2017 has brought us some absurd smartphones. But if you’re attractive for a phone that makes little-to-no cede on the blueprint sheet, two angle out aloft the rest.
The Razer Phone and the OnePlus 5T absolutely drove the antagonism on cardboard (with the barring of a few areas), but there is a lot that separates these two assertive phones. See which phone comes out on top in this Razer Phone vs OnePlus 5T comparison.
These phones booty absolute altered approaches to design, with the Razer Phone basically resurrecting the artful of the Nextbit Robin and putting a covering of Razer acrylic on top. The aftereffect is a matte atramentous slate with aciculate corners and collapsed abandon all around. Aside from the arduous admeasurement of the phone, which doesn’t accommodate itself to the best one-handed usage, it’s adamantine not to like the blocky anatomy agency that we no best see beyond the smartphone bazaar these days.
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Which is area the OnePlus 5T comes in, the metal slab that updates the connected architecture accent that was started in the OnePlus 3. Bland metal is the burden here, but a abate and added attainable admeasurement is additionally a calamus in its cap. OnePlus continues to put as abundant as it can, including a headphone jack, in a phone that is alluringly thin. Added appearance like the Alert Slider return, admitting the fingerprint clairvoyant has been confused to the aback in a added attainable place, compared to the sensor anchored in the ability button of the Razer.
It’s about funny to see a artificial phone alleged the Razer go up adjoin the OnePlus brownish architecture – but in their own ways, both phones are absolute visually appealing. The Razer logo on the aback will acceptable allure alike alien admirers of the gaming brand, while the 5T charcoal backward at aboriginal and again gets adulation for how glassy it looks. But if administration is activity to be a big accord to you, the OnePlus 5T is absolutely a bit easier on the hands.
Part of what makes the OnePlus so attainable to handle is the 18:9 Full HD AMOLED awning that the 5T rocks beyond its absolute front. OnePlus did able-bodied to abolish the advanced adverse home button and fingerprint clairvoyant in adjustment to accomplish allowance for all that screen. It looks appealing abundant too, admitting the lower resolution – OnePlus did a abundant job optimizing how Oxygen OS looks on its display. There are a few appearance in the affectation that absolutely add to its appeal, like the crisp Consistently on Affectation and OnePlus’ own adaptation of the Night Light. One affection we’ll consistently adore on actuality is the Reading Mode, that absolutely changes the affectation to finer challenge an e-paper awning – a affection that is absolutely easier on the eyes.
None of these appearance are attainable on the Razer Phone IPS Quad HD 16:9 display, but Razer was not to be outdone. Taking afflatus from their laptop screens, the Razer rocks a console able of aerial brace ante to go forth with its abutment of aerial anatomy bulk content. Put together, this is alleged Ultramotion, and it is appealing incredible. Syncing the GPU with the brace bulk of the affectation makes for the best attainable motion apprehension no bulk what agreeable is actuality captivated – annihilation from 60 fps video to 120 fps aerial affection amateur to near-zero on the changeless homescreens. It’s adamantine not to see these enhancements back put up adjoin accession screen, and in this allegory the Razer Phone is aloof smoother than its competition.
With all that said, the Razer IPS awning doesn’t assume to get as ablaze as it should at 100% and its blush reproduction could use a bit added bite compared to the OnePlus AMOLED display. But, Ultramotion is article we would adulation to see implemented added throughout smartphones, and Razer aloof ability accept started that trend.
Up until this point, there are absolute bright differences amid these two phones, but, back accepting beneath the absolute altered screens, these two belief alpha to converge. Achievement is not defective in either of these phones, with the Snapdragon 835 accepting backed up by a abundant bulk of RAM at 8 GB. Few phones in the West absolutely hit these specs and it is a agreement we generally see in Asia, but the blueprint athirst accept two appealing abundant options here. Razer additionally allows the user a little added ascendancy over the acceleration and ability of the phone with the Game Booster, area alike the alarm acceleration of the processor can be catered to aerial achievement or array extenuative levels.
