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fit wits coverage of Computex 2018 is brought to you by fantex berta gear enter max be quiet and cable Mott you can learn more about their products and the links below what's going on guys calif it would here at Computex 2018 and i'm checking out the new asus rog phone which admittedly we're kind of late to the party here there's already been a ton of content on this phone already sure you guys have seen a lot of it but we're gonna do a little bit of exploration with the accessories that are sold separately with this particular phone because it's obviously first and foremost a gaming phone and mobile gaming can be kind of limited when you don't have the proper peripherals or control ability that's not a word the proper control with certain functions so we're gonna explore the actual accessories around the phone and just talk about the experience overall so let's take a look first off we've got the game vice as you can see here kind of has these two controllers on either side it's actually a single unit though it connects to the phone via type C so yes the ROG phone does connect via type-c connector and it's got the sort of ribbon cable connecting the two ends together you get four bumpers two on either side two joysticks for your thumbs port four buttons on the right and a d-pad with you know start and select and things like that let's just go ahead and dive into this racing game now the screen right off the bat it's kind of hard to tell from the camera but it is pretty damn gorgeous it's 2160 by 1080 I believe very high resolution 90 Hertz refresh rate as I'm sure you guys are already aware one millisecond response time and the color is just super vivid here very sharp crystal clear image and I'm gonna suck really bad at this game but moreso talking about the experience of me sucking it's kind of nice playing a racing mobile game with this accessory because you don't necessarily have to turn the phone left and right you can kind of just use the joysticks to control the car it won't make you a better gamer though that's for sure now I will admit the accessory feels a little bit loose on the phone it kind of like moves around a little bit it doesn't feel that as secure as it possibly could so hopefully they fix that I did hear that this is pretty close to a final version of what it's going to look like in stores but I mean I just hope it hugs the phone a little bit better than what I'm feeling right now the joystick is pretty responsive it's kind of hard to tell with whether it's just my skill level or the actual accessory but everything seems to respond very quickly super snappy speaking of snappy there's a Snapdragon processor in here the phone's also configurable up to five hundred and gigs of storage so plenty of room for all the games and then some oh and I got rekt the buttons on the right side are actually pretty tactile they felt they feel good and they're fairly large maybe a little too large but definitely not having a hard time locating them at all and they seem to be placed pretty nicely for my size hands the bumpers feel pretty good they're a little bit plasticky for my taste as are the buttons on the right for that matter I feel like higher quality construction could have been used and I'm not sure exactly how durable these will be over time especially if you're using this everyday or just about everyday but yeah I guess it also depends on how much these accessories are really going to cost obviously the phone is not going to be cheap I'm hoping that these accessories for at least what I'm feeling right now are a bit more reasonable let's move on to the next accessory though so this is the mobile desktop dock you can see we've actually got the ROG phone mounted onto a dock right now with just which has full size HDMI it's got things like USB type-c there's actually maybe four three or four USB ports there as well which allows us to interface with a keyboard mouse and up to a 4k monitor and look at that that's pretty awesome where we're playing some sort of mobile pub G game right now from the looks of it I'm parachuting down don't mind the mouse cursor right here this black cursor that's just you know everything's still in development right now obviously with some software iterations they're gonna be removing stuff like that but right now I'm actually moving my character around with full-size desktop peripherals seems pretty smooth very responsive certain buttons right now certain keys are not working because you actually have to map various keys to the touch functionality of the phone and then once you do that you can actually save the profile so that you can just easily swap between them on the fly depending on the title that you want to play but again this is still very much in development very cool though I should also mention the dock has an Ethernet jack for one gigabit per second wired Gigabit LAN so yeah you can actually play online I believe we're playing with other people online right now so that's kind of cool just to get you one step closer to that full rich desktop experience obviously still not exactly the same thing now I've heard that the speakers on the ROG phone are actually pretty decent but you don't actually have to rely on those if you're playing a game in this way there is an SPDIF out to your 5.1 channel surround sound system or headphones if you so desire so you don't have to skimp on audio either and the last accessory we're taking a look at here is the twin view dock now I don't know why the screen just went black oh because we're loading into the game perfect well this is actually a pretty cool accessory it allows you to sort of dock the phone into this upper area and there's also a built-in monitor so it's a six inch AMOLED Full HD display so you can have dual screens here this is gonna be great for things like streaming you want to stream on Twitch from your mobile device you can do that and still have you know chat and whatnot in the top screen you can even take a look at your system thermals there's a fan speed adjustment there's a built-in fan apparently right behind the phone itself is that's that's what's doing all the work right now but it's actually a pretty cool little setup um there's a six thousand milliamp battery that's built into the back of this thing there's bumpers on either side that actually feel much higher quality than the first accessory we take a look at in addition you get advanced dual haptic feedback so you get the the edge that you need for total domination as the spec sheet says I'm wondering if you could actually extend the game screen onto the top screen here that way you could maybe have like a map of the area so they don't have to keep toggling back and forth that would be pretty sweet I'm pretty sure you can but I don't know exactly how to do that because it's very crowded at the Asus booth right now the horror G booth we don't really have a dedicated rep to show us how everything works so we're kind of flying by the seat of our pants right now that's obviously too loud to test anything out right now but this twin view dock also have some front-facing quad speakers just to give you a more amplified sound over what the ROG phone could provide natively that's pretty cool so that was my little hands-on experience with the various accessories that you can buy for the ROG phone which I'd be very curious to check out later on this year when it finally launches you guys let me know which one of those accessories tickles your fancy the most if any I personally like the team view dock that was the one that felt and functioned it's the best in my opinion but well off the comments guys thank you so much for watching this video go ahead and toss the like on it and get subscribe so you don't miss any more of my coverage here at Computex 2018 I'll see you guys in the next one you