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  • sheh - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link

    10K contrast. Is something wrong with their OLED?
  • Kamus - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link

    Yikes, that's a hard pass for me.
  • shabby - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link

    Those prices are a bit absurd are they not?
  • erwos - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link

    Not really, at least in a relative sense. They're playing in the iPhone XS market, and they're priced competitively in that space. Too blinged-out-looks aside, it's a lot of phone for the money.

    As for the money, I dunno... I use the hell out of my phone daily. I had no issue dropping $1300 on my personal laptop, so I guess it makes sense that I'd spend a fair bit on a phone, too.
  • Manch - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link

    Look at the size of that thing. If you pick this up, you'll have two laptops! surprised they don't offer a keyboard/clamshell adapter or is that what the mobile desktop dock is?
  • cfenton - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link

    They want to play in the iPhone market, but even Apple has a hard time justifying those kind of prices. Apple can at least make the case that they have the best SoC, one of the best cameras, and the best screen. Bin the 845 all you want, it's not going to get close to the A12. Both phones are too expensive for me, but I can at least see why someone would pay for an iPhone. Other than the 90hz screen (and 802.11ad, I guess) I don't see anything special about the ROG phone.
  • Lolimaster - Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - link

    Not the best camera, totally ruined by the you can't turn off, doll filter.
  • erwos - Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - link

    Things I like about it:
    1. USB-C
    2. 802.11ad
    3. 90hz OLED
    4. 8GB RAM
    5. Dual-front-facing speakers
    6. Fingerprint scanner
  • shabby - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link

    I meant more for the accessories, 200-400 for a dock is a bit much.
  • Dug - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link

    Just what I wanted, a phone to say Republic Of Gamers on it.
    When are they going to get a clue.
  • 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.
    My friend bought it, thanks for MageNet. He earned good money by monetizing his website.
    Before monetization, he analyzes the data about website using this service https://www.magenet.com/website-value-calculator/

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