Storage is a little bit of a altered story, however, with the Razer packing 64 GB that can be broadcast with a microSD card. This is not the case with the OnePlus 5T, as it doesn’t acquiesce for accumulator amplification but comes with a ton at 128 GB in the higher-end model.
Sound is a give-and-take, however, as the OnePlus 5T does accumulate the headphone jack while the Razer Phone puts it in an adapter that goes in the abandoned USB Type-C port. Abounding users ability not adore this architecture best by Razer, but they at atomic installed a 24-bit DAC in the adapter – with a acceptable brace of headphones, the active alert acquaintance gets a huge boost. The advanced adverse speakers on the Razer are additionally some of the best that we’ve anytime heard, managing to get absolutely loud after abridgement the highs or activity abdicate on the lows. It is alike loud abundant to alter baby Bluetooth speakers. It comes bottomward to priorities in this case – those who absolutely appetite a loud apostle phone can go with the Razer, while anyone continuing close on the admittance of headphone jacks will adopt the OnePlus.
Dual cameras are the case in either of these phones, but there are differing philosophies. The Razer Phone rocks bifold 12 MP lenses, with the added lens antic f/1.8 breach and the telephoto lens bumping that up to f/2.6.
While it has been able-bodied accurate that the Razer Phone is acutely defective in camera software, features, and to some admeasurement quality, there has back been an amend that hopes to adjust some of those issues. I did get the amend and absitively to use this allegory as the time to analysis it out. The camera amend makes the banal camera announce which lens is in use, but there is little abroad added into the absolute affection set – absolutely no account mode, which is acutely credible on the OnePlus 5T camera UI.
Picture affection has gotten a little bit of a boost, but to be honest that isn’t adage much. Aloof like in our review, the camera continues to be a bit apathetic abnormally with bang lag during HDR shooting. Never apperception the actuality that the camera tends to overexpose back HDR is off, acute connected tinkering with the acknowledgment compensation. The pictures additionally still charge bigger blush rendering, as photos are usually a bit beneath saturated and abridgement some adverse to accomplish things pop. Low-light situations accomplish things alike worse, with blatant photos that can get alike added blurred out back the bang lag in HDR is at its longest.
Taken on its own, the Razer Phone can put out some appropriate photos – it is absolutely back the camera is put up adjoin added phones that the abridgement of affection is apparent. And the OnePlus 5T, an attainable flagship smartphone, outputs abundant bigger attractive photos with far added appearance and far beneath headaches. HDR is an auto ambience and doesn’t accumulate the bang accessible for long, authoritative aerial activating ambit photos abundant easier to capture. The account approach in the rear-facing camera is a acceptable accession that is abiding to amuse account enthusiasts, and added modes like panorama already put the OnePlus UI over the basal Razer software. Pictures advancing out of the 5T artlessly accept bigger activating range, bigger HDR, and are easier to capture.
It is bright that Razer is on their aboriginal attack with a smartphone camera, and it shows. OnePlus allowances from a best pedigree, but that doesn’t alibi the massive omissions still present in the Razer Phone.
And finally, in software, we accept a brace altered means of attractive at Android. OnePlus has absolutely accomplished Oxygen OS into a applicable Android another complete with its own altered flavor. The Shelf is still a abundant abode to put widgets and admission quick tasks, gestures are there if you appetite to get about fast, the night approach is absolute able-bodied implemented, and the bland movements of the interface as a accomplished accomplish for a fluid, agreeable experience. OnePlus does able-bodied to accumulate things spartan but still altered and personal.
Personalization, however, is one of the aerial credibility of the Razer Phone’s UI, acknowledgment to a affiliation with a absolute accepted third affair launcher – Nova Launcher. With a Prime authorization included, there are a ton of possibilities for customization in the interface: icons, bash gestures, and figure filigree sizes alone blemish the apparent of what Nova Launcher admirers accept continued enjoyed. Razer keeps aggregate abroad appealing stock, aloof with a burst of Razer blooming befuddled on top.
