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accessory dependent phones have existed for many years in multiple forms and it seems like they always follow the same script the experience at launch with no accessories or just a couple of weird ones is net at best which leads to poor sales which leads to very little incentive to keep creating accessories for the tiny user base which ultimately leads to failure so I guess that's why a soos went full hem preparing not just a couple but an entire suite of gaming related gaming related accessories for their ROG phone some of which like oh yeah this one right here give you such a big competitive edge that they should probably be considered cheating anywho we've got all of them so we're just gonna like get these puppies opened up and go through a uh oh oh hold on a second oh right sponsors glass wire lets you instantly see your current and past network activity detect malware and block badly behaving apps on your PC or Android device use offer code - and get 25% off glassware at the link in the video description the biggest issue to me with the accessories on some of the devices that I alluded to before was that the features that they offered this was particularly true in the case of the Moto Z and it's modules didn't have a clear benefit over existing device agnostic options and or they were unreasonably expensive so challenge number one for Asus is at a reasonable price giving me functionality that is as good or greater than someone else's one size fits all option so we've got their desktop dock here that's gonna cost you about two hundred and thirty bucks we've got their professional dock so we'll figure out what the difference is there that's gonna cost you 120 we've got the who these ones are who the Y gig dock is gonna be 330 and then the twin View dock is gonna be $400 with in my opinion the most interesting one for most people the game vice coming in at 90 bucks so that's looking okay kind of mixed bag I guess but even the good things here are gonna be worthless if they can't address challenge number two building a good enough phone that you'd actually want to use it when it's not docked to an accessory so the ROG phone them it's decidedly futuristic looking with near 360-degree Gorilla Glass uses ubiquitously edgy line design and fancy orange accents the screen is a six inch HD R OLED panel rocking a 2160 by 1080 resolution with in my opinion far more importantly this watery smooth 90 Hertz refresh rate like honestly other manufacturers out there take notice because this needs to be way more common on mobile devices and while we're at it this does - yes my friends it has a headphone jack though to be clear other manufacturers I'm not saying you should all be more like cases in every way because the UI design of the default theme on this phone is tarah bad the only good thing I can say about it is that they give you the option to change it so we made a custom theme that looks as close to stock Android as possible and then we pretended like the thing just never happened the volume and lock buttons are pretty clicky which is nice but given that they're on the same side and close together I wish they had kind of different textures so that they're easier to feel in your pocket and then on the opposite side you've got your buttons but rather something that you've probably never seen before this double USB type-c port thing so asus is touting this as a way to charge your phone without obstructing your hands while you're gaming and I'm with them there but whether this was an unintended side effect or not it's also finally the solution to the longtime issue of charging your phone while watching Netflix in bed and it gets better it also serves as a connection hub for most of the accessories that we're going to get into in a little bit here I got to turn that down oh yeah the speakers are really loud almost all of the accessories connect directly to this special port which by the way has a huge warning on it out of the box not to plug power into the wrong one because half of it is wired up more normally like for charging while the other half is presumably set up for the rest of the HDMI output Gigabit LAN second headphone jack and a presumably laser vision functionality that's included with this phone now actually asus couldn't confirm that last one another thing that sets this device apart is the cpu so yes it's a snapdragon 845 like all the other flagship phones from this year but asus is actually bidding the SOC z' specifically for this phone allowing them to reach two point nine six gigahertz as opposed to the stock two point eight gigahertz it doesn't sound like a lot probably because it isn't but it's enough to call it the fastest 845 equipped phone and this does show in our synthetic tests too bad the Snapdragon 855 is already upon us anyway because of that extra clock speed boost it's bound to run hotter and to combat this a seuss implemented a massive vapor chamber like this is a pretty heavy phone and copper plate that does seem to mostly work with the warmth evenly spread out throughout most of the device under load instead of just kind of singeing your fingers on one hand instead of both of them battery life is also a plus thanks to the thick 4,000 milliamp hour battery inside which brings us then to the accessories now I could give you some fancy b-roll of them while I read out the spec list but instead Jake and I are just gonna try them all out and give you guys some candid live impressions what are we gonna do first okay so this is the one accessory you get for free this is the ROG phone cooling fan basically it's just got