Razer Phone 2 fixes everything wrong with the original - Hands On Review By Digital Trends

Last year's razor phone was a powerful gaming phone, but it fell short of being a strong flagship phone because of its mediocre camera and missing features such as water resistance with the razor phone to razor was changing. All of that even making sure it uses flagship, and it's marketing to ensure people know this isn't a phone. You can only rely on for gaming, but for things like taking reliable photos as well from the front razor phone to looks exactly the same as its predecessor, you still have a 5.7 inch, LCD IGO screen with a quad HD resolution, and it maintains the hundred and twenty Hertz refresh rate for smoother gaming and scrolling throughout the Android interface. The screen supports HDR 10, so you get the best viewing experience when watching HDR content in HDR, supported apps like Netflix and YouTube. Well, what's new here with the screen. Is that it's much brighter it's much easier to see darker scenes in shows like Marvel's, Luke, Cage and Iron Fist Audio has also improved with Dolby Atmos support.

It's easy to pick up sound a traveling from one end of the screen to the other, and the stereo speakers also managed to get incredibly loud, while still sounding robust and dynamic. There's no headphone jack still, but you get a 24-bit 3.5 millimeter to USB, see jack-in-the-box and racer is also selling separate. USB earbuds racer also managed to deliver ip67 water resistance. Despite the massive speaker role, which is something that had trouble with on last year's Racer phone. That means you can now take this phone underwater up to one meter for 30 minutes over on the back.

Its biggest change is the use of glass, specifically Gorilla Glass 5. That means the phone is now prone to shattering a little easier, but there's now support for wireless charging. The camera is also now centered, but the logo is the most interesting thing on the back. It's now an RGB LED and you can change the color to whatever you want with different animations in the chroma app. You can also set it to change color to incoming notifications and the color is set for whatever the developer set for the app.

For example, an incoming Gmail email will change the logo color on the back to red Racer is also releasing a wireless char for $100 that has the same chroma effect around the base. It can also change colors, based on the notifications arriving at your phone, but also turns green, to indicate the phone is charging specifications wise. The razor phone tube is powered by Qualcomm snapdragon 845 processors, with a massive 8 gigs of ram, there are 64 gigs of on-board storage and a micro SD card slot. If you need more, we didn't run into any problems playing games, and you should be able to gain for even longer because of a new vapor chamber cooling system. It's the flat large sheet in the phone that spreads heat around the surface.

On the rear razor said you shouldn't expect to any kind of performance throttling, even after gaming for a while on this phone, a four thousand William hour battery is back into and the phone supports Qualcomm, quick charge for plus razor said. You should be able to get up to half the battery charged in 30 minutes. There's not a lot of flourishes in the software, which is mostly stock Android with Nova Launcher pre-installed. It's quite customizable. There's a Racer cortex app, which acts like a game launcher and inside is game booster, which lets you tweak exact, graphical and performance.

Settings of your games, which is kind of neat. The biggest downside here, is that the software runs Android 8.1 Oreo, rather than the latest Android 9 PI Android Pi support ISM the works, but Racer did not share any kind of timeline. The camera is the one area of the phone were most excited to test Rosa said and carried over nothing from last year's raiser phone and an attempt to start completely from scratch. The first improvement is the use of cameras from Sony. Both lenses on the rear are 12 megapixel lenses.

The main one has an F 1.75 aperture with optical image stabilization and the secondary lens is a telephoto with 2, x, zoom and an F 2.6 aperture. The user interface is easier to follow, there's, finally, a dedicated button to quickly swap to the 2 x optical lens and the camera app doesn't feel so bare-bones like it did in the original RAZOR phone. It snaps pictures quickly and the image quality looks solid, but we'll have to do more testing to see how it compares to the rest of the flash of market. There's an 8 megapixel front-facing camera with an F 2.0 aperture, but we haven't had the chance to test it yet the brazier phone to cost $800 for the mirror. Glass finish you see here, which only comes with 64 gigs of internal storage.

There will be a satin finish model for sale, but it will cost $900 as it clean clues 128 gigs of internal storage,.

Source : Digital Trends