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  • Quantumz0d - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    That's some ultra dope stuff. Shows how engineering potential is wasted on the thin and light glass canons. No notch, 3.5mm jack. Fastest 845, Quad speakers, 512GB, Aura RGB (lol), cooling dock. woah woah !Those specs list need some break. I only hope the phone is not unobtainium and has a Bootloader unlock ( high possibility of nope).

    Still ASUS earned respect with this. Great showcase of possibilities.
  • ydeer - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I guess im getting old.
  • boozed - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Canon makes phones?
  • Manch - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    LOL, Don't get me wrong, this may prove to be interesting but until something a little more concrete comes out, some testing/reviews, etc we wont know if this is TG16, a SGG, or a GB. Not the first time something like this has tried to emerge, I remain skeptical if it will succeed. As a pure gaming device, maybe. As an all in one phone/gaming device, nope. I don't see it.
  • peevee - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    The spec page says: "802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ad 2x2 MIMO"

    802.11ad? As in 60GHz? REALLY? Would it be the first if it is true?
  • Gasaraki88 - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    the 802.11ad is for display and it would the the first for a phone. It beams the display to a TV so you can play fortnite on your TV or Monitor.
  • thomasg - Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - link

    802.11ad is not strictly for displays.
    What it's for is pure speed.

    Since the channels in the 60 GHz band are MUCH wider the throughput can be much larger.
    The propagation properties don't allow it to penetrate walls, which means the range is very low - however, it also means that the full bandwidth is available again in the next room.

    Also, the short range propagation properties are sometimes advantageous.

    So why is it most often used for wireless displays these days?
    Simple: nothing else needs that much throughput, especially not over a short range.
  • babadivad - Sunday, June 10, 2018 - link

    Any word on price yet??
  • eva02langley - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I don't understand, there is no Nvidia... so why the ROG brand...?

    Asus kept the Arez brand... so why the ROG brand for a QCM device... GPP is gone...

    Asus, just never again. After their wrong BIOS fiasco for my Ryzen 1700x at launch, you can bet I don't trust them at all anymore.
  • deepblue08 - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I don't think ROG has anything to do with Nvidia. They even have motherboards with ROG branding.
  • jordanclock - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    GPP prohibited the use of the same brand for Nvidia GPUs and AMD GPUs. But it still allowed brands to be used in other areas without issue. So they could have ROG on everything EXCEPT AMD GPUs.

    At least until GPP died.
  • Vayra - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Wakey wakey, GPP was blown up and Arez is already long gone, after an official ASUS statement on the matter.
  • edzieba - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    The storm remained confined to the teacup, the sky failed to fall. Some GPUs got a sticker swap, but that's about it.
  • Spunjji - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    No, the storm was killed by consistently bad press because GPP was a stupid, legally dubious and consumer-abusive concept.
  • Retycint - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Asus Mobile dept != motherboard dept. And even within the same department, different products from different generations are often not consistent enough in their quality to make a judgement on the reliability of the brand's products anyway.
  • babadivad - Friday, June 8, 2018 - link

    haha
  • CaedenV - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    The specs on this monster are amazing!
    If I could kludge WoA to work on it with that dock, it could probably replace my laptop... that would be awesome.
    *sigh* some of the specs on this thing are better than my gaming PC.

    But seriously. This is the future of computing. A device in your pocket that holds all (or at least most of) your files and horsepower to run 90% of the applications that you need. Need more juice? Throw it on a dock to take over external computing power through a PC or external GPU, or use an online service/VM that has access to the hardware you need. This first gen device of it is a bit chunky, but it will get better over time for more mainstream users.
  • Manch - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I don't want that future. MS sad half ass attempt to have a one platform to rule them all didn't pan out and now rebadge RT wont either. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Windows or MS in general but I don't want WoA. I sure as hell don't want to use an online service/VM. My own? Sure, Theirs? nope.
  • ZeDestructor - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Except WoA is a very different beast from WinRT, for a single very simple reason: it's intended to let you install and run Win32 x86 programs, not just Windows store programs.

