Today we’re masking a fairly uncommon machine announcement somewhat not like what we’ve seen earlier than. ASUS and Qualcomm – properly, principally ASUS, are saying a brand new machine known as the “Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders” – sure that’s the precise title of the cellphone. The cellphone follows Qualcomm’s social media initiative known as “Snapdragon Insiders” the place the corporate is has opened up extra neighborhood channels on numerous social media platforms to nearer interplay with Snapdragon followers, making an attempt to construct a more in-depth relationship with its customers.
The “Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders”, or let’s simply name it the SSI from right here on, is a product of the collaboration between Qualcomm and ASUS – although right here issues turn out to be a bit advanced and unintuitive, as Qualcomm strictly refers back to the SSI as being a product strictly designed and made by ASUS. It’s a bizarre type of relationship and advertising train that may possibly seen extra as a Snapdragon branded cellphone by ASUS.
| ASUS Big Phones | |||||
| ROG Phone 5 |
“Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders” |
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| SoC | Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 1x Cortex-X1 @ 2.84GHz 3x Cortex-A78 @ 2.42GHz 4x Cortex-A55 @ 1.80GHz Adreno 660 @ 840MHz |
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| DRAM | 8/16 GB LPDDR5 | 16 GB LPDDR5 | |||
| Storage | 128/256GB UFS 3.1 | 512GB UFS 3.1 | |||
| Display | 6.78″ AMOLED 2448 x 1080 (20:9) 144Hz 240Hz Touch |
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| Size | Height | 173.00 mm | 173.15 mm | ||
| Width | 77.00 mm | 77.25 mm | |||
| Depth | 9.90 mm | 9.55 mm | |||
| Weight | 239 grams | 210 grams | |||
| Battery Capacity | 5770 typ (2x 2885) 22.33Wh “6000mAh” design 65W charging (PD3.0/QC5.0) |
“4000mAh”
65W charging (PD3.0/QC5.0) |
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| Wireless Charging | – | ||||
| Rear Cameras | |||||
| Main | 64MP IMX686 0.8µm pixels (1.6µm 4:1 16MP) f/1.Eight w/OIS (SSI) 26.6mm eq. |
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| Telephoto | – | 8MP 3x optical zoom f/2.Four w/OIS 80mm eq. |
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| Wide | 12MP IMX363 1.4µm pixels Dual PDAF f/2.2 14.3mm eq. |
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| Extra | 5MP Macro | – | |||
| Front Camera | 24MP f/2.45 |
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| I/O | USB-C 3.5mm headphone |
USB-C | |||
| Wireless (native) | 802.11ax WiFi-6E Bluetooth 5.2 LE + NFC |
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| Other Features | In-display fingerprint sensor | Rear fingerprint sensor | |||
| Dual-SIM | Dual nanoSIM | ||||
| Launch Price | (16/256GB) $999 |
(16/512GB) $1499 |
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Starting off with the internals of the cellphone, there’s a big sense of familiarity with the specs, dimensions, and simply general design of the cellphone that comes from the juxtaposition between ASUS’s ROG Phone 5 and the SSI. Both telephones have comparable form-factors, equally inner parts and considerably comparable exterior designs, and even inside Qualcomm’s presentation slides throughout our pre-briefing, showcasing an inner format design that’s eerily just like the ROG Phone 5.
Both telephones are powered by the Snapdragon 888 – it’s really a bit stunning that the newer SSI doesn’t include the just lately introduced Snapdragon 888+, however this was defined to us that the SSI design was already properly underway and in design earlier than the 888+ can be out there.
Given what seems to be the identical chassis and thermal design between the ROG 5 and the SSI – one might assume that the final efficiency of each telephones to be extraordinarily comparable to one another.
The SSI does extra notably differentiate itself when it comes to RAM and storage – properly not less than in comparison with the common ROG 5, because it solely comes with a big 16GB LPDDR5 and 512GB UFS 3.1 storage capability possibility, which is extra in step with the premium ROG Phone 5 Ultimate that sees decrease availability.
The show of the cellphone is basically similar to that of the ROG Phone 5 – a 6.78” 2448 x 1080 AMOLED panel from Samsung that is ready to run as much as 144Hz refresh fee. We hadn’t precisely confirmed if the contact pattern fee is similar 300Hz as on the ROG 5, nonetheless on condition that the specification sheet on the cellphone we…
