The latest wave of play phone launches has begun. Last week, geographical area proclaimed the completely ridiculous Red Magic 6, associate degreed currently Asus has arrived with a rather totally different take—one that’s a small amount additional subtle whereas still packing huge specs.

The very first thing you’ll notice on the ROG Phone five (Asus skipped four to avoid dangerous luck) is an updated design. Asus ditched the attention-seeking active emanation channel the corporate used on the previous model for a sleeker, tho’ still cyberpunk-inspired, back, that now is offered in each black and white. And while Asus accrued the number of RGB lighting, the employment of a perforated grille to cover the LEDs ends up in a somewhat additional big up appearance.

Inside, the ROG Phone five packs similar specs to the previous model, together with a 2448 x 1080 6.78-inch AMOLED show with a 144Hz refresh rate (just a small amount below the 165Hz screen employed in the Red Magic 6), together with a flower 888 chip, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, an enormous 6,000 mAh battery, and triple rear cameras (64-MP main, 13-MP ultra-wide, and 5-MP macro). However that’s simply the bottom model.

There’s conjointly a professional model that comes with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, however the $64000 flashy model is that the ROG Phone five Ultimate, that packs a large 18GB of RAM and, additional importantly, options a rear panel with a integral black and white screen might} be programmed to show no matter you want.

The coloured SIM trays have conjointly been tailor-made to scan “GLHF” which is quite a pleasant touch. Image: Asus

I extremely appreciate all the insufficient tweaks Asus made to the ROG Phone 5 this generation, together with an 800-nit display that’s two hundred nits brighter than before, even higher front-facing stereo speakers (which is impressive considering the ROG Phone 3 already had some of the best audio on a smartphone), and 300Hz touch sampling for reduced input latency while gaming. Heck, Asus even went so far as to include a new DAC and brought back the 3.5mm headphone jack on the ROG Phone 5, after ditching the port on previous ROG handsets.

And to really improve its mobile gaming cred, Asus worked with Sentons to improve the ROG Phone 5′s fifth-gen AirTriggers, which packs nine tiny piezoelectric sensors into both of the phone’s touch-sensitive triggers to deliver the most responsive on-board controls yet.