7. Oppo Find X3 Pro
The Oppo Find X3 Pro offers much of what you need from a gaming phone. It has a pleasant 6.7-inch AMOLED screen with a QHD+ (or 3126 x 1440) resolution and 1,300 nits max brightness. It looks great with punchy colors and great contrast. A refresh rate of up to 120Hz helps here too although it is a variable refresh rate rather than a ‘pure’ one.
Elsewhere, powerful performance from the Snapdragon 888 chipset means it is fantastic for games and anything else you fancy doing with it. Extensive RAM and plenty of storage further helps here as well as Dolby-tuned stereo loudspeakers.
There’s also Oppo’s Game Space mode which mutes notifications and optimizes processing while you play.
Other useful features like a great set of cameras and plentiful supply of software customization options means this a delight to use during gaming downtime. Combined, it’s a pretty great phone for playing games on and anything else too.
8. Motorola Edge Plus / Motorola Edge
The Motorola Edge Plus is the first top-tier flagship Motorola has released in years, and in many ways, it was worth the wait: the waterfall display is big and gorgeous, the phone packs great specs, and there’s even a new gaming feature thrown in: digital trigger buttons that hang over the screen’s edge, just under your fingers.
The phone packs an impressive specs array: a Snapdragon 865 chipset, 12GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage (sadly not expandable). The 6.7-inch display has a 90Hz refresh rate and HDR10+ support, giving a far sharper image than we’d expect from its Full HD Plus (2340 x 1080) screen. And its triple rear camera is headed by a staggering 108MP shooter.
While the Motorola Edge Plus’ price is about equal to other flagships at $999 (around £800 / AU$1,550), you might have trouble finding it given its limited availability: even in the US, it’s only available through Verizon.
The phone’s cheaper sibling, the Motorola Edge, has a few compromises in specs but it’s notably cheaper as a result, starting at £549 / $699 (about AU$1,015). And yet, it may be available in more places, and still retains many of the best features of the Edge Plus.
While the Motorola Edge ‘only’ has a display supporting HDR10, a Snapdragon 765G chipset with 6GB of RAM, a 64MP main shooter, and a smaller 4,500mAh battery, those aren’t dealbreakers for the lower price, in our opinion. Plus, the Edge’s 128GB of storage is expandable via microSD.
