hello good people Eber here with Hardware Canucks and this is the razer
phone 2 now at first glance you're not going to notice a major difference
between this and it's a previous or predecessor the razer phone because from
a design standpoint it's pretty much the exact same thing except for a few minor
increments in terms of features and let's talk about that right after
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okay so what's really new with the razer phone - well let's start off with the
design and to be honest it's not that different from the original razer phone
I think we noticeable difference that you'll see compared to the original
phone is that the rear side of the device has been replaced with Gorilla
Glass 5 instead of the traditional matte black aluminum finish this adds support
for wireless charging but given that this is a glass back you can definitely
expect scratches and it being a slippery eventually over time because it's
obviously a surface that picks up grease and fingerprints quicker than aluminium
surfaces so that's again something to keep note of now given that it's 2018 we
had to expect some sort of RGB lighting on a smart phone of this caliber and
that's exactly what's going on here so the logo hidden underneath the Gorilla
Glass 5 back is RGB LED and it's controlled through Racers chroma app
pre-installed on the device there are three learning effects that you can play
around with so there's spectrum cycling breathing and static effect and you can
customize the colors - up to sixteen point seven million colors which is
certainly a nice touch so if you're looking for a smart phone with RGB
lighting this is certainly the one to get apart from the rate of part from the
ROG phone then is that I still have no idea on availability or launch so yeah
RGB where's our phone - they've also added ip67 water-resistant rating which
is a welcoming update from the original RAZER phone it's certainly on IP 68
certified but you've got to front-facing speakers
razer actually had to redesign the speaker the system to accommodate that
certification so it's certainly and welcoming and refreshing update from the
original RAZR phone but aside from that from a design standpoint it's again very
much identical to the original RAZER phone
all right so spec wise you're getting a snapdragon 845 processor a gigabytes of
RAM 64 gigabytes of storage and a four thousand milliamp hour battery again the
only incremental upgrade internally is that processor bump you're still getting
the same amount of RAM compared to the original RAZER phone you're also getting
the same battery capacity so again not a significant upgrade on that department
as well but what they have included is a new
vapor cooling chamber design internally so it actually dissipates the heat a lot
better so that's again something to be validated in the full review the next
thing to talk about is the display and just as expected it's not a significant
update from the original RAZER phone so you're getting the same 5.7 inch qHD
plus display with the 120 Hertz refresh rate and my god it looks amazing in
person if you're someone who's used to a traditional smartphone especially like
myself who has never actually used the original RAZER phone
I was certainly I just fell in love with this display right away because the
fluidity and the experience that you get just browsing through the Android
operating system and of course gaming for the most part is just fantastic I
didn't get some hands-on time with that gaming as well and it's again a
breathtaking experience you really have to feel it by yourself in person because
the hundred twenty Hertz display is just quite amazing especially on a mobile
device and it's really hard for me to go back to a smartphone that uses a
traditional 60 Hertz display because the phone feels slower and it just doesn't
complete that experience now razer did increase the brightness of this display
by 50 percent so you're looking at 580 nits or just 318 it's on the original
RAZER phone so that's certainly again a incremental upgrade but certainly
refreshing to see on the second generation razer phone software wise
this phone is rocking Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box which is kind of
disappointing because I was expecting Android Pi and you know for phone that's
launching at the end of 2018 it just doesn't make any sense for it to ship
with 8.1 but Razer is promising Android Pi sooner than later
not just for the razer phone too but also for the razer phone one so let's
just hope that happens but other than that you are getting a pretty close to
stock Android experience without any bloatware so that's awesome there are no
third-party skins or anything like that in fact razer gives you full
customization options so it is rockin nova launcher by default but most
specifically you do have a theme store so if you want to play around with
different themes that's there but there's also Razer cortex which is in a
dedicated application that makes you switch between different modes
particularly for you know it balanced a performance mode that lets you just
conserve battery life for longer usage or if you want absolute best performance
you can go for the max performance mode which will give you the highest frame
rates but that's definitely gonna take a little bit of hit on battery life now
one of the major drawbacks of the original razer phone was the camera
performance because it just wasn't up to the standards especially when compared
to the flagships from last year and razer is trying to address that with the
razer phone too because they've implemented dual 12 megapixel cameras
you've got a standard lens and a telephoto lens with a different aperture
variants but they do come with optical image stabilization but most
specifically you'd also get you know extra features like po'trait mode better
low-light performance and there's also a beauty mode integrated on this device so
again those are some of the things that I'll have to validate for the full
review so definitely stay tuned for that but I'm gonna keep my expectations
neutral because from my initial testing or with my initial hands-on with this
device I just wasn't impressed with the camera performance so let's just wait
and see I'm just gonna spend some time with the camera on the razer phone to to
give my full thoughts on that and perhaps I'll be able to compare it to
the note 9 and the pixel 2 so again definitely stay tuned for that so guys
that's pretty much a story with the razer phone 2 and honestly it's an
incremental upgrade over the original razer phone just to quickly run over the
updates you're getting a new finish on the back its now Gorilla Glass 5 with
the RGB lat logo and it supports wireless charging slightly improved
cameras it also comes with eyepieces own water-resistant rating a private display
slightly better sounding speakers and that's about it and of course it's
gonna be priced a little bit higher so the original RAZER phone retailed for
$6.99 for the base model the razer phone 2 is gonna be starting at $7.99 for the
base model which is certainly an expensive investment but if you look at
the smartphone market in general I think it's priced competitively especially
when you compare to the pixel of 3 the galaxy note 9 p LG v 40 so again it's a
smart phone specifically targeted towards a certain market if you're a
gamer and if you're looking for an all-in-one entertainment device this is
certainly something to look into because that one in 20 Hertz display is
certainly something that I just can't I can't take my eyes off said I will be
spending some time with this device just like my other devices especially like
the note 9 just to see what the experience is like and if I really like
it particularly the cameras those are some of the things that I really want to
test to see if it's actually worth the $7.99 price tag so certainly stay tuned
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I'll see you guys in the next one the phone just dropped this is the
problem with having phones with glass backs because they slip