Razer Phone 2 Review By BulletBarry

When I was out in Vietnam. My razor phone got stolen. Now tell that story in time, but I wasn't done with that phone I didn't even have it for a year. It was my favorite phone that I've ever had I was so sad to lose it, but it did give me the opportunity to work with the razor phone too and after spending about three weeks with this phone I wanted to make a review, as I did with the first one. Let's start with some changes to the phone razor had a few issues that needed sorting out with their first edition. It seems like almost every complaint was not only taken in consideration but carefully reworked.

There was a lot of care and attention put into the second rendition. For example, the first phone had a metal back which made NFC difficult and wireless charging impossible. The new phone, however, has a glass back that makes for much better NFC making things like Google Pay very easy to use, as well as offering the ability to charge your phone with a wireless charger. The only issue I've seen what this is, the components for the wireless charger are down here at the bottom of the phone, so you kind of got a place it just right or by razor's wireless charging dock and that thing's a hundred bucks, so screw that the glass back also gives the razor phone to a much better look and feel that many of my friends have remarked on another thing about the way the phone feels is it's very heavy now this is going to depend on the person, but I like a heavy phone, makes me feel like it put my money into a quality piece of tech, and it also feels like this thing would survive. A pretty good hit makes the phone feel substantial, and it's something that I liked about the first razor phone as well.

Now this next thing is one of my favorite things about the phone, it's one of those small things that makes all the difference, but the Racer logo. On the back here glows, you have a chroma app here that allows you to pick a static color make any color. You want to breathe or have the phone cycle through the colors as the screen is on, which is pretty cool. It makes it feel very customizable. With sixteen point.

Eight million color options you can have it match any case you get for it or just have it cycle through like I. Do the logo also acts like a notification light, which is great for me, since I tend to keep my phone on silent for most of the day when it comes to my desk and see the icon, glowing blue I know someone messages me when it's yellow I know someone sent me a Snapchat when it's red I know, I've got an email now I have to say as much as I love this feature. It would be nice to be able to choose the colors for specific apps. I haven't found a setting for this, but, for example, if I have two apps that make the logo glow blue it'd be nice to change one of those apps to purple. So I know if it's my messages, app or Twitter small complaint, but it'd be nice to see this in an update.

Another thing about this would be: nice is having more chroma options. Having it cycle through, colors is cool, but what about breathing through them or pulsing? I may be asking for too much here, but for a feature that absorbs about 3% of your battery life per hour. It could be giving me more for what it's taking. You can, however, adjust the brightness to save on battery and even just not have it on if you're scared of eating your precious screen time. With that in mind, how is the battery? Well, it's the same as before, which is still more than plenty I.

Have the resolution of 1440 P, the frame rate at 120 Hertz and the chroma lighting on when my phone is awake, and I still get about two days of use without needing a charge? Just so you know you can lower the resolution to 1080p the frame rate down to 90 and even 60fps and turn off the chroma lighting and have a pretty significant difference, but it's just not something that I really worry about with a four thousand William battery and the phone charge is so fast with the cable that comes with that. The battery life is never a worry on my mind. The phone will go from zero to 50% in almost exactly thirty minutes and 50%, at least for me, will still last me a day and a half, and I've been using this phone for about three weeks now, all right, so it's got a big battery Wells's going on under the shell. Well, actually, this phone, like its predecessor, has some pretty impressive specs the Snapdragon 845, the Arena 638 gigabytes of ram and 64 gigabytes of internal storage with up to 512 gigabytes of upgradable storage. The phone also supports more carriers than the original, with both CDMA and GSM carriers available.

I. Remember a lot of people saying a huge turnoff with the razor phone was not being able to use their provider, which makes this kind of big deal enjoy the bloatware from Verizon. By the way, the phone signal is better than the first as well, I'm, not sure if it was the intent or what, but the original razor phone used to drop, calls or get a bit scratchy and not once have I had a problem with this second edition, like I, said razor really listened to the complaints that people had with the original razor phone. Other fixes include the ip67 dust and water resistance, the more powerful backlight, which many still complain about not being pried enough, but is still better than the original. The vibration motor, which used to sound awful now, sounds like a vibration motor should even the speakers are improved.

