The Best Gaming Phone Is..#Helpful Post.

hey guys this is Austin between the ROG

phone and the razor phone to 2018 is

shaping up to be an awesome year for

gaming smartphones so with both of them

on the desk at the same time why I think

a good old-fashioned comparison is in

order first up we have the razor phone -

now a couple we scope we were able to

get our hands on this but it was a very

brief sort of hands-on where's this this

is going to be a little more of an

in-depth feature comparison review

gaming benchmark

are there other words I can put in the

title you see how shiny this glasses

it'll never be the shiny again saying I

put my dirty fingerprints on it not only

do we have a fast charger included in

the box something that a certain fruit

themed company might want to take note

on but we also have a series of cables

and dongles but what's actually kind of

interesting about the razor phone is

that we have a USBC headphone adapter

now this might not sound impressive in

fact it's included on most phones that

don't have a headphone jack which is

basically everything at this point but

this actually does support full hi-fi

audio and supposedly has a pretty good

DAC inside next up we have the ROG foam

and I actually don't know how to open

this box oh wow okay that's all right

that's a box all right first up we have

the phone itself so the ROG phones kind

of unique in that Nally does it have it

USB C and a headphone jack on the bottom

but as to more us pcs on the side which

are meant for accessories so the last

time I tried the ROG phone it was still

a fairly early prototype and I've got to

say immediately this feels really nice

so we do have that actually it's that

aluminum it's got to be aluminum it's

incredibly heavy

Wow it really feels nice it's got such a

heft in the hand and unlike the Razer

foam which is basically a giant squared

off brick this is much more rounded a

little bit more of a hand friendly shape

something unique about the ROG phone is

that unlike basically every other gaming

phone out there there's a wide range of

accessories that are either including

the box such as this fan or other things

will be available for purchase you know

I feel like right now I feel like ROG is

trying to make the ultimate ROG phone

right like when we do building the

ultimate we try to find the ridiculous

and crazy accessories but they're just

selling all of the accessories like you

could literally get everything you need

to build the ultimate ROG phone straight

from the store

malee does it have the RGB but it also

has a fan USB C headphone jack all that

stuff which is rearranged to the bottom

this is cool I really push

they put this in the box I don't get to

into the dock right now but the idea is

that when you're using the phone and

landscape mode your hand is naturally

covering up now in the headphone jack

but also the USBC so in addition to be

able to get a little bit of cooling you

also have those ports on the bottom of

the phone so you can easily plug it in

plug your headphones in and you won't

get in the way of your hands wait a

black shark wait are you trying to add

another phone to the comparison in the

middle of the video your gamer

let's shark oh boy this this looks

exciting what's the deal with this oh oh

this is not the original black shark at

all okay this is an unprecedented move

in that there's a brand new one really

smart phone on my desk and I literally

don't know anything about it except that

it looks kind of cool that's something

to know about it right so it's kind of

got a combination of aluminum on the

sides but it still does have that glass

back panel and I'm assuming that looks

kind of like an RGB logo oh wow that's

uh that's quite the gamer skin and oh

yeah we do have a RGB logo on the back

like how we had this great comparison

look it's the ROG foam was the raisin

phone it all makes sense and now I'm

like wait a minute there's this totally

new phone that I have no idea about I

have to figure it out on the fly this is

cool though I guess they've definitely

up to the RGB game I mean that's a

that's a look right there so it looks

like you can individually change not

only the logo color but also the the

little shark mode thing on the side by

pressing the shark button your full will

become a game console what a game

console and a smartphone that's crazy so

after spending some time with the black

shark a few things come to mind first of

all probably the most important for the

video is that this is not a final phone

it's certainly not final software

there's definitely some tweaks they're

going to need to go on before this is

released and also a lot of the

benchmarks and stuff don't even work yet

so we're gonna take some of this with a

grain of salt there's also the

controller which actually doesn't attach

to the phone it attaches to the case

that comes with the phone so it's maybe

not the most elegant way of doing it but

it's sort of like what you would expect

with a joy pond the only problem is that

the controller only works wirelessly so

even though you can slide it on

something like

it actually doesn't attached with any

kind of wires or whatever so you still

need to separately charge now like the

controller but the phone itself the big

problem is that this is a Chinese market

phone which means that here in the

United States well it doesn't have the

Google Play Store or any kind of Google

apps at all now there will be a global

version of this phone and hopefully that

will include you know the fundamental

apps that you would expect like YouTube

but for now it's kind of hard to get

apps on this unless of course you want

