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hey so I just got back from checking out the new asus rog phone - if you thought that the asus rog phone one wasn't saying this just takes things to a completely new level now there's so much new in this phone that it's probably gonna take me a while to go over it so I'm just gonna tell you everything that's new and then I'll give you my impressions afterwards cuz I think that'll just make things go a little bit smoother so first and foremost this phone is physically massive the screen is six point five nine inches which is just huge and then there's bezels on the top and bottom so it's even bigger it's bigger than the 1 + 7 which I already thought was a pretty big phone but this screen isn't any normal screen it's a 120 Hertz AMOLED display which is insane because so far the highest refresh rate AMOLED that we've seen is the 1 + 7 Pro with 90 Hertz if you want to get 120 Hertz you're gonna have to get an LCD screen like you would get on the razor phone - but this screen is just nuts it's 120 Hertz it's got a 240 Hertz touch response time which means that it's scanning the screen 240 times a second to see if you actually touched it and then it's got a 1 millisecond response time so you would normally only see those kind of specs on like a gaming monitor but they've brought it over to the ROG phone - this is also an HDR 10 panel and it can represent 108 percent of the DCI p3 color gamut and they tune these panels out of the factory to make sure that they have a delta of around 1 and that was just all the display so you're probably wondering about the specs well the RG phone 2 is the first phone to support the new Snapdragon 850 5 plus processor and I did a video up here if you want to check that out but effectively what that means is that there's a 4% CPU overclock and a 15% GPU overclock and this chip was really made for gaming phones and for people that want to get the best gaming fidelity out of their devices so it was pretty obvious why Asus would use this chip in their phones other than that there is 12 gigabytes of RAM in 512 gigabytes of storage and this is also ufs 3.0 storage which is just the second phone so far to use this type of storage otherwise you would have to go to a 1 plus 7 Pro to get this speed and an overclock like this means that the phone's gonna get hotter so asus has gone and put a 3d vapor chamber in the device they've put a vent in the device and there's a physical fan bent on the back of the phone which actually dispels heat to cool the chip and they include this active cooler inside the box which is basically a fan that mounts into the dual mounted USBC ports on the side of the phone to actively cool the phone while you're gaming so so far it's already got pretty much the best specs out of any phone we've seen so far but it's being powered by a six thousand milliamp hour battery and if you thought the Asus zenfone 6 was huge at five thousand milliamp hours six thousand is just insane and I know that the 120 Hertz is probably going to drain the battery faster we saw that and then one plus seven pro with its ninety Hertz display the battery life wasn't quite as good if you left it on 90 Hertz but this has a six that was a million by ourselves so it's still probably going to last a pretty significant amount of time and you can turn it down to sixty Hertz if you want or just make it go 120 Hertz on certain apps if you so choose they've also brought 30 watt quick charging over this phone which is pretty nice to see it was 18 watts and the zenfone 6 and you can use any USB 8 cable to charge it as long as you use the right adapter and speaking of the zenfone 6 you've got the same camera raid that we found in the zenfone 6 so you've got the sony IMX 586 sensor with the 48 megapixel camera you've got your 13 megapixel ultra wide camera and then you have a 24 megapixel selfie camera on the front of the phone which a CEO says is optimally positioned for streaming it's just in the top right of the phone but that's that you've also got an optical in display fingerprint reader you've got stereo speakers you have a headphone jack and you've got four 802 11 AD Wi-Fi antennas positioned around the phone aisa says that these are positioned with landscape mode in mind so if you're gaming on the phone in landscape mode your fingers aren't going to cover up any of the areas with these Wi-Fi antennas then the original RG phone had these touch triggers on the right side of the phone so if you're playing in landscape mode you could use it to like fire a gun in pub GE or in fortnight and they've updated those in this phone as well now you've got a bunch of different positions so you don't have to lift your finger up every time you fire you can actually hold it down and it won't continuously fire they're just updated and they've also got their own vibration motors in them too which is really nice to see so that's pretty much the basis of the primary specs now last year Asus introduced a ton of extra accessories to go along with his phone and they updated those accessories for the RG phone too so you've got this attachment that pretty much turns your RG phone into a Nintendo switch they even call them joy Kahn's up on the stage but of course there's an official name for them you've got this thing that basically turns it into a 3ds it's like a dock that adds a display up on top you've got this Wi-Fi antenna that lets you stream to your TV if you're playing a mobile game there's a ton of new accessories for the RG phone too and it seems like they really care about this accessory ecosystem and of course you've got that LED illuminated ROG logo on the back of the phone and you can set it to cycle colors you can set it to blink you can set it to be a static color it's kind of a nice little addition there if you really want to show off the ROG branding and last but not least Asus is allowing you to use Zen UI 6 on this phone and that's a big deal for me because nui 6 is a much slimmer version of Android that I really really loved on these end phone 6 and I think that that was a source of a lot of the praise that us reviewers gave the zenfone 6 so it's nice that you can use that UI on this phone as well alright so those are all the specs and now I'll give my impressions of the phone overall I think this is a really nice 2019 update you've got the latest Snapdragon processor and by latest I mean the absolute latest it's the only phone shipping with the a 55 plus right now you've got 12 gigs of RAM you've got the ufs 3.0 storage which owns only the second phone to offer this kind of storage three USB type-c ports which was already on the other phone but you've got a headphone jack dual stereo speakers the 120 Hertz AMOLED display is insane it's probably the fastest refresh rate display on a smartphone right now and I really feel like a suit just pulled out all the stops with this phone they're really not holding back on pretty much anything and especially that six thousand milliamp hour battery is probably going to power this thing for a long time now they made a lot of claims like the fact that their phone can sustain frame rates up to 98% and there's no throttling where there's throttling with other phones over sustained times and they show things like benchmarks showing that it's just the highest benchmarked phone right now and we're gonna do all this testing ourselves of course because you can't just always trust what the companies tell you immediately we're gonna be doing a bunch of independent testing to make sure this is all true but I'm really actually excited to test it out and then get back to you guys with the details so I guess the last thing is pricing and availability and right now there's a China launch happening on the 23rd which is tomorrow as of this video going out but we still don't know the price of this phone the RG phone one launched at around eight hundred and ninety nine dollars so I'm hoping that they maintain that price point there's a lot of really great phones out right now like the redmi k20 pro which are only four hundred bucks and have flagship specs but I feel like issues really pulled out every single stop here so $900 isn't a horrible price global launch is gonna be a little bit later it's technically coming out September 4th which is quite a while but I'm really excited to actually finally get this in four of you and I'll let you know what I think about it when I get a review unit so that's pretty much been it I'm really excited to get a review unit for this phone and test it out but what do you guys think is this completely nuts would you buy this at all or is that just to game rate for you let us know in the comments section below head over to android authority comm we have a lot of photos over there detailing all the accessories and different angles of this device if you want to see more so until next time I'll catch you in the next video