With a second screen, high-powered graphics card, and physical triggers, Asus’s attempt to enter the highly niche mobile gaming market is certainly something that no one saw coming.
Republic of Gamers, Asus’s fairly new gaming label, revealed the brand-new creation, a gaming-focused Android Smartphone, during the kickoff of Computex 2018 in Taipei, Taiwan.
But an article about the phone from the Republic of Gamers webpage assures users that the device is nothing to be joked about. The article says that to ROG, the first emergence of Smartphones saw a generation of barley-capable machines that would spark new developments in technology over time, eventually giving way to more and more capable hardware. The ROG team has “watched closely as these digital sidearms became increasingly capable gaming machines and all-around computers, and [they] saw how developers harnessed their growing power to take mobile gameplay and graphics to the next level.”
Now, ROG believes this technology has advanced to the perfect level to allow for the unveiling of the new ROG smartphone. The new device boasts enhanced and focused coolant systems for “a framerate you can actually sustain”. ROG also promises a suite of hardware features such as the ability for the phone to dock up with a desktop, integrate a wireless controller for console-level gameplay on the go, and feature a high-quality HDR display screen. The phone is also built to stay comfortable in users hands, and the dual triggers are ergonomically designed to reduce stress on a user’s fingers during extended use. The phone will also include a suite of “transformative accessories”, including the ability to double up on screens and batteries, and enhance the device’s screen size through an upgraded wireless display.
But for all of its aggressive power usage, the new ROG phone will not slack off on battery life. ROG states that the phone will be capable of lasting a full day, and it plans to accomplish this through heavy and drastic battery optimization. The phone will take full advantage of all available on-site cards and resources during gaming sessions, and will then quickly and aggressively reduce processing power during idle periods. There’s also the all-new “X Mode”, which “raises the minimum clock speed to keep the CPU on its toes, and confines tasks to the chip’s four fastest cores to ensure maximum performance.” This mode can seamlessly be enabled through the quick settings menu during lag spikes or hangups, then configured further in the Game Center to customize it to the needs of a particularly taxing game.
The phone focuses on adding some decent bass for your buck as well, with dual front-focused speakers to make sure users hear everything that’s happening in the game. And the screen features a refresh rate of 90Hz, giving it 50% higher maximum Frames Per Second than almost any other smartphone. The game has also accounted for a common problem smartphone gamers experience while trying to game in landscape mode: The power and headphone cables always get in the way, leading to awkward and uncomfortable hand positions and aching fingers after gaming sessions. The ROG Phone fixes this by adding additional charge and headphone ports on the right of the phone, and features a number of special comparability settings for smoothing frame rates while playing games in landscape mode.
The phone’s body also looks the part, with sharp edges seeping classic red lights that easily denote the device as a gaming powerhouse. Crisp interlocking pieces and exposed cooling panels on the back of the phone give it more of an industrial design than most other smartphones, a signature calling card of this fairly impressive piece of hardware.
Featured Image Via Official ROG Webpage