to play a little bit of a fortnight by

chance all three phones have the very

familiar snapdragon 845 inside so the

ROG is slightly clocked higher but the

main difference between the three is

that the black shark has an optional 10

gigabyte of RAM option whereas the

others only top out it a measly eight

gigs of memory coincidentally they all

have the exact same size four thousand

milliamp hour battery which is a good

thing for gaming but from here the

differences start to stand out just a

little bit more the first big difference

is with displays so the black shark has

a perfectly respectable 6 inch 2160 by

1080p panel it's good but nothing

spectacular especially when you compare

it to both the ROG phone as well as the

razor phone move over to the ROG phone

and well it does have that same size as

well as resolution of the black shark it

is an OLED panel ranked at a full 90

Hertz as far as I know this is the first

time that any phone is hit 90 Hertz with

an OLED panel the razor phone has a

slightly smaller 5.7 inch display but it

is a much higher resolution at 2560 by

1440 and importantly it runs at a

whopping 120 hurt refresh rate hurts not

hurt it doesn't hurt to refresh it hurts

to refresh your real downside is that

this is a very wide phone specifically

gonna put it side-by-side with the black

shark um the ROG it's just not quite as

comfortable to hold

but that screen is really well optimized

for video so let's talk about these

screens for a second

the ROG phone has a very accurate OLED

panel and even though it's not the most

well calibrated thing in the world

it looks nice to the eye the razor phone

thankfully is much much brighter than

the original version of the razor phone

again it's not quite a hundred percent

there but is a lot better than the

previous generation and the black shark

looks nice but again it's not quite

final so it's hard to run any kind of

real tests it looks good but I really

feel like the winner here is the ROG

just purely based on the looks one of

these phones really shine is with the

higher refresh rate so it's really hard

to show him video

but even the 90 Hertz of the ROG phone

really does make a big difference and

small things like scrolling through a

webpage you're moving between menus it

really does seem a lot more fluid and

that definitely does apply to the razor

phone now to my I actually can't really

see a major difference between 90 and

120 Hertz theoretically this is a little

bit smoother and I will say it looks

maybe a little bit sharper when you're

moving between things but realistically

both these phones are big step up over

the black shark or well every other 60

Hertz phone out there basically all

three have dual front firing speakers

but there's a clear winner as far as

which one sounds best with everything

from a desktop all-in-one with the

surface studio all the way down to the

cheap and tiny surface go there's a lot

to like

I guess thorough G foam wins by default

here that's not what I was expecting so

the problem with the razor phone is at

least with my specific unit even though

it is very loud and very clear there's

definite little bit of distortion on the

very high volume something the ROG phone

definitely does right are the extra

features and accessories that come along

with it

well the main ones is the squeeze

features so this is somewhat similar to

what you'll find on the pixel but if I

squeeze it what happens is it turns into

ROG gaming X mood the thing with X mode

is you actually can customize it to do

whatever you want but I just like going

X mode not X mode smooth it's just kind

of fun to do but it's not only just for

show so if you flip the ROG phone over

on the top are the air triggers this

essentially adds physical controls to

the top of the phone giving it a little

bit more of a controller kind of feel so

the way it works is that each of them

can be mapped to a specific button on

the screens the way it works is that

inside the X mode software you can

adjust the actual touch point of where

you want it so for example my right

trigger is the actual trigger in the

game and my left is to go on to the

sights you can do it however you want

but the thing is this is a really really

nice addition to give you a little bit

more of a physical control on a phone

without having to carry around like you

know a controller or accessories one

downside to the ROG phone is that this

is one of the hottest devices that I've

ever tested now it doesn't get

uncomfortably warm but after a few

minutes of gaming it does get a little

bit toasty which is where the included

fan comes in so what do you do is slap

this on to the USBC ports on the bottom

of the phone

as soon as you clamp it on not only will

the RGB logo light up it'll start a

pretty easy little fan which will cool

the back of the phone now in testing

this doesn't make a massive difference

to performance what it does do is cool

off the back of the phone to make it a

lot nicer for when you're you know doing

extended fortnight gaming sessions and

not sweating your fingers up keeps put

your fingers up is that a is that I

can't say that kinda adds weird so

what's the best gaming phone of 2018

well I really like a lot of what Razer

is done with the Razer phone - I've got

to give it to the ROG phone Natalie

doesn't have great performance

it looks nice it's got a lot of really

cool features but really what kind of

sells this to me over everything else is

this the first gaming phone that's not

like good at gaming but it's also good

at being a phone and that that kind of

means a lot

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