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ASUS ROG Phone 5s With 144Hz AMOLED display, Snapdragon 888+ Announced

ASUS ROG Phone 5s

ASUS launched the company’s latest flagship gaming smartphone – ASUS ROG Phone 5s. This smartphone comes as the successor to ROG Phone 5, launched earlier this year. The main highlight of the phone is the 6.78-inch Full HD+ AMOLED HDR display with 144Hz refresh rate, powerpack internals, and a massive 6000mAh battery with support for 65W HyperCharge fast charging.

ASUS ROG Phone 5s: The Real Successor?

The ROG Phone 5s features high-end specs, internally, it brings Snapdragon 888 Plus SoC paired with (up to) 18GB of RAM, which boosts up the performance significantly enhancing the overall user experience. The 6.78-inch Full HD+ Samsung’s E4 AMOLED HDR display with 144Hz refresh rate, 300Hz touch-sampling rate, 24.3ms touch latency is the icing on the cake.

ASUS ROG Phone 5s

The explicit successor of ROG Phone 5 brings in a 64MP rear camera with a Sony IMX686 sensor and a 24MP front-facing camera for pixel-perfect photos. And speaking of cameras, the phone comes with 256GB / 512GB storage. Unsurprisingly, the ROG Phone 5s features a 3.5mm audio jack, which we rarely find these days on top-end phones.

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Gaming is what ASUS ROG’s are known for and ROG Phone 5s brings in Ultrasonic sensors for AirTrigger 5 and grip press detection paired along with Dual 7-magnet Linear 12x16mm front-facing speakers with GameFX & Dirac HD Sound. The audio is powered by dual Cirrus Logic CS35L45 Mono AMP, Quad microphones with OZO Noise Reduction Technology.

ASUS ROG Phone 5s

That said, the successor of ROG Phone 5 comes in two variants; ROG Phone 5s and ROG Phone 5s Pro. The ROG Phone 5s is the same as the ROG Phone 5 with a ROG (RGB light) logo, while the 5s Pro comes added with ROG Vision Color PMOLED display, and even the logo on the back has a customizable RGB light.

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ASUS ROG Phone 5s Specifications

  • 6.78-inch (2448 × 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 144Hz OLED 10-bit HDR 20.4:9 aspect ratio display, 300Hz touch sampling rate, 111% DCI-P3, sRGB : 150.89%, Delta E average <1%; Contrast ratio: 1,000,000:1, 10-bit HDR, 5 nits to 800nits @ APL100 + HBM or 1200nits @ APL1, Corning Gorilla Glass Victus protection
  • (Up to) 3GHz Octa Core Snapdragon 888+ 5nm Mobile Platform
  • Adreno 660 GPU
  • 16GB LPDDR5 RAM with 256GB (UFS 3.1) storage /  18GB LPDDR5 RAM with 512GB (UFS 3.1) storage
  • 64MP rear camera with Sony IMX686 sensor, 0.8μm pixel size, f/1.8 aperture, 13MP 125˚ ultra-wide camera with f/2.4 aperture, 5MP macro sensor with f/2.0 aperture, 8k video at 30 fps, 4k at 60fps, slow-motion 4K at 120 fps, 1080p at 240fps
  • 24MP front-facing camera with 0.9µm pixel size, f/2.0 aperture
  • Android 11 with ROG UI
  • 3.5mm audio jack, ESS Sabre ES9280AC Pro with HyperStream II QUAD DAC  architecture, Dual 7-magnet Linear 12x16mm front-facing speakers with GameFX & Dirac HD Sound, Powered by dual Cirrus Logic CS35L45 Mono AMP, Quad microphones with OZO Noise Reduction Technology
  • In-display fingerprint sensor, Ultrasonic sensors for AirTrigger 5, and grip press detection
  • 6000mAh battery with 65W HyperCharge fast charging, supports up to 30W QC4.0 / PD3.0 / Direct Charge adapter
  • Dual SIM (nano + nano)
  • 5G SA/NSA, Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ax, Bluetooth 5.2, GPS/GLONASS/Beidou, Galileo(E1+E5a), QZSS(L1+L5), NavIC(L5), USB Type-C, NFC
  • Dimensions: 172.8×77.2×10.29mm; Weight: 238g

ASUS ROG Phone 5s Price

ASUS ROG Phone 5s

The AUS ROG Phone 5s comes in Phantom Black and Aurora White colours;

  • 16GB + 256GB – NT$ 29,990 (~ US$ 1,077 / Rs. 79,900)
  • 18GB + 512GB – NT$ 33,990 (~ US$ 1221 / Rs. 90,580)

The ROG Phone 5s Pro comes only in Phantom Black colour priced at NT$ 37,990 (~ US$ 1,365 / Rs. 1,01,230) for the 18GB + 512GB version and also comes with AeroActive Cooler 5 in the box. It is available to order in Taiwan and will ship starting from August 24th.