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Game Changer
Epic performance. Unbeatable visuals. Total control.
World-beating
2.96GHz speed-binned
Qualcomm® SDM845
Innovative GameCool
vapor-chamber
cooling system
Ultrafast 90Hz display
with 1ms response time
AMOLED screen
with HDR visuals
Ultra-responsive
AirTriggers and
advanced haptics
Unique handling design
with side-mounted port
A new era of mobile gaming has dawned. An era where you take full control, where every sense is heightened, where every sinew is ready for the fray. With pure ROG gaming DNA at its core, ROG Phone breaks every rule to go where rivals fear to tread. This is a phone built to win: its world-beating, speed-binned 2.96GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform and Adreno 630 GPU deliver epic performance, its unique GameCool vapor-chamber cooling system — with detachable AeroActive Cooler for an extra cooling boost — sustains high frame rates in the heat of battle, and its no-compromise AMOLED display blends blazing speed with gorgeous visuals. The ultra-comfortable design features unique side-mounted ports, and the enhanced, ultra-responsive game controls — including programmable ultrasonic AirTriggers and advanced haptics — let you focus all your skills on the game, giving you the edge you need for total domination. ROG Phone will change your game — forever.
Design
Engineered for battle
Using a combination of tough, precision-crafted 2.5D- and 3D-curved Corning® Gorilla® glass, diamond-cut highlights and copper detailing, the metal-framed, water-resistant ROG Phone combines battle-hardened construction with a supremely comfortable gaming grip for an unrivaled gaming experience. ROG Phone feel instantly good in your hand, ready and waiting for the call of duty.
2.5D
Front
Corning® Gorilla® Glass
3D
Rear
Corning® Gorilla® Glass
Bold
futuristic styling
Performance
The ultra-performer
ROG never compromises, especially when it comes to performance. ROG Phone takes mobile gaming performance to the next level, with each and every component optimized for a lag-free, responsive experience. Each octa-core Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 845 Mobile Platform CPU is speed-binned and specially selected for maximum performance — including sustained clock speeds of up to an incredible 2.96GHz — and the Adreno™ 630 GPU is a gaming powerhouse, with graphics performance outstripping the previous generation by up to 30%. ROG Phone delivers consistent, smooth and stable frame rates with no lag, even during the toughest marathons. And since performance means nothing if your internet connection is slow, ROG Phone also packs ultrafast wireless connectivity in its inventory, including Cat 16 LTE and the latest 802.11ad gigabit-class Wi-Fi.
SDM845
World’s fastest 10nm octa-core
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 845
Mobile Platform
2.96GHz
Speed-binned
2.96GHz SDM845
Adreno™630
GPU
30%
Faster graphics1
30%
Higher graphics
power efficiency1
2.5X
Faster
display throughput1
8GB
Up to 8GB RAM
128GB
Up to 128GB ROM
Cat16
Up to 1Gbps
Cat 16 LTE downloads
802.11ad
Up to 1Gbps Wi-Fi speeds
ROG GameCool System
Play cool!
A high-end phone running graphics-intense, fast-paced AAA action games can generate a killer amount of heat. As well as being uncomfortable to hold, a hot phone is a slow phone: thermal throttling can bring even the fastest CPU to its knees and turn your battle royale into a freeze-frame wipeout. ROG Phone is built from the ground up to run smoothly even when the action gets frenetic: its exclusive GameCool system features highly efficient 3D vapor-chamber cooling inside, enhanced with a copper heat spreader and carbon cooling pads on the circuit board for maximum cooling performance. There’s also a detachable external AeroActive Cooler for an extra cooling boost when the going gets really tough. With GameCool, hot hands and spoiled games are a thing of the past.
16X
Vapor-chamber cooling
with 16x-larger2
heat-dissipation area
47%
Improved
CPU cooling efficiency3
5X
Longer
peak endurance
Carbon cooling pad Copper heat spreader 3D vapor-chamber
Display
No-compromises: blazing speed and gorgeous visuals
The ultimate gaming phone deserves the ultimate display — something that the ROG gaming heritage makes us uniquely qualified to deliver. ROG Phone uses an ultrafast AMOLED display with a 90Hz refresh rate and a jaw-dropping 1ms pixel response time for blur-free visuals that are as smooth as silk. With a wide 108.6% DCI-P3 color gamut, colors are incredibly vivid too, so game worlds look as glorious as they were intended, and HDR visuals with a 10,000:1 contrast ratio help reveal every hidden detail in the shadows.
