The MOST POWERFUL Gaming Phone on the Planet - RoG Phone 2 Review By Linus Tech Tips

Hey yeah can I call you back I'm, just shooting a video right now yeah, it's it's the DOG phone ?, it's like kind of phone, but then it's also kind of like a gaming console yeah. It's got like really powerful massive battery, a bunch of cool accessories. Ya know it's pretty neat I mean I'm, not sure that I would buy it or anything, but there's definitely going to be people who are going to go like absolutely H. This thing anyway, yeah I have to, go yeah. Yeah, see you later love you yeah, okay, bye! There's! No! Can you cut that part out, but what you shouldn't cut out is our sponsor? For today's video I fix it. I fix it's Pro, Tech tool.

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This thing got me through to work days comfortably on a single charge. It lasted three teen straight hours in Geek bench force battery life test and even if it did run low at a critical juncture, it's quick charge, 4.0 compatible and even features two charging ports. If you want to charge while you get your game on, and you can really get into your game on this thing, because men, these speakers they're truly something special, and I'm, not just talking like Rama, and they get like real duck and loud Brad, because yeah they do get real duck and loud, but somehow a sews managed to provide a shockingly wide and detailed sound stage with just two on-board speakers. You'll run into a little distortion as you crank them up to full volume, but they are surprisingly good and combined with the beautiful 10 bit display. This thing is fantastic for watching movies, which isn't to say that the experience is perfect.

Nothing is the camera like on every gaming phone we've tried is just not that great. It's clearly, based on high-end hardware, I mean you can tell, thanks to the detail captured in this comparison, shot against my daily driver. Note, 9, and the natural both in this shot of Yvonne, for instance, absolutely enhances the look of the image. So now the problem just boils down to the typical, a sews things: great Hardware, bass-ackwards software, now to their credit as sews avoided. The over sharpening pitfall that traps so many other skill learning filmmakers, but they fell victim to rookie mistakes in their color science.

Look how unnatural the green in these trees is. My wife's skin tone is very unnatural here and even in HDR capture mode, the dynamic range in this image is so-so at best and I feel like I have to mention this. The quick launch shortcut I mean yes, it has one, but whoever decided that double-clicking the volume down key should launch the camera should be sent back to user interfaces 101. Not only is it clunky, it doesn't even work if the phone is unlocked or when you're listening to music. So there is no excuse for not having a quick launch these days.

That makes sense Apple by the way guys get subscribed and stay tuned for our review of their new phone as well. For now, let's keep going with the other things that aren't perfect about this one. The under screen fingerprint sensor still a step forward compared to it being on the back, but it just isn't as reliable as the ones from OnePlus or Samsung. The OLED screen, while very bright, can't go as dim as a note or an iPhone which can be fatiguing late at night. There's a gap where the screen meets the body that junk can get stuck in the back is so slippery that if your hands are dry, you run the risk of it literally sliding off of your hand.

The port cover on the secondary type-c connector, isn't captive, so it'll probably get lost the first time you use it. The background during phone calls is such cringe wow, the headphone jack. Thank you for including one, though, is placed where the right-handed population will find it gets in the way in both vertical and horizontal orientations and despite abuse's claims of 20 millisecond haptic feedback response time just tapping the calculator was noticeably slower than other phones that I've used, but at the end of the day, this isn't just a phone. Is it this is a gaming phone for gamers. So what is it like, then? For gaming well, I don't know because I ran out of Angry Bird bucks or whatever, so I'm gonna.

Kick this one over to Anthony. Actually, it's pretty great I'm, not much of a mobile gamer myself, but it was a pretty enjoyable experience without any attachments. The air triggers gave me what felt like actual buttons. The configurable pressure sensitivity responds with a haptic tap on both the down stroke and the upstroke, and you can assign them to any on-screen button with a swipe from the left and a tap of the air trigger button. It's seriously so good that I could be fooled into thinking their tax switches and through a combination of the touchscreen and triggers at least in shooters I found that I was actually more accurate with this setup that I would have been with a real game pad, let that sink in for a moment.

