Comparison Time! Razer Phone 2 vs Asus ROG Phone By PhoneArena

Razor versus Asus, it's the story of two computer manufacturers who is a one day said: let's make a phone while Asus made that decision quite some time ago. It only recently released its first gaming phone, the DOG phone, although the razor phone too was raised her second such device. It's about a sophomore facing a Seuss's ROG phone, as the company has a year of mobile and desktop experience behind it. Asus has done while we're finding his handsets over the years the razor's hard to adapt quick overhauling. Some key misses from last year. We've seen the new kid on the block overtake veterans.

Before is this razors breakthrough moment. The razor phone to Anne DOG phone are clearly cut from different design cloths, while the razor sports, a boxy, rectangular aesthetics, the sizable bezels at the top and bottom for stereo speakers, cameras and mics. The OG manages to pull off a more edge to edit design with its screen stereo speakers and camera configuration. There are G's of reddish, copper. Speaker grilles, also give it some Flair, while the rounded corners evoke a more traditional design.

Language. The rounded glass back also make the DOG feel more like phones we've held before, but the look is clearly, unlike anything, we've previously seen the RGB lit logo and copper vents, combined with the angular cutout for the camera, flash and fingerprint sensor to create a phone. That truly looks like it's part of a gaming PC lineup the razor phone ?, which is still highly evocative of the next bit Robin from which his design was appropriated, opts for a more discreet look with its fingerprint center, tucked away inside the side, mount ? power button, and it's glass back, which looks like a solid slab of obsidian, interrupted only by the RGB lit chroma logo and center mounted dual camera bump. The razor's backlit logo can also light up, based on the color of apps, you've received notifications from blue for outlook red for Gmail and so on, something the DOG lacks a Seuss's DOG phone appears more original in its looks, as well as its functionality. Thanks to gamer centric additions like a secondary proprietary port, comprised of two USB-C ports for attaching one of the many DOG phone accessories or just charging the phone while gaming.

This is further highlighted by the inclusion of one such accessory in the box. An RGB lit cooling fan all that aside. These two phones have very similar weights and dimensions. The razor phone appears bigger due to its boxy design. The razor phone also meets the ip67 standard for dust and water resistance, while the DOG has no such distinction.

As always, beauty is in the eye of the folder and there's merit to both design approaches, but to the unfamiliar observer. The KG clearly screams gaming, while the racer phone just screams, I'm something else which of these is preferable, naturally, is up to you. The displays on these to reveal further diversions. On one hand, we have the RO G's AMOLED display, with a max refresh rate of 90 Hertz and on the other raisers EX LCD, with a slightly higher resolution and the faster ever smooth, 120, Hertz, refresh rate that last part about the refresh rate might have some worried. So we won't mince words.

The difference between 90 hurts on the DOG and 120 Hertz on the razor is noticeable, and for some this may be the reason they choose the razor phone ? over the DOG. We wouldn't say it's a full-out game winner for the razor phone, though gaming at 90 Hertz, is a smoother experience on the DOG than almost any other non gaming phone due to the lower refresh rates.120 Hertz on the razor, though, is as smooth as it gets, and the difference is clear for prolonged gaming, especially this difference in comfort can have an appreciable impact on eye fatigue, especially during fast-paced games. The difference in resolution is also apparent with the razor foam twos display looking just a bit sharper, while the RO G's AMOLED display, portrays punchy, colors and deeper inky blacks, the razor phone ? igloo LCD proved to have more accurate colors. In fact, it's one of the most accurate we've seen on a phone when it comes to tweaking the display to your liking. The KG offers a few presets as well as manual controls for color and saturation and sharpness, as opposed to the razor's simple triplet of presets.

The differences between these three screen modes are almost imperceptible on the razor which is good for color accuracy, but bad for variety and customization. Still, the DOG isn't woefully inaccurate, and it's punch your color representation, so this may come down to preference as well, but we found that the razor phone's highly accurate colors mixed with the more fluid 120 Hertz refresh rate, ultimately made the razor phone ? more pleasant to look at and game on, both the DOG and razor phone ship with Android 8.1 onboard and the respective manufacturers, software flavor added to the mix. The razor phone's implementation airs more on the side of stock Android utilizing Nova prime launchers, the main UI with a few green icons and apps, as well as the razor made cortex app. This is where you'll find your game library, 120, Hertz games to buy and game booster freaking performance through game booster is pretty simple. You can either customize the performance settings for each app manually or for all of them at once via mode selection.

This offers two modes power, saving and performance, whereas the custom mode affords you the ability to change the resolution, clock, speed frame rate and anti-aliasing preferences on each individual app, there's quite some range in the options for each of these values and the near seven-hour difference and projected battery life between the Power, Save and performance modes. Reflect that the KG phone's UI, like its design, comes off as more custom and unique. Asus has years of Zen UI's growth and refinement driving many of the more custom experiences you'll find in the DOG plus the neon sign like iconography and dark. Aesthetic just looks cooler too nailing a UX that looks gamer oriented without being too tacky is another example of a Souza's, much deeper background in the phone game. The game center app offers a few more gaming specific features, as well as a high performance setting called X mode.

