(05-03-2018, 05:59 AM)mbc07 Wrote: Don't trust YouTube videos. Most of them will show only specific gameplay segments of specific lightweight games where they run near or at full speed, won't show the settings they used (most use settings that sacrifices accuracy and might introduce game-breaking bugs) and mostly important, they won't show the game running for long enough so you won't see the big performance hit Dolphin takes once the device's thermal management kicks in.
If you still want to buy a phone to use with Dolphin, you should aim at models with the latest flagships SoCs from Qualcomm (Snapdragon 820/835/845, etc) as they'll be the ones with the least GPU driver bugs (that doesn't mean they're perfect!). But keep in mind that no matter what you see on YouTube, most (to not say all) games still won't run with good performance, especially after the thermal management kicks in.
TL;DR currently there's no phone with enough performance or with mature enough GPU drivers to run Dolphin at decent performance...
there are no phones with a decent performance ... does it mean that the Nvidia Shield k1 (tablet) or the Nvidia Shield x1 (android tv) are up to the job? since technically they use android but they are not telephones ...