ROG Phone 5 Review By BrenProTV

So this is it. This is the new RPG phone, five, no there's no four and yes, it comes in white. The ROG 405 is an upgrade over last year's RPG phone three and upgrade that, to be totally frank kind of feels unnecessary. Look. The ROG phone 3 was already the ultimate gaming phone. It had the best of everything, and it broke through all the performance expectations we had.

It wasn't perfect sure, but a year after update kind of felt, you know unneeded we're pretty sure that the 3 is still well-equipped to take on the spot of current gen games available right now, but still the ROG phone 5 is here. Look I won't keep up the suspense any further. It's a proper beast, it's powerful, more powerful than most smartphones. Today, it's sleek with its new white colorway. But what really makes it the ultimate upgrade this year are the little things.

Dog got right so to take you through most of it, I'm Kevin Devine east of Reno TV, and these are the three reasons why the ROG phone 5 is the ultimate upgrade to the ultimate gaming phone ultimate power. First, let's start off with the physical aspect of the phone on the outside. It still looks like the ROG phones before it, because, apart from the little design details like the frame and the camera placement in the sideboard, most of the parts remain mostly unchanged. Biggest thing to note is that the side part has changed from a dual USB c, looking thing to a contact, pin slash USB c port, so outside almost the same ball, but inside that's where most of the upgrades happened. Let's rattle off some specs do note that this is the classic edition, there's also a pro and ultimate edition that has more bells and whistles to it, but we'll tackle that in a separate video.

So the classic edition has the Qualcomm snapdragon 888 5g, with the arena 616 GPU top of the line expected. It also has 16 gigs of ram and 256 gigs of DFS 3.1 storage, but the biggest star of the spec show is undoubtedly the battery just to let you know about the battery situation. You can get enough juice for your day after a 15-minute charge and get to almost full in 30 minutes what well, it's still the same six thousand William hour rated battery like before, but now, instead of having just like one big cell, they split it into two or three thousand William hour batteries placed at the sides of the phone, and they charge in parallel from the 65 watt charger included in the box. Yes, 65 watts crazy, crazy stuff, so the batteries are both on the sides and all the hardware is in the middle of the body now. This is where I'm kind of apprehensive of this design, because while it means it's now easier to cool the phone because all the hot parts like the CPU and the GPU are in the middle, and you can just place a fan on there to control temps, it also confines all the hot parts closer together.

So you get these crazy hot spots while doing anything intensive with the phone and with the specs I mentioned earlier. It gets incredibly hot, hot enough that you are going to feel uncomfortable using phone, because even the screen and the frame gets calming hot. Yes, you can connect the new beefier aerocooler 5 to help, but it doesn't bring down temps as well as you would expect. It's primarily there to cool the inside of the phone through contact with the back, so I kind of feel that they added a wider profile to it. So you touch less of the hot stuff and gaming ASUS did add two more buttons there to kind of make.

You put your fingers on it, though, so you do get extra functionality out of it. But hey heat is a price that you have to pay when you pump that kind of power into this kind of phone and with the performance you're getting its kind of a fair price to pay ultimate performance, but going past the issue of the ROG phone 5 being too hot for gaming, the performance that you're getting is crazy off the charts stuff. Look. The entire point of the ROG phone 5 is to get the ultimate gaming experience and the only way I found to explain how it performs is that you're supposed to forget about everything else and just game. This is a phone that you don't have to worry about if it has enough ram or if it's supported by a game, you don't have to worry about loading times or long term.

In gaming effects like screen, burn and component heat, you don't even have to think if your games will look good and respond well on it, because, in my opinion, this has one of the best screens available in the phone right now. Yes, it's only 1080p, but it's tuned in a way that contrast, sharpness and saturation really bring out the best of what you're looking at plus that 144hz, refresh rate with a 300 touch. Sample rate is just one of the smoothest buttery feeling experiences you will ever get on a smartphone. For me, the only two reasons for me to turn off the 144hz refresh rate is if I want the battery to last ridiculously long like two days or if I want to maintain the color accuracy and brightness of the screen, because here it is, if you're on 144hz, it will always shift to kind of different image. While you're touching the screen, I assume to increase the response time and lessen ghosting, because in that situation the screen only has to drive half the pixels in the frame.

