Amazon Great Freedom Festival Sale 2021: Best deals on gaming phones | Digit

Amazon’s Great Freedom Festival is live, with the e-commerce giant promising a number of great deals and offers on thousands of popular products during the sale. While Amazon is extending offers on multiple categories, the most buzz appears to be around the smartphones category, which is currently seeing Amazon offer some aggressive discounts.  Over and above these discounts, Amazon is also offering a 10 per cent instant discount (maximum Rs 1,750) on EMI purchases made using SBI Bank credit cards.

These deals combined make it easier than ever to buy yourself the gaming phone of your choice to run the most graphics-intensive games and applications on Google Play. Here are the best gaming phones available on Amazon right now. 

One of the best phones available in the market right now, the OnePlus 9R also doubles up as a more than capable phone for gaming. Among the things that make it good for gaming is its big 6.55-inch Full HD+ resolution AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate. Powering gaming on the OnePlus 9R is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor. This is paired with upto 12GB RAM and up to 256GB storage options to choose from. As we found out during our review, OnePlus 9R shines in both gaming and overall performance. While it does not beat competing devices when it comes to synthetic benchmarks, it does manage to do well in real-world performance. 

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Xiaomi Mi 11X 

The Mi 11X is a power-packed phone in terms of specs as it comes with a 6.67-inches display capable of handling up to Full-HD+ (1,080×2,400 pixels) resolutions. The panel is AMOLED in technology and offers support for 120Hz refresh rates. Under the hood, there is the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 SoC, paired with up to 8GB of RAM. Apart from this, the phone also gets an Adreno 650 GPU with support for Snapdragon Elite gaming features. To make the best of this chip, Xiaomi has used the Android 11-based MIUI 12 custom skin out of the box. The phone also comes with up to 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage. To ensure gaming sessions can go on, the phone is backed by a 4,520mAh battery that supports 33W fast charging. 

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iQOO 7 

The iQOO 7 was recently launched in India alongside the iQOO 7 Legend. The iQOO 7 is the successor to the iQOO 3 which was launched in 2020 as one of the first 5G phones in the country. The iQOO 7 features a 6.62-inch AMOLED display that offers a Full HD+ resolution and has a punch-hole cutout in the centre for the selfie camera upfront. The flat display offers upto a 120Hz refresh rate and is also certified for HDR10+ playback. While the display helps make the iQOO 7 a good gaming phone, what makes it great is its powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor with an octa-core CPU. The CPU has a prime core running at upto 3.2GHz followed by three performance cores at upto 2.42GHz and four power-efficient cores clocked at 1.80GHz. This is backed by Adreno 650 GPU for graphics rendering and is paired with upto 12GB LPDDR4x RAM and upto 256GB UFS 3.1 storage options to choose from.

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Xiaomi Mi 10i

Xiaomi Mi 10i is a good phone for those on a budget, and are looking for a device that’s good for gaming and also everything else. The Mi 10i has a premium finish with metal-glass construction and a circular rear camera module that houses four cameras. Xiaomi Mi 10i features a 6.67-inch Full HD+ (2400 x 1080 pixels) resolution display that supports 120Hz high refresh rate along with HDR10+ certification. The Mi 10i is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G processor with an octa-core CPU and Adreno 619 GPU. This is paired with up to 8GB LPDDR4x RAM and up to 128GB UFS2.2 storage solution. The phone runs on MIUI 12 which is based on Android 11 out-of-the-box. 

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Redmi Note 10 Pro Max

Another good gaming phone for those on a budget, Redmi Note 10 Pro Max features a big 6.67-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED display with 120Hz high refresh rate support. The screen offers upto 1200 nits brightness, is HDR10+ certified and is topped with a layer of Gorilla Glass 5. The phone uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 732G processor with an octa-core CPU and Adreno 618 GPU. This is paired with upto 8GB LPDDR4X RAM and upto 128GB UFS 2.2 storage options to choose from. Apart from this, we also have a 3.5mm audio jack, IR sensor, stereo speakers, 360-degree ambient light sensor and more. Further, it is also equipped with a 5,020mAh battery that supports 33W fast charging out-of-the-box for gaming your gaming sessions going on and on. 

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iQOO Z3

The iQOO Z3 5G is a mid-range smartphone that’s good for gaming. It features the Qualcomm Snapdragon 768G processor. This is paired with up to 8GB RAM and up to 256GB storage. The iQOO Z3 5G has a plastic build and is available in only two colours – Ace Black and Cyber Blue. The phone measures 8.5mm in thickness and weighs 185g.  The iQOO Z3 5G is also rated IP52 dust and water-resistant. There are no dual stereo speakers on the device. As for the display, the iQOO Z3 5G comes packing a 6.58-inch IPS LCD display with Full HD+ resolution (2408×1080). It comes with 120Hz refresh rate support and a 180Hz touch sampling rate. The phone has a teardrop notch at the top and narrow bezels on the sides but a wide chin bezel. The iQOO Z3 5G runs Funtouch OS 11.1 based on Android 11. It comes with a triple camera setup consisting of a 64MP primary lens, an 8MP ultrawide sensor, and a 2MP macro shooter. You also have a 16MP selfie camera. The phone is equipped with a 4,400mAh battery that supports 55W FlashCharge.

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