One of The Fastest Phones!- Asus
This is of course,
the ROG Phone 3. The box of this phone is amazing prism shape. You know it's a
gaming device. In the box we get a fibre case and uses a USB Type- C cable to
charge the phone. As well it has a very fast charger. This is a 30-watt fast
charger. We've got the Aero Active 3 Cooler, which is the accessory that we can
put on to the ROG Phone 3. And we've also got a USB Type-C to 3.5-millimetre
converter. And that is because the ROG Phone 3 does not have a 3.5millimeter
jack this year. There is however, a 3.5-millimetre jack on the Aero Active 3
Cooler, which we'll get to in a second. And of course, you get that converter
too.
So, you can see here
that it's got that iconic ROG phone design, and looks very similar to the ROG
Phone 2, which I have here. And you can see that as well as the design being
similar, the size is almost exactly the same. The ROG Phone 3 is just slightly
thicker. And that is partly because it's got more of a camera bump because of
the new cameras. But I do quite like the cleaner look of the ROG Phone 3. There
aren't as many lines as we’ve got on the ROG Phone 2. And the aerodynamic cooling
section has also been updated with this more minimal design. There's of course
the RGB ROG logo, which you can customize. And it looks really, really cool.
Now, taking a look at the front. We once again, have a very similar design to
what we had last year. And this is around about a 6.6-inch AMOLED display.
However, there are lots of improvements. Firstly, it is a 144hertz display
compared to the 120 hertz of the ROG Phone 2.
You've also got an improved
touch sampling rate. So, we've got 270 hertz versus240 hertz on the ROG Phone
2. And Asus have also said that we've got as little as 18 milliseconds of touch
latency. Which is the lowest on any smartphone in the world right now. Both
have a Full HD+ resolution, but the ROG Phone 3 does have support for HDR 10+.
Whereas the ROG Phone 2has support for HDR 10. And we've also got a slightly
brighter display on the ROG Phone 3, up to 650 nits outdoors, versus 600 nits
on the ROG Phone 2. Now, I've absolutely loved the display on the ROG Phone 2.
So smooth, one of the first with 120 hertz. Now, the ROG Phone 3 is one of the
first with 144 hertz. How much of a difference does it make from 120 hertz to
144 hertz? Definitely a difference, but not as noticeable as when you go from
say 60 to 90 hertz, or from 90 to 100 hertz.
The higher the refresh rate, the less noticeable itis it, in
my opinion. But nevertheless, with that high refresh rate, the higher touch
sampling rates, as well as that minimal latency, does make this one of the, if
not the best gaming smartphone display out there. And we do have the top and
bottom bezels. Which give you the front firing stereo speakers. Now, these
speakers are slightly larger compared to what we had last year. And on the ROG
Phone 3, we have seven magnets for more power and less distortion, as well as
game effects in partnership with Swedish company, Dirac. Now let's take a look
around the device. So upfront there is that front-facing camera. This is 24
megapixels. It's got a slightly wider aperture compared to what we had last
year. On the right-hand side, the buttons are on the same place.
So, we've got the
volume rockers well as the power button. And then we've got the air triggers.
These are version thereof the air triggers. And this year, we've got twice as
many gestures compared to last year. Now supporting both sliding and swiping.
And you can also divide each button into two partitions for tapping. So, air
triggers are actually useful because you can map these two different areas on
different games. And you know, they're going to give you an additional
advantage. At the bottom, is where we’ve got that surprise. And there is no
3.5millimeter headphone jack. So, you've just got the USB Type-C input, but on
the left-hand side, as well as the SIM card tray, you do have two USB Type-C Ports
in the middle. And this is something that I absolutely love about ROG phones.
Just the consideration of having these on the left-hand side means that, not
only can you attach different accessories, but you can also plug in the
smartphone, use it in landscape mode, and the wire is not going to be coming in
your way like it would do on other smartphones. Really, really cool.
It does come with a cover, which I usually take off and
lose. Now, here you can attach the Aero Active 3 Cooler, which we have here.
