Asus ROG Phone 8 arrives with SD 8 Gen 3, telephoto camera and IP68 rating
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- 09 Jan 2024
but optimized hardware offers nearly the same battery life
Typical manufacturers can only optimise battery the smaller it gets
Once the battery is 6000mah or higher they just go.... Meh it's big enough we don't have to optimise anything
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- 09 Jan 2024
Anonymous, 09 Jan 2024Those Pixels and Galaxies are 'everyday phones' t... moreAbandoned android phones still get support from Google thru Play updates. They also have better backwards compatibility vs a contemporary iPhone model.
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- 09 Jan 2024
Mills, 09 Jan 2024Pixel 8 series introduced it I think5 Years officialy.
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- 09 Jan 2024
All promotional pics try so hard to hide the screen damage known as punch hole.
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- 09 Jan 2024
If they have decided to go for a punch hole selfy camera,
They should have put it under the screen.
Because a gaming phone must have a clean screen!
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- 09 Jan 2024
Anonymouse, 09 Jan 2024Hol' up, Google has 7 years of support, since when?Pixel 8 series introduced it I think
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- 09 Jan 2024
Week, 09 Jan 2024What the point of buying this over cheaper SD8Gen3 and slap... moreYou get an excellent camera (for a gaming-oriented phone), an IP68 rating for a device that has a powerful and clever way of cooling, a dynamic 165HZ display, and a somewhat near-stock android experience. And yes, while this phone only supports 2 years of software update gamers don’t care about that, they care the most about its battery, cooling, and sustained performance.
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- 09 Jan 2024
Mills, 09 Jan 2024At least 4 OS upgrades. Samsung is doing 4. Apple is doing ... moreThose Pixels and Galaxies are 'everyday phones' that can receive a long software support cause users will require it
That's because they will be keeping it as daily driver for a long time (about 4 years average)
This is a gaming phone and it's target audience buys one mostly just for gaming as primary use, so they rarely care much about a long support. It's like, they keep this for few years and then upgrade to another, and till then at least, it may get OS updates but asking for Pixel level OS support maybe be a bit too much and unnecessary as well
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- 09 Jan 2024
What the point of buying this over cheaper SD8Gen3 and slap a cooler? The point of the new ultimate lineup was the cooling fin stack that were introduced back in 6D Ultimate. Now it just another flagship phone with a cooler on top. No longer a gaming phone.
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- 09 Jan 2024
Mills, 09 Jan 2024At least 4 OS upgrades. Samsung is doing 4. Apple is doing ... moreHol' up, Google has 7 years of support, since when?
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- 09 Jan 2024
At least 4 OS upgrades. Samsung is doing 4. Apple is doing 5/6. Hell, GOOGLE is doing SEVEN. Almost double 4. Whats keeping them from 4+ years. Even 3 is something.
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- 09 Jan 2024
So again 2 OS (Android 16) upgrades and 4 years total of security?
Because starting at 1200 euro they are beyond the Apple (5+ years), Pixel (7 years) and Samsung (4 OS, 5 year security) territory.
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- 09 Jan 2024
Without android commitment update. It will be useless. It's better if Asus can guarantee android update to support device can be used longer.
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- 09 Jan 2024
This isn't really a ROG phone, more like a Zenfone with a ROG branding. Can call it a ZOG phone 1
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- 09 Jan 2024
For a gaming oriented product they should make the camera island have some physical buttons for games and have it like a grip to hold the phone more comfortably
But then again it makes no sense to me in the first place to have good cameras on a gaming phone. How many games actually need cameras and especially the rear camera.
Was it something like digimon go or something that needed camera as the game that was used by USA to spy on people and use there cameras as to spy on other countries embassies. Cause the digimon you needed to catch or something was close to all these embassies.
For now it's just a flagship phone with 3.5mm jack while have nothing premium with it like real flagships have in that 900 plus price range that this phone goes for. Wont even get more then 2 OS updates. While for the same money you get all the premium features while just dont get the 3.5mm jack
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- 09 Jan 2024
Anonymous, 09 Jan 2024To android 16, all asus pay offer for the amount of money t... moreAll their promo materials seem to show 3 rear cameras for the non-Pro version too. What's the source on some regions losing a camera? If that were to happen, I would guess it's for a cheaper China-only edition like some previous gens.
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- 09 Jan 2024
GSMArena urgently needs a dark mode for the website.
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- 09 Jan 2024
Garu, 09 Jan 2024No word about update policyTo android 16, all asus pay offer for the amount of money their phone business make.