Razer Phone 2 - Can Razer Survive a Razor? By JerryRigEverything

Do, you ever feel, like all smartphones, are kind of just the same. Well, you're, not wrong. It is nice, though, when something new comes to market, doing something unique, and that's this guy, the flagship gaming phone from racer, it's a normal rectangular smartphone, of course, but with a few extra perks. Let's get started right out of the box. One of the coolest parts of this phone is the light up, led racer logo on the back glass made up of three snakes racer started out years ago, making gaming computer mouses and, of course, snakes eat mice. So the racer logo is made up of cool snakes that eat the boring computer mice that aren't racer branded.

The logo is a bit more dim than I anticipated, but it does change to whatever color you want, which is pretty cool. It'll, be interesting to see what the LEDs look like from underneath the glass inside the box, there's a nice braided, cable and an USB dongle for that missing, headphone jack, let's jump into the scratch test. Racer has a few major perks over other smartphones, one being this 5.7 inch, 120 hertz, display 120 hertz means that the screen refreshes superfast, making it abnormally smooth the video you're watching right now on your screen is filmed in 60 frames per second, so it's impossible for you to get the full experience of the racer 2 without actually seeing it in real life. With your own eyes, the screen is covered with the industry standard gorilla, glass, 5, meaning it scratches at a level 6 with deeper grooves at a level 7. The racer phone does have a unique looking build with large front-facing speakers on either end of the phone tucked up inside the top speaker.

We have our front eight megapixel camera protected by glass and the sensor array in a little black circle. Next to it also protected with glass. The large speaker surface area makes sense because it's a gaming phone it'll be held horizontally a lot and the massive plastic covered speakers give the user something to hold onto that doesn't block the screen, both the top and the bottom grilles are made from plastic. These sides of the phone are made from metal standard black anodized aluminum. You can see the silver metal shining through it's even metal over the expandable SD card slot.

The racer phone 2 has some unique looking volume buttons, though little circular dollops made from metal. You would think that a beastly, powerful gaming phone might have some more aggressive, looking buttons, but if you remember, racer bought out the old next robin startup and took a lot of the same design cues from the cutesy plastic phone named after a tiny bird racer didn't bring over the headphone jack, though, which is kinda weird, I feel like the gamers of all. People would like to use headphones while charging their phone at the same time, which you can't do with the racer phone Bluetooth, sometimes lags where corded headphones would not. The top and sides are all made from metal with the power button, doubling as a fingerprint scanner. It's very flush with the side surface of the phone, but hypothetically it's good to know if it would still function or not with scratches or damage.

Luckily, for racer, even with some substantial slices, the fingerprint scanner functions perfectly every time and has no problem recognizing my thumb thumbs up for that. The bottom of the phone contains our single USB-C port and some more metal aesthetically. I think the light up logo design on the back of the racer phone 2 is pretty awesome. It does seem dim on my very well-lit desk, but I imagine it's more stunning in a darker room or while making phone calls or getting notifications at night, the whole logo is underneath the glass, so it'll never get scratched off, plus with that back glass panel. Now the racer phone 2 does have wireless charging.

Racer is also doing it right with the dual rear cameras, one normal 12 megapixel lens with is and a secondary telephoto sensor with two times optical zoom. I'm a fan of those extra capabilities, the dual tone flash is covered with plastic. As of this, video racer is making this phone in two colors black and black. So, if you're looking for any diversity in your life or just want to get rid of all those fingerprints, you can always customize your phone with brand with a ton of vibrant colors, including the delicious bulletproof banana. You have the option of leaving the logo showing which I prefer or d branding your phone entirely, either way I'll leave a link for you in the video description.

So you can customize your own phone and huge thanks to brand for sponsoring this video and now the test. You've all been waiting for the burn test. It's important to know if your new gaming phone can survive a cozy campfire during a Fortnite gaming session, with the extreme heat from my lighter, the racer phone 2 lasted about 19 seconds. The 1440p lcd started going black and turned off, but once the heat was removed, the pixels recovered respawning back to full health, I'll peel off the brand skin, to keep the bin test fair. It's time to find out.

If this 800 racer phone 2 is durable or if it snaps in half like its bluebird predecessor with a substantial bin to the front, there is hardly any flex to racer's flagship, it's surprisingly, even more rigid than last year's first racer phone with zero kinks in the metal. Even when bent from the back this massive phone is surprisingly solid. The racer phone 2 passes my durability test with its large screen. It's probably one of the most well-built structurally solid phones, I've tested so far this year. I'm a fan, let me know if you want to see me, take it apart to review those LEDs and vapor cooling chamber from the inside and feel free to customize your own phone with the brand link in the video description hit that subscribe button.

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Source : JerryRigEverything