The Best Android Phones for Gaming in 2020... plus the iPhone 11 Pro Max! By Reviews.org

So, I'm really excited about this week's review. I mean more than usual, even because I get to do something really cool this week. We're going to have a fight, an all-out battle for mobile gaming, supremacy between four different phones and, being that, I'm more of a casual gamer. I brought in the big guns to really help me thoroughly test the metal of these mobiles. My son thank you Armstrong, now a little background and because I'm a proud dad. This young man here is a linguistics major finishing up.

His undergrad speaks Russian studies. Mandarin knows his culture and has a logical line of debate in the anime subs versus dubs wars. Oh, any games a lot, so I know we could totally get into the whole console versus PC master race gaming thing. But for the sake of brevity, what are your top console games right now? What are you playing? So I really like mob, so I play smite smile's, pretty fun um, but I also like hopping into the war zone with the boys. Okay, yeah all right.

Well, there you go. You've got the low down from the man himself. Let's get to that fight hey if any of these videos have helped you please hit that thumbs up hit that subscribe and hit that notification, so you'll be notified. Every time we upload the latest content. Today, we've got a hot topic on our hands: we're putting Samsung's galaxy s20 ultra against the lg v65g against the OnePlus 8 pro against the iPhone 11 Pro max all flagships.

All high end is lit the categories we looked at for this gaming review are display quality battery life, sound and gameplay mechanics using those categories. We played Call of Duty, mobile sand chip and vikings 2, basically, a game that would tax those snapdragon processors and graphics processing units, as well as heat dissipation, that mix of games spans high intensity through casual gaming experiences. So category 1 displays getting into the four phones. Let's start from the top and back in from there, your favorite phone out of all these, and- and personally my favorite too, was what that is yeah the f20 ultra hands down now. Part of that is due to the technology because, as we've discussed, you know the iPhone 11 Pro max has a 60 hertz refresh rate, but it actually has that 120 hertz polling rate touch polling rate, whereas the s20 ultra has a 120 hertz refresh rate, but it has a 240 hertz touch polling rate, so 240 times it's checking for touches, which you found.

What, when you were doing Call of Duty, so I feel like the biggest thing with that was that um, although you really get that reactivity with the iPhone it's not at a level where I could be like competitively, I would use this. This would be my go-to right. I feel like if you're just starting out the iPhone would be good for that right, because you want to get on that competitive level right, but to take that competitive level to the next level and put yourself like just a step above right, you're going to go with the s20, so for you, the s20, when you were playing, because I noticed how fluid it was and how responsive it was. I think you said you were getting like ridiculous amount of kills the last game I played. Furthermore, I went 36 and two, and you feel that that was because that 240 hertz touch polling rate really made it super responsive, and you were able to get the drop on a lot of people.

Okay, despite the fact that people were pretty bad um, regardless of that, there were still people that were actually not too bad and even with them being like not too bad. I was still able to like to take them out easily like there were points in the game. I was on a 10 or 15 kill streaks easily, like way better than I would on uh, PC or Xbox or PS4. Anything. Now to note we were using these straight out the box we weren't, making this uh complicated, so we weren't using Bluetooth controllers yeah.

This was just the touch response on the screens without anything additional, and we did do four phones playing on the lg v60 and the OnePlus 8 pro didn't quite add up to the experience, the responsiveness, the game mechanics with, as did the s20 ultra and the iPhone 11 Pro max. Unfortunately, not I'd have to call them casual gaming, phones and again, they're still amazing in their own respects. But for that really that competitive play you would need a higher reactivity level. Now, okay, let's throw a little something extra into the mix. How did you feel playing Call of Duty with the lg v60, with the dual display? Actually using that controller? It's the dual controller was cool.

It was awesome. Actually it was the first thing I've seen like that before. So when I was playing with the dual controller, I was like this is kind of wild, but the issue was still. I couldn't turn as fast, because when I was playing with the s20, I'm just turning boom hit. One person boom hit another person.

I can turn really fast even to the point where, when people get the drop on me, I can 360 and just hit him okay, and I was doing that with snipers too. It was kind of nice. I was like got him like it was nice, it was nice now, let's get to the next thing on our list, which is sound. Well, when you hear people's footsteps in search and destroy, you feel a step above the rest, so the s20 definitely was it. I could hear people's footsteps like someone's like coming into my room or something because again searching to stress indeed, is like a really quiet game.

You want to be as quiet as possible, you're using silencers. Potentially right. You want to try to get the drop on people before they get the drop on you, because you'll only have one life. So situational awareness was high with the galaxy s20 ultra, but did any phone come close? I mean was it by? Was it just? Did it blow the other three out of the water? How did you, how did you feel playing, search and destroy and listening for those footsteps, although the s20 was pretty good? I think a lot of the bass was my only issue. It didn't have enough bass to it, as opposed to like the 11, which had like a perfect base, and I could still hear those footsteps like really well, okay and just base as in as sometimes when it would, so you're talking about like explosions.