108.6% DCI-P3
wide color gamut
90Hz
Refresh rate
1ms
Ultrafast
pixel response time
HDR
Visuals
10,000:1
Contrast ratio
deviceorientation
Side-mounted Ports
Gaming comfort, by design
Charging a phone while you’re playing is almost guaranteed to hurt your game: standard phone layout makes it impossibly awkward. With ROG Phone, we threw the design book away and started from scratch, optimizing the layout for landscape-mode gaming. The result is a revelation, with an additional side-mounted custom USB-C™ connector that supports direct charging, HDMI output, gigabit LAN and headphones. And when the AeroActive Cooler is deployed, you get a side-mounted USB-C port and 3.5mm headphone jack for unhindered gameplay. The side connector’s also used for exclusive expansion modules, including the Mobile Desktop Dock and TwinView Dock. With ROG Phone, you can game in total comfort!
Type-C USB connector
3.5mm audio jack
Ultrasonic AirTriggers & Advanced Haptics
Take control!
In any game, precise control is the key to victory, but the lack of physical buttons on phones means your thumbs have to work overtime. Unless you have a ROG Phone, that is! ROG Phone is designed to give you a more console-like gaming experience, with three unique ultrasonic AirTrigger touch sensors. Two of these ultra-responsive sensors are optimized as left/right triggers at the top of the display for landscape-mode gaming (the third is designed for use in portrait mode), and they’re fully programmable to activate any available on-screen action: aiming, firing, inventory selection, steering, navigating — in fact, anything that normally requires a screen tap. With ROG Phone, you gain two extra fingers to control gameplay, giving you the edge over your poor thumb-bound rivals! As AirTriggers use ultrasonic technology, they only need a feather-light touch, too — just 20g compared to rival touch-sensitive controls that need up to 4x the force. ROG Phone also has an advanced haptic actuator built in for powerful force feedback, so you can feel all the action!
Programmable AirTriggers
Audio
Truly immersive stereo sound
Intense gaming action demands superbly detailed and immersive sound if you’re going stay one step ahead of your adversaries. ROG Phone delivers truly incredible and immersive audio, with ultra-powerful front-facing stereo speakers driven by smart amplifiers that maximize volume and minimize distortion. The 24-bit/192KHz audio engine supports Hi-Res Audio files, and there’s DTS Headphone:X™ support for theater-quality surround-sound over headphones. You can also enjoy crystal-clear high-definition audio over Bluetooth®. Games have never sounded this good.
Dual front-facing
stereo speakers
Dual
smart amplifiers
The latest
NXP 9874 amplifiers
24-bit/192KHz
Hi-Res Audio
7.1-channel
surround sound
High-definition
Bluetooth® wireless audio
Software
Game on!
It’s easy to get optimum gaming performance on ROG Phone, with the special X Mode. With just a single tap, you can free up all background RAM and dedicate it to games, optimize game-data processing performance, and maximize the efficiency of the AeroActive Cooler. X Mode also prevents RAM-eating and battery-sapping app activity, based on a customizable list of apps. ROG Phone is ready for action!
X Mode
Battery and Charging
ASUS HyperCharge: Fast, safe and cool
ROG Phone is built to cope with the power-intensive demands of gaming, with a high-capacity battery that gives you more freedom to play. Charging time can be critical when you’re on a long mission, so ROG Phone not only supports Quick Charge 4.0 fast charging, but when you use the bundled ROG Phone power adapter you also get the benefit of ASUS HyperCharge, a direct-charge technology that puts the charging circuitry inside the power adapter rather than the phone. This delivers more power (up to 20W) for shorter, safer charge times, and also means ROG Phone stays cooler when it’s charging. For maximum flexibility, you can also charge ROG Phone with any standard USB-C charger.
4000mAh
High-capacity battery
35mins
Fast charging from
0% to 60% capacity
7hrs
Up to 7 hours
of Wi-Fi gameplay5
11.5hrs
Up to 11.5 hours
of Wi-Fi video play6
40hrs
Up to 40 hours of
Wi-Fi music livestream7
4.0
Qualcomm®
