when it comes to phones i don't conform to the mainstream trends i don't need a
tall aspect ratio screen a good camera or a thin sleek design what i need as a
gamer is the fastest high resolution screen the biggest thx sound and a logo
that says this product was made by a lifestyle brand for gamers
and like it should have like
RGB and okay so just to be clear
you don't want any of the stuff that most people would consider important yeah
as long as it has RGB and [ __ ]
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when we reviewed the razer phone one we weren't exactly sure what a gaming phone
was supposed to be and frankly now that we're looking at
the second iteration it isn't much more clear so under the
hood of the razer phone 2 you'll find a qualcomm snapdragon 845 processor 8 gigs
of lpddr 4x RAM 64 gigs of expandable
internal storage a large 4 000 milliamp hour battery and dual 12 megapixel rear
cameras with sony sensors that support 4k 30fps recording
just like pretty much any other non-gaming phone
not to mention in a much more attractive form factor like this this whole thing
that they got going on this really looks more like a cost-saving approach to
tooling rather than an attempt to create an
iconic design which isn't to say that they haven't improved anything to last
year's model they've added wireless charging thanks to the glass back
slightly faster cellular networking ip67 water resistance
oh damn it a blessing and a half for toilet
gamers a brighter screen with HDR capability and of course
razer chroma not gonna lie
it looks pretty sick like honestly i'm
getting kind of like an underwear model vibe here like it's it's beautiful from
the back with the new glass finish and the illumination but then
it's got a face that deserves to be cropped right out of the frame like dem
bezels yo the screen to body ratio of the razer phone 2 is absolutely abysmal
for a modern device and not helping matters is the 16x9 screen aspect ratio
that makes the overall design of it feel really dated especially with the
on-screen navigation buttons taking up even more real estate like it kind of
felt like going all the way back to a 4x3 monitor by comparison i mean in
fairness to razer 16x9 is still the
dominant aspect ratio for tv and youtube
content consumption so they've got that going for them and of course
in exchange for those unruly bezels we are getting the rare treat of dual
amplified front-facing stereo speakers it's just that
the ASUS rog phone has that too and its
bezels aren't nearly as cumbersome that
right there is honestly the biggest problem for the razer phone too it's not
the only gaming phone in town anymore and if we compare our two gaming phones
side by side the rog phone really seems
to meet or beat the razer phone 2 at
nearly every turn on the spec sheet and it's got a headphone jack something that
razer addresses with a dongle in the box so then
contrary to our silly intro i've always
been into the performance aspects rather than the lifestyle aspects of gaming
hardware so how does it fare there then well this
is actually a more complicated question to answer than you might initially think
on mobile devices in particular specs
tell us only part of the story a high-end CPU without adequate cooling
can perform like a mid-tier or even an entry-level one and it's here that razer
manages to really shine while the razer phone 2 isn't far and away the single
fastest phone out of the bunch we tested in its normal mode it maintains its
performance for longer than many of the phones we tested rog phone included in
games this along with its large battery
makes its high performance gaming endurance its main source of gamer cred
over most of the competition moving on then
of our three major complaints about the razer phone one we've crossed one of
them off the list so far let's look at the others the ergonomics frankly they still suck
the big one because they didn't really change so i could tell you guys just go
watch the original video to get our thoughts on that but that's
kind of stupid so here's a summary it's heavy and boxy which makes it dig into
the palm of your hand more than a more rounded design and the fingerprint
sensor equipped lock button is flush mounted making it difficult to find by
feel and even harder to access if you use a case as for the camera
well i don't know it's probably better i'm not 100 sure since we accidentally
on purpose kind of trashed our razer phone one when we were installing liquid
metal on its processor but even if it was better than the original razer phone
that's about like beating your six-year-old cousin in a foot race compared to current non-razer phones the
most charitable thing i can say about it is that it sometimes manages to capture
an image that i would describe as competent the issue is just that at this
price it draws comparisons to true
flagship phones like the iphone 10s max and the galaxy s9 plus and it just can't
hold a candle to them i mean there might be a candle there but that bright point
in the image it would be so blown out it would be hard to tell i mean razer's
camera app is at least a little more fleshed out but it's still laggy and it
lacks features like slow motion face detection or anything resembling manual
control and the only thing i can say in its defense there is that the rog
phone's camera ain't great either so at this point as you've probably
guessed this is not gonna become my daily driver like its first gen sibling
it's just it's not competitive especially not for the eight hundred
dollar price tag for a hundred dollars more the base model rog phone offers
double the storage a two to one screen aspect ratio an always-on amoled display
albeit at a mere 90 hertz versus 120 max
a far better camera app dual sim card slots and better overall performance
plus it includes an active cooler though you do give up the superior ip67 water
resistance and a micro sd card slot on that note the razer phone 2 has its
bright points it's still got an excellent almost stock Android skin and
front firing stereo speakers with that 120 hertz panel that is just
so smooth the problem is just that while people like me can
rank phones and talk about their pros and cons
you the end user can only buy one
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