I can't believe how underrated this phone is!
First a quick glance:
It has DUAL FRONT FACING STEREO SPEAKERS
It is WATERPROOF, IP68 certified
(also yeah great camera and all that stuff, wgaf)
Before I get into why this phone is superior to all, I'll mention the display:
It's a 1080 x 1920 LCD display (441 ppi). It has Sony's Triluminos display and X-Reality Engine, which make it one of crispest displays in the world.
Some people think Amoled would be better. But Amoled is garbage for one sole reason: its colors degrade with time. I'm not talking about burn-ins, which are actually quite rare. I'm talking about the thing everyone who ever owned an Amoled for more than a year and a half knows, that Amoleds start having a depressingly yellowish tint with time, which makes using it very frustrating and unenjoyable. LCDs however always stay as sharp and accurate as the day you bought them.
Also the X Performance has a 1080p resolution, which is the perfect sweetspot for gaming. Nobody needs these stupid 4k resolutions. The phone GPU is incapable of handling them without slowdowns, they sap the battery life, and at those ppis you can't even notice the difference.
But now, onto why the phone is supreme:
Look at these internals:
This is absolutely the best thermally engineered phone ever made. Most other phone manufacturers just slap the chip and battery anywhere and don't care.
The X Performance is the ultimate gaming phone. It's the only phone you can push to the limits. It has 2 heat pipes (as well as some slab) soldered right onto the metal back. The chip sits above those heat pipes with a thermal paste in between. Notice it was designed so one heat pipe goes all the way down to the right in contact with the metal frame, away form the battery so heat won't get near it. In phones like the Crapsung Galaxy s8 there is also a heat pipe, but it's only a marketing gimmick, cause the back and the whole phone is entirely covered in glass, a thermal insulator, so that heat pipe merely delays throttling by a few minutes, but the performance will drop to the same level in the end. The X Performance however has all metal back and sides through which the heat can escape and consequently gives you amazing sustained performance with the phone's Snapdragon 820 chipset. The only phone I've ever seen having such an amazingly designed thermal solution was the HTC One m8.
Add to that the stereo speakers. So if you can't call it the best phone ever, it's certainly the best gaming phone ever.
First a quick glance:
It has DUAL FRONT FACING STEREO SPEAKERS
It is WATERPROOF, IP68 certified
(also yeah great camera and all that stuff, wgaf)
Before I get into why this phone is superior to all, I'll mention the display:
It's a 1080 x 1920 LCD display (441 ppi). It has Sony's Triluminos display and X-Reality Engine, which make it one of crispest displays in the world.
Some people think Amoled would be better. But Amoled is garbage for one sole reason: its colors degrade with time. I'm not talking about burn-ins, which are actually quite rare. I'm talking about the thing everyone who ever owned an Amoled for more than a year and a half knows, that Amoleds start having a depressingly yellowish tint with time, which makes using it very frustrating and unenjoyable. LCDs however always stay as sharp and accurate as the day you bought them.
Also the X Performance has a 1080p resolution, which is the perfect sweetspot for gaming. Nobody needs these stupid 4k resolutions. The phone GPU is incapable of handling them without slowdowns, they sap the battery life, and at those ppis you can't even notice the difference.
But now, onto why the phone is supreme:
Look at these internals:
This is absolutely the best thermally engineered phone ever made. Most other phone manufacturers just slap the chip and battery anywhere and don't care.
The X Performance is the ultimate gaming phone. It's the only phone you can push to the limits. It has 2 heat pipes (as well as some slab) soldered right onto the metal back. The chip sits above those heat pipes with a thermal paste in between. Notice it was designed so one heat pipe goes all the way down to the right in contact with the metal frame, away form the battery so heat won't get near it. In phones like the Crapsung Galaxy s8 there is also a heat pipe, but it's only a marketing gimmick, cause the back and the whole phone is entirely covered in glass, a thermal insulator, so that heat pipe merely delays throttling by a few minutes, but the performance will drop to the same level in the end. The X Performance however has all metal back and sides through which the heat can escape and consequently gives you amazing sustained performance with the phone's Snapdragon 820 chipset. The only phone I've ever seen having such an amazingly designed thermal solution was the HTC One m8.
Add to that the stereo speakers. So if you can't call it the best phone ever, it's certainly the best gaming phone ever.