Quick Charge™
Aura RGB
Outshine the competition
ROG Phone is the world’s first phone with ASUS Aura RGB lighting, featuring an illuminated rear ROG logo that can display a whole rainbow of lighting schemes: static, breathing, strobing or color cycling. You can trigger lighting effects with phone events such as incoming calls, notifications and more, to give your ROG Phone a unique personality.
Dual Cameras
Built to capture your whole wide world
The dual-camera system in ROG Phone uses cutting-edge hardware to take your photography to new heights, so you’ll always get the clearest and brightest shots every time, in any conditions. With its highly light-sensitive flagship Sony® IMX363 main camera, 120° wide-angle second rear camera, and a capable front-facing camera, whatever the subject — expansive landscapes, sunny beaches, atmospheric night shots, squad wefies or winning selfies — ROG Phone takes it all in its stride, capturing more of your world. ROG Phone removes the limits on your creativity, so you can concentrate on the subject, not the camera.
Sony® IMX363
flagship sensor
6.25X
Light sensitivity
F1.7
Aperture
1/2.55”
Sensor size
1.4µm
Pixel size
120°
Wide-angle camera
Night HDR
Gear Up!
Expand Your Mobile Gaming Possibilities
DUAL-SCREEN
HANDHELD MODE
TwinView Dock Second screen for extending game display, seamless communications or easy live-streaming.
DESKTOP-STYLE
GAMING MODE
Mobile Desktop Dock PC-style setup with monitor, keyboard and mouse for
mobile games.
BIG-SCREEN
GAMING MODE
Gamevice Controller &
WiGig® Dock
 Enjoy wireless big-screen gameplay with full physical controls — and everyone can watch!
TwinView Dock
Two screens, one awesome gaming center
With the amazing TwinView Dock, you can turn your ROG Phone into a powerful dual-screen console for the ultimate gaming and live-streaming experience. As well as its 6-inch AMOLED (2160 x 1080) auxiliary screen, it packs a front-facing quad-speaker system, two extra physical trigger buttons, dual haptic- feedback engine, an enhanced cooling system and a high-capacity 6000mAh extended battery pack. You can extend your game onto the second screen — great for for maps or inventory — or use it for text and video chat. It’s also an awesome platform for live-streaming creators or team play: interact with your audience or team on one screen while playing on the other - the possibilities are endless!
4-speaker
Front-facing
speaker system
6000mAh
High-capacity
battery
Dual
haptic-feedback engine
Enhanced
cooling
Dual
physical triggers
* Simulated concept shown.
Actual device features may differ.
Mobile Desktop Dock
Expand to the max for desktop-style gaming
The Mobile Desktop Dock gives ROG Phone unprecedented expansion capabilities. Connect to an external 4K UHD monitor, mouse and keyboard while using ROG Phone as an auxiliary display, hook up to a wired gigabit LAN and use the S/PDIF output to drive your 5.1-channel surround-sound system. Who says you need a desktop PC for incredible gaming?
1Gbps
Wired gigabit LAN
S/PDIF
5.1-channel
surround-sound output
Mouse & keyboard
connectors
Mic S/PDIF
(3.5mm audio jack) HDMI output Display output Ethernet USB Type-A 3.1 Type-C
(Only for charging)
GAMEVICE CONTROLLER & WiGig® DOCK
Console controls. Wireless display. Bring it on!
With Gamevice and the ASUS WiGig® Dock, ROG Phone morphs into a portable console with a full inventory of physical gaming controls and ultra-low-latency wireless display connectivity featuring Qualcomm® 11ad technology for 60GHz Wi-Fi. It packs dual analog joysticks, left and right fire triggers and bumpers, a D-pad, along with A, B, X, Y and L3, R3 buttons. You can game on the go using just the Gamevice, or connect via the WiGig® Dock for immersive big-screen gaming.
  • Compared to Snapdragon 835.
  • 6240mm2 compared to 400mm2 in standard cooling system for a 1.2GHz CPU.
  • Sustained 1.76GHz clock speed, 47% faster than standard 1.2GHz CPU.
  • Compared to conventional single heat pipe.
  • Arena of Valor; 200nits with headphone plugged in.
  • YouTube 720p; 200nits with headphone plugged in.
  • Display off with headphone plugged in.
  • Actual devices may differ.

Awards

The best gaming smartphone

ROG Phone is the best gaming smartphone

Root Nation. Editor's Choice

ASUS ROG Phone is the embodiment of what a real gaming smartphone should be look like.

n/a

ROG Phone deserves the award for the most interesting design

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