Much like the razor phone Asus allows you to customize frame rate, processor, speed and anti-aliasing preferences on an app by app basis, but X mode can keep the KG performing at its highest for all processes. The processor, speed and frame rate can't go quite as low as the razor phone toucan and resolution can't be changed per app, but we'd be willing to bet that most gamers will find this level of tweaking sufficient, especially considering other features the DOG phone packs. Unlike the razor phone too, the DOG has a gaming dashboard, dubbed a game genie which is accessible during gameplay and not only offers a quick shortcut to performance tweaks, but also app integrations for fast and easy game streaming. Macro creation and air trigger setup. Macros are mapped to gestures.

You draw on the screen much like a Zen motion, but air triggers utilise, their own hardware component additional touch sensitive buttons. These touch sensitive areas are on the right side of the phone, leaving your index finger within tapping distance when holding the DOG phone in a landscape position. Game genie allows you to map these two buttons to specific functions in each game by dropping virtual buttons over the on-screen ones. Each unique configuration is saved for each game. The implementation isn't perfect.

The touch sensitive areas would be easy to reach on the back of the phone rather than the side, but a hardware Edition like this would be very welcome on the razor phone too, and the easy button mapping is something we deeply wish. We had on the razor phone's rise, you mobile controller, which we'll touch on in a bit. The wide range of performance control on the razor phone is well implemented and easy to use, but the DOG phone has this as well as a more mature better-looking UI with more gaming oriented features, handily beating the razor phone ? in this category. The internals may be as close as it gets between these two phones, but even here, there's some notable differences both run on pepped up versions of the latest Snapdragon 845 processor. But the DOG is just a bit peppier on paper maxing out at 2.96 gigahertz, as opposed to the razor's 2.88 gigs of ram accompany the snapdragon 845 on both of these devices. But the next big difference comes in storage.

We love the KG starting capacity of 128 gigs with a next step up being 512, so the lack of a micros slot isn't that big of a deal the razor phone ?, on the other hand, comes only in a 64. You could bite capacity but allows for micros card expansion up to one terabyte in day-to-day use. It'll be next to impossible to notice any of these differences. Both phones are exceptionally snappy and smooth skipping around from app to app and performing the requisite tasks of a daily driver show these two to be more than capable as anticipated. This leads us to gaming, so who's the king, where it really counts.

It's actually a pretty close call. You did the razor phone ? noir DOG phone will, let you down with their gaming performance. We always had quick load times at smooth, stutter free gameplay. That said, the razor phone screen always appeared smoother with less jitter in games. Even when we capped the refresh rate at 90 Hertz to match the DOG phone, it seems razors display formula truly delivers results in comfort and performance.

The DOG is by no means hard on the eyes for gaming, it's more comfortable than almost any phone with the 60 Hertz refresh rate, but the razor phone ? looks and feels better immediately when you start gaming, and especially as your session wears on when it comes to battery life and thermal performance, they're pretty evenly matched, but the DOG phone seems a bit better at keeping it's cool, both utilise, the vapor chamber, cooling and neither got hot enough to cause any discomfort or worry during our testing. Even in some prolonged intensive sessions checking the temperatures, though, we found the razor phone to consistently be anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees, hotter after longer sessions, despite having almost identical battery discharge rates during the same period, we wouldn't say this is a difference. You can feel with your hands, though, as they can both warm up but stay within a reasonable range gaming. On phones has made leaps and bounds and becoming an experience. Many people can deeply enjoy a lot needed to happen to help this along, but there are still a few aspects that could use some help.

Asus is well aware of this and has tackled a good amount of these shortcomings in mobile gaming, with various accessories for the DOG phone. The company offers six different DOG phone specific peripherals that aid, the KG and gaming longer cooler more comfortably and in more versatile, yet familiar ways, one of which even comes in the box with a phone. This is in comparison to the Racer phone ?, which only has one accessory for gaming sold separately out of the DOG. Six accessories for are different types of docking stations with the following emphases. The mobile desktop dock offers four USB a pores Gigabit LAN HDMI out display out a microphone 3.5, millimeter, headphone, jack micro USB and an SD card slot. This essentially makes the DOG phone a mini, desktop computer.

The professional dock is a dongle which adds HDMI to USB a port and Gigabit LAN to your DOG phone. This brings the desktop experience with a few less ports and a few fewer dollars spent ASUS is twin. View dock is a clamshell device consisting of a second Android powered screen with two more speakers, an additional six thousand William hour battery and a place to mount the DOG phone. This gives the DOG a bit of the Nintendo DS experience, but developers support is severely lacking for interactive content. Like controls our maps on the second screen, the Y gig display dock is a super low, latency wireless dock for mirroring the DOG screen on a larger one paired with the game.

