Middle-Class verses Razer’s Project Linda
If you were into smartphones in 2017, you might have come across a surprising new entry to the premium handset market, The Razer Phone.
They marketed the phone as a smartphone made for gamers with some specs like 120hz ultra motion display, 8GB RAM and some awesome front firing speakers which awwed the audience.
But today, it’s not about the phone that we are going to talk about, it is the latest peripheral that Razer has built around the phone.
Razer is a big name in the Hardware Industry, especially in the gaming segment with its Blade series of laptops being favoured and backed by Gamers worldwide.
Razer’s Project Linda is a laptop shell powered by The Razer Phone.
What it includes is a 1080p display along with a battery to charge your Razer phone and a hard drive to extend the storage of the device.
Your phone is placed at the place of the trackpad, connected through a USB-C.
And voila, you have a laptop running Android by using your phone as the CPU.
Razer phone’s screen was used as a trackpad and similar to Samsung DeX, you can use it to run your phone’s apps on a bigger screen.
And they actually run pretty smoothly.
Apart from that, being Razer, they had to showcase gaming.
For which, they partnered with a company named Shadow which stream games from their servers to low-powered systems(something similar to Nvidia GeForce NOW, we talked about in the previous blog).
I think some questions are needed to be addressed here.
Is Project Linda feasible?
We can not question the feasibility as it is only a prototype and they might make some improvements in the future.
As of now, I feel like it is totally irrelevant. Cool, but irrelevant.
Another thing to mention is that phones are getting outdated at a rapid rate.
Razer phone is already around a couple months old and Project Linda being a prototype, might take a few months to get into the market.
By that time, I am sure people would have already started speculating about the next model.
Also, instead of an external dock like DeX, we have a well to place our phone in the whole phone-laptop ecosystem.
Which simply means that we are size restricted. Razer needs to keep their upcoming generation of the phone to be of similar size and build to keep the peripheral relevant.
Samsung DeX or Razer Project Linda?
You can’t actually compare both because they’re independent of each other.
You need different phones and different peripherals to get the whole system working.
But I prefer DeX more as it gave us the freedom to choose everything from the screen to keyboard and mouse of our own.
How much to pay for Project Linda?
Compared to DeX, which is only a dock, Project Linda is a complete package which includes a screen, keyboard, battery and a hard-drive.
Samsung DeX is available at a price of ₹8,991 at the Amazon.in’s Global Store.
So, It won’t be absurd if Razer goes a little overboard by asking ₹15,000 or so for the bundle.
But, should you pay that extra price to use your apps and play sub-par games on a laptop look-alike accessory?
I don’t think so.
Project Linda is a good concept, a good accessory. But it’s a future too far ahead for us.
If you have any questions or doubts, feel free to drop them in the comment section below. I will try to answer them as soon as I can.
See you in the next one.
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