if there's one thing you should know about me I love gaming I'm a gamer I
wear gamer clothes and now maybe I've got a gamer phone we have ASUS's new Rog
phone seven and seven ultimate in these
are looking pretty good high refresh rate screen coolers built in that's it
amazing performance out of the Snapdragon 8 gen 2. it's looking like
the all-around package let's dig into it and see what we've got so we have two
boxes here we have the Rog phone seven and the Seven ultimate the phones are
very similar so we'll take a quick look at both but let's focus on the unboxing
of the ultimate because this thing is crazy it looks like a drop ship or a
container and a Halo game or something like that and I'm a big fan because I'm
a gamer all right so we got this flap here and it looks like it's going to be
a stand for the phone but let's dig into this main box
it's in a little bit of a rough shape Labs must have had a great time taking a
look at this phone all right let's see what's in this box maybe it comes with a case that'd be sick got our Sim popper
oh it's actually got a kind of neat design inside oh we did get a case
unfortunately it's not that clear plastic one that I love getting with all
those budget phones but this is definitely something this definitely is
not going to protect your phone at all uh we have the phone but let's dig underneath to see what's in here because
obviously it's a pretty big box this is the included 65 watt charger so it's
nice that includes your big charger so you can keep the phone going if you're gaming you don't want to take long
pauses to have to fill it with power that's not fun it's also a nice sleeve
USB C2C cable what is that eight feet
all right let's see what else is in here wow a nice little carrying case where
I'm assuming the Aero cooler and free candy nice let's see what the Aero
cooler looks like so the seven ultimate the main difference is that it does come
with this Aero cooler we did have Labs tested out so make sure to stay tuned
for that but as for now I think it looks pretty cool you can see the fan deep
inside there lots of little fins so in theory it should do pretty well with
heat dissipation and that's everything in the box so let's take a look at the
phone itself the Rog Phone 7 Ultimate no
longer pros this is such a huge advancement it's ultimate now
oh okay we got a little bit of goo on it from the adhesive but nothing too crazy
and it does feel really good in the hands so they call it the 2.5 D screen
so it's got that slight bit of rounding but the front screen itself is actually
flat which I do appreciate I get accidental touches all the time because
I guess I don't know how to hold a phone that's slightly curved but the actual
feel of it in your hand with it still being that bit curved while the screen isn't feels really nice as for the
design on the back uh I do enjoy it I like the kind of cyber Punky look it's
pretty tasteful it's not anything too too crazy just has some lines something
too like obscene we do have our triple camera system with flash I like a little
bit of an angle that they've added with this little identification bar I guess
I'm going to call it and then we have what I'm guessing is an attachment for
the Aero cooler not 100 sure what that is but we'll find out and the passive
Matrix OLED walking around the phone here on the right side we have our power
button and volume rocker I also like the accent of the blue on the power button
tasteful nice on the top we have just a
mic hole and antenna lines on the left side here we have a USBC 3.1 Port which
is awesome so it does quick charging DisplayPort 1.4 and you can see here it
has Pogo pins for attaching the Aero cooler or any other sort of accessories
on the side pretty convenient to have a charging port on the side as well as the
bottom so that depending on how you're holding it you can still keep your phone charged while you're playing I know
that's a big annoyance for me is that depending on how you're holding your
phone your hands kind of blocking that cable and I have to decide whether to
hold the phone weird or not charge and
you know I don't want to stop gaming further down the left side here we have
a blue SIM tray Port again I really like that accent color I know for a fact it's
on SD card slot which is disappointing and lovely it is a dual nano sim on the
bottom would you believe it we have a headphone jack gamers are plugged in and
then we have a another USBC this is not a super fast charging DisplayPort one
but still gives you the speed you'll probably end up needing most of the time I don't know if I like it being off to
the side here it also feels like maybe it should have been on the other side
because what can be convenient with it being off center is that if you're holding the phone in landscape you can
still charge using this port but it seems like the phone was meant to be up
the other way because all of the font is actually upside down if you hold it this
way so you'd have to flip it over if you want to you know show off but I guess
you're then not covering the headphone jack and then on the front here the main
event the 6.78 inch full HD Plus AMOLED
HDR plus 165 Hertz one millisecond
response time 720 Hertz touch rate sampling phone screen with a chin and
forehead but the benefit is the camera doesn't cut into the display because
touch rejection is usually pretty good on phones but if you don't have to worry about it and you know your hunches
aren't going to touch a phone screen that's the best way to do it and one
thing I just realized we didn't see any speakers around the phone and that's
because they have front facing speakers you can kind of see there's a little bit
of a slit at the top and at the bottom those are speakers and boy howdy do they
have some buzzwords five magnet 12 by 16
super linear front-facing Dirac HD
sounds this is I guess maybe top of the line we're gonna hear and find out later
as for weight I wouldn't say it's too heavy feels like kind of any Flagship but we'll wait and see exactly how much
it does weigh with our man Linus 250
grams is that heavy slightly the only thing that's kind of disappointing about