    MS and Qcomm have so far said that the emulation will be hardware-assisted and local, even though there will be LTE in all of em.

    In short: you want (or at least want to try) WoA, but have no interest in WinRT.
  • Manch - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Except all the tests and reviews so far have shown it to be meh performance wise and meh on the price of the devices. I tried RT and I was disappointed. I used WP8/WP10 and held out hope and was ultimately disappointed. <Insert GWB fool me quote> and never again will I jump in. If it pans out in the future, maybe. As of now I have zero faith that it will last as a product.
  • jordanclock - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    So far WoA has only been on Snapdragon 835/845 SoCs. Qualcomm is working on a new 1000 series SoC with TDPs closer to typical laptop CPUs. Between higher thermal envelopes for higher clock speeds, maybe a larger GPU and any other generational improvements, you could see WoA on a SD1000 series SoC being very close to or better than Atom.

    But I think Microsoft should also add more incentives to developers releasing ARM versions of apps. Emulation can help alleviate the gap but there will always be a gap.
  • Alistair - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Yes I hope MS doesn't give in. A slightly higher TDP Snapdragon with A76 cores, that would be quite the powerful laptop.
  • Manch - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    Yeah and all of those will cost it the battery life it claims as it's lynch pin. I don't put any stock in "maybe in the future" products. I'd rather have a down clocked Intel/AMD machine with a LTE modem. Full compatibility, better performance, AND good battery life.
  • ZeDestructor - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    Those already exist in tablet/convertible tablet form.

    Based on the lack of x86-powered phones, the shutdown of Intel's phone efforts and the non-existence of AMD phone-grade chips of any sort, I don't see an x86 Windows-based phone showing up anytime soon. So we have to rely on WoA then.

    To counter your WinRT performance experience, you do know those ran on a Tegra 3 SoC, right? Those were unimpressive when new, and were very, very quickly superseded. I believe an SDM845 is easily 4-8 times as fast as that Tegra, and unlike the Tegra also integrates all the wireless connectivity you want for improved battery life.

    That said, as a dockable phone, do you really need that much computational power in it? I mean, if I had a dockable phone, it would likely be my "I have no laptop/convertible tablet/desktop near me" device - something that gets me internet, MSOffice, SSH, media playback and not much else.
  • Manch - Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - link

    I had the various RT tablets, for phones I had the 560,810, 880, the 1080, then the heartbreakingly craptastic 950XL which is now used as a GPS. I'm done pinning my hopes on a useable WoA. As a dockable phone, no I don't need Windows. As a tablet or higher, I want x86/x64 Windows or not at all. I had the dock for the 950XL and for a select few apps it worked OK. I thought it would be my ultraportable machine for when Im TDY. Nope, it was a horrid disaster. As much as Asus or HP charge for their WoA laptop/hybrids, You can get a low end Surface Pro or an XPS for those prices so I see zero advantage in getting a WoA. I have as zero faith in this iteration of WinRT/WP8/WP10/WoA Now this may be a fun gaming phone but in my experience, jack of all trade devices like these are too compromised. If WoA were on it, I'd run for the hills. Maybe Ill be wrong. Maybe this thing will have awesome capability and long batt life, etc. Not holding my breath though.
  • Cliff34 - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Mainstream users don't need to game on their smartphone.
  • el_rika - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    Mainstream users love to brag about their new phone for a couple of weeks and then pay for it for the next two years.
  • PeachNCream - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I'd like to see a fully wireless dock or cradle for a phone that can charge it, allow for connectivity to external devices including a keyboard, mouse, and speakers or headphones, and a display. Physical connectors just aren't very durable so while they're an okay solution right now, it'd be nice to do this without the hard/mechanical plugging and unplugging.

    Despite that shortcoming, which is more of a limitation of current technology, this isn't a bad idea. I don't care for the UI on that phone or the stupid gamer LEDs and other gimmicks that Asus has been strapping on, but the principal of phones that can be used to replace desktops and laptops is interesting to me from a productivity perspective.
  • peevee - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    USB-C is specified for 10,000 insertions. Plenty.

