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my coverage of Computex 2018 is sponsored by EVGA EVGA offers a wide range of products including GPUs cases power supplies motherboards and more to learn how to take your rig to the next level head to EVGA calm all right guys we're over here to the Asus booth we're really the only thing I'm interested in we'll talk about some a i/o coolers and stuff but this is the ROG phone no doubt you guys have heard of it by now I am a little late to the party but that's because I kind of wanted to soak in all the information that I could about this because I am doing this video from the perspective of someone who does not care about this kind of stuff I'm a PC gamer sure but my question is why why do we need this why do we need a PC built smartphone I mean the razor phone did it I feel like this is just trying to kind of get that piece of the pie that razors sort of already done okay we'll talk about specs for a second here this is the is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 840 it's 2.9 6 gigahertz 512 gigabytes of storage has an AMOLED HD display and it has a four thousand milliamp battery and it says a unique cooling solution now if you see some vents right here so there's probably is some active cooling in there we also have this attachment on this phone as you can see that goes right up to those vents I just showed and that ish is looks like it's giving you some more active cooling so yeah there we go focus works so this is the device right here now what they are doing is they are targeting people who are on the go people who spend a lot of time traveling on planes trains whatever who want to you basically use a single device to kind of get all their work done play games whatever as a docking station there are some handheld attachments in fact you can see this gentleman right over here is using set attachment there's a handheld attachment there's external batteries docking stations you name it it's available for it so I asked him specifically why what why does this need to exist because I personally don't care for this and I mean the answer was what I just gave you they find that more people are spending time traveling and using their devices for either or productivity or whatever it may be and they want to this was built off of sort of the zenfone docking concept back in like 2013 I think I saw that in CES 2013 where it's basically the same type of function where you dock this and it becomes your complete workstation so here's an example of that docking station right here it's docked it's being charged it's hooked up to a monitor it's hooked up to actual physical peripherals we've got a mouse you've got a keyboard so you can see as I wiggle the mouse we are moving our screen this is just kind of a generic cup G type of a game playing right here I think that's definitely not club G but it looks very similar to it so here's an example of the handheld docking station so it adds another six thousand milliamps worth of battery for speakers this is the actual phone up here it looks like another phone down here is just an extension screen so you actually are turning this into kinda reminds me of like an Nvidia shield type of a deal you actually have some physical buttons on the top right here so you can see you have some trigger button on the right trigger button on the left but this is designed to more or less expand the phone into a more working handheld device not even just for games but it doubles your screen real estate gives you better speakers better battery life so that's obviously an option that's available in terms of expandability so here's the handheld device I was talking about a second ago turns it into more like a Nintendo switch kind of a deal but which you might be actually noticing here's all of these accessories are obviously additional cost and the question is going to be how much is this going to cost in the end in the end if the phone is potentially a thousand dollars and let's say each one of these particular peripherals costs a hundred bucks or more each now you're talking about a mobile gaming phone that at the end of the day costs way more than even a high-end PC would cost you to build so that's where this particular type of device just loses me as something that I'm not really all that interested in I thought maybe I was coming in here as kind of a nanny yo naysayer but I think my particular opinion on this matter is not changing as I'm messing with the device now this is one of those things where they don't have pricing and stuff established yet there's rumors of it being about a thousand dollars the razor phone is definitely shown that there is a market for it it was extremely hard to get your hands on was always sold out and if this booth isn't any indication there is definitely a lot of interest in this sort of thing now this is where I need you guys to sound off let me know in the comments if you're interested in this I might potentially buy one when it comes out to do sort of a more user long-term review but guys I'm sure you guys know by now smartphones and stuff is just not something I am all that passionate about but this has definitely been a hot topic the views on YouTube have definitely shown that the PC gamer market does indeed appear to be interested at least on a surface level maybe they're interested in seeing what people have to say more so than being interested in the device itself so that's where you guys come in sound off in the comments below and let me know what you guys think and I'm curious to see what the overall sent consensus is regarding this phone thanks for watching this video guys as always a huge thank you to EVGA for sponsoring today's video and as always guys I'll see you in the next one