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when it comes to phones i don't conform to the mainstream trends i don't need a

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tall aspect ratio screen a good camera or a thin sleek design what i need as a

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gamer is the fastest high resolution screen the biggest thx sound and a logo

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that says this product was made by a lifestyle brand for gamers

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and like it should have like

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RGB and okay so just to be clear

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you don't want any of the stuff that most people would consider important yeah

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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

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was supposed to be and frankly now that we're looking at

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the second iteration it isn't much more clear so under the

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hood of the razer phone 2 you'll find a qualcomm snapdragon 845 processor 8 gigs

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of lpddr 4x RAM 64 gigs of expandable

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internal storage a large 4 000 milliamp hour battery and dual 12 megapixel rear

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cameras with sony sensors that support 4k 30fps recording

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just like pretty much any other non-gaming phone

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not to mention in a much more attractive form factor like this this whole thing

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that they got going on this really looks more like a cost-saving approach to

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tooling rather than an attempt to create an

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iconic design which isn't to say that they haven't improved anything to last

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year's model they've added wireless charging thanks to the glass back

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slightly faster cellular networking ip67 water resistance

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oh damn it a blessing and a half for toilet

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gamers a brighter screen with HDR capability and of course

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razer chroma not gonna lie

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it looks pretty sick like honestly i'm

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getting kind of like an underwear model vibe here like it's it's beautiful from

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the back with the new glass finish and the illumination but then

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it's got a face that deserves to be cropped right out of the frame like dem

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bezels yo the screen to body ratio of the razer phone 2 is absolutely abysmal

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for a modern device and not helping matters is the 16x9 screen aspect ratio

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that makes the overall design of it feel really dated especially with the

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on-screen navigation buttons taking up even more real estate like it kind of

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felt like going all the way back to a 4x3 monitor by comparison i mean in

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fairness to razer 16x9 is still the

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dominant aspect ratio for tv and youtube

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content consumption so they've got that going for them and of course

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in exchange for those unruly bezels we are getting the rare treat of dual

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amplified front-facing stereo speakers it's just that

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the ASUS rog phone has that too and its

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bezels aren't nearly as cumbersome that

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right there is honestly the biggest problem for the razer phone too it's not

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the only gaming phone in town anymore and if we compare our two gaming phones

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side by side the rog phone really seems

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to meet or beat the razer phone 2 at

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nearly every turn on the spec sheet and it's got a headphone jack something that

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razer addresses with a dongle in the box so then

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contrary to our silly intro i've always

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been into the performance aspects rather than the lifestyle aspects of gaming

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hardware so how does it fare there then well this

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is actually a more complicated question to answer than you might initially think

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on mobile devices in particular specs

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tell us only part of the story a high-end CPU without adequate cooling

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can perform like a mid-tier or even an entry-level one and it's here that razer

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manages to really shine while the razer phone 2 isn't far and away the single

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fastest phone out of the bunch we tested in its normal mode it maintains its

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performance for longer than many of the phones we tested rog phone included in

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games this along with its large battery

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makes its high performance gaming endurance its main source of gamer cred

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over most of the competition moving on then

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of our three major complaints about the razer phone one we've crossed one of

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them off the list so far let's look at the others the ergonomics frankly they still suck

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the big one because they didn't really change so i could tell you guys just go

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watch the original video to get our thoughts on that but that's

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kind of stupid so here's a summary it's heavy and boxy which makes it dig into

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the palm of your hand more than a more rounded design and the fingerprint

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sensor equipped lock button is flush mounted making it difficult to find by

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feel and even harder to access if you use a case as for the camera

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well i don't know it's probably better i'm not 100 sure since we accidentally

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on purpose kind of trashed our razer phone one when we were installing liquid

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metal on its processor but even if it was better than the original razer phone

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that's about like beating your six-year-old cousin in a foot race compared to current non-razer phones the

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most charitable thing i can say about it is that it sometimes manages to capture

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an image that i would describe as competent the issue is just that at this

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price it draws comparisons to true

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flagship phones like the iphone 10s max and the galaxy s9 plus and it just can't

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hold a candle to them i mean there might be a candle there but that bright point

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in the image it would be so blown out it would be hard to tell i mean razer's

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camera app is at least a little more fleshed out but it's still laggy and it

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lacks features like slow motion face detection or anything resembling manual

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control and the only thing i can say in its defense there is that the rog

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phone's camera ain't great either so at this point as you've probably

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guessed this is not gonna become my daily driver like its first gen sibling

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it's just it's not competitive especially not for the eight hundred

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dollar price tag for a hundred dollars more the base model rog phone offers

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double the storage a two to one screen aspect ratio an always-on amoled display

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albeit at a mere 90 hertz versus 120 max

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a far better camera app dual sim card slots and better overall performance

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plus it includes an active cooler though you do give up the superior ip67 water

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resistance and a micro sd card slot on that note the razer phone 2 has its

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bright points it's still got an excellent almost stock Android skin and

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front firing stereo speakers with that 120 hertz panel that is just

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so smooth the problem is just that while people like me can

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rank phones and talk about their pros and cons

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