I must say, most manufacturers sure don't act like they want to beat Apple, they seem to just want to be up to date with Apple's most contentious and unpopular

I must say, most manufacturers sure don't act like they want to beat Apple, they seem to just want to be up to date with Apple's most contentious and unpopular design decisions (probably because they're the easiest to copy shamelessly). At best, they are providing fodder for the next time Apple goes to court to argue that competitors are ripping off the designs. The Razer Phone is actually interesting for not going the shameless copying of trivial design elements route. In my opinion their symmetrical, reasonably-sized device is very attractive. The one major complaint I have about the Razer Phone is their choice to go with a 1440p display, which more or less forced them to ship the device with the display downclocked to 90Hz (from 120Hz) by default, probably for power issues with scanout; I feel they could've sidestepped this issue by just shipping a 1080p display instead, which they could run at 120Hz with lower scanout bandwidth than 1440p at 90Hz. The display runs most things at 1080p anyway, and 1080p displays are already very high resolution in that form factor. If they shipped it with a 1080p display at 120Hz, they wouldn't have thrown away the immediate responsiveness advantage they should've won with the other hardware work.