Furthermore, the screen in the positionality, the audio, are so good that I often forgot that I was looking at a phone while playing pub G until I noticed my neck was cramping up from looking down at it, for so long, and I could spend a long time. Looking down at it, depending on what I'm playing 60 FPS games like pub G, give me roughly a 10 % drain per hour, while high refresh rate games like Minecraft with the visuals cranked, lasted me about 4 hours and 20 minutes at full, bore and what's nice about that is that you can choose your bore. A Souza's armory crate map lets you set up each game on your phone to use as much or as little CPU speed as you want with preset thermal limits to taste. Remember most of a CPUs peak energy draw and heat output will be in that last push to reach its maximum speed, so setting a cap will mean that even the most demanding games can last quite a while, if you're willing to put up with a lower frame rate, if you want to go the other way, the phone is capable of cheeping peak performance on its own, in spite of its passive internal cooling, but the included Aero active cooler, 2 accessory, allows it to maintain those speeds at lower temperatures, which means it's less likely to ever thermal throttle, and it goes fast. I can max out pub G and get a solid 60 FPS, while Minecraft support for high refresh rates lends it to getting to round 90 plus with typical minimums of 70, and that's with the settings cranked on 24 chunks.

It does over a hundred all day on 16 chunks. It's quite an experience if you'd never had the pleasure of actually getting good frame rates on a phone. For me, though, touch screens only get me so far. I need something a little extra to enjoy mobile gaming and that's where the lunar comes in the controller works on both Android and PC, via Bluetooth direct USB connection towards neatly integrated 2.4, gigahertz, RF dongle, and if your game doesn't support a physical controller, you can set up your own button mappings to on-screen touch controls, just like you can with the air triggers and when I first saw this thing that it comes with. I thought it was just a separate bumper case, but now under these rubber covers are two rails, and the controller just happens to have this joy con thing going on slide them up off the rails, slide them on to this haha, and now you've got a kind of awkward, but still perfectly usable, Nintendo Switch style, setup I.

Think it's even more ridiculous. If you then slot it into the twin view dock to accessory, like can you imagine, taking a phone call with this thing, how let Linus finish up with his thoughts on the rest of the ecosystem, hello, Thanks, so yeah therein lies the problem as cool as all this stuff is I mean you've got two screens on a phone with a battery integrated into the thing in a cooling fan for good measure, but like who is this bulky attachment for really people? Don't just buy phones specifically to play games? Do they mean I, don't in a given day, I might play a game or two, but I talk to people on the phone Bast take pictures and it videos for Linus cat tips, pull-up references and do research when I'm, not at my desk and, of course, I read on the restroom? Oh, don't look at me like that you do it too yeah! So sorry, my watch went off. Hey Siri mute my notifications to see your notifications watch face. How is this basic and said there are five generations into this thing? Oh God, hey Siri, mute my watch thanks, but don't lie you do it too, and the thing is shut. The up I can do all of that stuff and game on any flagship phone and I can do it without all these fancy attachments.

So with that in mind, there are some usability compromises that a sews had to make in spite of their no compromises. Claim honestly, the vibe I kind of get is that a sews set out to build a game console first and a phone second, which might not be a terrible idea, like guys hit me up if you're into the idea of a secondary Android device that you use for just gaming I mean in principle it's not that much crazier than having a phone and a Nintendo Switch in your bag. Is it because I heard a lot of the young kids today play Android game? So if you're, one of those I guess the DOG phone ? looks pretty spec fabulous, whether you're talking using it as your daily driver phone, slash game console or even as a secondary device just for gaming. This is hands-down the best mobile Android gaming experience that we have seen yet, but that recommendation needs to come with an asterisk, because if you take a lot of pictures or videos like I had users in our comments, just on YouTube stories specifically call out the potato video quality when I uploaded things with this, you might want to consider just buying a galaxy or a pixel and water-cooling it. Instead, seriously.

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So thanks for watching guys really hope you enjoyed this video, and we will see you in our next mobile phone review. Our next video probably won't be a phone mm-hmm, but it is like September October. There's a lot of phone stuff happening right now. Hmm.

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