Asus ROG Phone 5 First Impressions - OMFG! 💧💧💧 [No Giveaway] By C4ETech

Cases have taken the wraps of their new fourth generation, ROG phones, and yes, it is phones now, given there are three: the ROG phone five, the five pro and the limited edition ROG phone five ultra. Now, if you're wondering why the fourth generation is named five in south Southeast Asia, China, Taiwan, the elk, the number four- has a negative connotation kinda like 13 for the rest of the world. Hence, we've seen brands like OnePlus and opus skip the four and ASUS have followed suit, so this is the ROG phone five and, as always, ASUS have thrown everything by the kitchen sink at this. This is a lot of phone, hey guys ash here from c4 retch and if you do end up liking. What you see in this video thumbs up, subscribe and turn on notifications by hitting that bell icon, let's now get started. Well, I don't want to waste time on boxing.

There are some very interesting things in this box. So, let's, let's quickly, look at them. For example, there's this cool ar Easter egg to showcase this phone's gaming priorities. That's a change, a break from the monotony! We usually get while unboxing we've got this customized sim tool. The attention to detail shown by ASUS is commendable.

Do note that in select markets like India, the aero case will be included in the box. We also get some fancy ROG stickers, a replacement grommet and a charger in the box yep charger in the box. That's new right now. This is a 30 watt charger, but the ROG phone 5, all three of them, actually support up to 65 watts of charging. Now how has ASUS managed this well they've kind of split the battery into two? It's two three thousand William hour battery units and that's led to a few things.

So first uh the ROG phone five like I said it supports charging speeds up to 65 watts. Only the 30 watt charger is included in the box, regardless of, if you're, buying the five pro or the five ultra. Personally, I would like to see them include the 65 watts and at least the five ultra, because that's going to cost a pretty penny number two. The split battery leads to better thermals, which also means that, despite still being 30 watts, just like the ROG phone 3, the ROG phone 5, it will charge faster than its predecessor with the same 30 watt charger now 3, the PCB and ship they go on to the center. So this center is not where you're going to be putting your hands while you're gaming.

So it's going to be like this, and you're going to miss out in the center, so the direct heat dissipation is not going to be anywhere near your fingers and number four. If you use the new proactive cooler, it's going to go right on top of that chip and ASUS claims that should lead too much better cooling performance. Talking about performance. There is up to 18 gigs of lpddr5 ram, which is an industry first up to 512, gigs of UFS, 3.1 storage and the chip inside it's the flagship, snapdragon triple eight. Now this time around, there is no special overclocked version for the ROG phone, but ASUS does provide their own overclocking options and with this proactive cooler 5, which is sold separately.

Of course, you should be able to maintain peak overclocked performances for longer periods of time. Now talking about the proactive cooler, five, it's got something new compared to previous iterations. It gets two physical buttons and, of course, the ROG phone five, just like every ROG phone before it gets those ultrasonic buttons. Now these ultrasonic buttons can do a little more than they usually can. So what, for starters by default, long squeeze triggers the x mode switch, so you can jump in and out of ASUS zone performance mode.

This is totally customizable, though. So, if you aren't really looking to jump in and out of the x mode, you can set it to perform anything else, including launching apps. So, for example, uh I've got the short press here, launching the calculator and long press to trigger Google Assistant now to avoid accidental process. Asus lets us select the actual pressure at which these actions are to be triggered. That's really nice, but all said and done.

This is a gaming phone right. So how do you utilize these buttons while gaming? Well, the simplest way to do it is to set actions that get triggered while using the left and right ultrasonic buttons. You can map it to just any point on the screen. Now, if you want to complicate things a little more go for dual partition, this lets you let each button into two. So can I think of it as l1 l2 r1 r2.

Now, apart from these, you can do more. Actually, you can set up repetitive actions to be triggered on long press, which is basically said you want clicks to happen over and over again just press and hold this, and you can have it set for that, or you can have this entire thing triggered only when you swipe and then there is a slide option. So this lets. You rest your fingers on the ultrasonic keys, so it's not registering a button when we are holding it like this, so you can be in a game. It is not going to register anything unless you move your fingers, so you don't even have to take your finger off the trigger you just keep it on the trigger and then move it to actually trigger that action.

