Should You Still Buy The Razer Phone 2? By Ryan-Thomas

This video is brought to you by Rhino shield, the world-famous case maker, with everything from funky designs to class-leading impact protection to attachable camera lenses, enabling some stunning photos to find out more click. The link in the video description. This is the razor phone ?, a device that a good friend of the channel Damian Wilde, has lent me for the past couple of weeks. Very few phones these days, give me mixed feelings, but this one did, and today I'm, going to explain those feelings and why I felt them all whilst evaluating whether you should still buy this device in 2019. Hey guys. My name is Ryan Thomas, and this is my razor phone to review in 2019.

It has to be set. This phone really does feel like an OG 2016 device and in a good way, actually have a very good way. The 16 by 9 aspect, ratio, squared off corners and chunky bezels, are welcome design perks here. For me, sure it does make handling device a little more tricky since the opener wicks are traded for an edgy premium industrial design, but it does feel super premium. But thanks in part to that smooth and glossy glass back, but also thanks that I have its feels incredibly robust, ip67 weather resistance is present too, which surprised me, since the large speaker grows up front, leave massive ingress points, other reviewers, complaints about the volume buttons confuse me, because these feel just fine here, but the lock button come fingerprint scanner should not be flushed like this one and equally should be able to be used with a touch to unlock instead of a press to unlock.

Whilst a micro SD card slot is included, the obvious lack of a headphone port just seems poor. Since the razor phone's market is gaming, focused that said, speaker, quality and volume is top-notch. So color me impressed with that. This design certainly won't tickle everyone's pickle and compared to the very smooth and curvy designs we see in smartphones, such as from Samsung and from Huawei. This one is the complete opposite very harsh, but I feel like those in subtle design.

Improvements such as the RGB logo on the back do adds up to create almost a balancing point. It's not going to be to everyone's taste, but I like that I, like the fact that we have different options for different people on paper. This thing is an absolute beast: a 5.7 inch quad 120 hertz EX IPS panel in a very familiar sixteen by nine format, but it didn't Wow me like my old PC high refresh rate displayed it. Maybe it's why I do on my phone, or maybe I'm just used to using panels without points of a 90 Hertz refresh rate now don't get me wrong. It's a massive improvement over the out coming 60 Hertz panels that we see everywhere, and you'll feel an unbelievable difference, but the fact that this is an LCD Bolton, otherwise, wonderful display back, in my opinion, sharpness, color accuracy and viewing angles are all stellar and look great with contrast and outdoor brightness being the biggest pitfalls.

The times in which you'll find this 120 Hertz display to be a real advantage is really when scrolling and when browsing through applications with a lot of animations and not so much in games high refresh rates make whatever you're using feel or faster than otherwise could be, because it feels so much more responsive and snappy. Overall, the display is fantastic and for gamers it's going to be even better as long as you're using the supported games, but, in my opinion, I prefer a well calibrated, 60, Hertz OLED. This phone isn't directed at me mentioning speed there. The spec sheet is pretty fleshed out with 8 gigabytes of RAM, 64 gigabytes of storage, a last gen Snapdragon 845 and Arena 630 GPU and Android 9.0 Pi with a super lightweight skin general performance is still super snappy and will feel better juiced that speedy display hangs lag crashes. None of that was really present in my couple of weeks with this device and gaming was naturally a breeze.

My two favorite games to play were real racing, 3 and Super Mario run, both of which were supported by that 120 Hertz panel and I. Guess I was just expecting great performance because it's marketed a great gaming phone. This phone is very quick and should hopefully stay that way for a good couple of years should racer support it. In the software, the original RAZOR phone doesn't seem to have got 29.0 pi, and it's stuck on 8.1 Oreo and that's a real shame and could even foreshadow a similar situation with the racer phone to not getting android q in the near future. That's a real shame because the software is actually very nice.

It uses Nova Launcher as I'm sure you've. All heard of that uses, basically not a skin at all. Instead, just a different launcher, it does have a few included, applications and kind of skinned layout and some skinned applications. But overall it feels very light and intrusive battery life varies with this device, as it does with every phone. But this one in particular, due to its display at full, bore 120 Hertz, refresh rate and at peak brightness a full day is not what you're going to get despite the four thousand William hour battery, if you're heavily gaming using the camera a lot and otherwise putting a lot of strain on it, I mean it's kind of what it's designed for then.

The top of at lunch is definitely a must. Thankfully, quick charge for 18 watts is available, and we even get fast wireless charging at 15 watts. To that all said, if you lower the refresh rate down to 90 Hertz and use your device as a typical device, you might use it for social media a little of gaming, and you're not using it super heavily. Then you will get a full day out of the four thousand William hour battery. The cameras on this device are pretty poor by today's standards and would never really defense best features prospects.

We have a pair of 12 megapixel sensors on the back with you, HD 60p video support, one of those cameras, utilizes a telephoto zoom and on the front and 8 megapixel selfie shooter resides in the speaker grille, with the ability to shoot, 60, PF, Full, HD image, quality I found to be okay. It didn't stand out at all in every aspect of the picture, from sharpness to color stock realism to dynamic range was all pretty average. Actually, in fact, I would go as far to say is that some of the videos I found to be pretty poor quality, and I'd. Take something like a pocket fair enough. One pixel, three or even a first-gen pixel over this in terms of its shooters' portrait mode, is laughable, offer a terrible edge detection and overall realism.

However, the camera itself isn't bad, it's pretty plain, but here's something you might not have realized. Look at that crop when you switch from 30 to 60 P on the selfie camera, it's kind of shocking, really, okay, so the cameras were never gonna, be amazing and, to be honest, I can't dock the razor phone too. Much for that, because it was never marketed as a great camera phone in the first place, and with that it kind of leads me to the conclusion: should you still buy the razor venture in 2019? My answer, surprisingly, is gonna, be yes, I think it's a brilliant phone I really like the way that it stands out from the crowd you're not going around with a hole, punch or a notch, or anything like that. You've got a phone that feels very robust, so it feels very good in the hand, maybe not quite as ergonomic as some newer stuff and that might be kind of to its detriment, but to a lot of people. People want good speakers are really far screen, which will make a massive difference to the overall consumption of media and a decent battery.

All of that added to maybe someone who's, a racer fanatic who already has a few peripherals you've got a fantastic phone at around 400 pounds of used. It puts it in the same kind of category as a 1 plus 60 con mid-range and, of course, you're going to get the same kind of spec as a 1 plus 60, with its 8 gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigs of storage. But with this you've got micros expansion. You've got that super superfast and high-resolution display you've got a bigger battery and overall, you've got more customization thanks to Racer Comer I like the phone and I recommend it to anyone who wants one but just know what you're getting yourself into, and if you crave something just a little more simple I'd go with a 1 + 60 and with that it's time for me to go. Thank you all so much for watching.

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