2021 Best Mobile Phone for Playing Games

With the enhanced working pressure of contemporary people or personal interests, the demand for gaming smartphones has also increased. Now let’s analyze seven handsets suitable for playing games, with the five best phones that are specialists in playing games and the other two popular handsets in the market with superior configurations.

The Best Mobile Phones for Playing Games in 2021

Xiaomi Black Shark 4

Display: Super AMOLED, 6.67'' (1080*2400 pixels, 85.8% screen-to-body ratio, 395 ppi)
Weight: 210 g
OS: Android 11
GPU: Adreno 650
CPU: Octa-core
Chipset: Snapdragon 870 5G (7 nm)
Battery: 4500 mAh
Memory: 128GB 6GB RAM/ 256GB 8GB RAM / 256GB 12GB RAM
UFS: 3.1
Price: $509

A large screen, big battery with light weight, equipped with the top chipset Snapdragon 870 provides the best game experience. Its 4500 mAh battery with 120W fast charge enables the phone to charge fully with 17 minutes, and then you can play it for a whole day.

Built-in, a new generation of 'sandwich' liquid cooling system, play it for a long time without becoming hot.

Blackview BL5000 (Dual 5G)

Display: 6.36'' incell FHD (1080*2300 pixels, 19:9, 400 ppi)
Weight: 273g
OS: Doke OS 2.1
CPU: octa-core
Chipset: MediaTek Dimensity 700 (7nm)
Battery: 4980 mAh
Memory: 128GB 8GB RAM
UFS: 2.2 (up to 2x higher speed than UFS 2.1)
Others: 125°ultra wide Angle
Price: $299.99

Different from other phones, Blackview BL5000 is a rugged game phone — one of the best mid-range gaming phone and one of the best Blackview phone of 2021. In addition to its excellent gaming performance, BL5000 is also waterproof and drop-resistant, and come with MIL-STD-810G military standard certified.

Especially, it has a 90° head of the charging cable, which wouldn’t disturb your finger to play games while charging. In addition, it also owns a sandwich liquid cooling system. The rugged phone can accompany you to travel, take pictures underwater, and don’t worry about it being broken when you want to vent your emotions facing game failure.

ASUS ROG 3 (Dual 5G)

Display: 6.59'' AMOLED (2340*1080 pixels, 19.5:9)
Weight: 240g
OS: Android 10.0
GPU:Adreno 650
CPU: octa-core
Chipset: Snapdragon 865 Plus
Battery: 6000 mAh
Memory:128GB/256GB/512GB
UFS: 3.1
Others: 125°ultra wide Angle
Price: $509

Except its big screen, light weight and advantageous chipset, 6000 mAh big battery (with ultra save technology) and the camera with 125° ultra wide angle were its bright spots.

It own triple cooling architecture and own a new generation of ROG Cooler Fan 3, with a stronger airflow blowing directly into the CPU and 5G chip area. It can lower the body temperature up to 4-5 ℃ compared with previous generation cooler fan.

Nubia Red Devils 5G

Display: 6.8'' FHD+ AMOLED (2400*1080 pixels, 91.28% screen-to-body ratio )
Weight: 220g
OS: Android 11
GPU: Adreno 660
CPU: octa-core (2.84 GHz)
Chipset: Snapdragon 888
Battery: 5050 mAh (66 W charging power, charging time: 38 mins)
Memory: 128GB/256GB ROM
UFS: 3.1
Price: $586

The game phone has dual independent IC touch shoulder keys 3.0, 400 Hz gaming touch keys. After the lab experience, the key can withstand more than 2 million clicks. Besides, it has an ICE 6.0 cooling system, a 6-layer multi-dimensional cooling system (ultra-light nano centrifugal fan, cooling canyon air duct, superconducting copper foil, thermal gel, graphene, and VC heat sink).

Suppose you want to acquire a super-large screen gaming experience. In that case, RedMagic supports projection methods such as USB projection, wireless projection, and TV projection to meet various live broadcast needs, novels, animation, etc.

Lenovo Legion Duel 2 (5G)

Display: 6.92'' (2460 * 1080 pixels, ~388 ppi density, 20.5:9)
Weight: 259g
OS: Android 11
GPU: Adreno™ 660
CPU: 8 cores Kryo™ 680
Chipset: Snapdragon 888
Battery: 5500 mAh (65W single USB-C port, 90W dual USB-C ports, 30 mins to 100%)
Memory: 256 GB/ 512 GB
UFS: 3.1
Price: $699

The gaming smartphone was named Legion Duel 2 because it equipped two of everything. Such as two batteries, two USB-C ports, two internal turbo-fans, two discrete processors, a double X-axis motor (fully symmetrical vibration), and dual loudspeakers.

Built-in TSI Frost Blade cooling system, and double liquid-cooled tubes, enable dissipating heat in two directions. Other configurations are all designed with game playing superbly.

Other well-known brands:

Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G

Display: 6.8'' (3200 * 1440 pixels, ~515 ppi density, 20:9)
Weight: 227g
OS: Android 11
GPU: Adreno 660
Chipset: Exynos 2100 (5 nm) – International
Qualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888 5G (5 nm) – USA/China
Battery: 5000 mAh (25W fast charging)
Memory: 128 GB/ 256 GB/ 512 GB, 12 GB RAM/ 16 GB RAM
UFS: 3.1
Price: $799-$1199

iPhone 12 Pro

Display: 6.1'' (2532*1170 pixels, ~460 ppi, 86.0% screen-to-body ratio)
Weight: 189 g
OS: iOS 14.1, can upgrade to iOS 14.7
GPU: Apple GPU (4-core graphics)
CPU: Hexa-core
Chipset: Apple A14 Bionic (5 nm)
Battery: 2815 mAh (20W fast charging, 50% in 30 mins)
Memory: 128 GB/ 256 GB/ 512 GB with 6 RAM
Price: $999-1099

In conclusion, hoping the above information and analysis could help you find your ideal game smartphone. The most critical elements that contribute to a superior gaming phone were its Display, Chipset, and Storage. Because those would influence your experience during enjoy gaming, such as the processing speed and game vision.

Of course, if you usually live in extreme environments, such as the weather always under 20° Celsius, Blackview BL5000 would be your best choice.

If you’d like to balance working and entertainment well, and no need to consider budget issues, the brand Samsung Galaxy and iPhone would be suitable for you.