Razer Phone 2 In Depth Review - the Most Powerful Android, Premium Specs w/120hz display! By Sean Sheffer

As razor made a flagship to compete with the other cellphone juggernauts Timber goodwill as a premium PC harder enthusiasts translate into the tech space. Well, let's find out welcome to the cult of razor right out of the box. The razor teen comes out swinging like a sharply honed blade. The razor phone tuber finds every element of its predecessor with a new design and improved features for incredible duel experiences, a flagship phone for everyday use and a powerful gaming phone for immersive gameplay. Let's talk specs they've seriously packed a punch in this year's model. It features a 5.7 inch exude display, similar to their laptop line 1440 by 2560 resolution, a hundred twenty Hertz refresh rate screen their biggest differentiator, and it runs on the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, two point: eight gigahertz processor and sports, a whopping, eight gigabytes of RAM, the highest of any Android in 2018, new, dual 12 megapixel lenses with Sony, IMF sensors and a massive 4,000 William battery that supports quick charge plus the front features. Two Dolby Atmos, dual front-facing speakers that support HER 5.1 surround sound, and it has 64 gigabytes of on-board storage, which can expand with up to a terabyte in external storage, oh and to top it off as ip67 water-resistant with a glass back with the racer chroma logo. With over sixteen point, eight million colors, all at a very fair price point of only $800.

It really shows that the racer team is giving their all to mobile. Now all this translates to a fifty percent brighter panel compared to last year, the best and silky smooth LCD on the market at a hundred twenty Hertz, both input and refresh rate for no lag great gaming and a powerful multitasker at eight gigabytes of RAM, extremely long all-day battery life in my personal daily use at four thousand William and a sleek and sharp look with an aluminum glass back design with the Racer logo top tier on part with another flagship. The Galaxy Note 9 now display differences aside. They both feature a Qualcomm 845 processor, a four thousand William all-day battery life and the base model. For the note, nine is a hundred twenty-eight gigs, while the razor phone is 64 gigs, but the expandable storage and the raised phone is a terabyte.

Whereas the Galaxy Note 9 is only 512 gigabytes, and this includes six gigabytes of RAM in the note 9 base model, whereas in the Razor phone base model it has 8 gigabytes of RAM to get 8 gigabytes of RAM. In the note, 9 you'd have to pay $1,300, so you're packing premium features and specs targeted to performance. Refresh rate audio cooling battery life for $800, and I'd, say that's incredible: in a market packed with $1,000 plus phone real world use design, let's start with the design, glass packs are great and all, but man is this thing. Slippery and you'd be hard-pressed to find a razor phone to case on Amazon. You have to stick with D brand or the razor official store for that, but wireless charging is standard, and I get it.

This has the same footprint as any iPhone plus model, the Galaxy Note 9 or the iPhone tennis Mac's, so for those who've gotten use to that, you won't have to worry about the impact whatsoever, its square, but has very smooth, rounded out edges, and it's very comfortable to hold in your hand, it's very sleek, with a fingerprint sensor on the right side of display and to up and down volume notches on the side. The finishing touch is a Racer chroma logo itself and as a Racer enthusiast, of course, I want chroma and anything and everything, but really you won't look at it at the logo as much as you'd like because you're always staring at the front of your phone and when you place it down most of the time its screen up. Custom ability options are great, though, with the logo, with spectrum breathing and static colors. Now the chroma logo is to show off, and usually my conversations go with my friends. Look how cool this is yeah cool and that's it Racer features low, medium or high battery use for the logo.

Most of you will probably choose medium and, yes, it has the highest battery in the industry, but even with that, you don't want to waste on a light that you barely see on the back. You can run it all the time, but I really have it. One drawback seems to be the antenna: that's strong in its caught a lot of random clothes or thread or hair, so be careful. Now this can easily be solved with the case. It's a very minor criticism, but possibly a greater challenge in the long term.

A greater challenge in the long term is the speaker. Grilles I've had specks of dust that just get caught in the grille that aren't easy to remove, so be careful not to get too much dust or crumbs in the grille. Some light. Scotch tape or air can really take care of your device and might be needed. The two front facing speakers do cut out a lot of the screen real estate that you're used to looking at and then with the note 9 and the bezel list.

iPhone, but I don't mind it as much as I thought. I would, you'll find yourself actually holding the phone by the bottom speaker. Quite often, as you browse to read through content, look it's to finger grip, it's pretty comfortable versus having to have your hand, wrap around the phone. All the time display my eyes literally thanked me. The first time I saw 120 Hertz panel I went whoa, it's been described as buttery, smooth and silky fast, and you have to see it to believe it.

But the best way to describe it is an immense comfort. The first time you see this display on mobile and here's the best way to experience it on your phone right now go ahead and turn on night mode or the blue light filter and the feeling you get in your eyes, strain dissipates without you realizing that you've been straining your eyes in the first place. The minute you turn on this effect, your eyes are less strained, and they feel like they. Thank you and that's the same here with the 120 Hertz panel. At its worst, we hate lack delays, jagged transitions on any desktop or mobile experience.