I can't believe how much louder they are, will still sound very nice. Now they're, not gonna, be a top-of-the-line Bluetooth speaker, but they kick really hard, especially for being waterproofed. I do notice a small bit of distortion at max volume, but what the speaker is aimed right at you and with possibility of your fingers and thumbs getting in the way I, don't see much of a reason for you to need to put this on full-blast anyway. The speakers are that good now, I have heard people say that the speakers ruin the design of the phone, makes the phone blocky and ugly, and to that I have to say well you're, just a shallow little jerk. Aren't you sure it makes the phone a bit blocky, but that's more than worth it to me to be able to hear what I'm trying to listen to I.

Don't do that whole cupping, the bottom of my phone, so my friends can hear the video I'm trying to show them thing and when it comes to deciding between beauty and functionality, I'm going to pick functionality? Every time Who am I trying to impress here it's my phone. Another necessary improvement. Razor made was with the camera. This phone comes with two new Sony sensors, giving you both wide-angle lens at 12 megapixels and a telephoto lens, also at 12. Megapixels the front camera is still the same.

Eight megapixel beauty we had before, but there's a lot more settings available than last time. However, the camera still does fall short compared to other phones on the market and, if you're the kind of person who faces this decision on this aspect, then you may be barking up the wrong tree here with my first razor phone I dislike the camera so much that I downloaded the Google Pixel APK and used that I haven't had a reason to do that. This time at least not yet as I feel, this camera does have a lot more to offer than the original. But I may end up downloading another APK again to see if it makes a difference. Razor does do a good job at getting the hardware in there, but their camera software could still use some work.

Let's get into some other things, I like before we move on to the cons and improvements, Nova Launcher, prime. They still just give this to you and being able to customize the phone specifically to me right out of the box is just nice I heard many times, especially with the first razor phone, that the power button felt awkward for some people. It was in a weird place, or it felt like it might break after a while of usage, but because of Nova Launcher that just isn't an issue tap to wake up tap to sleep. The only thing I even used the power button for is the fingerprint reader problem solved. It's a much nicer way getting the phone anyway, and it leaves the power button in a good condition, though I do have to say it does feel a bit cheap.

My first razor phone never had a power button breaking issue, but it did seem like something. People were dealing with another app that razor integrated was razor cortex, which is not really for me, but if you're, the type who plays video games on your phone- and this app gives you access to a game booster lets, you adjust the in-game, frame rate, optimizing performance to the game, etc. , etc. And speaking of optimization, this phone is optimized like crazy. It's a basic reskin of android 8.1, which is perfect since they give you Nova Launcher and let you customise back to optimizations, though I have this device, it's a 120 Hertz and not once has it stutter on me: I've done some pretty decent customizations as well, and it still performs beautifully, which is great because what's the point of a hundred twenty Hertz, if it's stutters, as you scroll through your apps and pages on the internet, the last thing I love about this phone is no bloatware. I.

Hope Racer continues to do that as the only real bloatware that comes on this device is Netflix, and I'm, not exactly upset to have that on my phone anyway. Now, let's move on over to the cons, there aren't actually that many, the first con is the headphone jack. Racer sells a lot of products with a headphone, jack, and it'd, be really nice to be able to use cavalier mics with this phone. This phone comes with very competent Dolby Atmos software. That could be really useful, and it feels like they're shooting themselves in the foot by giving us access to this software and then it buy only really putting it towards the speaker's sure you can use the little DAC they give you, but who's going to carry around that flimsy little adapter everywhere.

If you want to give us a headphone jack, don't jerk us around give us the option to use our devices. The way you claim you want us to. Smartphones are supposed to be our Swiss Army knives. We have music, we have media, we have maps, and we have the Internet, and yet this beautiful little audio device glimpse its own software. It just doesn't make any sense to me.

The next con is the chroma app. This one is not as big and can easily be improved through a software update if they cared enough, but I'd like to be able to pick specific colors for specific apps when I get notifications through them. It's cool that Facebook, Messenger Twitter and my messages apps light up when someone texts me, but they all glow blue, which just isn't very helpful. Then again, most normal people have their phones text tones on. So this might just be a thing, but I think it'd be nice.

This phone sells for $7.99 USD and is my favorite phone that I've ever had. It doesn't feel much different from the original RAZOR phone more like a razor phone 2.0 fixing all the original issues and adding in their own improvements as well, which is probably why I like it so much. I hope. My review was helpful to you and, if you're, due for an upgrade, perhaps you'll consider getting the razor phone too.

Source : BulletBarry