ASUS’s ROG Phones over the previous couple of years have been gadgets of attention-grabbing differentiation, with the corporate delivering experiences that stood out from the gang in by some means. This yr, the brand new ROG Phone III doesn’t fairly symbolize an as radical change in comparison with its predecessors, nevertheless ASUS makes some vital upgrades and enhancements to the favored gaming telephone components, updating the ROG3 to the latest Snapdragon 865+ SoC, introducing a 144Hz show, in addition to most significantly, enhancing the every-day digital camera expertise of the machine.
This yr, ASUS does issues a bit of totally different when it comes to mannequin variants of the telephone and their availability, releasing three SKUs with totally different value factors starting from 799€ to 1099€, with additionally variations going past the standard RAM+storage choices because the SoC on the bottom variant is also totally different from its costlier siblings. Let’s go over the spec sheet in additional element:
| ASUS ROG Phones | ||||||
| ROG Phone III | ROG Phone II | |||||
| SoC | Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ 1x Cortex A77 @ 3.1GHz 3x Cortex A77 @ 2.42GHz 4x Cortex A55 @ 1.80GHz Adreno 650 @ 670MHz |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ 1x Cortex-A76 @ 2.96GHz 3x Cortex-A76 @ 2.42GHz 4x Cortex-A55 @ 1.80GHz Adreno 640 @ 675MHz |
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| DRAM | 16 GB LPDDR5 | 12 GB LPDDR4X | ||||
| Storage | as much as 512GB UFS 3.1 | 128 / 512GB UFS 3.0 | ||||
| Display | 6.59″ AMOLED 2340 x 1080 (19.5:9) 144Hz 270Hz Touch |
6.59″ AMOLED 2340 x 1080 (19.5:9) 120Hz 240Hz Touch |
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| Size | Height | 171.Zero mm | 170.99 mm | |||
| Width | 78 mm | 77.6 mm | ||||
| Depth | 9.85 mm | 9.48 mm | ||||
| Weight | 240 grams | 240 grams | ||||
| Battery Capacity | 6000mAh
30W charging (PD) |
6000mAh
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| Wireless Charging | – | |||||
| Rear Cameras | ||||||
| Main | 64MP IMX686 0.8µm pixels (1.6µm 4:1 16MP) f/1.8 |
48MP IMX586 0.8µm pixels (1.6µm 4:1 12MP) f/1.79 |
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| Telephoto | – | – | ||||
| Wide | 13MP 125° wide-angle f/2.4 |
13MP 125° wide-angle |
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| Extra | 5MP Macro | – | ||||
| Front Camera | 24MP | 24MP | ||||
| I/O | USB-C 3.1 (Side) + USB-C 2.0 (Bottom) |
USB-C 3.1 (Side) + USB-C 2.0 (Bottom) 3.5mm headphone jack |
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| Wireless (native) | 802.11ax WiFi-6 Bluetooth 5.1 LE + NFC |
802.11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi Bluetooth 5.Zero LE + NFC 802.11advert (Wireless show) |
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| Other Features | Dual Stereo Speakers
Under-Display Fingerprint Sensor |
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| Dual-SIM | Dual nanoSIM | |||||
| Launch Price | 8+256GB + S865 : 799€ 12+512GB + S865+: 999€ 16+512GB + S865+: 1099€ |
12+512GB: $899 / £829 / 899€ | ||||
Starting off with the guts of the telephone, the brand new ROG Phone III is amongst the very first gadgets available on the market sporting Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 865+ processor, and this is likely one of the ways in which ASUS needs to distinguish itself from different telephone producers at this relative late stage within the machine cycle era.
The new Snapdragon 865+ ups the frequency of the prime CPU core from 2.84GHz to three.1GHz, making this the very first cellular chip to interrupt the 3GHz barrier, after which some, and the ROG Phone III amongst the primary telephones to have the ability to declare this. Alongside the CPU enhance, we’re additionally seeing a 10% GPU frequency improve to 670MHz on the a part of the Adreno 650.
Interestingly sufficient, the lowest-end mannequin of the ROG3 makes due with out the Snapdragon 865+, as an alternative utilizing the common 865 which had been deployed in different competitor gadgets all year long. This variant additionally has 8GB of RAM and has the smallest storage capability at 256GB, however does come considerably cheaper at 799€, versus the next-tier mannequin at 999€, however does provide 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. There’s additionally a 16GB RAM variant at 1099€, however availability is at the moment spotty and albeit there’s little or no profit from the additional 4GB.
Design-wise, the ROG Phone III is similar to its predecessor. On the a part of the…