In the end, these two assertive phones absolutely appearance two altered philosophies in the Android flagship amplitude – either you absolutely annihilate it in a accurate alcove or try to accommodate all the best in every address possible. What is so absorbing about this allegory is that the OnePlus 5T manages to analysis so abounding boxes, but undercuts its antagonism by at atomic $100. The Razer phone is an aberrant accessory that looks different, operates beautifully through its Ultramotion display, and sounds bigger than best acknowledgment to Dolby certified speakers and a DAC-enabled headphone jack adapter.
Though the camera is the centermost point of altercation in the Razer Phone, we would not be afraid if some users abstain it in favor of a one-of-a-kind media burning experience. We absolutely anticipate Razer has article on their easily and companies like OnePlus could assemble their own accomplishing of it in the future. After all, OnePlus has done so with the fingerprint reader, aphotic modes in the UI, Oxygen OS, Face Unlock, account modes, and aerial blueprint bedding – authoritative it an attainable advocacy if all you charge is a abundant phone after the crazy price.
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| Razer Phone | OnePlus 5T | |
|---|---|---|
| Display | 5.72-inch IGZO LCD 1440 x 2560 resolution 513 ppi 16:9 aspect ratio 120 Hz, Wide Blush Gamut (WCG) Corning Gorilla Glass 3 | 6.01-inch AMOLED 1080 x 2160 resolution 401 ppi 18:9 aspect ratio Supports sRGB, DCI-P3 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass 5 |
| Processor | Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform | Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform |
| GPU | Adreno 540 | Adreno 540 |
| RAM | 8 GB bifold channel LPDDR4 1,600 MHz | 6/8 GB LPDDR4X |
| Storage | 64 GB UFS microSD amplification up to 2 TB | 64/128 GB UFS 2.1 2-lane No microSD expansion |
| Cameras | Rear cameras: 12 MP wide-angle sensor with f/1.75 aperture, PDAF 12 MP zoom sensor with f/2.6 aperture, PDAF Dual tone, bifold LED flash Front camera: 8 MP anchored focus sensor with f/2.0 aperture | Rear cameras Main sensor: 16 MP Sony IMX 398 sensor, 1.12 µm, f/1.7 aperture, 27.22 mm focal length Secondary sensor: 20 MP IMX 376K sensor, 1.0 µm, f/1.7 aperture, 27.22 mm focal length Front camera: 16 MP Sony IMX 371 sensor, 1.0 µm, f/2.0 aperture |
| Audio | Stereo front-facing speakers Dual amplifiers Audio adapter with THX-certified DAC | Bottom-facing speaker Three microphones with babble cancellation Supports AANC Dirac HD Sound |
| Battery | 4,000 mAh Non-removable Qualcomm QuickCharge 4.0 | 3,300 mAh Non-removable Dash Charge (5V 4A) |
| IP rating | None | None |
| Network | GSM: Quad-band GSM UMTS: B1/2/3/4/5/8 LTE:B1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/17/19/20/25/26/28/29/30/66 TDD LTE: B38/39/40/41 TD-SCDMA: B34/39 | LTE: Supports 3xCA Supports 64QAM & 256QAM Supports up to DL CAT 12 (600 Mbps) / UL CAT 13 (150 Mbps) depending on carrier support Bands: FDD LTE: Bands 1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/17/18/ 19/20/25/26/28/29/30/66 TDD-LTE: Bands 34/38/39/40/41 TD-SCDMA: Bands 34/39 UMTS (WCDMA): Bands 1/2/4/5/8 CDMA: BC0 GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Bluetooth 4.2 NFC | Wi-Fi: MIMO 2x2, 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, 2.4/5 GHz Bluetooth 5.0, supports aptX & aptX HD NFC GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo |
| Software | Android 7.1.1 Nougat | Android 7.1.1 Nougat OxygenOS |
| Dimensions and weight | 158.5 x 77.7 x 8 mm 197 g | 156.1 x 75 x 7.3 mm 162 g |
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