    Of course, if they cheaped out on a supplier, the connector they use may not be up to the spec. Or it could be better than that.
  • PeachNCream - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    That's nowhere close to the number of worry-free insertions I need to perform. I want hundreds of daily insertions and USB-C is nowhere close to being able to give it to me. Besides, I'm sure that specification assumes rather gentle usage. What if my insertions are angry ones? Do I only get 5,000 because I have a habit of really cramming it in there when I'm trying to do multiple things at once? This is why physical contact-free technologies are important.
  • ZeDestructor - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    Two things:

    1. What the hell are you doing that demands hundreds of insertion a day?! The most I've managed so far is 30, while debricking the damn thing
    2. The USB-C socket should be better rated than the cables since it doesn't have a latch that wears out. On top of that, the latch isn't actually essential to the good functioning of the connector outside of locking it in place, so some docks simply remove the latch completely to reduce wear and tear, similar to how some microUSB docks did it.
  • Dr. Swag - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    That's cool but 1080p pentile on a 6 inch display does not sound fun
  • Stuka87 - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    1080P for a 6" display is fine. 4k smart phones just need to go away. Its a worthless cost and increase in power draw.
  • Midwayman - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I wouldn't say worthless. I mean its really nice if you're using them in a VR setup like cardboard. Normal use I would say 1440p is about tops I would want though.
  • deepblue08 - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Exactly, half of the people gaming today use 1080p on their PCs, usually on 24-25" screens, so I'm sure they can be satisfied with that pixel density on a 6" screen.
  • Dr. Swag - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    You also look at your phone from a much closer view distance than your monitor though. Plus it's not just 1080p, it's pentile, so closer to 720p
  • peevee - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    "1080P for a 6" display is fine. 4k smart phones just need to go away. Its a worthless cost and increase in power draw."

    But sells the phones to fools. Oh well...
  • Dr. Swag - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    It's not just 1080p. It's pentile. It's effectively close to 720p. On such an expensive device I would like to see 1440p pentile or 1080p with an rgb sub pixel layout
  • PixyMisa - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    1080p pentile works out to about 880p RGB. So not quite that bad, but the difference is perceptible.
  • PixyMisa - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Nope, I'm wrong, you're right.
  • ZeDestructor - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    With pentile, you still get full luma (brightness) information for the full resolution and only lose 1/3rd the chroma (colour) information.

    In practice, it means that it just doesn't matter all that much since most things are 2px wide or larger at their smallest dimension (at 400ppi or better anyways). Compare your screen at RGB/4:4:4 to 4:4:0 or 4:2:2 to get an idea of what a little bit of chroma subsampling looks like (hint: not all that much on a 4K or better display). FWIW, UHD and HD BR are 4:2:0 subsampled (equivalent to a 4:1 downscale) and nobody bats an eye.

    What IS a problem though is fringing at hard edges, like high contrast text, but pixel density helps there. at 250-300ppi, I find it visible, but livable. At 400-567ppi, I find it to be nonexistent unless I go pixel-peeping. Between 400ppi (my OP5 I look at every day), 515ppi (my 950XL I toy with), 522ppi (SGS Note88), 530ppi (SGS S8+/9+) and 567ppi (SGS 8/9) pentiles, I simply don't see any difference outside of pixel peeping.

    I also have a slightly denser 5.2" 1080p 424ppi RGB LCD panel in my old Xperia XZ to compare to, and that is no better at resolution in every day use, and is quite far behind compared to my OP5 for colour quality.
  • ZeDestructor - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    As a current owner of a 400ppi pentile OLED display (OnePlus 5), it's fine. Not quite the niceness of 550ppi (got that on my 950XL), but it's near enough to 400ppi proper RGB LCDs during most uses that I really don't mind it at all.
  • Dr. Swag - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    This is a device that's probably going to be quite expensive though... I don't think it's something that you should have to compromise when paying so much.
  • Retycint - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Which is kind of ironic, because you would be compromising on battery life and performance if this had a higher-res screen. Sure, other flagship phones does just fine with a quadHD/2K display, but I'm sure the target audience of this phone would rather have 3 extra hours of SOT or higher fps than a slightly higher PPI screen that provides minimal visual benefit in games. You also have to remember that this is a 90Hz screen, which means that it's a choice between 1080p90 and 2K60. I'm sure gamers would choose the former
  • ZeDestructor - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    For far eastern nations, with their tiny, fiddly scripts, there's simply no point going to anything under 700-800ppi on a phone, so may as well have 1080p and get better battery life and framerates while at it.

    Incidentally, I suspect the 90Hz is the real reason for not going 2880x1440: the current generation of mobile OLED display controllers only go so high (2960x1440 60Hz, what Samsung's and Synaptics' top controllers can do). To get 90Hz, you'd have to go to the age-old technique of dropping resolution and then raising refresh, which seems to be exactly what has been done here.
  • serendip - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    Don't quite agree there, I can read simplified and traditional Chinese scripts fine on a phone with a 340 ppi LCD. What matters is size (that's what she said too) - a larger screen can render East Asian scripts in physically larger sizes while still showing a lot of content onscreen.
  • ZeDestructor - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link

    It's readable, but looks terrible. I mean, western/latin scripts are perfectly readable at 100ppi, but man do they look terrible.

    At desktop/laptop/tablet view distances, I reckon 300ppi and 600ppi are the edge of meaningful improvements for western and eastern scripts respectively (400ppi and 800ppi for phones, repectively), and consequently that's where the push for ever-higher pixel density will stop.
  • zodiacfml - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I suggested this as a question to the Zenfone manager in a Q and A here in Anandtech, if they have plans for an RoG phone and it was negative. This was during the time of the SD800 where I was impressed with its performance but bad for thin and light phones.

    I thought I will never be impressed with smartphone these days but this phone is just crazy. It includes 802.11ad and I'm not sure if that feature is available in 2018 laptops. Good job on choosing OLED as it more power efficient in games, better image quality with a decent 90Hz refresh.

    Two type-C USB ports? Anyone? Just crazy! I suggested this in GSMarena where I got the idea when dual cameras were becoming a norm last year. It started with me suggesting dual speakers, dual card slots, then the dual ports.

    The accessories are crazy too. Who would thought ASUS will take this seriously, I guess they got the idea from games attaching keyboards,mice to smartphones

    Downside to all of these will be the price. No doubt in my mind this will be more expensive than the SD845 phones this year, pushing this out of reach for many gamers including myself
  • Stuka87 - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I think I will stick with my Switch. Roughly the same size, cost *WAY* less, and I get proper console quality games.
  • Manch - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I think that will be the crux of it. The Switch is a dedicated platform specifically for games. There's some QC to the library and its a lot more curated compared to play store. Where as this is a game oriented android phone with peripherals you can buy, to play games on. Maybe ASUS will pursue a console like experience for it.
  • Trackster11230 - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I love my Switch, but these serve two somewhat different segments of the gaming market. This phone seems to be aimed towards gamers looking to upgrade their phone more in-line with gaming features (and still function as a phone), wherein the Switch is designed to be a semi-portable console almost exclusively.
  • Manch - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    That's what we're saying. Switch = Gaming Console, ROG = Jack of All Trades, Master of None. I'd rather just have a separate Switch and a smart phone.
  • SpartanJet - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Woah! Imagine how many cash shop transactions per second you can do on this thing! No but seriously gaming on Android? I mean there are no phone games that dont try and nickle and dime people to death.
  • PeachNCream - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    There are good games you can buy outright on Android and others you can get for free plus the cost is generally lower for mobile than it is for the PC if you factor in the PC's total cost of ownership versus the phone you're going to own anyway just to communicate in modern society. You do have to exercise some selectivity and searching out good entertainment takes a bit of effort. As it stands, PC gaming is frustrating in its own right for a variety of reasons. Most of my gaming now takes place on my phone or rather my older phone that doesn't have cell service since I don't want to get caught out someplace with a dead battery on the thing I might need to use to call for help. I use my computer for more mundane tasks like fetching e-mail or lengthy writing where a keyboard is a good thing, but where system requirements can remain low enough to keep the PC from being an expensive piece of hardware.
  • edgineer - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I'd specifically like to commend the reporting on the USB type-C port specs! Down to the supported charging power, this article tells me exactly what data, power, and video protocols these type-C ports support.

    Excellent job, and I hope to be just as informed in the future!
  • ZeDestructor - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Things it has:
    Enough CPU and GPU power (by quite a margin)
    8GB RAM
    128GB or 512GB storage
    400+ppi screen
    Screen no wider than 68.5mm
    Larger than average battery
    USB-C with USB-PD (do wish it had USB3 though)
    3.5mm jack
    802.11ad
    A dock!

    Things it doesn't have:
    Bootloader unlock (no idea what's gonna happen there)
    microSD slot (probably won't have one, but one can hope)

    All in all, I'm liking this one.. might even pick one up later when it's out
  • peevee - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    "USB-C with USB-PD (do wish it had USB3 though)"

    It does on the side one. Unless it is not really USB-C as the table says (what the heck is "Custom USB-C"?)
  • ZeDestructor - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    I just have no idea if you can plug a regular USB-C cable in: looking at the little fan accessory, it looks like it might be a longer-than-normal connector.
  • HardwareDufus - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    if this thing just had Dual Sim, Dual Active... it would be absolutely perfect.
  • ZeDestructor - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Being an Asian-market focused phone, it will probably have at least Dual-SIM Dual-Standby.
  • Wardrive86 - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Absolute beast. So happy to see the rise of the "gaming" phone. It makes perfect sense as mobile now (2018) accounts for 51% ($70.3 billion) of the total gaming market. PC accounts for 24% ($32.9 billion), console accounts for 25% ($34.6 billion). Mobile shows double digit growth year on year and has done so for 11 years now and as of this year is bigger than console and PC combined. The quality of mobile gaming has spiked significantly in the last two years due to many more professional developers making the move to mobile and it would seem this is a trend that will continue.
  • Wardrive86 - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Oh to add portable consoles (Vita,3DS) are included in the console stats. The mobile gaming stats are for Android and IOS alone, and are projected to exceed $106 billion by 2021. At this point it would be hard for established publishing houses to ignore mobile
  • PeachNCream - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I had no idea that was how the totality of the gaming market broke down, but seeing it laid out like that makes perfect sense. Whereas PC games appeal to a limited number of people that spend the time to purchase relatively costly computing hardware required to support that hobby, mobile gaming is accessible to anyone with a phone and that now represents a huge chunk of the global population. Add that to the fact that you can accomplish useful computing tasks on a mobile device and it only makes sense that gaming revenue has seen a titanic shift. I think the fact here is that "gamers" tend to limit what they consider gaming to a narrow range of devices that align with their personal preferences rather than agreeing that the grandmother hunched over her phone flicking angry birds at some piggies is also just as much of a gamer. To do so would rob people of their own perception of uniqueness and the result is that they're somewhat self-protective or feel injured when forced to view the world through a lens that isn't self-serving.
  • Wardrive86 - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Another amazing facet of this is that PC and Console are still showing growth. Mobile isn't dipping into the sales of the other hardware/software. It has created (currently $70.3 billion) gaming revenue that never existed before.
  • jrs77 - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    It's a development into the absolutely wrong direction.
  • Gunbuster - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    So a partial glass back with all kinds of angles in it? Sounds like a lot of potential for weak spots there.