Vice controller, the DOG displays it's a Nintendo Switch like versatility. The DOG is $80 game files, controller and free error, active cooling fan round out the six, bringing video game, console controls and cool efficient gaming respectively. To recap, the RO G's accessories can bolster your battery life cool. The phone connect to big screens, convert the phone to an I/o filled, desktop computer and AD console light controls, what's Au razor, just a console controller bit. Okay.

Well, while we love the ergonomics and many button functionalities on the $150 rise, your mobile controller, it falls short in one key area. Compatibility for the most part, ASUS was game by his controller and the rise. You are compatible with the same games. A couple of hundred or so, but most big titles are missing from this list. This is where a Souza's air trigger software really shows its worth.

The same drag-and-drop key mapping found in the air triggers menu enables the game vice controller, to map its controllers on any game in the biz. They call that a game changer we can safely say that the KG wins this round decisively. Of course, you'll find requisite features like dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0 on both of these devices, but the razor phone 2 edges out the DOG here with wireless charging and compatibility with all four major US carriers, the DOG isn't compatible with a Verizon or Sprint, and charging currents don't flow through the back of this phone ASUS has impressed us with the cameras on more than a few of their recent devices, the DOG included. Here we have a dual camera setup that pairs a 12 megapixel regular lens with an 8 megapixel wide-angle electronic image. Stabilization is used on both, but no optical image.

Stabilization is incorporated, razors overhauled the razor phone 2's cameras pretty much entirely from their original razor phone. In both hardware and software. This year we have two sensors mounted 12, megapixel cameras, the main camera uses a wider angled lens and the secondary shooter, a telephoto one optical stabilization is present on the main camera only in terms of image quality. Both of these handsets are capable of taking decent, accurate shots with little effort. More often than not, these were the results are we received, but there were areas in which both would sometimes falter.

In fact, it seemed that many of the razor phone's misses were hits for the DOG and vice versa, almost as if they were truly faded to one day meet for paddle in brighter lighting situations, the razor's camera would often watch colors out a noticeable bit more than the DOG over sharpening can also be identified in photos where the DOG had no such issue in dynamic low-light, though the razor phone to typically grab more detail than the DOG, which could be prone to smoothing and blur these net picks aside. Most pictures you take with either of these phones will come out good enough. In the end, we're going to have to call this one a draw. As for the most part, they both shoot pleasing photos, but every so often reveal their specific weaknesses. Video quality on these two is also quite similar, both capture up to 4k resolution at 30 frames per second, but while the razor's off Calamity stabilization is meant to smooth things out, we found it more jittery than the RO G's electronic stabilization, much like in photography.

The razor phone can wash colors out a bit too. The razor also records much quieter flatter audio than the DOG and ASU's the device picks up more light and darker scenes don't need their offers. The best experience the KG ran away with it in this round calls on both phones showed no glaring issues. The earpieces on these are more than adequate and the speaker, phones are quite powerful on both the razor phone. Two does sound slightly less to me than the RGS, though, as gaming phones, the DOG and razor phone would be pretty disappointing without a strong media prowess.

Luckily, they both have loud full sounding dual speakers firing a right at your face which easily immerses you in games, music, videos or otherwise there are G, does sound a tad tinnier than the razor that was mentioned both deal well with spatial sound and both offer in depth. Controls to tweak EQ, the razor's courtesy of Dolby and Asus is from its proprietary audio wizard app. The DOG also has a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, where the razor phone has none bundling a USB-C to 3.5 millimeter adapter in the box. Instead, ASUS and racer went with large four thousand William hour batteries in these phones, but which makes the most of it. You ask in our use, light heavy and even idle.

We found the razor phone to be more efficient with its battery used, but by a pretty small margin. After putting the two phones through the highest and lowest powered use cases, we usually found the razor phone to be one or two battery percentage points higher than the DOG, which can add up. We also observed a slight advantage in our custom test where the razor phone lasted about 28 minutes longer, we wouldn't say that either of these phones are exactly juice zippers, though both devices are quick charge, 4.0 certified, but the razor phone ? juiced up from 0 to 100 and about 2 hours, 13 minutes less than the KG took. We must say it's a beautiful day when we get to compare two great phones against each other and an even better one when they're, both gaming phones not so long ago, the idea of a gaming phone conjured up nothing about high expectations and inevitable failure to meet them. Furthermore, we can honestly and happily say that neither of these phones failed us in any way it's a close race between these two.

Furthermore, we can't deny that performance battery life and the cameras on these two phones are neck-and-neck, so the big decision may come down to just a few gaming features for the DOG phone, the biggest selling point for gamers as a multiple accessory which bring fun and functionality and can truly transform the gaming experience, especially with a controller that can map to any game a huge advantage for the DOG. On the other hand, the buttery 120 Hertz, refresh rate on an already beautiful display, makes us feel right at home gaming for hours on the raiser phone -. As always, preference is key, and it just doesn't seem like you can go wrong between either of these phones. So for now, we'll just revel in the glory that we have the choice between such capable gaming, phones, iMac or Gascony with phone arena, thanks for watching and be sure to check out phone arena comm for our full review on these phones and many others.

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