- [Saf] What's up YouTube, Saf here on SuperSafTV.
And this is the ROG Phone,
A phone made for gamers by the Republic of Gamers from ASUS,
who are known for their PC gaming hardware.
First up, looking at the build and design,
you can see that it has quite a unique look.
There's a metal frame with a curved glass panel at the back.
And the device has a similar footprint to something
like the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus.
It feels premium in the hand,
and actually like the curved edges
which make it more comfortable to hold.
Unlike the hard edges of the Razer Phone,
which we'll of course be making
lots of references to in this video.
You might have noticed that the ROG logo
at the back is backlit,
and you have full control of the color,
so you can have it static, breathing, strobing,
or have a color cycle as well.
Now what's cool about the design,
pun intended,
is that the device has a 3D vapor-chamber cooling system
which gives 60 percent improved CPU cooling efficiency,
and five times longer peak endurance.
You can see these two openings at the back,
which will help with the cooling process.
And on the right hand side
as well as the volume rocker and power button,
there's what ROG are calling air triggers on either side.
These are basically sensors,
and the ways these work is pretty impressive.
You can tap on them during gaming to enhance your controls.
And you can actually map these wherever you like onscreen.
At the bottom you'll be pleased to know
that we do have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, yay,
as well as that you have a USB type-C input.
But things get really interesting
on the left hand side where there are
two additional USB ports together.
This is firstly so you can charge the device
without having to interrupt
your landscape gaming experience.
But more importantly, to connect the AeroActive cooler.
So this is an accessory that is included inside the box.
And once you've connected it,
it will give you an actual cooling boost.
But on top of that it'll give you a USB-C port
and an additional 3.5 millimeter headphone jack.
And this way if you're gaming in landscape mode,
then these things will not come in the way.
And there's also an ROG backlit logo
on the AeroActive cooler,
which works in the same way as the logo
on the back of the device.
We've got a fingerprint scanner at the back,
to which is in a slightly weird shape,
but I'm assuming it's intended for use in landscape mode
which is why it's positioned in this way.
Right, now moving over to the front,
this is where we've got a key feature,
and that's the six-inch AMOLED HDR display
with a 90 hertz refresh rate
and a one millisecond pixel response time.
Now this thing is smooth.
Yes the Razer phone has 120 hertz,
but that's an LCD display and in my opinion,
AMOLED displays are generally much better
in terms of contrast and brightness.
And my impressions of the ROG Phone display
are very positive overall.
The resolution is full HD+
so we don't have quite HD like the Razer phone
But the pixel density is pretty high
and the low resolution should help you
get more battery life.
The bezels aren't as small
as lots of other devices out there
but you do have front-firing stereo speakers
and there's no notch,
so I'm sure this won't be a problem for most.
I've only spent a short time with the device,
but the stereo speakers sounded pretty good to me.
Right now let's talk about the performance.
Of course this is a gaming device.
And they have stacked this up to the max.
It's powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor,
which was expected,
but ROG have actually worked
with Qualcomm to fine-tune this,
giving a CPU clock speed of 2.96 gigahertz,
optimizing for lag-free performance.
With that you have eight gigabytes of RAM,
and the ROG Phone will come with either 128
or a whopping 512 gigabytes of storage.
However unfortunately there is no MicroSD card slot,
something you probably won't need
if you go for the 512 gig version.
But you do have dual SIMs.
Now because of these internals on the optimization,
the ROG Phone scores the highest
out of all smartphones in pretty much every benchmark.
And should get you through anything
that you throw at it with ease.
The device will be running
Android version 8.1 out of the box
with a custom UI to make the most
out of the gaming features.
And you can do things like squeezing the device
kind of like the Pixel 2,
but instead of launching Google Assistant,
this will activate X-mode,
which is going to block notifications
but also give you optimal gaming performance.
For the battery you've got a massive 4000 mH capacity
which ROG say will give you
up to seven hours of wi-fi gameplay,
and you also have ROG hypercharge technology
and this will give you 60% of battery life
in just 33 minutes.
Of course this all sounds really good,
but we'll have to test it all out.
Now ROG are really emphasizing on the gaming capabilities
of this phone and they are going to
have additional accessories available
to purchase separately.
These include a mobile desktop dock
which will let you connect the ROG Phone
to a display keyboard and mouse.
Now what's really cool about this
is that you can map the keyboard keys
and mouse clicks to anywhere on your display,
similar to the air triggers.
And I can already see that this
is really going to enhance that gaming experience.
There's a twin-view dock which will give you
an additional display and that'll be ideal
for livestreaming when gaming.
And there's also a Gamevice dock
that will give you console controls
and wireless display connectivity.
Now you may have noticed
that I haven't really talked about the cameras,
and that's because I haven't been given too much information
about the cameras,
apart from the fact that they're going to be
pretty much the same as the ASUS Zenfone 5z.
So a dual-camera setup
with a primary twelve megapixel camera and an f1.8 aperture
as well as a secondary wide-angle eight megapixel camera
with an f2.0 aperture.
For the front-facing camera,
eight megapixels with an f2.0 aperture.
Now I haven't really used the Zenfone 5z enough
to comment on the quality of the cameras as yet
so we'll have to see how they perform
once we have the retail unit in hand.
I just hope it's not a similar case
like the Razer phone where the cameras were
the weakest thing of the phone overall.
Finally I haven't been given any pricing
and availability information about the ROG Phone
or any of the accessories,
so I'll try to leave some links in the description below
as soon as I have it.
And that is the ROG Phone.
What do you guys think of it?
Definitely drop me a comment below and let me know.
In my opinion this does look very promising,
and I'm pretty impressed overall
how they've built this thing,
specifically for gamers from the ground up,
with features like the 90 hertz AMOLED display,
the optimized CPU, the stereo speakers,
the air trigger controls,
the triple USBs,
et cetera et cetera.
But also how this isn't too bulky and is
a similar size to other smartphones.
Of course we'll be having lots more detailed coverage
of the ROG phone once the retail unit is available
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