipped down to about 56 frames per second. So it basically stood around 56 frames per second for my gameplay period, which was quite interesting. And this is also where the fan kicked in and our temperatures went really high. The good thing here is when you're playing games on the racist edge, even Android games, you don't have to use your hands on screen. You can use the QC Pro and map that on there. So luckily, temperatures, I didn't have to feel it because I got 115 degrees on the device on screen. While the back was actually cooler because that's where the fan is. So high temperatures, just use the controller when you actually get in with this device. Now, speaking of remapping with that controller, they do have a software there where you can go in and virtually map whatever Android game you want to that does not support native controllers and you can go ahead and start remapping them. It's pretty easy and very simple and it works quite well. One thing to note is for the second camera, if you have a game that uses both camera angles, then you just wanna make sure you turn that on. So that is actually pretty cool. Now, what else did we actually try? I went ahead and played some PSP game, of course, Court of War and that ran really well. And this, of course, was an emulator and emulators run absolutely well on this thing. So not to worry there if you really wanna get this for emulation on the go, as well as also play your Android games, right? That's actually cool. This is a 5G device and it's running on Verizon's network and I was able to use this device on the road with me. So big shout out to Danny Winger for capturing some of the shots. I like the fact that I could connect on 5G and play my Android games or of course my Xbox Game Pass games quite easily. Playing for it's Verizon, there was no stress, no breakdowns and of course, depends on your connection but it actually ran pretty well. Speaking of Xbox Game Pass, it really flourishes on the Razer Edge. This is pretty much built for it in the largest degree and you can actually see it take full control of this device, it was very smooth. There were no slowdowns, really, really performed well and I like that about it, just was very, very smooth. Whatever game I played, actually played well whether, so those things and those aspects really stood out for me as where the true strengths of the Razer Edges, even with game streaming services like GeForce Now, where I was able to jump in and play Destiny 2 of course, that actually played pretty smooth and took advantage of the 144Hz display because on GeForce Now, I do have the service where I can get the higher refresh rate and you can clearly see that when you actually give me downside shooting, all that fun stuff, so those are the caveats that really take advantage of what the system can do. Now there's some downsides here because the other services that I'd like to use whenever I game, one of them is Parsec, the other is Steam, of course, using Steam remotely to play. Now with Parsec, what I found out that is because my monitor is much larger in my office, it's very hard to actually scan through and access those games. So that is something to take note because it's gonna just try and mirror your monitor size. I have that massive LG 45 inch monitor, so bring that down to smaller screen, doesn't really translate. I did try it with my system at home, I was able to access Call of Duty, also needs to run the update, but I was able to access and I can actually play that way. So Parsec works. Steam on the other hand was actually the big bummer here. I was able to load it up and go ahead and start Doom Eternal, but if you notice, there was nothing showing on my screen, it said it kept on loading while Doom Eternal was running on my PC in the office. So hopefully that gets fixed, it's probably a software issue there because we know Steam, big TV works pretty well, so hopefully that actually gets fixed. When you're dealing with this and you want to just listen with our headphones, it does a really good job, doesn't matter what you're playing. But you're probably asking me, what are the downsides to having this? Well, there are a few. One of them, of course, is the battery life. It drains quite heavily, even when you're not doing anything, that's something that I just didn't really like with the Razer's Edge, especially if you now play a game like Genshin Impact on the highest setting, then you're gonna see that drain hit there effectively. And also, if you're streaming for slightly longer than just normal, honestly, what I mean by that is maybe about 15 to 20 minutes, you're gonna notice a huge battery drain there as well. So that's something I didn't like. The fast charging is nice though, so that does complement that. I don't like the bezel on the screen, I didn't mention that earlier in this video. Plus, I think also again, the software from Razer is good but still needs improvement because I would like to see just better mapping for games all around in general. Now, will I recommend the Razer's Edge? It's a very interesting device to recommend because a lot of the things it does, your smartphone already does that. That is the biggest thing here. If you're a gamer, you're most likely on mobile devices, you're most likely getting either a high-end smartphone or you're getting a gaming phone. So those actually take away what the Razer Edge does. But if you're looking for a second device that either is for maybe just for travel and you travel a lot and you don't want to use your phone at its price point, I think it's pretty solid. The Wi-Fi version is solid at 399. The 5G version at 699 to me is just a little bit much. I wish it was 500 bucks but it didn't work as a good secondary device for that gaming experience. If you're looking for a gaming device for your children that is portable, that they can have access to, to game streaming services, stuff like that, this works out well there. I do want to see some improvements still on this device, especially on the display, I just wish it was better, bigger and less clunky there because especially when you're watching movies and entertainment, it just feels very narrow in respect to what the screen size is. But I do like what it brings to the table and I'd like to see more from Razer and other companies in this very special space that they've created. So if you have any questions and comments about the Razer Edge 5G, let me know. If you picked one up already, what are your thoughts? Are you enjoying it? Are you using it? If you're deciding to pick one up, use our link down below and don't forget to like, share, subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment.