Asus ROG Phone 5

Overview Asus ROG Phone 5

Important update: this model is updated to Android version 12.
Check the availability of the update version in your region on the manufacturer’s website.

Android version and market relevance

Dual-smartphone Asus ROG Phone 5 introduced a company Asus in March 2021. It has Android version 11, which if you want, you can update to version 12. This new smartphone has also received support for high-speed 5G networks so that you can watch very high-quality 4K or even 8K videos on YouTube, play online games and not feel any inconvenience associated with the slow speed of mobile Internet.

Well, what can I say, Asus ROG Phone 5 is a smartphone of 2021 with fairly normal characteristics, which is located in our price segment “Flagships smartphones from $500”.

Screen, body and battery

In the case Asus ROG Phone 5 thickness 10.3 mm is placed battery for 6 000 mAh and a very large AMOLED touchscreen with a diagonal 6.78″ and refresh rate 144 Hz. The screen is very close to the edges of the case, which also improves the ergonomics of using the phone with one hand. And there is a second 0-inch RGB light panel-screen that shows additional functions. This model could become a flip smartphone and get into our catalog on a separate page, where all phones with flexible screens are collected. Unfortunately, this did not happen. And therefore, if you are interested in smartphones with such top-end characteristics, we advise you to look at them in our catalog and get a deeper understanding in which direction the entire mobile electronics industry is moving. Perhaps, in a couple of years, every second person on the planet will have such flip smartphones.

Main camera and selfie camera

An excellent camera with multiple lenses (64 MP Wide + 13 MP UltraWide + 5 MP Macro) was received by Asus ROG Phone 5. And now you can definitely stand out with your photos among your friends. At least, thanks to the fact that two or more cameras will help you shoot excellent portraits with the Bokeh effect, and take photos with zooming, without much loss in image quality. And on the front of the smartphone we see a camera with one lens: 24 MP Wide. This is a very good camera to take selfie. You will want to do them all the time and publish to the Instagram :)

Processor and Internal Memory

Smartphone received 8-core processor Snapdragon 888 (5 nm). If you want to assess the speed of the smartphone and its performance, then do not forget to see how much RAM is installed in it. Asus ROG Phone 5 received 8 GB of RAM, and there is another version of this smartphone with 16 GB of RAM.

And there are options with built-in memory. You can choose 128 GB or 256 GB. .

Price for Asus ROG Phone 5: buy or not to buy?

$965 is the price for Asus ROG Phone 5 at the start of sales. For this money you get a smartphone with a fast processor, a huge touch screen, with a very cool main camera that makes amazing photos and videos, and with a cool selfie camera. And with such characteristics, the smartphone got into the price segment “Flagships smartphones from $500”, where you can choose any other similar model for a same price.

And how important is the battery capacity in your smartphone? Here is the case that it is in Asus ROG Phone 5 that a very powerful battery is installed. And, if you need a smartphone with a very long mode of operation from one battery charge, then we recommend looking at this model, or similar smartphones with a powerful battery.

Asus ROG Phone 5 will be available after the beginning of official sales. We always recommend that you look at the smartphone before you buy it to make sure that it fits you in all respects — screen size, case materials and build quality, speed and smoothness of the interface, photo and video quality, etc. After you choose a model, then you already look at the different offers from the sellers — you can buy it on the Internet or in the offline electronics supermarket. Buy where you prefer, where there are stocks and discounts, and where the seller guarantees the service of the device under warranty.