It had a really robust, sound with the explosions. Now the interesting thing is these phones actually have front firing speakers and that really helps immerse you into the game, but even with those front firing, speakers kind of being similar, the s20 ultra was best with the situational awareness, but like you're saying for me also, it lacked a little in the bass department, where the iPhone 11 Pro uh um, really the pro max really delivered on that full robust sound. What about the v60? How did that work for you in terms of sound, so the v60 was. It was again the sound held up pretty well, I would just say it didn't hold up as well as the 11 or the s20, when you're playing when you're gaming on the phone you're playing like this, and it can muffle the sound because that's something I noticed yeah so for me also when I was playing the games because they have some of these phones have the speaker firing at you in the front, if you're playing like this- and you cover up that speaker down here, you get all that audio firing at your face, so you're not you're, still getting a good full sound. So then, let's get to the next thing where they all kind of did similarly, and that was battery life after an hour of play, so we started off with 100.

We looked at where the phones were after an hour of play and for us, it looked like most of these phones only lost about 10 to 12 per hour, exactly of gameplay exactly and that's with everything maxed out all the settings set to full settings and running game booster in the background showing us the frames per second. So battery life on all the phones was comparable. There was no phone that really stood out when it came down to it. Everything hit about 87 to 89, so about that 10 to 12. The one thing the s20 did, though it hit about 80, and I was confused at first.

I was like. Why is it? Why are you hitting 80? Well, these other phones are hitting 87 89. I was like: what's what would the difference be right, come to realize you're running a game at 120 fps, you have that what 240 touch polling rate. So when you I, when all those things are coming into play, I feel like the phone, because it also the heat, stayed kind of relative as well. It was kind of nice, so it didn't heat up any more than the other phones, even though it was running a higher refresh rate and a higher touch polling rate.

If it did, you couldn't feel it as much and that's something I like, because I don't want to be holding a hot potato on my hand, while I'm trying to play a game. I was like I'm already, if I'm already hot in the game, I don't want the phone to be hot, too, and game booster was showing what uh 23 to 30 about 25 to 37 degrees Celsius right and that's usually, how phones would run some would run about 32. Some would start off actually about 32 and then hit about 37, but most of them started off at about 25 27 and went out. So the range in heat expansion was only was less than 10 degrees Celsius when playing games for about an hour, so we were going to actually talk mechanics, but I realized that when we talked display we actually talked mechanics well. Mechanics comes up, I feel like in display, because mechanics is kind of inherently part of the display.

If I'm looking at the display, if I'm looking through the display, and I'm reacting with it, that's gonna, you're going to have those mechanics in there as well. Well, especially since the that touch polling rate is built into the display technology, which accounts for the mechanics of gameplay. It kind of all goes hand in hand. So we've already touched on that and the s20 ultra was our winner in mechanics because it was the most fluid and when you get into casual gaming, it seemed like a lot of those things really didn't matter as much with casual gaming, because yeah it's more hack and slash, it's more just. You know right.

So our assessment to end things off to bring it home me and my boy, my man thank you Armstrong for casual gamers. What is your advice for casual gamers, I would say the OnePlus and the v60 okay, so you don't need to spend the 1400 on these phones if you're really about that casual gaming life. Well yeah these again. These are like absolutely beautiful phones. These are amazing phones.

I love both of these phones and for casual gaming they're just great. But if I want to get more into competitive play right, then you're either going to go 11 pro max or you're, going to go s20 ultra and if we had to pick one because we have to pick a lane which one, if I dropped fourteen hundred dollars and said, I'm giving you fourteen hundred dollars, because you just graduated from college, and you graduated summat Claude, here's fourteen hundred dollars go buy a phone which one of those are you buying see. I have an iPhone. I have an iPhone. Furthermore, I used to have an android, but I have an iPhone now, but I like playing games too.

So I'm sorry, but that's 20. I would get that as 20. Okay, so caveat if you are a hardcore gamer and if you're playing shooting games or other games where responsiveness and audio quality nuanced audio, where we're talking footsteps, we're talking situational awareness, kind of 360 degree thing s20 ultra is our winner in this game. Battle for high-end super responsive gaming news other than that lg v60, OnePlus 8 pro those are great for casual gaming, as he already said, and again with the iPhone 11 Pro max. That comes very close to the s20 ultra, but you really can't beat a 240 hertz touch polling rate.

I mean it is what it is. It is what it is. You know we don't take it lightly that you took the time to watch this video today. We thank you for watching with us. I thank you for joining me today in this video and helping give our viewers the real deal experience it was lily, lit, see I'm hip, I can use Lindy litmus.

I guess okay! Well, there you go. Maybe I'm to shocker Armstrong, I'm tying to call Armstrong and uh. This has been reviews. org. If you want to find out anything about uh the rate plans about phone calling plans about all the other things you need that go along with these phones go ahead and hit the site reviews.

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