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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 hey guys this is