On June 4, 2018, ASUS held the global new product launch conference of ROG (player country) in Taipei. In addition to PC hardware, peripherals and laptops, ASUS also brought us a very special product - ROG game phone.
Let's take a look at the configuration of the ROG game phone:
SoC： Snapdragon 845 (main frequency 2.96GHz)
Memory: 8GB
Screen: resolution 2160 x 1080 6-inch 18:9 OLED screen, screen refresh rate 90Hz, response time 1ms, support HDR, 108% DCI-P3 color gamut
Camera: rear dual camera: 12 million+8 million (optical anti shake is not determined yet), front camera: 8 million
Storage capacity: 128GB/512GB
Battery: 4000mAh
Sound effect: dual stereo speakers on the front, support DTS 7.1 surround sound effect, support AptX, 24 bit/192kHz DAC
Others: supporting Bluetooth 5, equipped with 3.5mm headphone interface, equipped with 3 USB Type-C interfaces, supporting edge touch, and equipped with ROG Faith Logo RGB light on the back
Dimensions: 158.8mm x 76.2mm x 8.6mm
Weight: 200g
3D Vapor Chamber heat dissipation
This ROG uses a special heat dissipation technology on the mobile phone. The English name is 3D Vapor Chamber, and the Chinese name is homogenizing plate heat dissipation. 3D Vapor Chamber is generally used as a cooling system on high-end video cards, which is different from ordinary air cooling and water cooling. Its principle is that after the liquid at the bottom of the vacuum chamber of the heat pipe absorbs heat, the liquid evaporates, and then the water vapor returns to the liquid through condensation, which carries out rapid circulation inside the heat pipe, and conducts dual heat dissipation through the hot plate and evaporation condensation cycle. Asustek official said that this time a very large area of copper tube was used, and its heat dissipation area was far higher than other mobile phones.
Side ultrasonic button
There are no physical keys at the two positions of the upper and lower borders on the right front of the ROG game phone, but actually there are ultrasonic sensors inside these two positions to realize ultrasonic keys. Especially when the game is playing horizontal games, the ultrasonic keys at these two positions can act as the L and R keys of the game. In addition, there is an ultrasonic key at the bottom of the left side of the phone. There are three ultrasonic keys in total. The functions of these keys are customizable. In addition, when the user simultaneously presses and holds the ultrasonic key at the bottom of the right side frame and the ultrasonic key at the bottom of the left side frame, the X mode of the ROG game deck can be started.
X Mode
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Via The Verge
There is an X mode in the ROG mobile game system, which is similar to the "game mode" and "high-performance mode" in other mobile phones. In X mode, the ROG game deck will shut down all background processes, prevent the background from self starting, lock the Snapdragon 845 at a high frequency, and prioritize the data processing, data transmission, memory allocation, etc. of the whole machine with the game app to ensure that players have an optimal game environment.
In normal mode, the main color of the mobile phone system is blue, while in X mode, the main color of the whole system will turn red.
2.96GHz Snapdragon 845
As we all know, the highest frequency of the ordinary Snapdragon 845 is 2.8GHz, and this ROG game mobile phone is a precedent of the Snapdragon 845 mobile phone, whose highest frequency can reach 2.96GHz. What is the concept of 2.96GHz? The Snapdragon 845 Win10 notebook we have been talking about before (although it has not been officially launched) is the 2.96GHz Snapdragon 845 SoC, which has high requirements for heat dissipation. Now, the 2.96GHz Snapdragon 845 has not appeared on the feverish Xiaomi, nor on the Black Shark mobile game, but has been taken the lead by the ROG mobile game.
ROG style design
For a long time, as a high-end game PC brand, ROG has its own unique appearance design, which is also popular with many players, especially the black eye logo. This time, the ROG game phone has placed a very eye-catching black eye logo on the back of the body, which is also a luminous RGB light. Users can customize its RGB color in the mobile phone system. It also supports breath light adjustment and is equipped with several different flash modes.
When this mobile phone was just released, a friend asked, where is its fingerprint identification? No fingerprint identification? Actually not, but ROG makes fingerprint identification area too cool. There is a diamond area beside the Black Eye on the back of the fuselage. Yes, it is fingerprint identification. It is neither round nor square, but an asymmetric diamond. In addition, there are some white thin stripes around the diamond shaped fingerprint identification area, and the camera area is also in an irregular shape, as well as the irregular heat dissipation opening on the back. These irregular graphic designs make the back of the phone look high-tech, and also make the fingerprint identification module on the back look so harmonious. If the back fingerprint identification module of any mobile phone is pleasing, the author believes that the ROG game phone must be one of them.
AeroActive Cooler
Project the screen of ROG game phone to the display through WiGig Dock
TwinView Dock
TwinView Dock
In addition to the main body of the ROG game phone, ROG also provided three special accessories for the phone. Due to the limited on-site time of the press conference, the author did not experience them one by one. I will not elaborate in this article. Here is a brief introduction. The three accessories are WiGig Dock (connected to the expansion dock of the monitor), AeroActive Cooler (connected to the air-cooled radiator of the external mobile phone), and TwinView Dock (equipped with a screen, dual speakers, an additional cooling system, and a handle for a 6000mAh battery).