So what's the opposite of that blazing fast and smooth, and this frame rate speaks of volume to it. Razor claims this phone to be a flagship phone for everyday use, and there are clear reasons to choose and use 120 Hertz setting and to even leave it on all the time. Every day, I read the latest headlines: email news, feed status, update articles, and I'm transitioning between eight and ten different apps you'd, be surprised how much time you're scrolling or opening up new apps multitasking and seeing these animations or texts fly by so for the everyday user. Getting double the frame rates on your screen is very apparent. Ask any PC Gamer refresh rate is everything secondary to the highest resolution, and they even prefer those high refresh rate monitors for everyday use.

It's my favorite thing about this phone, even if, as I've gotten used to the refresh rate over time now, a clear drawback is the LCD panel coming from the iPhone 10, the backlit LCD panel looks dated especially showing darker black images and even at fifty percent brighter than last year, it's nowhere near as bright as the Galaxy Note, nine or the iPhone in daylight, but this is a trade-off I'm willing to take, and it's still as beautifully an HD screen as ever, and you'd only get the grass greener effect, looking at different OLED panels in hand, otherwise, texts and images are sharp and as HD as ever now gaming. This phone was built for gamers, with the additional benefit of going mainstream with all their innovations, but, as we learned with diablo immortal, what do you not have? Phones? Mobile gaming still has a long way to go before being taken seriously. Now going to the rings of cortex, you get a curated list of 120 Hertz display, games featured, and I really appreciated the curation, because I want to flex the phone and all it has to offer. They indeed ran smoothly through a combination of the Qualcomm 845 chip, eight gigs of ram and the frame rate I've been able to have surprising fun on pop G mobile, getting all those skills now, if you're, making comparisons to other phones. Just remember the razor phone has to push double the frame rate versus other phone makers and that's an enormous task with any processor or Ram.

The phone never got scorching hot in any way, and only warm in the hand, that's never uncomfortable, which is a clear strength to raisers vapor chamber cooling that you've seen in their most recent line of laptops and now with their phone. Let's talk about speakers. The audio blasts loud now a little strange that they went full USB, especially where the note 9 kind of pitched as another gaming device still has a headphone jack, but they at least include an adapter. Now I have a ton of Bluetooth and wireless speakers around the house, but when I'm in the morning, craze getting ready or rush, or I just want to show a brief YouTube clip or the newest Spotify single. To my friends.

This is where the front-facing speakers really shine, they're louder than any stereo widening or iPhone Menace, and the speaker improvements at the note, 9 hats, which is an awesome to gloat, and they sound fantastic I'm, usually never in a situation to want or need to blast at that loudly. You can for most people who think you bought. Maybe a personal Bluetooth speaker in short, you'll, be very pleased, and before I forget to mention it has ip67 waterproof rating, which is a tremendous movement over last year, especially in Rainier miss Seattle. It's incredibly difficult to waterproof speakers, that is to have two grills, but they did it. Some drawbacks are that they went full USB and speakers aren't really particularly helpful while you're in transit on the bus- and you get these weird slight popping sounds while switching through apps I don't know if the software recognizes that as an audio transition enough for me to know us notice while reviewing, but not enough to get annoyed at I, expect us to be fixed with a simple software update.

Now speaking of software, Racer does its best by letting the stock Android run through, and that's an amazing benefit. Just like their laptop hardware. They have no qualms building a few custom apps, but really letting the OS shine through. Believe me, I love, Samsung too, coming from the note 8 last year, especially the Samsung health and the backup apps, but letting stock Google photos or Gmail, as your native client messages just run, really allows the phone to shine similar to the success of the Google Pixel line. It runs a light, beam, Nova Launcher, and it's always been a staple of Android hardware in terms of launchers that you can make custom gestures.

More I am should really follow suit, with razors example and entrusting Google and Android stock experience. Now for the camera, no, the cameras aren't going to be as good as the iPhone tennis max pixel 3 or the note 9, but they're a major improvement over last year. I did a camera test between the three and while taking photos and looking at their respective screens. At the moment the razor phone looked like it couldn't keep up, but actually, looking at the three photos objectively on a separate RGB certified monitor, I was pleasantly surprised. Can you guys tell the difference between these photos? Sony lenses have done a great improvement over last year's model, and I'll leave it up to you to decide the quality here.

I think they're good enough. Unfortunately, I'll have to lean on the iPhone to come out on top if I want to take photos, but this is more than enough to take great photos and get you by I. Remember: the phone is targeted to performance in gaming, so you have to decide what trade-offs you're willing to deal with and by no means is a terrible camera closing thoughts. The cult of Racer, now I was on edge if the Racer phone was really worth it, and I'm happy to say, I'm, blown away at the performance, buttery, smooth display and overall design and experience that the phone has to offer. There's no other way to put it at $800.

This competes with the likes of a $1,300 Galaxy Note 9 and even beats it on many performance levels. I'm scared for my life to drop it as it didn't have much support in terms of third-party hardware. Third-Party cases having economies of scales, the exact or nuts have to offer there's no financing options or buy-one-get-one deals, but this phone is a truly fantastic showing by Racer. Ever since my first RGB Mouse I had to have an RGB keyboard, then a laptop, an RGB mouse pad and now even a mobile phone as a collector who wants every part of the collection. RGB is my guilty pleasure tech, enthusiasts, flagship powerhouse user, the racer phones who pass every single mark with very few compromises.

I'm glad a phone like this exists to innovate. Animal feels like a stagnated, mobile market and improvements, and I can't wait to see what the racer team brings next. Let me know what flagship you decide in the comments, and we'll see you in the next video.

Source : Sean Sheffer