Why do I hate the Razer Phone 2? By TechFocus

With the release of every new phone. It feels like the industry as a whole is moving to a place where every phone is so similar that it doesn't matter whose phone you buy. Razor have tried to change this, focusing their second device, the razor phone to on consumers who want the best gaming performance from a device. Even if that means they lose. The flashy looks that you could get from other devices and for the most part, that's what this phone delivers, but there's more to a device than just gaming, and that's where I thought this phone would fall down a big. Thank you to Damon Wilde.

For lending me. This device to review links to his channel are in the description from start to finish. The razor phone ? feels different from the CEOs letter you're, given when you open the box, ? the braided charge and cable everything feels a bit more personal from the start, and this personal feel extends to the device ? rather than focusing on making the phone looks sleek at the expensive user experience. Racer have clearly tried to focus this device on feeling more convenient in every way, and it all starts with the build with its squared off blocky design. I wasn't expecting such a good feel from this phone, but I was wrong.

I can really comfortably hold this device with no complaints whatsoever, and it does feel greats it's not as comfortable as some other phones out there, but its unique feel really makes up for it with the RGB logo. On the back being the only real defining feature, it's safe to say it's. A minimal design all around which, on the phone of being able to choose individual colors or to have it fade through different options, is something that a lot of people would overlook, but it adds a level of customization that I really like you can even choose when the logo is illuminated from all the time ? only when the screen is on, or even only when you get a notification and in practice it not only looks great, but it's really easy to change. I'm. Speaking of things that are great, this video is brought to you by dot tech domains.

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Many because it is so individual and so minimal. Looking that it essentially pleases everything that I'd want out of the one complaint that I do have is the placement of the power button, fingerprint scanner combo being only slightly raised from the edge of the phone, makes the scanner really difficult to find because the scan is so thin. Finding part of your finger that you registered can be quite difficult, something that I really love to see. What your not many phones are doing. These days are had a new micro SD card slot, which you can fit up to one terabyte of external storage into, and that is something that really helps with these phones.

Long-Term use. The display on this device is possibly the best LCD I've ever seen. If I haven't made it clear enough already, a hundred and twenty Hertz is possibly the best display technology I've ever used, and it's the only thing that can excuse the lack of an AMOLED panel here with a brightness of 518. It's a true 1440p resolution and fantastic color representation. This display is just about as good as it gets.

If we ignore the buzzers for a minute, it really is an amazing screen. It's a responsive, having doubled a refresh rate of other phones, and it has a maximum level of brightness that matches some of the best analytes out there today. But what really ruins this display are the chunky side, bezels paired with the bars to house the speakers that make this phone look like it's from 2016, not 2018, build that space. They could have added facial recognition, physical navigation buttons at the bottom or even better. They could reduce the size of the speaker grilles and made an 18 by 9 display with much smaller bezels, and that would have looked a lot better in my opinion, but if we put all that aside for a minute and don't compare it to modern standards, it is a really great display.

It just hasn't aged all that well and most likely won't age any better going into the future. The selfie camera is okay and I. Wouldn't say it's amazing by any standard, but it's average it's nowhere near the standards of a Google phone or an iPhone, but it can take some decent looking photos, it's just nothing. Special. The same thing can be said for the rear cameras with two 12 megapixel sensors, one being a telephoto and one a 25 mil equivalents.

The photos are also okay, but they're, just not amazing. If it's given the right conditions, this phone will take a really nice image, but it's rare for conditions to be perfect when you're taking a photo of your phone. Here's a few examples: I'd give this camera a 6 out of 10. If 10 is Google's standards as you'd expect for that 120 Hertz display, it needs the hardware to back it up and as razor say, this phone is both a gaming phone and a flagship. The razor phone, too, is able to maintain 120 frames, a second system-wide which is seriously impressive, with its snapdragon 845 and Arena 630 GPU paired with a gigabyte of RAM.

It's not groundbreaking in terms of hardware, but it definitely doesn't struggle as someone who's, not really a smartphone gamer I've been able to test this phone from a pretty regular daily use, point of view, and it's been great throughout it's snappy, but I wouldn't consider it quite as snappy as other phones with exactly the same specs that have 60 Hertz displays it's not far from perfect, as the performance experience goes, but the fact that there's still some glitches here is what ruins it for me. I've noticed the occasional UI glitching with black bars when texting, an app or slightly jarring animations, which is clearly caused by the high refresh rate, and it could be fixed quite easily, but the fact that they haven't fixed it. Yet is what ruins the phone a little for me. Razor skin of Android is essentially just stock Android with Nova Launcher and some weird icons, but that's good being close to stock Android means you can rely on getting software updates quickly, and it's easy to just customize it and make it how you look by changing your icon, set and launcher. Sadly, the pull down menu is stuck being a blue with green icons, which I'm not a big fan of, and I couldn't find a way to change this.

If I'm honest, the software experience feels just a little rushed, and it's a shame, because the rest of this phone is pretty solid. I found that the phone also runs a little hot most of the time, and that's not a great thing being all glass and metal means that the glass itself doesn't conduct heat very well. So if you're holding it in gaming, it can get seriously hot in your hand, based on some articles and some comparison, videos that I've seen its gaming performance is actually succeeded by the OnePlus 60, which was half the price of this phone on its release prices. Since then, the razor phone has come down in price is now 399 pounds from Earphone Warehouse, but as a daily phone could go personally. I would take the 60 over this because it looks a lot nicer and I think that's how this device looks from every single angle.

It's not perfect, but no phone is rather than making a device that stands out for its exceptional gaming performance. Racer made a design, that's one-of-a-kind, but paired it with performance and hardware that was beaten by the OnePlus 60, which had the same specs that wasn't designed for gaming. The racer phone 2 is good, but for a device that's aimed at being the best gaming experience. A phone can offer it simply doesn't deliver on his promises. If I was looking at this phone in 2019, I would consider some other options out there like the OnePlus 60, which not only has better performance but looks a lot better and is the same price or the 1 + 7 Pro.

If you want that, 120 Hertz display it's sad to say, but this phone just simply isn't at the standard that I expected for a device that is aimed to be the best gaming experience you can get. It falls down in a lot of the other areas that it aims to compete him, and it just makes it feel like it's not worth buying.

Source : TechFocus