Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Asus ROG Phone 2 UNBOXING – Fastest smartphone on Earth.”.
Welcome to a small film that is about to smash a whole load of records. This is the successor to the ASIS rock phone which, when it came out last year, was labeled as ridiculous and crazy, and yet they have just completely topped it all right sue. It actually took me a good minute to figure out which way this thing opens up and once we’re inside it is equally elaborate. You get the company’s second gen arrow, active cooler, which calls not just the phone, but also your fingers while playing and get this. It gives you a second headphone jack, there’s a pretty different, looking plastic case here and also a 30 watt adapter with the USB c2 USBC cable.
What is nice is they’ve also given replacement covers for your USB C port as well as a little add-on. That turns your cooler into a phone at stand as well. Okay, so the phone itself has five pillars: five key areas and which is really doing something completely new, but just before we get to that, you might be thinking that phone looks chunky. It seems like pretty much the entire strategy of this device could be embodied with the word extreme, and that also applies to the dimensions.
We’Re talking. Nine point: seven, eight millimeters thick with a mass of 240 grams. I don’t think I’ve ever tested a phone. That’S heavier aside from those crazy devices with 10,000 milliamp hour batteries inside I would say this.
The weight itself is not a complete deal-breaker for me, and I did find that the phone is still grip of all thanks to a curved side trim, but also that the center of gravity here is just a little high up. So you’ve always just got to make sure you hold it properly. The design is just as nuts as last year.
It pretty much looks like the company started with the original rock phone and thought. How can we make this more, so this phone is not just much larger, but adds a second LED, a better ultra wide camera and the rear finger in scan has now been replaced for an in display. One on the front is what I think about it: the rock phone to looks spectacular when light hits the back.
It forms streaks that run down the device and creates a rainbow effect when it hits any of these accents, but it does lose a lot of their magic when you’re, not in favorable lighting, and the finish does absolutely nothing to mask fingerprints. Massive shout out to the case, though the finish contrasts well with the smooth glass, and although it does look a little bit like your phone, is wearing a helmet, it does manage to reduce the fingerprint problem without obstructing the view of the design. Now you might have guessed. The first pillar here is performance. This is pretty much the fastest phone in the world. We’Ve got the brand new Snapdragon 855 plus chip which, compared to the already powerful 855, adds a pretty negligible 4 % CPU overclock.
But more importantly, a large 15 percent GPU overclock. It then pairs that with 12 gigs of ram and 500 gigs of superfast UF s3 storage. I said it before and I’ll say it again. If a company is going to pitch a phone as a high-end gaming device and they’re gon na charge a premium for it, then the top priority needs to be that actually performs better for gaming, and so thankfully that is not an issue here.
I won’t show any benchmark scores yet as this thing’s on beta software, but you can probably imagine what they’d be, has also got an upgraded heat dissipation system, which you kind of need when you’re using an overclocked chip like this okay. So the second pillar is battery, and this actually goes quite a way towards explaining how this thing ended up being of this much of a unit, the rock phone 2-packs a 6000 milliamp hour battery, which is completely unheard of, and if you’re conservative, with it we’re talking. The kind of battery that can get you into your third day of usage, but also bear in mind that this phone in particular has the ability to drain battery quickly. You’Ve got a 120 Hertz display an overclocked chip and potentially this extra caller as well, all of which need to be powered.
You also get pretty fast, 25 watt charging, it’s actually a 30 watt charger in the box, but five of those wallets are reserved for charging. The phone’s peripherals, which are coming soon so do subscribe. If you want to see some of that action, there’s one thing: I’ve got to say I agree with Asus on when it comes to this phone and that is prioritizing a higher capacity battery, as opposed to one with a higher charging wattage. You might know that when you charge your phone at the rate of charging Falls as the battery starts to get full.
