Is It Really Necessary To Buy Razer Phone 2 For Gaming At Rs 60,000?

Razer is the brand familiar to gamers, it is trusted for the quality of gaming hardware. Now the company is attempting to create the magic for smartphones game, like the success of PC gaming.

The latest step of Razer in this right direction is releasing the Razer Phone 2 - the Android smartphone focused on gaming.

Razer phone 2 display

The Razer Phone 2 has 5.7-inch LCD screen with 129 Hz refresh rate and 16:9 screen ratio. Razer claims the new phone will give gamer an unfair advantage in gameplay. The phone has an improvement compared to its predecessor and ensures that users do not come across lags or frame drops while gaming even heavy games on their smartphones.

Razer phone 2 chipset

The Razer Phone 2 is powered by the Qualcomm's Octa-core Snapdragon 845. All premium Android smartphones have this chipset this year. These new flagships have the performance over the predecessors run Snapdragon 835.

Razer phone 2 battery

The Razer Phone 2 includes 4,000Ah battery- the improvement in battery performance promised up to 10 hours of battery life as gaming.

The wireless charging and IP67 water resistance rating add a nice feature to overall usability. The new flagship is coupled with 8GB of LPDDR4x RAM and Adreno 630 GPU for graphics. It also comes with Bluetooth 5.0, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, LTE, NFC.

Razer phone 2 camera

The previous Razer Phone has a camera which is the weak area of performance. The users have been seeing a substantial step up to correct all of the weakness on the Razer Phone 2. The phone has dual camera setup, 12MP f/1.75 wide-angle-lens and secondary camera 12 MP with f/2.6 lens, along with dual-tone LED flash. Besides, Razer Phone 2 has Vapor Chamber Cooling that helps increase surface area for heat to dissipate.

However, the new flagship of Razer still disappoints. It sports Qualcomm Quick Charge 4+, the same chipset sported on OnePlus 6 and other Android smartphones releases this year. This chipset is available on all premium Android smartphones in 2018. But it still inferior to chipset on iPhone X and iPhone XS of Apple as A11 and A12 from this year.

Razer promised that the new phone would be updated to Android 9.0 Pie but it only comes with Android 8.1 Oreo.

Razer states the company is working with Android game developer like Rival: Crimson x Chaos, PUBG, RuneScape and others to boost their gaming performance on the new flagship. If it were conducted, you can imagine the cost for a software-side tune-up to help the mobile game run better, especially if it works on the hardware block like other Android smartphones.

It seems the Razer Phone 2 is asking too much at $799 or Rs 60,000, but comparing with its claim, it still does not offer enough to justice as a gaming phone yet.