You can pit its numbers against any Android phone around. The Razer Phone 2 ticks a lot of the boxes you’d expect in an $800 device. But “usable” and “good” aren’t worth the device's $800 price tag, and that's still the biggest hurdle for Razer.

It’s a powerful phone that’s built to play the best mobile games the Android OS has to offer.Īfter using it on and off for a couple months, I can say that it’s a usable phone and a good machine to Fortnite on. Like its predecessor, the Razer Phone 2 seems built around this philosophy.

When it comes to phones and gamers, players are more than happy to let gaming adapt to their touchscreen phones, not the other way around. And none of them had the kind of quality games that make you forget why you didn’t just buy a Nintendo DS instead. They either sacrificed mobile functionality by smushing extra buttons onto a phone or sacrificed game control by retaining features you would want in a mobile handset. If you took one look at them you could see why.

From the failed Nokia N-Gage onward, there is a long list of “gaming phones” that have bombed spectacularly. Phones that try to attract gamers almost never work.

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