Razer Phone 2 vs Razer Phone! A Worthy Upgrade? Hands on First Impressions Comparison By GizmoSlipTech

What's up guys and welcome to my hands-on with the razor phone to now I'm here live at the event. This is actually a backstage room that they've provided for me. We're gonna talk about how razor took the existing razor phone, which had a number of weaknesses, we're going to go over those weaknesses, and we're going to see how razor has improved the razor phone too dramatically. I've got the razor phone ? right here, hands-on with the LED light up logo. This thing is pretty sick. Let's dive into this here we go now.

I used the original razor phone as my primary phone for about six months over the course of the last year. First and most importantly, the camera was lack luster. It had the same sensor from the Galaxy S7, but the software especially was lacking when compared to the Galaxy S7, for example, it just wouldn't perform nearly as well, especially when the s8, and now we have the s9 and the Google Pixel to excel, and the iPhone 10 and all those phones just took so much better photos that if you were a camera person, you really had to upgrade to a different phone. If you wanted to have a good camera now, razor has completely redone the camera and new sensors. We don't know how good exactly it's going to be, and they're continuing to update and improve the software.

We now have a portrait mode now, there's talk of additional modes that I can't discuss with you, but they are continually adding to and improving the software. This is supposed to have significantly improved low-light. It also supposed to have an improved front camera. Now, the previous razor phone had a 120 Hertz IPS LCD extremely fast, extremely responsive and very great to play games on, but its major weaknesses. It didn't get very bright, a razor, measured it at 318 it's while this new razor phone too has a new and improved 518.

It displays that should match most high-end smartphones, I think the iPhone 10s max is rated to a 625 nits brightness. This will essentially get the razor phone to the point where you should be able to use it outdoors. Another issue that plagued the razor phone was its signals, didn't always communicate very well with its new razor phone to have an improved modem in it. That should support a lot more bands and therefore support more carriers, mainly we're looking at very and sprint customers that hopefully, will be able to use this razor phone too successfully. This affected me when I was an original RAZOR phone user, because my signal did not work especially great at my house when it worked quite a bit better with the s9 and the iPhone 10s max, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how the razor phone to perform as an actual phone.

This time it should be quite a bit improved. There is two more major features that the original razor phone was lacking and that is no wireless charging and no water and dust resistance. It now features fast wireless charging, as well as water and dust resistance, which is particularly impressive because they upgraded the speakers at the same time they made them waterproof. Now this thing still has the fingerprint sensor on the side which I actually really liked. Now there's been a major overhaul with the design.

We now have a glass back, and this feels a lot nicer in the hand, I think the original aluminum was a little slippery. This is not going to be slippery. This thing looks freaking classy I, really like the glass back because, it's a glass back, they've included an RGB LED that is chroma, enable -. You can change the colors and just do all kinds of cool things with it. It's actually not going to just be a pretty thing.

It's also going to be very useful because you're going to be able to get LED notifications here. So, for example, when you get a notification from YouTube, it's going to turn red. When you get something from Facebook, it's going to turn blue. If you get something from Snapchat, it'll turn yellow now to top it off. They've also got this new wireless charging stand, which is really, really cool.

Looking its chroma lighting and Mable. It changes colors depending on the battery charge of your phone. It's also going to be compatible with notification colors. Now the razor phone 2 is available for pre-order as of midnight tonight, which is going to be 10, 11 2018, and it's going to be available for sale, I believe on 10, 22 2018. So, just in a couple of weeks here, it'll be shipping out now it's going to cost 799 dollars its core internals is a snapdragon 845.

This thing has a vapor chamber cooling on the inside now the original RAZOR phone had an aluminum back that helped disperse that heat. It was essentially a giant heat sink well with the glass back. They had to figure out another way of cooling the device. This still has a metal trim around the outside. It's going to be very interesting to see how well this thing handles under continuous gaming load, because that is again the biggest focus of this device.

One thing that is really cool I think is that they maintain the same size of battery, which is 4000 mAh. Now, when it comes to battery life, you might actually see a little less battery on this device and the main reason is the screen can get so much brighter and that's going to take up more juice. Now, when I was using the razor phone, as my daily driver I would usually get about three hours and 45 minutes to 4 hours of screen on time at 120, Hertz refresh rate. Now that is a fairly low battery time for that high of an mAh battery, and the reason is because that hundred and twenty Hertz display just takes a ton of juice, pushing out that many pixels at the 1440p resolution. Now, if you reduce the refresh rate down to 90, Hertz you're going to have dramatically better battery life about 25% more battery life, because it makes sense you're pushing out 25% less pixels.

Now, if you were to also couple that with reducing it to a 1080p resolution, you're going to get again dramatically more battery life because you again you're pushing out less pixels. So if you want really, really high battery life, you have that in here now. You also have a number of software features, such as game booster, which allows you to tweak fps inside different games so that you can set it so that if you want to get 90 frames per second or 120 frames per second or only 30 frames per second for more battery life, you can do that now. I was able to play fortnight for a few minutes. The razor phone is gonna, be one of the devices that is compatible with for tonight.

Unfortunately, you're only going to be capped to 30 frames per second. In fortnight. That said, there are a number of games that support the 120 Hertz refresh rate. Honestly, the main thing for me about the hundred twenty Hertz display is just using the phone. Everything is just better when you have 120 Hertz display browsing the websites sliding between apps and the wave razor has optimized their phone is then it's always turning out high frame rates.

It's always at a high frequency. It doesn't down clock nearly as much as other phones, so the stuttering is not really evident on a razor phone. Furthermore, it's all extremely, extremely responsive I mean just look at how buttery smooth using this device is its fantastic overall I'm actually really psyched about this. Now this is going to retail for seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars which undercuts a lot of its competitors, including the note nine, the iPhone, 10s and 10s max. This is far from a budget smartphone, but it is quite a bit cheaper than a lot of its competitors, which is a huge thumbs up from me, especially with all the additions and improvements.

I have to say it's an impressive job overall from Racer. So that's the Racer phone ?, not perfect, but it's a lot closer to a fully featured flagship device in last year's Racer phone I'm. Definitely going to give it a whirl, as my main phone I can't wait. I'm currently rocking the iPhone 10s max, and you can see that they are almost identical in size, with the exception that the Racer has these corners on the side. Here, that's it for my initial impressions of the Racer phone -.

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