And so, if you have a higher capacity battery, let’s say the six thousand milliamp hour one in this phone then, even though it might take longer to fully charge the phone you can still get to four thousand milliamp hours faster than an equivalent device that had a Four thousand milliamp hour battery, because that would slow down towards the end the third pillar is display. It is very good, but I should start by mentioning to these caveats. It still got some noticeable bezel around it and it maxes out at 1080p, but these things are kind of subjective some people actually like larger bezels. It gives you something to grip on and can result in better front firing speakers which, by the way, is definitely something you can see happening here.
You’Ve actually got a dual front firing speakers system, and this is some of the best audio you can get on a smartphone, no doubt and then, as for it being a 1080p panel, I’m all for it. It’S still crisp and compared to a quad HD panel. It’S still going to preserve battery when gaming and keep frame rates higher, but if you are intent on finding the sharpest display out there, then this isn’t going to be it with that out the way, though Wow you’re, looking at world’s first 120 Hertz AMOLED HD, our Smart phone display, it’s got a record-breaking one millisecond response time and while that’s pretty hard to test in practice, I can say that this is easily one of the most fluid tactile and instantaneous experiences. Albear, it’s not quite as bright and contrast not as high as Samsung’s best, but color accuracy is bang-on. Number four is software straight out of the box? You can feel the refinement. In fact, this might just be the only time ever where I felt the need to show you guys the phone’s setup screen you get. This super polished gaming portal that lets you see your phone status at a glance you can launch your favorite games and fine-tune LED behavior. It’S all really impressive stuff.
It even lets you block certain areas of your screen from responding to touches and gives you fine control of your CPU speeds. The rock phone also sees the return of something called ex mode which, as a fun little touch, makes your wallpaper and logo start to glow, but is really about upping the frequency of your CPU and blocking ram eating applications. Okay, so this software is Zen UI 6 and it is pretty bloatware free and while I’m still not a fan of the general gamer, aesthetic Asus is also going to be giving you the option to use that cleaner skin that we saw on the zenfone 6. Ok: number. 5: it’s not a secret that the rock phone 2 is a gaming first phone, and so it’s nice to see some actually useful gaming features. The phone has clearly been designed with landscape use in mind, with this second side mounted USB C port for charging.
While playing and these completely you capacitive air triggers that now support not just the tap functionality, but also the ability to slide and perform a completely different action. Oh yeah and the phone also responds to just being squeezed, so you could configure a single squeeze to do. One thing, and then a long squeeze to open up X mode and to add to all of this, the haptics on the phone are amazing, which of course, aids in gaming, too AB tactility, but also just generally in typing.
You get a really satisfying physical response to touches, so those are my five pillars. The five potential reasons why I think people might consider this phone, but there’s a couple more things I need to mention. You’Ve got those cameras and, whilst I wouldn’t class them as a selling point exactly this is a solid mid-range setup.
You pretty much getting the same cameras as you did on. The super well received a zenfone 6, although just without that rotating module, there’s a main wide-angle. There’S an ultra wide and there’s also a software based to time zoom, which works well enough in broad daylight.
The hdr enhanced mode is an improvement, but dynamic range still doesn’t match up to the best phone cameras out there. The shots are comparable in most conditions, but you’ll be able to tell the difference when you try something more demanding the phone even has a decent night mode. It can shoot 4k video at 60 frames per second and it does slow motion. This is a capable camera setup, especially for a gaming phone, so there you have it, and let me tell you, I came this close to switching from the galaxy s: 10 5g to the rock phone 2 as my main daily device. I love the idea of a six thousand milliamp hour battery of having the most powerful and fluid phone out there.
But for me a big part of it is cameras. The rock phone 2 is an insane and gaming smartphone with pretty good cameras, and so because photography is such a priority for me, I couldn’t quite justify it, but the fact that it was such a close call is a testament to how compelling this firmly is. If you enjoyed this video, I’m gon na drop a link to a whole bunch of interesting smartphone and box things like this one and with that being said, my name is Aaron. This is mr. user, boss and I’ll catch you in the next one. You .