ASUS ROG Phone 5 specifications and review

Asus ROG Phone 5 is the newly launched smartphone that is expected to be available at a starting price of Rs 44,990. The smartphone comes with striking features, impressive design, and decent specifications that makes them highly demanded amongst customers. This is a lightweight and sleek smartphone that measures 172.8 mm x 77.3 mm x 10.3 mm (height x width x thickness) and can be bought in black color.

Asus ROG Phone 5 is a dual SIM smartphone that has a RGB light panel on the back and pressure sensitive zones that are helpful in gaming. The phone comes with a 6.78 inches AMOLED display with 84.5% screen-to-body ratio. The screen resolution of this phone is 1080 x 2340 pixels and 19.5:9 aspect ratio that gives you an immersive viewing experience while watching movies and playing games. Furthermore, Asus ROG Phone 5 can be protected from scratches as it has Corning Gorilla Glass protection on the display.

The Asus ROG Phone 5 mobile is available in three storage variants - 8GB of RAM + 128GB of internal storage, 12GB of RAM + 256GB of internal storage, and 16GB of RAM + 256GB of internal storage. Hence, with such massive RAM and inbuilt storage capacity, you will be easily able to switch between different apps and store all your pictures, songs, videos, games, and other files without any space constraints. In addition to this, the smartphone from Asus is equipped with Octa-core (1x2.84 GHz Kryo 680 & 3x2.42 GHz Kryo 680 & 4x1.80 GHz Kryo 680) Qualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888 (5 nm) processor that gives you an uninterrupted phone using experience. Moreover, the phone’s speed will be faster and you will not face any lags while accessing multiple applications simultaneously, playing intense graphics games or browsing the web. 

This dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) smartphone runs ROG UI based on the Android 11 operating system that gives you a clutter-free and user-friendly UI. In addition to this, the mobile houses a massive Li-Po 6000 mAh non-removable battery that has 65W fast charging support. The battery of the smartphone will last for a longer time period and will not exhaust in the middle of a call, playing a game, watching a video, making a call, and more.

Speaking about the optics, the Asus ROG Phone 5 smartphone on the rear comes with a triple camera setup. There is a 64 MP primary camera, a 16 MP ultra wide angle camera, and an 8 MP telephoto sensor. The rear camera setup has various features like continuous shooting, panorama, High Dynamic Range mode (HDR), and more. On the front, the mobile sports a 32 MP camera for clicking selfies and making video calls.

There are various connectivity options on the Asus ROG Phone 5 that include Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot, GPS with dual-band A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO, QZSS, GNSS, Bluetooth, NFC, USB Type-C 3.1 (side), USB Type-C 2.0 (bottom), and 5G supported by device (network not rolled-out in India), 4G (supports Indian bands), 3G, 2G. Sensors on the phone include an under display fingerprint sensor, gyro, proximity sensor, accelerometer, and compass.

ASUS ROG PHONE 5 PRICE IN INDIA

Asus ROG Phone 5 smartphone price in India is Rs 55,999. Asus ROG Phone 5 was launched in the country onMarch 10, 2021 (Official).The smartphone comes in 3 other storage and RAM variants - Asus ROG Phone 5 256GB 12GB RAM, Asus ROG Phone 5 512GB 12GB RAM, Asus ROG Phone 5 512GB 16GB RAM. As for the colour options, the Asus ROG Phone 5 smartphone comes in Black, White colours.

Detail specification:

Display: The Asus ROG Phone 5 comes with a 6.78-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display with 144Hz refresh rate, 300Hz touch sampling rate, up to 800 nits brightness, and HDR10+ support.

Processor: Powering the Asus ROG Phone 5 is an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor with a 2.84GHz clock speed.

RAM and Storage: There is 8GB and 12GB of RAM on the ROG Phone 5, 16GB of RAM on the ROG Phone 5 Pro, and 18GB of RAM on the ROG Phone 5 Ultimate. Storage-wise, you get 128GB and 256GB on ROG Phone 5 and 512GB on ROG Phone 5 Pro and Ultimate.

Design: One is pro & one is ultimate.