The ROG Phone is INSANE...#Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin and this is the

ROG phone so in a Sue's invited us out

to their event here at Computex I had a

few big questions so after seeing the

razor phone last year there's some

interesting stuff there's some stuff

that it does well but at the end of the

day it has a great display it has an

interesting build but it's not a great

phone now I don't want to be too hard on

the razor phone as there are some things

that does well but at the end of the day

I don't care how gaming focused of a

device you're making it has to be a good

phone and the ROG phone at least on

paper and sort of based on first

impressions looks like it is that good

balance so what is the ROG phone what

you're getting here is on the surface a

very unique looking device and when I

say that I mean it not only do you have

an LED that is going to be full RGB on

the back but you've got a vent

you've got vapor chamber cooling and

you've got what looks to be one of the

best-looking displays I've ever seen on

a smartphone the LG phone is rocking a

six-inch 2160 by 1080p AMOLED display

now that might not sound impressive but

what you're getting here is two things

first of all it's a solid panel

it's got good viewing angles really

impressive brightness it's going to

support HDR but almost more importantly

than that it's going to be running at a

full 90 Hertz no yes

on paper the razor phone has it beat but

now you're getting a much much nicer

looking OLED panel but as far as I'm

concerned bringing it in 90 frames per

second versus 120 frames per second it's

very hard to tell on any display

especially when it comes to a phone so

what you're getting here is actually a

decent I'm gonna stop pressing stings

accidentally no if you take a look at

the back of the phone you'll definitely

see it's got some gamer style but I

actually don't think it's that bad it's

going to be fairly subtle especially

when you considering that this is going

to be glass sort of blends in a little

bit and while you do have a glowing LED

logo it's going to be completely

customizable and importantly you can

also turn it off if you don't want to

you know if you're seeing in a meeting

looking like this the rest of the specs

are literally as high-end as you can

imagine this guy is rocking the

snapdragon 845 but not just any

snapdragon 845 it's actually a custom

version which is running it just under

three gigahertz they don't have the

exact SKUs just yet but you should

expect a gigs of ram and up to

supposedly 512 gigabytes of storage

camera wise you're getting a set up that

is very similar to the zenfone 5 and 5z

a wide-angle 8 megapixel camera as well

as a 12 megapixel standard shooter now

the main difference here is that these

are going to be supported by Google's AR

core which should be helpful for some AR

games in the future but expect decent

performance maybe not anything

spectacular but definitely better than

the razor phone might be tuning to the

razor phone all this is being backed up

by a four thousand milliamp hour battery

a pretty decent size especially

considering that you have to have so

much power to run phone like this now

there's some other things that are

definitely appreciated first of all we

do have USB C as well as a headphone

jack and two more USB ports which I'll

talk about in a second but you're also

going to be getting some really

impressive sounding front firing

speakers those are incredibly loud

speakers something cool that shared with

the pixel two is that you can actually

squeeze on the edges of the phone to be

able to enable gaming mode so on the

pixel that'll turn on Google assistant

but here you can see it turns whole red

and looks cool and this will turn off

things like notifications when you're in

the game enable a higher level of

performance and just look really cool if

you take a look at the top of the phone

what you're going to find are there two

little sort of ridged edges here now

this actually can be mapped inside the

software to be an actual button so as

opposed to needing to carry around a

controller for some games you might just

be able to use these as triggers because

it's all going to be pressure-sensitive

it's actually kind of cool and one of my

favorite parts even though it's not

really all that important is if I

actually open up the camera here you can

see it if I just press on top it takes a

shot which is cool right it feels like a

real camera you don't have to think

about it like I think I naturally sort

of press down on this part of the phone

when taking a shot but it actually works

as a shutter button here what really

pushes the ROG phone into crazy talent

are going to be the accessories so in

addition to your standard USB C port and

a headphone jack that you're going to

find on the bottom of the phone the side

of the phone also has two more USB ports

the first accessory is the arrow active

cooler now this moves your USB C port as

well as your headphone jack to the side

of the phone so when you're playing in

landscape it doesn't sort of get in your

way when you're trying to hold it on

either end but on top of that it has RGB

because of course it does it's a phone

in 2018 that has the ROG brand on it and

on top of that it's also going to

function as an actual cooler for your

phone and importantly this is included

in the box unlike some

other slightly more exciting accessories

but I would say one thing because the

fan is going to be cooling the entire

back of the foam because of the vapor

chamber which runs most of the way here

you're actually getting a little bit of

cool air on your fingers when you're

holding it like this which is nice play

any kind of smartphone game for an

extended period of time you know that it

can get very hot very quickly there's

also the mobile desktop dock so this is

actually a pretty hardcore accessory

which when you dock your phone inside of

it will give you a wide range of ports

including Ethernet HDMI DisplayPort a

ton of USB ports and importantly it's

also going to allow you to use a mouse

and keyboard in the game now this paired

with some clever software will allow you

to use a mouse and keyboard on literally

any Android game out there the way it

works is is that it will remap various

different parts of your display to go

along with your keyboard or Mouse so for

example if you hit the e key on your

keyboard it can press a specific part of

the display that might you know reload

or pick something up now to be fair the

very early ROG phones that I got to try

was not super smooth as far as this went

so we'll kind of have to wait and see

but I feel like it's a very simple piece

of tech that I'm sure they'll be able to

sort out by the time the phone comes out

the real issue is going to be I think

this is kind of cheating because most

people are playing on their actual

phones and someone else could just drop

their phone on the dock and play with a

full mouse and keyboard so we'll see

about that but super clever and I think

actually could be implemented pretty

well something just as crazy is the twin

View dock now this sort of turns your og

phone into something that kind of looks

like a Nintendo DS so essentially when

you drop your phone in it's going to

give you a secondary display which you

can use for a lot of different purposes

for example if you want to say stream

from your phone you could have the

actual chat and the twitch window up on

one screen and your actual game on the

other but there's a lot of really cool

advantages that you could have with this

especially considering that it does have

not only a full sized SD card slot and

USB see out but it even does have a full

six thousand milliamp hour battery there

is a lot to like with the ROG phone now

the idea of having a phone that's

dedicated to gaming it first was very

skeptical to me right

so yes it's going to be a nice function

to be able to have something that can do

well at gaming but I mean at the end of

the day it's a phone and it has to be

able to function well as a phone so

based on what I've seen with the ROG

phone it does perform well but

importantly it still doesn't really give

up a lot of functionality or features

right you can still fit it in your

pocket it's not going to be giant it's

not going to be bulky as

nice display good performance all the

things that you would expect now the

main issue and I think the main thing

that really sort of worries me with the

ROG phone is going to be price this is

not going to be cheap especially

considering that it does come with the

actual fan attachment inside the box so

of course it's too early to know about

the actual specific pricing or any kind

of availability although it should be

out later this year but the thing that

really worries me is that this is going

to be $1,000 plus foam no I get it if

it's going to be in the $800 to $1,000

range I think it's actually going to be

justified right I mean you compare it to

something like a Galaxy Note 8 or

something it's not going to be far off

but if it's going to be thousand eleven

$1,200

that's going to be a lot of money for

essentially a Tsar oh geez first phone

some very curious what do you guys think

about the ROG phone let me know in the

comments below and I will catch you guys

in the next one