Razer Phone 2 Review: Going Against the Grain By Android Authority

What's going on everyone lawn here from Android Authority and in front of me, I have the razor phone too. This is the successor to last year's razor phone and the razor phone to improve on some of the things that people complain about with last year's razor phone and also adds in a couple of new features, and the razor phone too, is a phone that I consider to be a phone. That's not afraid to go against the grain, and I'll. Explain what I mean by that in a second, but the original phone too is priced at $799 or 800 bucks, and for that 800 bucks, you're, getting some really beefy specs. You have a snapdragon, 845, processor, 8, gigabytes of RAM, 64, gigs of internal storage, with a micro SD card slot, a four thousand William hour battery and new to the razor phone. This year is ip67 certification, and you guys already know what this means.

This means you've been dropped in the pool drop it in the toilet, and it will survive also new to the razor phone is. It now has wireless charging QI wireless charging, which means you can use any QI compatible wireless charger of your choice, but razor also sells their own wireless charger, which lights up RGB, which you can purchase for an additional hundred dollars. I think the only thing that razor sort of skimped out on is the internal storage.64 gigabytes is usually more than enough for me on any other smartphone, but for a phone that is centered around gaming, where you might be downloading a lot of games which will eat at your internal storage pretty quickly, 64 gigs seems a little low. It does have the micro SD card slot for expandable storage, but I think this phone definitely should have had a hundred and twenty-eight gigabytes internally. At the very least.

So here's what I mean when I say the razor phone tube goes against the grain. If you look at the razor phone to next to a Galaxy, S nine of pixel, three or really any other smartphone on the market, it looks very different. Instead of being this curvy design with rounded corners, the razor phone to is just a black rectangular sharp slab. It's pretty much the same design as last year's razor phone. The only exception here is that it now has a glass back which is they've, enabled the wireless charging and the design of the razor phone ? is not.

My favorite I typically prefer my phones to be more curvy I, like designs of phones like the pixel 3 and the Galaxy, S 9, or even iPhone 10s a lot better. You may feel a little differently about it, but that's just how I feel about this particular design. There are certain elements of it, though, that I do like I, like the large speaker grilles on the front for the dual front, firing speakers which sound incredibly loud by the way, and it also delivers a very, even and balanced, sound, there's no overemphasis on bass or treble, which is the problem that I had with the pixel 3 speakers. I thought those were a little flat and also not very loud for front-facing speakers. So I, like the speakers on the razor phone ? a lot better I, also like the new RGB logo on the back for the three-headed snake, you can adjust it and make it static, make it breathing or have it cycle through a whole spectrum of colors and aside from just looking really cool, it doesn't have a ton of utility.

You can use it for notifications and stuff like that, but it's really just meant to make it look more like a gaming product, and it certainly does do that, so I, like the new RGB logo, I also like that they've centered, the camera sensors on the back. There is a pretty sizable camera bulge, but because the cameras are perfectly centered, it doesn't wobble when you have it laying flat on a table or desk. The only other thing that I don't like about the razor phone twos design is how recessed the power button is. I do like that. The fingerprint sensor is integrated into the power button and I think that's something that more manufacturers should do, but because the power button is so recessed, it's actually really hard to find by feel.

When it's in your pocket or when you're just trying to wake the phone up when it's on a table or desk just to check your notifications, so one of the biggest selling points of the original razor phone and the razor phone ? is the hundred and twenty Hertz display. So this is pretty much the same display as last year's razor phone, but razor has made this display brighter. So it's actually visible outdoors now, which was one of the big complaints about last year's model. But this is a pretty traditional smartphone display. It doesn't have and so if you don't like notches there, you go, and it's also sixteen by nine.

Instead of that taller and narrow aspect ratio that we're seeing on a bunch of other smartphones, but the hundred and twenty Hertz display is still just as incredible as ever. Everything just looks so silky smooth, and it's awesome for gaming, especially if you're playing one of the hundred and twenty FPS supported titles, which there are actually a pretty good selection of. So those games are extremely fun and even just swiping and scrolling through Android is a lot more enjoyable. Just because of how silky smooth everything looks, and I've run this display at 120 Hertz out of the box, it does default to 90 Hertz, which is probably for battery saving purposes, but I've had no issues with battery life even with running this display at 120 Hertz full time, I'm still getting a pretty consistent, 5 hours of screen on time, but I'm pretty sure. If you turn the refresh rate down to 90 Hertz or even 60, Hertz you'll, probably squeeze out even more battery life.

There's no real surprises with the software on the razor phone -. It's running, basically, a stock build of Android, 8.1 Oreo, but some system, UI elements and the default apps have been themed with Racer colors. It's also running Nova Launcher as the default launcher, which gives you a very stock like look and feel, but it offers a ton more customization, I would say the biggest disappointment with the software on the razor phone 2 is that it's not running Android Pi out of the box and I feel like this would have given the rigid phone to a big competitive advantage over a lot of other smartphones, because there aren't a ton of smartphones out there right now that are running Android Pi speaking of disappointments. I wasn't a big fan of the cameras on the razor phone ? and supposedly they're much improved over last year's. There's a phone, and maybe I've just been spoiled by the pixel threes picture quality.

But I wasn't very impressed by the images on the razor phone -. You have to 12 megapixel cameras on the rear, one standard angle and one telephoto zoom lens for 2 X optical zoom, and then you have an 8 megapixel camera on the front that now supports 1080p video at 60 frames per second, which is really great if you're into self vlogging. But the image quality is okay. The colors come out a little muted and washed out to me, and dynamic range is also not very good. You get very little detail in the highlights and shadows and that becomes even more visible when you're shooting in low-light.

The photos from the main camera also have this really weird green tinge or color cast of them, which makes photos, look very unnatural and very unattractive portrait mode on this camera is also one of the most artificial looking portrait modes that I've seen on a smartphone in a while the both effect just doesn't really look that convincing to me, especially on the front-facing camera, and the front-facing camera also lacks a ton of dynamic range despite the bad camera. This is still a really great smartphone you're, getting a very beefy spec sheet, a hundred and twenty Hertz display. That looks amazing, and it also doesn't have a notch for all well under $1000 and if you're, huge into mobile gaming. This is the perfect phone to do it with now. If you're coming from the original RAZOR phone I, don't think this is worth the upgrade I, don't think the changes are significant enough, but as an upgrade in general, it's a phone.

That's definitely worth looking into it. Pretty much checks all the right boxes. It has great performance, a great display, pretty good battery life, just don't buy this phone for the camera and I think you'll be perfectly happy with your purchase, but that's it for this review. I hope you guys enjoyed it. If you did give it a thumbs up, I, definitely appreciate it, subscribe to the channel down below and also check the website for more in-depth coverage and Jordan 30.

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