Rather now the ROG phone five ultimate expands on all of this by adding two more extra capacitive areas on the back cover which you can slide to activate. Now, if I remember correctly, the last time the ROG phone 3 uh introduced a shake gesture to trigger, say reloading. This time, though, ASUS have taken that entire gesture control thing to a whole new level, there's a huge array of choices at our disposal. Now all this can be set up from game genie while playing any game, so a truckload of customization options, but in customizing the keys you get to customize the interface too there's a solid theme engine, a variety of fingerprint unlock animations and by the way the fingerprint scanner is under the display, and it's pretty quick the display itself. It has always on functionality, and that also comes with a lot of choices.

Now, in case you were wondering this here is android 11 with ASUS as custom screen on top the custom screen can be either zen UI or ROG UI. Well, ROG oi is focused more on gamers. Regular renew keeps things minimal. If you like that pure android experience now, no matter which one you choose you do get armory create, which is where you're going to be spending most of your gaming time. All the settings we spoke about thus far.

They can actually be set on a per game basis. So, for example, I can have the ROG phone five at 60 hertz for tension impact, 120 hertz for real racing. Three insane right. Adding to this experience are the front firing speakers now, I'm sure you can see that the bezels have shrunk this year. Now, if you thought they were compromising on the speakers to get those shrunk, bezels you're going to be wrong.

These are by far the loudest and cleanest sounding phone speakers. I've ever come across next. The headphone jack is back and in a big way, ASUS have provided a dedicated ESS saber DAC here to make for high quality audio. I do have some very demanding earphones that I can't wait to test this one out with and, of course, there's Bluetooth, 5.0 and a side mounted secondary USB type c port. If you want to charge your phone and play at the same time, you don't see this mic here right, there's also one here, one here and one here so ASUS have included four microphones to ensure noise cancellation works well, regardless of the orientation.

Now, if complementing this seemingly stellar audio tech is seemingly stellar video tech the display this is what ASUS called an e4 Samsung AMOLED panel. It refreshes at up to 144 hertz covers 111 percent of the DC ip3 color gamut, it's very bright with acclaimed 800 net peak brightness, which is if you're looking to take tech, specs, 23 percent 23 more than what the ROG phone 3 had, then the support for HDR, 10 plus and, most importantly, for gamers 300 hertz touch sampling, 24.3 millisecond touch latency nuts right guys. I've not shown you any benchmarks or camera samples in this video since ASUS have requested me not to as the ROG phone five is running on non-final firmware now. Uh, this is most definitely a phone I will be reviewing and in the review, I'm going to talk about benchmarks, battery performance, gaming performance cameras and pretty much everything else you can think of now. If there's anything particular you want me to address, leave a comment down below and I will make sure I get that covered in the full review now, when I cannot show you samples, nothing stopping me from telling you what the hardware is: the selfie camera 24, megapixels, f, 2.5, the primary rear, camera 64, megapixel, Sony, mix, 686, f, 1.8 lens still, no optical stabilization, though the secondary is a 13, megapixel, ultra-wide and finally, a 5 megapixel macro. Personally, if you'd ask me I'd say: drop the macro off is.

Instead, what do you guys think now? Overall, the ASUS ROG phone five looks and feels great in hand with a six point: seven eight inch display and a six thousand William hour battery metal and glass by the way, gorilla glass, three to the back gorilla glass victim to the front. Now, given all this, you cannot be expecting this phone to be light right, hey it lives up to those expectations, it's 240 grams, so pretty heavy uh and the back continues to improve upon the predecessor's led setup. This led can support two colors at once now and even blend them together. Nice, for you, know a different kind of effect. The pro, on the other hand, has a pimpled display uh, which can show customizable graphics for things like calls or charging.

There's a notification led up top, then the limited edition ROG phone five that has a similar p wallet, display like the ROG for our g phone, five pro uh, but it's restricted to monochrome. So, yes, the highest end variant will not have a color display to the back, and there is method to this madness as mad as it might sound. Asus says the highest end. Variant is the only one that's going to have a matte finish: white uh build, so they're going for an entire monochrome, black and white belt, and they felt that going with a display that offers color colors in the back kind of takes away. So it's more of a case of uh form over function.

Now I don't know how much the pro or the ultimate will cost. Okay, okay, I don't know how much the regular ROG phone five will cost either, but if I were to have that, I guess I'd stay I'd say it should start somewhere around the 50 000 rupee mark. If ASUS can hit that price point, I think this would be the phone to beat as far as dollar to performance goes anyway. That's pretty much it for this quick little unboxing and hands-on give this video a thumbs up or thumbs down, based on whatever you felt about it. Subscribe turn on notifications by hitting that bell icon.

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