ASUS Announces ROG Phone Pricing: Available October 18th

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• Dragonstongue - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link

  with a shitty size battery for the "top of the line specs" (according to them) WHAT IN THE HELL is the point of these phone makers...put a very good size battery (especially when you are chasing flagship phone pricing) 4000Mah is not "bad" but they can "easily" do 5k+ if they "wanted" because when you have such "high specs" likely it will drain battery like it is going out of style.
  
  on another note, I find very odd with "BIG.little" design that smartphones use these days, the speed difference (and voltage) for the BG corse is "nice" but the "little cores" are not all that much slower.
  
  maybe something along the line of 4 cores at 2.6Ghz and 4 cores at 400Mhz to truly "sip power" when you are doing something that really does not need the "oomph", would conserve battery life a great deal better then the way they "seem" to be currently doing it...hell my desktop cpus I can easily "underclock" and "undervolt" to 400Mhz and it works "just fine" no reason why a smartphone chip cannot do the same (seeing as they are designed around concept of minimal power use as possible) so they could quite easily "tune" the "little cores" to run at much much lower speeds then they currently do (save transistors as well)

• anonymous_user - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link

  You know that those speeds are just the max stock speeds for the cores. They are capable of running at slower speeds and they will do so depending on the system load and how the CPU governor is tweaked.

• neonoggie - Sunday, October 14, 2018 - link

  The BIG cores are much more complex because they are "out-of-order execution" cores, so for a given workload they will always consume more power than a little core, which is an "in-order execution" core. That's really the advantage, not clock speed.

• plsbugmenot - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link

  Any chance of Anandtech reviewing this phone? I'd be really interested in an in-depth look.

• Lolimaster - Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - link

  This thing would make sense if the offer swappable SOC and nand.

• Lolimaster - Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - link

  Mobile games barealy screatch the current gpu from SOC's, the future of "mobile gaming" killing portable consoles was a fad as expected.
  
  They're plagued by cheapo games, pay2win, <$2 games.
  
  Smartphones should focus on (SOC's are already fast enough for any mobile use)
  
  Good screen: Calibrated OLED
  5000mAh minimum
  Swappable battery
  
  There's nothing premium on 50gr of aliminum, just use high quality plastic it will last as long
  Textured back to prevent nasty fingerprints

• richough3 - Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - link

  At this point, a high end phone for gaming without a removable battery is just a no go. I'm glad they included front speakers and the 3.5mm jack, but I want to be able to change out the battery and when it eventually stops being supported, use it as an alternative media consumption device while the newer model replaces it. Also, the fact that these niche devices tend to lose the company's interest after a short while, a removable battery becomes the only way to be able to keep using the device if there is never any newer model.

• f1seb - Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - link

  Is mobile gaming so big that Asus can justify a "gaming" phone for the market?

• Lina Smooth - Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - link

  It is so expensive but really powerful.
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