Razer Phone 2 - Worth it in 2020? (Real World Review) By Real World Review

This is the ultimate question: what phone should I buy today? Not everyone has a thousand dollars to spend on a phone, but at 599 or less. This is a debatable choice. This phone is known for gaming in the dual speaker setup, but is it still worth the price? Let's talk about it first, because it isn't that gimmicky of a phone should you buy the racer phone 2 in 2020, hello, everyone. This is Matt from real world review, check out the social media listed above in the description for some extras. Alright, let's review this benchmark for a gaming phone on paper. The screen is awesome, but it falls a little short.

It is a 5.7 inch, IPS LCD with a screen resolution of 1440x2560, giving you a pixel density of 513. Yep. That means that this is a 6x9 screen ratio and, strangely enough I had no issues with it. I kind of forgot that it wasn't the odd screen ratio that we're used to now. The screen's refresh rate runs at 60, hertz, 90, hertz and even 120 hertz.

Everything sounds good, but remember it is an lcd. I had some issues with the viewing angles, mainly being that there was a lot of glare for some reason, something I didn't notice too much on the first racer phone. Another issue was the brightness, which is rated over 600 nits, which is better than the original 300 nits on the racer phone one. But somehow it just wasn't that bright to me, plus it dims when the phone gets warm. Maybe I don't like CDs at all anymore, but for some reason the screen just isn't as good as I'm used to that's fine, but this is a decently expensive flagship phone, not to mention a gaming phone.

I was a little disappointed by the screen, but I guess that means that there's still some room for improvement on the racer phone 3. If racer decides to change their mind now, the battery on this phone isn't the best which is kind of strange. A four thousand William battery wasn't entirely the most common battery back in 2018 when it came out, but it is in 2020. When I reviewed the racer phone. I told you that the battery life is pretty much the best that I've ever seen on a phone.

This phone, however, is a little different mind you. The model that I have is less than a year old, a couple of months really and the battery life is so, so sure this is a full 600 nits at 120 hertz with 1440p resolution, but that was the same as a racer phone minus the 300 nits it lasts all day, but only gives you about two to three hours of screen on time. The geek bench 4 battery test is pretty reasonable. With the battery stats. I was given this kind of sucks, seeing that I didn't really use it for gaming every day.

Remember this is a gaming phone and battery life does matter. The phone does get fairly warm when doing normal tasks, which doesn't seem like a good thing for the battery life. This does support Qualcomm, quick charge, 4 plus, which is fast charging on the USB c port on the bottom, and it charges at about 25 watts, from what I can find still charging to 100 will take you almost 2 hours to complete, but half an hour of charging should give you 50 percent of battery yeah. It's kind of weird that these batteries work like that. I guess it does support wireless charging, but in a weird way it's kind of lower on the phone, so it doesn't really fit perfectly on wireless chargers without some maneuvering.

There is a reason behind that, but I will talk about that a little later. The cameras are nothing special, but it's nice to see that racer made them better. They are both 12 megapixel sensors, with the main being optically stabilized, while the other is a telephoto sensor. That's not optically stabilized, while shots at night haven't improved that many shots during the day are actually really nice and capture a decent amount of detail. As for the app it isn't too crazy, you get very few options, but in a way it's kind of a good thing.

There's no slo-mo, which is strange, but also not needed. Now it isn't too special, but racer added 60 frames per second on this phone, which I think is pretty awesome. They give you 60 frames per second video in 4k, 1080p and even 720p, but clearly 4k is where it's at the 4k 60 frames per. Second video is not stabilized in any way, but it does look clear if you keep a steady hand on whatever you're filming flipping to the front camera. We get the same.8 megapixel sensor found in the original racer phone, but we do have portrait mode. I will mention that portrait mode is for the front and the back obviously- and it comes out looking good and most of the edges are accurately detected.

We also get 60 frames per second video on the front camera at 1080p, 720p and even 480p. The cameras clearly are not on the same level as pixel phones, but it is nice to see that racer works on improving the cameras, and this includes adding 60 frames per second video in way too many video formats, it's kind of late in the video to talk about the hardware of the gaming phone. But here we are. This phone is powered by the snapdragon 845 processors and has 8 gigabytes of ram, which were pretty awesome in 2018 in 2020. It still isn't that bad of a combo, but the 845 chip is showing its age just a little still.

I had no issues with the performance, whether we're talking about basic usage or gaming. Instead, software is how the 845 shows its age. This phone is still on android 9, which isn't really a dealbreaker, but it would be one of the few flagship phones out there that is stuck without a proper dark mode. Also, most of the gaming features are software. Based, seeing that the processor clock speed is the same 2.8 gigahertz as a Samsung s9, so it doesn't seem like the phone is too much of a gaming phone. Besides the bulky design, this is a normal design if you think about it: glass and plastic on the front metal in the middle and glass on the back.

The phone comes with 64 gigabytes of storage, which is alright, but it does allow for a memory card of one terabyte, but it didn't really like my gigabyte card. The phone is somewhat big and bulky because of the squared off edges, but it also is kind of hefty at 220 grams about 23 grams, more than the original racer phone. There are some dual front-facing speakers on this phone, which sound, perfect and super loud, but newer flagship phones have similar speakers just not front-facing. There is a side mounted fingerprint scanner which doubles as a power button, and it works pretty fine. The opposite side has the volume buttons which are right in the middle.

I'm not too much of a fan of this placement. There's no headphone jack, so you're still stuck with the Bluetooth 5.0 in this phone, but at least it makes sense. Now the phone is ip67 water resistant, which is a good thing in a few ways like I said, we have wireless charging, so this gives you a glass back mine being a matte finish instead of the normal glossy back, but there is a reason why the wireless charging coil is so low and that's because of the RGB on the back. It's a cool standout feature, but really just like I tried to its kind of overhyped. There are really only a few colors that you can choose from, even though it seems like it can be fine-tuned.

I mean look at the red. It looks pink during the day and red at night. Gimmicky to me. Yes, does it fit the gaming aesthetic? Yes, so should you buy this phone in 2020 at a reasonable price? Maybe, besides the design in the RGB logo, this is a normal phone nowadays, this phone doesn't really lose too much of the design choice other than swapping out a better screen for a faster one. The software does feel kind of dated when compared to other flagship phones, but you get a raw gaming experience out of this phone with this said software is what makes this phone what it is, but also what makes me hesitate on recommending this phone still.

I hope that racer comes back and makes a racer phone 3. Maybe they will add an OLED panel just to make me happy who knows- and that's all I wanted to talk about thanks for watching my review of the racer phone 2, also known as the flashy phone. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments section or message me on Twitter, I get bored over. There also check out the social media listed above, subscribe and hit the bell button. If you like the channel and want to see more videos thanks for watching.

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