Razer Phone 2 Update - Still Waiting for Android 10... By StevealiciousTech

Hey, what's up fellas, I'm, let's just feed my fans, Steve Alicia is here with an update on the racer phone 2. Unfortunately, not the update that I wanted to be having on the racer phone 2, but the one we've been given. Nonetheless. So on my original racer phone video from a couple of months ago, someone had left a comment, saying hey: there was an update. Can you check it out, and I was all excited I was like this is it this is the day we're getting android 10 on the racer phone too, and I go check it out, and it's actually just the June security update, which is fine and then July? They did the same thing. The July security update for android 9, and then I started getting a little worried and that's the reason for this video today and the update today is when I did the original racer phone 2 video.

They were still telling people now listen. This was a nonsense answer at the time, but they were telling people. Oh. When you asked about android 10, when you chat up support, they say: oh well, our engineers are looking into the viability on the device which is nonsense right. This is a snapdragon 845, eight gigs of ram.

There were plenty of other devices with a lot less power already running android 10, but we're getting the benefit of the down. At that point, I put it at about 50 50, whether we were going to get android, 10 or not. And now, when you message, support and say hey, what's up with android 10, oh, we don't have any information haven't heard anything. So that's a bug off answer. That's less than 10 haven't heard anything! Well, you can't go down the hall and ask how it takes six months to figure out whether a device with a snapdragon 845 can run android, 10 or not, and it's really a shame, because this is still a fantastic device.

The 120 hertz refresh rate the design, the build quality, 4 000 William hour battery still perfectly usable at 2020 great for games, the little subtle hint of the RGB. So you get some of that color. But it's not absurd, and would have been nice to see racer. I know they're exiting the mobile market, which might be the reasoning for this as well, but it would have been nice to see racer come up with a racer phone three. You could see what it would be like with perhaps with a higher refresh rate OLED panels.

Maybe 120 hertz on one of those that'd be really nice to look at and game on. The 16 by 9 aspect ratio, which I think for a gaming phone definitely is the right choice, and I understand all these other companies are making gaming phones. I understand, there's the black shark and the red magic and the republic of gamer's phone, and that's all well and good, but with the racer phone, it's nice to have a gaming phone that doesn't look like it was designed by a sixth grade art class. You have to have read over here and I'll. Have blue over here and I'll.

Have a big fin running down the middle, and this you could take out to dinner. You could take it to a meeting you could put out on a table and not look like an idiot. It's basically what it is and the build quality is excellent. Top tier the vapor chamber was cool, so it's a shame that this design will not carry forward and that we're not getting the updates for the pre-existing one, especially since you paid all of that money and the one thing that I caught myself doing, and this is kind of going to be the meat of the video or at least the heart of it. I call myself saying well hey at least we're getting the July security patch for android 9.

No, no! No. We have to stop normalizing this behavior with the android phone makers that they could just give one, maybe two updates, and it's okay, especially on the flagship devices when you're getting top tier, specs, and you're paying top tier dollars. The Google standard of three years should be the minimum standard for android three years of updates. I understand it's up to each one of the different makers. I understand it's not the easiest process in the world.

That's why I'm not asking for the iPhone standard, I'm not asking for five and six years of support on these legacy devices, because I understand that apple knows the exact chipset that every single one of them is using because they designed the thing from front to back. So I get it. You can't do that on android different hardware, different chipsets, it has to work on a whole wide variety of things, so it's not realistic to get five and six years, but I don't think three is unrealistic and don't tell me it's a problem with the skins right. If you have a, if you have a skin that can't be ported in a timely fashion, you can't skin android the new version in a timely fashion to release it, don't skin it. If you have a skin of android that you can't optimize across all your catalog of devices, don't skin it or lightly skin it.

You know we pan Samsung on the head, like a puppy who just learned how to use a wee wee pet, because you get two updates. Oh good job, Samsung good job, two updates. Meanwhile, you got a situation where the note 9, which is still a fantastic device, isn't even going to get android 11. Based on what they did. With the note 8, you got a situation where the skins sometimes break the phone with sand, Samsung one UI 1.0 on the note 9 that wasn't fun, and you'll notice a lot of times. The first version only works well on that year's device, because we normalized this behavior.

We made it okay because we could move on to the next device. Oh, yeah leave us behind on this one. They could focus all and they're all like. Oh well, they're going to buy it anyway, so we're gonna, we're gonna focus on this year's device and getting the software set for that device and optimizing we're not even gonna worry about those legacy devices. It's gotta stop you're, paying good money even today for these devices, if they're a year old, two years old, I don't think it's absurd to want the top-tier performance, good, optimization that keeps your battery life proper and just some of the new features that new versions of android provide.

I don't think you have to. Should have to buy a new phone every two years or only buy a pixel in order to get that kind of support with android, I don't think that's absurd you're, not paying 300 paying 800 900 whatever this was when it released Samsung phones, you're, paying 1200 1400, not paying peanuts. These are not mid-range budget devices that you're like oh gee, we're lucky. It just runs lucky it turns on that's not the case. It shouldn't be reflected in the software support.

Don't think that's too much to ask on the racer phone specifically. I know people had comments in the video that I did regarding cleaning it and how it could get a couple specs here and there in the grill. Well, I'm sure you watched Terra dun videos on this phone, but even though the top bezel and the bottom bezel look like they're all speaker, grille they're, really not the top portion of the phone only has speaker in that little section there and on the bottom, it's kind of orientated to the right, where it's just a little speaker here. The rest is just kind of perforated material. So if you have something on the left-hand side here, like I have a little speck here, you could go in safety pins a little too big, but you could go in kind of with a sewing needle a smaller one and don't go stabbing the thing.

Okay, don't go digging in there, like you know, go ahead and gently kind of scoop out that debris, and you'll be okay, because it does get quite a bit of debris in it, especially if you don't have anything covering these particular areas of the foam, but overall, I'm still loving using it. That's part of the reason why I'm so passionate about the fact that some of these phones aren't getting android updates because there's a lot of them this one included that I would very much love using well into the future, so it'd be nice to see them, especially when they're capable of getting the latest and greatest, so you're still using your racer phone too. Let me know in the comments section below if you've made it. This far like comment subscribe all that fun stuff until next time see if we turn the RGB on for the end, have that Steve delicious day.

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