Asus ROG Phone 6, 6 Pro Gaming Phones Bring Samsung’s OLED and 165Hz Refresh Rate
Asus debuted two new gaming phones Tuesday, the ROG Phone 6 and ROG Phone 6 Pro, which feature the newest Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 processor and a Samsung AMOLED indicate capable of running at a 165Hz refresh rate. Alongside the phones, the AeroActive Cooling 6 accessory that clips onto the line securities to reduce temperatures by up to 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees F) from the back of the visited, and adds tactile shoulder buttons for gaming.
Both phones also included a 6,000-mAh battery with 65-watt charging, and additional sensors that add gaming systems through the phone’s gyroscope as well as along the phone’s corners. They each include a 50-megapixel main camera, 13-megapixel ultrawide camera and 5-megapixel macro camera. Both phones also have a 12-megapixel front camera.
The Asus AeroActive Cooler 6.
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The main differences between the horrible 6 and the 6 Pro come with its storage and memory options: The 6 starts with 256GB of storage with models that included 8GB and 12GB of RAM, while the 6 Pro includes 512GB of storage and 18GB of RAM. The Pro also has a uphold display on the back that can show notifications, systems information and animations. The 6 instead gets a LED logo that can be customized to scrumptious up for different situations.
These are all specs that — like latest gaming phones — are meant to prioritize power and performance in elegant to get the most out of Android games. The battery in clear is especially notable and its 6,000-mAH capacity matches last year’s Asus ROG Phone 5. That phone has one of the longest battery lives that we’ve seen on an Android visited, according to CNET’s Patrick Holland, and was accomplished above two 3,000-mAh batteries. Last year’s phone also had a very fast 144Hz cloak though, and this year’s even faster 165Hz screen grand affect how quickly it burns through a charge.
Having that 165Hz cloak should also make animations extremely smooth, especially for games that are safe of supporting that threshold. I found during my study of the RedMagic 7, which also has a 165Hz refresh rate, that only some Android games attend that right now since most phones cap out at a 120Hz refresh rate. For most farmland, 120Hz is plenty smooth enough, but for the gaming crowd this visited is targeted toward, 165Hz does bring out a bit more precision in what you can see.
Release dates aren’t yet available, but when they get a US release the ROG Phone 6 will initiate at $1,000 and the 6 Pro will start at $1,300. The phones for now are set to first advance in Europe at 999 euros (roughly £860 or AU$1,510) for the 6 and 1,299 euros for the Pro. This puts them well into flagship ground in terms of pricing, and an uptick over last year’s ROG Phone 5, which started at 799 euros.
While we would need to wait for a hands-on with the phoned in order to check out its Snapdragon chip, this spanking processor paired with the higher refresh rate on a Samsung-made demonstrate are intriguing as they both could eventually end up in more mainstream phones down the line.