    And it's ugly. Shame since ASUS has some good designers, guess they just gave this one to the guy stuck 5 years in the past.
  • erwos - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I don't know what phone you're looking at, but this one looks pretty good to me. Loving the ecosystem - wonder if they'll make a car dock with some innovative features, too.
  • Makaveli - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I would rather have a dedicated gaming device like a switch and a cell phone. Never understood the lets kill my cell battery playing games on my phone. Then when I need to use the phone for actual phone stuff its dying. But then again this seem to be projected towards children and not actual adults.
  • erwos - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Thing is, you have to haul around two devices in your scenario. For some of us, that's not really that convenient. Also, I can guarantee that the primary target demo for $800 phones is not "children".
  • ZeDestructor - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    Just one more cutout, for the vent, really, and said vent is raised it seems. If anything, that particular corner should be the least likely to get shattered.
  • eastcoast_pete - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    If ASUS gets the plum 845 chips (top bin), doesn't that automatically mean that every other brand gets what's left in the bin? So, the very "premium" Samsung Note 9 (premium as in likely to cost > $ 1000 in the States) will get the so-so 845 chips? I know I am being a bit facetious here, but Qualcomm might want to avoid that impression, if they want their largest customers (Samsung, LG, HTC/Google) continue to be their largest customers. If I would be parting with that kind of cash for a phone, but I don't want the ASUS ROG phone, knowing that somebody else is getting the primo chips and I am not would probably make me quite unhappy. Luckily, I won't be buying such gear this year, and can watch this from the sideline.
  • erwos - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Every chip manufacturer does this, and it has been a practice for at least 30-40 years now. It's not a big deal. As long as the chip in your phone can safely run at the speed the manufacturer claims it can (and it does!), there is zero impact to you. The only people who could even theoretically be impacted are overclockers, and they are a fraction of the market that is not even worth mentioning.
  • ZeDestructor - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    This isn't Asus' only SDM845 phone. Assuming they volumes line up, they might be binning entirely internally.
  • eastcoast_pete - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Forgot to ask: Related to this ROG phone that looks great on specs, but awaits actual release for purchase. Has anybody seen a RED Hydrogen phone in the wild, or seen a an actual review of one? The specs on that thing sounded amazing, and RED's cameras certainly make for an impressive pedigree, but is their phone actually out there? Appreciate any updates - Thanks!
  • erwos - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    Engadget had a review a few days ago. Not my cup of tea, but I think it could be huge for the photography crowd.
  • 29a - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I've been saying for years that we need cellphone docks to turn them into desktops. Why does the phone have split storage? Why not just 640GB? Seems like a pointless pain in the ass to have two drives.
  • Makaveli - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    When I read the storage specs

    Storage UFS 2.1, 128GB / 512GB

    that tells me its 128 or 512GB

    How is it split?
  • 29a - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    "The 6-inch 2160x1080 AMOLED display is paired with the high-performance Snapdragon 845 SoC, 8GB DRAM, 128GB and 512GB of UFS 2.1 storage, along with a 4000 mAh battery, 20W ASUS Hyper Charge, support for 24-bit audio, and Corning Gorilla glass."

    From the article. Maybe I'm reading it wrong.
  • 29a - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    I just read the Asus press release and it is worded clearer. The press release says up to 512GB.
  • flyingpants1 - Monday, June 4, 2018 - link

    STEREO SPEAKkers?!?!!! YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!

    Good phone. I know pixel has front speakers too, but I've been waiting for something like this.

    All it needs now is waterproofing, wireless charging, SD card, extended battery (5000mah for 10mm...), Ultra low power CPU, flexible screen (easy replacement)... I've been waiting long enough for a real phone.
  • susa31 - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    wow! just watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyWX6CjJCIU
  • eastcoast_pete - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    Interestingly, Qualcomm (with Microsoft) also demoed a "Snapdragon 850" in a Surface-like Windows-on-ARM device , which appears to be a Snapdragon 845 clocked at 2.95 GHz. Are those the same "special" chips that ASUS will use in their ROG? 2.95 to 2.96 GHz can be simply about rounding up or down. Apparently, the
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