a little sliding slider so that it can clamp on to the phone it's got a little tiny link what would that even be like a 30 mil fan yeah I'm stupid like that little tiny fan that's got kind of like a ventilation thing about it here and then it's got their proprietary dual seat connector and then the charging port and a headphone jack now did you like try to benchmark this or what see I tried but phone's the way that they like temperatures and stuff it's kind of inconsistent like I'd load up a game the same scene and the phone would be at 35 and then I'd do it again and it would be at 32 like regardless of putting the fan on so I don't know but it like subjectively when you have it on it definitely feels cooler in the hand right it's just a matter of how much that change in surface temperature is actually affecting the initialize based on how the cooling layout is inside there yeah so this is interesting the way that it works is that you actually aren't expecting a lot of the cooling to happen here like there's no thermal compound or anything like that so it just vents the air out either side so you know I could kind of see it cooling your hands as much as cooling the phone being a benefit here it goes pretty loud actually oh and it's got a little RTP light on the back so if you turn R on it you don't lose your RGB light anymore for gaming yeah I got that dinosaur yeah oh my god Oh actually he's unconscious I didn't kill him I think but does it feel hot on your hand or what no actually I think for me the biggest benefit is not even like cooling the phone necessarily but because you know how your hands can get sweaty when you're holding a warm phone but the phone doesn't even feel warm you can see your GPU 70% oh yeah it's got that cool little overlay 31 degrees on the phone that's like that's the low 30 that's the lowest I've ever seen it like probably like well out here in the warehouse this is true yeah yeah that's probably a factor okay hit me with the game vice so basically the way this guy works is you've got both halves of a controller you've got your r1 r2 l1 l2 and then you've got kind of this flexible bit here that stretches a little bit so it's kind of spring-loaded on the inside there oh and this guy only uses the side type-c or the phone actually comes with two games this one's kind of like a pub G clone are they even trying to make it not look like a pudgy clone it's looks like a dating game like Sims or something like that you know like Grand Theft Auto dating thug dating Holmes man these controls are so much better than trying to use on screen okay so I'm not a huge fan of how the positioning of like the a button compared to the positioning of the stick here a be mobile okay so this game doesn't at least from what I understand doesn't natively support these controls but Asus has this really really sick feature which I should probably show it once we were actually in a game but you can set custom key mapping right and so this is so there that's just your analog stick so you just kind of plump that down wherever the analog stick is in the game and then the game has no idea so even if they try and block this for like competitive reasons mmm how are they gonna do that there's no way yeah so then this is just look yeah I don't love it wherever you want and change that's - Wow that's already cool have individual sticks even like I can't even tell the difference between the one that's maps natively and the one that we just set up if you don't have this controller actually you can also configure something called air triggers and so they're these little like I think they're 20 gram actuation point little like ultrasonic buttons here so your triggers can be actually on top of the phone so you don't haven't have that on the screen so that can be cool too yeah I gotta no way what what the heck okay come on oh you got him all right so clearly more configuration required yeah does it support like multiple profiles like driving profile and stuff I think so I don't know I think you could just make a new one or something right okay so that's hard to do yeah and this is the twin view this is heavy yeah I mean there's a lot inside like there's a fan at the top I think it's probably a beefier one than the little fan attachment you have the full same screen as on the phone so that's the same six inch OLED super nice panel and a six thousand milliamp hour battery okay so that's basic 1.5 the phone on top of and a full sized SD card reader yeah hell yeah what I don't even know what you would use that but then like it's so weird cuz they only put one shoulder button on each side yeah I think the point is you still use like the firing on the screen yeah and then you can have your triggers oh yeah baby dude this boat is fast okay I'm checking a little bit now though yeah but I can feel it that's crazy like this is a weird use case but I think there is one game that actually makes use of both screens okay well the ones they included it's the pub G clone I think you can have your map up top here yeah I still don't have a ton of hope first I'm not a hundred percent of the really nice on this one I mean I'd love to hear your comments below guys like what would you use the dual screens for here so next up we've got the mobile desktop dock which gives you microphone headphone hdmi and displayport gigabit ethernet for USB threes and manufacturers okay everyone stop doing this if it's not thunder pull don't put like a little lightning thing near it I know that's not technically the same one but just stop they mean power but it looks like Thunderbolt don't do that another DisplayPort one of those horrible USB