I know that sounds bad, but it doesn't really matter because, as soon as you stop touching the screen, it goes back to the non-different image. It's a pretty ingenious way to balance out image, quality and performance and speaking of performance, the RNG phone 5 smashes all we predicted this. It scored 111 in single core and 3516 on multi-core, on CPU and 4754, on OpenCL compute in geek bench, 5 and 5304 in 3d, mark wildlife, them's, crazy numbers and in real life games. I haven't found a game that can bring it to its knees. Ken shin impact at max settings, easy race driver grid max settings, bring it on even the deceptively hard to run game.

RuneScape has no problem running at 60fps on max settings. There's just no game right now that can tame this beast and, like I said before, that's the entire point of the ROG phone 5's existence ultimate add-ons. So does the previous reason mean that the ROG phone 5 is only made for gaming? Well, not quite while it looks like ASUS ROG has been busy outfitting the ROG phone 5 to be this huge game, slaying, hunk of glass and metal. They didn't forget the little things that make the smartphone experience complete and that for me, solidifies dog's dedication to making the ROG phone 5 a damn good product. These little things they're my biggest reason, they're number one.

The fact that the headphone jack is back speaks a lot about how much they listen to their target audience. Everyone and their grandmother asked for it back when they asked it from the three, and it's not only back it's back with a huge upgrade in the form of a HIFI ESS deck and the hugely improved audio wizard control. Suite looks wireless gaming headsets like the ROG strip, go BT do elevate the gaming and music listening experience somewhat because of its support for Qualcomm, app x and game software on the RPG phone 5. , but nothing can make a pair of wired headphones sing like how the ROG phone 5 does, with its back with a vengeance. Headphone jack.

Take this, for example. This is the Sony xb700, it's widely known in audiophile circles as a headphone for discerning bass heads because if you plug it into a normal phone with a normal 3.5 millimeter jack, it sounds fine. It sounds like a pair of clear but very bass headphones, but plug it into the ROG phone 5 and tweak the settings a bit, and you can unlock the full potential of the xb700s earth-shattering sub-bass that literally vibrates the pads of the headphones without affecting the mid and the highs. The ROG phone 5's headphone jack has the power to drive them yes, but it also has the finesse to make them sound proper a few years ago. You can only do this with a phone and external tag combo now you can do it with just this.

It's so amazing, and it doesn't just work with bass. It works with the entire sound spectrum. I can make the included ROG center, 2 sound freaking amazing in just a few adjustments plus it has pre-made profiles for it, which I found really convenient tweak it. Whichever way you want the new audio wizard suite is incredibly powerful, and it's easily the best part of the ROG phone 5 for me, but the story doesn't end there. The RNG phone 5 also has an upgraded camera suite.

It's now running the 64 megapixel Sony mix sensor as its main camera, with a supplementary 13 megapixel ultra-wide and 5 megapixel macro, and you know what it takes: pretty amazing shots for the longest time. I felt, like the cameras on the ROG phone line, have always been an afterthought like just put a camera on there. It's not like they're going to expect the phone to take pixel beating good photos anyway, but for the first time I can actually say that the ROG phone 5 has a flagship level. Camera photos are crisp, focusing is spot on and even low light photos are not only passable but leave enough space for editing sure it still has aggressive HDR and contrast, and saturation can take a hit sometimes, but that only happens in 1 out of 10 photos. The other 9 will astound you it's like they're, not taking with the RTG phone 5.

, it's unbelievable. So it goes without saying that I'm pretty enamored with the ROG phone 5. I knew before this thing arrived, that it would game well, and it would perform like a champ. What I didn't expect is for it to be such a good time even after I've closed down my sessions of gang shin impact and Call of Duty, mobile and RuneScape ROG should be incredibly proud of what they've done with the RPG phone 5. Not only did they get the big idea right, they also got the little things right.

So if you're still on the fence about it, let me give you some encouragement. This is what well spent 49.995 pesos looks like because, finally, it's not only fun for just gaming, it's just fun overall hard. Stop! That's it! For my review of the ROG phone five, I'm Kevin of only so prepper TV I'll, see you guys next time.

Source : BrenProTV