Asus ROG Phone II. The most POWERFUL Smartphone to date

Asus ROG Phone II. The most powerful smartphone so far has been launched, and it is entirely dedicated to gaming enthusiasts, here's what it brings.

Asus ROG Phone II. Today, the phone was officially announced, with which ASUS hopes to conquer at least part of the smartphone market this fall, especially when it comes to gamers. Asus ROG Phone II is the first phone to integrate a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus chip, recently announced by the manufacturer, and it would also be the most powerful in the world at the moment, but it's for gaming, so it's normal to be like that.

Asus ROG Phone II. There are no radical changes on the design side, but the phone comes with a 6.6-inch OLED screen with a 1080p resolution, surprisingly small for a gaming smartphone. Despite this, the screen has support for 10-bit HDR, and the Asus ROG Phone II comes with a 120Hz refresh rate for the screen, the sampling rate for touches is 240Hz, and ASUS says that the touch latency is 49ms, the the smallest in the industry.

Asus ROG Phone II. The most POWERFUL Smartphone to date

Asus ROG Phone II accessories

Asus ROG Phone II. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus chip brings better performances than those offered by other Android phones, being 15% more powerful than them, at frequencies of almost 3 GHz. Fans and a vapor cooling system are implemented, the Asus ROG Phone II also having 12 GB of RAM, 512 GB of storage space, a 48 megapixel camera, plus a huge 6000 mAh battery.

Asus ROG Phone II gamepad
The new gamepads for Asus ROG Phone II.

Asus ROG Phone II. The autonomy depends on the games, but those who play PUBG, for example, will be able to occupy 7 hours of their life with this phone, but only if they set the refresh rate to 60Hz instead of 120Hz. Asus ROG Phone II also comes with new accessories that allow controlling games using a gamepad, and overall we are talking about an extremely interesting smartphone that will certainly be extremely attractive to many customers.

Asus ROG Phone II. For now, the launch price for this new phone model has not been officially announced, and it is not known how much it will cost, but it will be launched in the first week of September.