I couldn’t tell you what part of the market they’re targeting, but hooray?
there have been a number of gaming phones over the years; an idea that’s hung around practically since the mobile market started growing big. And the one common thread is that they all failed; especially the taco phone N-Gage. Asus, however, chooses to surge forth onto this particular battlefield with their ROG phone.
And, let’s be honest: as far as mobile gaming is concerned, the ROG phone is loaded. It has the following features:
- HDR AMOLED Display (1080 res, 90hz, 1ms response)
- Dual front-facing speakers
- Second charging point, allowing players to recharge regardless of how they’re holding it
- Vapor chamber design, for heat dissipation
- An attachable cooling fan that comes with the phone, and offers passthroughs for USB-C and 3.5mm audio
- Another headphone jack at the bottom of the phone
- Air triggers on either corner in Landscape mode that function like shoulder buttons
- It even has a dock with USB peripheral ports and an HDMI out port
- Quick Charge, both 3.0 and 4.0
- IC is in the wall unit, keeping the phone cooler
And that’s not even getting into the specs under the hood. The thing runs a Snapdragon 845, with Asus picking only the CPUs that can hit 2.96 GHz. The benchmarks blow pretty much every other phone out of the water. And it has that “Gaming” aesthetic to it; angular designs on the back, regardless of how thin the device actually is.
Asus’ ROG phone is set to come out sometime in Q3 this year. There hasn’t been an announced price yet, though. Still, it’s definitely one hell of a piece of kit, and Asus should be proud. Even if it fails.
Source: PC Gamer
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