ASUS launches ROG Phone with 90 Hz OLED Screen

Rog this, Rog that .... A whole lot of ROGging going on.

I really like using my phone as a phone and browser/email. This is a bit much for me.

 

Well...it has GameCool 3D vapor-chamber cooling system in it so it must be good! Nah i keed. But really is there a market for this?

 

This might just be the worthy upgrade from my iPhone.

 

Maybe it's just me, but that's a silly phone.

 

Neah, it isn't just you. It has RGB LED's too. Happy middle-schoolers I guess.

 

I want one

 

This phone looks like it´s dedicated to the Guru3d crowd... All that´s missing is the option to overclock the damn thing!...

 

Needs you to register at ROG probably, and then you need to root it

 

no mention about battery life or cost. i'm betting you it's silly money and poor battery time.

 

4000mhA battery so should be decent and you can change between mode also between normal and performance, and the AOMOLED should help cut power consumption a little more over LCD, I want one!, but yeah price is going to be silly, so it maybe i want but never get lol.

 

that heat vapor fin on back of the phone interesting, wonder if it really improve heat dissipation compared to thick aluminum frame+glass back

but again SD845 is 10nm... so dont think the phone going to be that hot even with continuous play
so far all phone with 10nm SoC i own never go hot like 14nm one
the highest probably around 60℃ at most in core.... battery / overal temp always below 40℃

samsung s7 with 14nm often go nearing 80℃ on load

but i dont think this phone have ip68 with those fin in back, if it have ip68 kinda interesting how they design the vapor with water resistance

 

So, I imagine myself having this phone in that fancy dual screen case or whatever it is. Having it closed in pocket.

I am walking, can I make call using just one hand to take it out of pocket, open it and touch all those areas required?
I guess Not.

 

You are correct it's not IP68, it's only splash resistant. Even then take IP68 with a pinch of salt anyway my S7 started to act up with a bit of rain, took months to dry out the port before i could charge via USB so had to charge via wireless. So as far as i am concerned IP68 is worthless it's a meaningless sticker and certification.

 

Just think of using this phone with Steam Link app to play your PC games using your steam controller connected to the phone as well, i think it would look amazing. where can i buy one?

 

Test it 1st with your regular android phone. Steam Link has a lot of work to be done. They fixed quite a few bugs in last update. But controls are far from great.
Test your intended game type. Without controller you can play games which are fully controllable with left mouse click. because right mouse click is done by 2 finger tap and I fail like 90% of those. It either registers as 2 separate LMB pressesor as RMB, but misses target.

Secondly, playing that great looking game on so small screen, not so good. I think it would be best with phone capable to connect to monitor without MHL. Or if you have OTG HDMI.