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nowadays you can get the gaming horsepower of a playstation 3 or xbox

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360 in the palm of your hand and mobile gaming has matured to the point where

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many of your favorite titles will not only run on your iphone or Android

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device but they'll even support cross play with your friends who did manage to

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get their hands on a GPU or a next-gen console not that you want to have

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anything to do with those smug but anyway but you're not mad

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you're gonna make the best of a bad situation and get yourself a gaming

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phone and good news because these things are actually getting to the point where

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even if you don't give two hoots about mobile gaming they are chock full of

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really cool tech so let's take a look at them

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under the hood every one of our gaming phones has got the basics right

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all three of our contenders have 12 to 16 gigs of RAM a few hundred gigs of

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storage and a qualcomm snapdragon 888

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processor so no matter your choice current Android games are gonna run as

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smooth and pretty as can be so pick whichever one's on sale and call it a

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day then right well no

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unlike a pc if you choose the wrong screen or the wrong speakers there's no

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upgrading them later and because all of your components are in the palms of your

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hands as you try to out frag your opponents suddenly we care about

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thermals not just for how they affect performance

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but also for how they affect comfort

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performance first though we used gfx benchmark and 3dmark for synthetic

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benchmarks and while all three devices were close there is a clear loser here

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in car chase the red magic 6 pro rendered roughly 400 fewer frames than

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the legion dual phone 2 and the rog phone 5 which were neck and neck in

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3dmark wildlife the race at the top seems even tighter

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but this benchmark only runs for a few minutes which might not tell us the

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whole story so we'll call it a tie for now

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at first glance screen quality seems close across the board but side by side

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at max brightness the red magic 6 is noticeably dimmer than its counterparts

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as for the dual phone 2 and rog phone 5 there's no obvious winner to my eye so

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we'll let our calman calibration software and spectrophotometer make the

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call it should be noted though that the legion has the advantage of having an

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ever so slightly larger screen giving you a better view of your opponent

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regardless of color accuracy as for audio the rog phone 5 seemed to have the

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widest sound stage and therefore offered the most immersive gaming experience

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with speakers but it was honestly a little hard for

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the others to compete due to their noisy internal fans

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whether this is a big deal to you is pretty much going to come down to

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whether you use earphones or not while you're gaming because even without

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active noise cancellation both of their cooling systems are easily blocked out

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unlike my shoutouts to lttstore.com

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wait hold on a second cooling systems

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that's right both the 6 pro and the dual phone 2 have

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blower fans inside them that means that

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both of them are obviously much louder than a silent fanless phone

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but one of them is clearly more annoying than the other

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you guys hear that noise the red magic 6 has this distinctive

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wine to it that gets annoying pretty fast as for the dual phone 2

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i guess it's just the nature of the beast because

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it's not a lot better if you're looking for some great audio

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by the way make sure to get subscribed so you can check out our upcoming asmr

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pc build video with the sweet sultry sounds of Anthony's voice

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anyway back to our phones the clear winner for acoustics is the rog phone 5.

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of course a lack of cooling isn't necessarily a feature

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here's a fun fact if mobile games development studios left

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everything uncapped or they allowed their games to run at the highest

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possible level of detail fanless devices like the phone you're probably using now

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would just get hotter and hotter until they're uncomfortable to handle

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anecdotally while working on development builds testers at mobile studios have

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been known to put their devices in freezers to cool them down between tests

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now obviously finished games typically have a higher degree of polish but it's

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still an important factor so we used our thermal imaging camera to run some

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benchmarks and see how the heat spreads across the back of our devices while

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gaming the idea to put all the hot components

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in the center of the dual phone too actually kind of works your hands stay

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cool on either side while the center fan keeps the heat under control the red

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magic pro on the other hand has the clearest hotspot unfortunately directly

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under one of your hands as for the rg phone 5 it manages to stay relatively

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cool by spreading the heat across the device with the middle being the hottest

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zone so this one's pretty easy then the dual phone 2 wins it hands down and that

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carries over very handily to what is probably the most important metric for a

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lot of you remember how i said performance was a tie for now

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well most people don't play games for five minutes at a time with freezer

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cooldowns in between so we ran 3dmark over and over again to measure how

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performance will degrade during an extended gaming session

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only the dual phone 2 held its ground here which is kind of surprising given

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the red magic on paper has a similar active cooling solution but before we

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declare the dual phone to our big winner it's worth noting that it has the worst

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triggers out of the three each of these devices comes with a number of sensors

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along the top that act as inputs so that you can keep your thumb off the screen

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when you're lining up head shots and they're not all created equal whereas

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the red magic triggers are almost hypersensitive even with the sensitivity

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cranked down the dual phone 2 seems to require the most force to activate

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unless your fingers are positioned perfectly i mean when it works it works

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but it's easy for your fingers to slip or be lined up in a way that makes

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pressing them more difficult than it needs to be as for the rg phone 5 not only does it

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have the best triggers out of the bunch but it actually has extra rear triggers

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as well that admittedly weren't easy to use but at

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least they're there so the winner surprisingly is the rog phone 5. finally

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there are some other features that separate these devices the rog phone 5

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has the dubious honor of being the least comfortable due to its sizeable camera

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bump although whether having a decent camera on your gaming phone is

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worthwhile is up to you and kind of beyond the scope of this video and it's

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the only device without an internal cooling fan but it comes with an

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attachable fan that kept it running significantly cooler while also adding

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an extra set of triggers as well as some extra battery life putting it 500

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milliamp hours over the legion and almost a thousand milliamp hours over

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the red magic 6 pro you should think long and hard before committing to a

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device based on how it performs with a bulky accessory like this though because

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i mean it's great for some extra performance at home but it seems

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unlikely that you'd want to carry it around in your pocket all the time the

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lenovo legion dual phone 2 on the other hand brings a lot to the table with a

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720 hertz touch sampling rate that just

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feels a bit more responsive than the other two devices and easily the most

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comfortable ergonomic design even though it does fall behind with the quality of

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its triggers as for the red magic 6 pro it's a bit

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unremarkable here it's flat back is comfortable enough and it has faster

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touch sampling than the rog phone 5 at 500 hertz compared to 300 hertz but the

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only big extra feature it has going for it at least when it comes to gaming is

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it's hertz refresh rate compared to 144 on

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the other two it's also lacking a great feature that the other two have a

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secondary charging port for horizontal use

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so the red magic 6 pro yeah it's a contender but it doesn't stand out from

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the crowd until you factor in the price if money is no object it's hard to go

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wrong with the dual phone 2 or rg phone 5 but they both cost over a thousand us

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dollars for a phone for gaming

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meanwhile the red magic six pro was in the middle of the pack or at the back in

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nearly every category and then absolutely knocked it out of the park

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where it counts delivering way better value at just 750 bucks that is half the

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price of the ASUS and for a more comfortable gaming experience even if it

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does come at the cost of some screen brightness and performance

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now for some of you the lack of a horizontal charge port will be a deal

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breaker but for others the inclusion of a headphone jack will be an equally

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important deciding factor especially since the lenovo doesn't have one

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as for those of you who need both rog phone five for fifteen hundred us

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dollars then or at that point should you just buy a GPU from a scalper

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Linus bottom line then which of these would

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you buy do you even want a gaming phone or are you just still watching this

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video in hopes that i'll start talking about something else

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sorry it didn't happen