Asus ROG Phone 8/8 Pro review
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- Anonymous
- 0BG
- 17 Jan 2024
Anonymous, 17 Jan 2024anyone notice the temp? dynamic mode reaching 43c its okay ... moreAnd power hungry. Gen 2 was their only good flagship SoC.
- Ouifuf
- AW4
- 17 Jan 2024
Anonymous, 16 Jan 20242 OS updates, this is Hilariously bad 🤣🤣🤣No ones buying a gaming phone for long term software support lol. If it works and runs games well, people will buy it.
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- Anonymous
- XWy
- 17 Jan 2024
anyone notice the temp? dynamic mode reaching 43c its okay but x mode its reaching 63c there's a possibility of burned motherboard like snapdragon 888 case. The 8 gen 3 is hot just as the rumor said
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- Anonymous
- U@6
- 16 Jan 2024
2 OS updates, this is Hilariously bad 🤣🤣🤣
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- Anonymous
- ptT
- 16 Jan 2024
As someone has been using the ROG phones for years for the speakers, no camera cut out, big battery, I won't be buying this new one. This is just a phone like all the other brands now. Utterly dissapointing. From the sound comparison, the sound of the speakers lost a lot of weight and body. I honestly was already fearing decline in speaker quality when news came out it was IP water resistant. I couldn't care less about that.... I'd buy another brand if I wanted to sacrifice speaker for water resistance and size.
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- Anonymous
- fCE
- 16 Jan 2024
They botched up big time with the ROG 8
It used to be a phone that specialised in gaming, and excelled remarkably at it with it's extra features and a big battery. Now, with those exclusive features removed (6 aH battery, full display, speakers, shoulder keys) this is like a regular phone with just a simple light and ROG software to add to it's gaming features and that's not gonna work in it's favour
To add to the problem, they increased the price further and this rog costs over a thousand, and doesn't even have it's signature ROG phone features. What a flop
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- Ani
- xD7
- 16 Jan 2024
The RGB LED at the back of ROG 8 doesn't double up as a notification LED?
Why not?
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- Rkm
- CbI
- 16 Jan 2024
They tried to cater to the s23 / ultra audiences, didn't get them and mostly will lose the rog phone audience. They should have doubled down on what made them special like uninterrupted display, awesome speakers, great audiophile dac, 6000mah battery.
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- jiyen235
- XQQ
- 16 Jan 2024
Leanzazzy, 16 Jan 2024Asus really has cut not just the corners, but the entire mi... moreI agree with you on everything except for the Xiaomi part, on most reviews I saw that phone on par with others or slightly worse. It never was the solid phone I saw in the GSM review. Whatever advanced cooling the chinese manufacturers talk about is mostly marketing and even if it is there, NOTHING can beat active cooling. Asus's main problem is that now, it's just like everyone else without the fan.
And yeah the final thing you said is the most important aspect. The IQOO 12 is what the ROG Phone should've been, a solid phone all around with good imaging chops as well. How this phone can be worth so much more for a worse imaging experience is beyond me. Now there's nothing separating Asus from even iPhones in terms of gaming chops. It's truly sad seeing Asus's downfall I mean the gaming segment was already a niche. What niche is this phone trying to go for?
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- Ronjot
- 6cj
- 16 Jan 2024
IpsDisplay, 16 Jan 2024"Looking at our actual thermal-throttling test results... moreThis is an ROG perfomance always comes first. Comfort? the way asus think is as long is not burn your finger it is comfortable.
the good news is they give armoury crate to give more control to your phone performance. rather than boosting performance i think is more useful for braking perfomance. So you must learn how to brake appropriately
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- Anonymous
- 8Np
- 16 Jan 2024
16/512GB is $841 in China
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- Anonymous
- M5C
- 16 Jan 2024
... and 85 whole weeks of OS and security updates!!
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- Anonymous
- 0p}
- 16 Jan 2024
zodiacfml, 16 Jan 2024As a gaming phone, they should copy ZTE Nubia solution. At ... moreAsus uses samsung screen. Their UDC is still visible to provide less shitty quality.
You can spot cam of Z Fold easily.
Zte uses do estic screen, to hide the cam completely, you sacrifice cam quality even more.
Considering non-chinese brands think samsung oled > boe/visionox/tiamna/china star oled, then you wont get non-visible UDC on any other.
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- Anonymous
- 0p}
- 16 Jan 2024
IpsDisplay, 16 Jan 2024Mobile smartphone gamers does this statement below make sen... moreIt is so easy to hold the phone in landscape mode while keeping fingers on the corners.
No need to touch back panel.
If back gets hotter, means heat is not being kept inside. This is what they mean.
I applied thermal paste inside my old phone to see how different it would do.
Back panel gets far hotter.
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- Ronjot
- Kiu
- 16 Jan 2024
IpsDisplay, 16 Jan 2024Mobile smartphone gamers does this statement below make sen... moreit is ASUS, performance always comes 1st. comfort? as long as your finger doesn't burn it is comfortable.
on the other hand they give Armoury Crate to have more freedom to control the perfomance. So you must learn how to brake your phone appropriately
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- Anonymous
- spX
- 16 Jan 2024
how about no. a rog 7 16GB RAM, 512GB Flash is sold here with $1510. hell no. not worth in any way these kinda money
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- zodiacfml
- t7W
- 16 Jan 2024
As a gaming phone, they should copy ZTE Nubia solution. At this price, it does not make sense to get this ASUS over the Nubia except the badge. The ASUS cooler works but cumbersome
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- IpsDisplay
- 4ra
- 16 Jan 2024
Mobile smartphone gamers does this statement below make sense to you:
"With a prolonged stress test, the rear surface of the ROG Phone 8 Pro becomes almost UNCOMFORTABLE to hold. This is arguably BETTER since you want internal cooling prioritized over hand comfort,"
Im not sure guys but I think holding a handheld device is very important.. what do you guys think?
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- IpsDisplay
- 4ra
- 16 Jan 2024
"Looking at our actual thermal-throttling test results, the ROG Phone 8 Pro does fairly well with prolonged stress"
Guys in the comment section.. is something wrong with my eyes because the thermal throttling looks horrendous!!
Like is said before me this phone doesn't Excel in anything bar maybe the screen brightness and it has a 4.6 rating
What kind of review is this?
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- IpsDisplay
- 4ra
- 16 Jan 2024
THE-TRUTH-REVEALER, 16 Jan 2024Really don't understand how this phone got 4.6 even th... moreIt's the gsmarena flagship bias rating