Now this is not only going to cool your device. You have another ROG logo
because the current logo is going to be covered. And then you've got a
USBType-C port here at the bottom. So you can still have this plugged in, as
well as of course, a 3.5 millimetre jack. So yes, we don't have 3.5 millimetre
jack on the device itself, but it is nice that we do have it on the Aero Active
Cooler. And the new thing about the Aero Active Cooler this time is that we’ve
also got a kickstand. So, if you're watching some content and you just want
somewhere to kind of place this for your gaming, and you don't want to be
carrying the device, then this is definitely quite cool. Now, let's talk about
performance.
ROG phone's known for
having the latest and best specs out there. And this is also the case on the
ROG Phone 3. I believe it is the first smartphone to have the QUALCOMM
snapdragon 865+ chipset. The ROG Phone 2 has the 865+. It was also one of the
first to have that chipset. Now there is also the ROG Phone 3 Strix Edition.
This is going to be priced a little bit lower, and that will have the
snapdragon 865 standard. And you can get up to 512 gigabytes of UFS3.1 storage
up from 3.0 last year, as well as up to 16gigabytes of LPDDR5 RAM compared to
up to 12 gigabytes of LPDDR4X RAM that we had last year.
We've also of course
got support for 5G this year, and we've got the Game Cool 3 heat dissipating
system. This has a six times larger heat sink compared to last year with a
redesigned 3D vapourable chamber and in larger graphite. Now I still use the
ROG Phone, and it has no problems in terms of performance, really does keep up
with all of the newer games as well. The ROG Phone 3 just takes that further,
and it's going to last you that much longer. It also has newer software. So,
we've got Android 10 with the ROG UI. My ROG Phone 2 still has Android 9. I've
not got the Android updates as yet. We've got X mode with armory crate. So,
this gives you a wider variety of performance parameters from CPU and GPU performance
to touch sensitivity settings and display refresh rate. Now let's talk about
the cameras. The cameras have been improved compared to last year, and there's
some really interesting things here.
The primary camera is
now a 64-megapixel sensor. It is the Sony IMX686 compared to the IMX 586 with
48megapixels last year. We've got a 13 megapixel ultra-wide camera. And this
year, we've also got an additional five-megapixel macro camera, which is going
to let you focus in closer to your subjects. It's five megapixels. So, it's not
the best macro camera out there, but it's nice to have. What's very exciting
for me however, is the fact that couples with the Qualcomm snapdragon 865+
chipset. That means you can get 8K at30 frames per second here. That is
something that you really can't do on many other devices, as far as I'm aware.
This is probably one of the only that has that capability. The Samsung Galaxy
S20Series does have 8K, but that is at a maximum of 24 frames a second. But in
addition to that, you've got 4K at up to120 frames per second. And I believe
that makes this one of the only smartphones that can film at that framerate at
that resolution. Which is very, very impressive. Now for the battery.
We once again have
6,000,000,000 bowers, which is one of the largest batteries on any smartphone right
now. And my experience with the ROG Phone 2 was very, very good. One of the
best in terms of battery life on any smartphone last year and with the ROG
Phone 3 as well, that battery life, amazing. Obviously the more you game, and
the heavier you game with he high refresh rates, that's going to take up more
battery. However, Asus have put in a few features in here to get you the most
out of your battery life. There's some battery care features. So you've got a
custom charging limit, and that will allow you to say, lower your limit to
around 90% or 80%. There's also a slow charging option, which will limit charging
to around 10 watts, which will be better for the battery wear, we'll keep the temperature
down by around 34%.
And, there's also
scheduled charging with added sleep wall options such as end time by alarm.
Now, finally, let's talk about the price. So, the pricing information have
right now is that for this flagship version, which has 512 gigabytes of
storage, 16 gigabytes of RAM with the 865+, you're going to be looking at
around 96,800 Rupees . If you do want to go for the 12 gigabyte version, then
that's going tout around 88,000 Rurees. And if you do want to go for the Strix
Edition with the 865 8 gigabytes of RAM with 256 gigabytes of storage, then
that's going to be around 70.400 Rupees.
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