Asus ROG phone 5 Full review. BuY or noT

The ROG Phone 5 is the 4th era gaming smartphone from Asus, and it appears like the employer has gone all out. A seem at the specifications sheet suggests that Asus has put together the nice viable hardware. The ROG Phone 5 series is powered through the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888SoC, and comes with up to 18GB of LPDDR5X RAM! So is this the closing gaming smartphone that you can purchase in India? I received my palms on the ROG Phone 5 and here are my first impression

Asus has delivered in three smartphones under the ROG 5 series: the ROG Phone 5, ROG Phone 5 Pro, and ROG Phone 5 Ultimate. The latter is loaded to the gills and it will be imported in limited portions right here in India. Asus presents two versions of the ROG Phone 5, the base variant has 8GB RAM and 128GB storage whilst the greater model has 12GB RAM and 256GB of storage. These are priced at Rs. 49,999 and Rs. 57,999 respectively, and will be accessible in smooth black or white.

The ROG Phone 5 Pro has only one configuration with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, priced at Rs.69,999 and will solely be bought in a glossy Phantom Black finish. Similarly, the ROG Phone 5 Ultimate only comes in a matte Storm White end with 18GB of RAM and 512GB of storage for Rs.79,999. All the editions have LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 3.1 storage.

The ROG Phone 5 is a big smartphone and homes a 6.78-inch display with a 20.4:9 component ratio. It is an HDR 10 licensed AMOLED panel made by means of Samsung and offers a full-HD resolution. It has a 144Hz refresh rate however is set to 120Hz via default. Asus claims 1200nits of top brightness. There is Corning Gorilla Glass Victus at the front, and Gorilla Glass three at the back. The display has skinny bezels on the sides but has slightly thicker ones on the top and bottom, which residence stereo speakers. The top bezel additionally has the 24-megapixel selfie digital camera and a notification LED.

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The ROG Phone 5 has a large 6.78-inch display

Lift the cellphone up and you will word that it is pretty heavy at 236g. The body is made out of metal, however it is rounded which makes it blissful to hold. The electricity and quantity buttons are on the proper facet of the frame closer to the middle which makes them very handy to hit. They additionally offer exact feedback. You additionally get Ultrasonic AirTriggers on the proper side (the pinnacle when held horizontally) for gaming. On the left facet of the frame, the ROG Phone 5 has a second USB Type-C port for charging, and a proprietary connector for add-ons along with the Aeroactive Cooler 5. The SIM tray on the left has two Nano-SIM slots however no microSD card slot.

At the back, the ROG Phone 5 has a triple digital camera setup consisting of a 64-megapixel essential camera which makes use of pixel binning to supply 16-megapixel shots, a 13-megapixel ultra-wide angle digicam with a 125-degree discipline of view, and a 5-megapixel macro camera. All of them sit down in a skinny oddly shaped digicam module that protrudes slightly. The ROG Phone 5 has an Asus ROG logo on the lower back with customisable RGB lighting. The ROG Phone 5 Pro and ROG Phone 5 Ultimate have small secondary PMOLED displays in that spot which can exhibit repute information.

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The ROG Phone 5 has RGB lights under the ROG emblem at the back

The Asus ROG Phone 5 packs in a 6,000mAh battery which is break up into two cells of 3000mAh every to assist with fast charging and prevent the cellphone from heating up under load. The two cells are toward the top and the bottom of the smartphone whilst the mainboard housing the SoC is in the center. Another gain of this setup is that the Aeroactive Cooler 5 accent sits right on pinnacle of the SoC when attached, for wonderful cooling. Asus claims that the ROG Phone 5 is succesful of 65W quick charging however only ships a 30W charger in the box. If you want to use faster charging, you will want to buy a well suited charger separately.

The Asus ROG Phone 5 is the first smartphone I have used with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC. The processor is clocked at 2.84GHz and have to be able to deliver some marvelous benchmark numbers. I couldn't test the ROG 5 smartphone at this time but I will put it thru all our normal benchmark and gaming tests at the time of the full review.

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The Aeroactive Cooler 5 has bodily set off buttons and a fold-out kickstand

Asus ships the ROG Phone 5 with Android 11 and ROG UI on top. The UI is easy and offers a lot of customisations which I'll cowl in the review. The demo unit of the ROG Phone 5 had the January Android safety patch which is fairly recent. I did see some preinstalled apps on the smartphone such as Instagram and Facebook but these can be uninstalled proper away, so it should not be a problem. I did no longer observe any spammy notifications at some stage in my time with the ROG Phone 5.

Asus additionally sent me the Aeroactive Cooler 5, however it will solely be bundled with the ROG Phone 5 Pro and Ultimate models. Buyers of the ROG Phone 5 will want to buy this separately. The Aeroactive Cooler 5 clamps on to the cellphone and wants to be aligned with the pins on the left. It attracts electricity from the phone's battery. In addition to the fan, there are two bodily set off buttons on the Aeroactive Cooler 5 which takes the set off depend to four on this device. 

Display 6.78-inch

Processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

Front Camera 24-megapixel

Rear Camera 64-megapixel + 13-megapixel + 5-megapixel

RAM 8GB

Storage 128GB

Battery Capacity 6000mAh

OS Android 11

Resolution 1080x2448 pixels

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