micro-b three ones and then an SD why does this a sink do they mean sy and see like these are both one out but you know what let's not worry too much about that so what's the point of this so this is a way to be able to use your phone with your regular computers accessories when you don't want to use the phone it just acts as a pass-through for your regular desktop but the really really dumb thing is that cable you're talking about earlier you have to use that to pass through the USB functionality to the PC and it doesn't come with that cable does this have its own cooling fan that's like ripping it up in there oh that is loud oh yeah I think you can't do that in the game mobile to desktop docking is one of those like who's asking for this things there we go Jake let's watch the Sabrina the Teenage it's not even like I know you do the full screen events like it works yeah but that's still a bad experience oh wait oh okay and you can so that's kind of working it's just the games I bet you they specifically lock it out of those like pub G type games so if you're like really into tower defense games I guess this is kind of cool I've never been sold on like a an Android desktop experience before and I don't think I'm solo today do you think it passes through do you think to come on it might it's worth a shot at least or kg sink can this dock do it oh wow yeah it did pass through do you think and it's 4k so I guess if you don't want to spend $330 on that I don't there is this okay so this is the non ROG version whoa okay Kate you actually need this what so you still get the same the stand like functionality out of the cardboard are you kidding no I'm not joking this is an is advertised functionality right here I guess they weren't expecting such a heavy phone anyway I mean this still looks alright though you've got your Ethernet you've got your USB three you've got your power in HDMI I mean this overall this looks like it makes more sense to me other than the how to build a sous professional dock stand yeah I've never seen anything more professional in my life and this this this is fine this is pro the other thing not pro try this so you have to enable Ethernet in the Ethernet menu so I've got that turned on do think we get an IP oh yeah yeah yeah so it seems to be working what do you think Oh Danny so yeah that's it's like not even used to this okay so yeah that definitely works all right so one more accessory then this is the Big Kahuna kids say Kahuna yeah so this is the wide gig dock it's got USB and HDMI so it's like got way less functionality than the other ones except it does USB and HDMI wirelessly using why gig so all we got to do theoretically is enable Y gig we've already got this thing paired and theoretically so a thing will happen here hey okay you can use that too are you playing games yeah latency good really good compression not as good look at the way it's weird some things are really sharp ya know it takes a second yeah so that's what that's what's going going down here see like watch these logos as I scroll through them they see that like when they're in motion they look like absolute garbage and then it like takes the SAG so in fairness to this most people probably wouldn't be sitting 4 feet from a 77 inch screen but to say that there is a clear image quality difference here like even when we account for it being blown would be an understatement look if you come and have a look at like yeah there's quite a bit of compression yeah there's a lot of compression like that the image is quite fine here and it's quite less fine here like this text would be sharp if we weren't Wireless right now latency though like you said is really good like that's that's probably better than a wireless Xbox controller on this TV you know what I'm actually less impressed now that I'm looking at it side-by-side again in fairness this is a 90 Hertz display and that's super not and it's super wireless but like I'd probably have to come up with some other use cases for it other than gaming to justify it for myself anyway oh he's got buddies oh yeah so the conclusions are pretty mixed here the desktop dock I guess is pretty cool if you have a use case for it I personally don't really and I think the same can be said for the wide gig dock with price being a serious concern for both of those the professional dock though I quite like other than the cardboard box stupid stand thing that they're doing but I think the real star of the show has got to be the game vise here because this plus a portable battery pack to me makes more sense than this one in terms of how much better it legitimately makes you at real games like how much more competitive it makes you so I'm pretty happy with my experience overall but I think Casey still has a lot of fine-tuning to do for what will undoubtedly be an ROG phone to let me know in the comments what you guys think which ones were your favorites which ones did you think were the worst oh I'm excited again if you need to create a website we recommend square spaces all-in-one platform there are ward winning templates make creating a powerful online identity easier than ever before and every template can be a starting point for a wide range of projects Squarespace provides award-winning 24/7 customer support via live chat and email and you can attend a live webinar check out their help guides if you're still having trouble you can now transfer your third party domains to Squarespace so instead of working with multiple vendors to maintain your online presence you can manage all of your domain and billing settings with 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