the RG Phone 7 and 7 Ultimate is that another Super water resistant they're
only ip54 which means good against splashes but don't submerge it take a
quick look at the regular RG Phone 7 see if there's any major differences
just come with a case it does that same kind of plastic shell is
included with this phone comes with the same 65 watt charger but instead of the
storm white we have the ultimate in the only color the ultimate comes in but
this one we have in its Phantom black so we'll see how that looks yeah taking a
look at it I like this black it's pretty snazzy the back is quite a bit different
so it has this kind of iridescent see-through plastic that does look
pretty snazzy but I could tell already it is quite fingerprinty this one here
is just a solid plastic so not transparent whatsoever but you can't see
fingerprints that's kind of the nice thing about a white phone and this material which also notice the
difference is it doesn't have that pmo LED screen or the attachment for the
Aero cooler and the accents instead of being blue are this red which is cool as
for ports and buttons all the same as the RG Phone 7 Ultimate again just with
the red accents instead of the blue I forgot we got to try the case on I'm
assuming it's the same phone size let's try the seven ultimate case on this
don't do that don't drop it yeah it uh
I'm not a huge fan of it the nice kind of 2.5 D curve is gone because now this
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Newegg 35 seconds ago before that ad read I said the cases were the same
they're not we may as well try it on to see what the difference is maybe my mind
will be completely changed maybe this case is way better the one that's
included with the RG phone 7. no it's still bad since the phones are
so so similar with the same specs between them and everything like that we're just going to focus on the RG
Phone 7 Ultimate because it can use the Aero cooler and I think that's pretty
cool uh powering it on here we can see it's got a cool custom background and
skin for the clock big fan of a good uh clock skin we swipe in here we can see
yeah they've definitely skinned this uh version of Android with their gamery
look it looks like Armory crate if you uh have any ASUS accessories on your PC
I'm not a huge fan of the whole circle look it's actually one of the reasons I don't like Sony phones but luckily
enough when I gave Logistics this phone to set up for me uh they were actually
presented with an option of choosing stock Android or this ASUS skin so if
you don't like the look of this don't use it as for bloatware and all the
stuff like that nothing too crazy again some of these apps are going to be from
Labs but messenger Instagram Reddit
seems like there's only four or five different apps that came with the phone so that's nothing too crazy as for specs
the RG Phone 7 Ultimate only comes in one configuration which is 16 gigs of
RAM and 512 gigs of storage but if you don't need that much you just want the
RG Phone 7 you can't get a 12 gigs of RAM and 256 gigs of storage be aware
there is no SD card expansion so you're going to be stuck with what you got as
for processor it does have the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 as I mentioned earlier which is an absolute beast in
performance if you don't know what that means that's fine we'll take a look at that later on it also supports Wi-Fi 7
and 6E this will be a great option because it's going to stay a bit
future-proof for you and has Bluetooth 5.3 so you'll get the low battery usage
better audio quality everything like that I'm not gonna pretend to be a master Bluetooth I don't know what's
going on what's the difference between 5.2 and 5.3 what about just Bluetooth six like I don't get it and we can see
it has a 6 000 milliamp hour battery as
well and what's really cool about that is it's actually a dual 3000 cell
battery so by having two different batteries you kind of start to drain
them and then fill them back up quicker as they're a smaller capacity just know
that your phone will charge faster and you'll get to play longer because of it
and finally this is running Android 13 with again the skin over top if you'd
like what is nice it does come with two years of os of dates and four years of
security updates though there is an asterisk after the security updates
I don't know what that means but be aware I've just been informed that the
batteries are actually uh balanced in the phone perfectly balanced as all
things should be now that we've heard about specs I know you just want to know
about gaming but but we got to do crab brief all right let's see if this five
magnet speaker actually does anything
it sounds really good like holy smokes it gets really loud the one thing is is
when I had it at max volume the bass did start to kind of distort a little bit
but once I lowered it down even just a couple Taps sounded way better and when
you have it in your hands facing you it sounds really really good really really
impressed as the screen gets pretty darn bright it does get up to 1200 nits which
is great we did have Labs check it and on both the seven and the Seven ultimate
it gets up to around 470 nits and while the ultimate does get two units higher
at 472 that's just within margin of error screen quality is definitely fine
it would be great if it was a little bit higher than 1080p but I understand the trade-off to get the higher refresh rate
and better battery life it's a AMOLED screen so the colors are really Punchy
and look very very vibrant and of course the darks look great four cameras on the
seven and seven ultimate we have a 50 megapixel main camera a 13 megapixel
Ultra wide and a 5 megapixel macro camera
odd again I don't really see the use of a macro camera all that often a lot of
times ultrawide cameras can just shoot macro I would rather have a telephoto
but we'll see if it's any good and then if you're wondering this is a flash that
makes your pictures brighter in the dark as for the app itself I mean it looks
like every camera app ever let's take a photo with this main camera here and see
how it looks alright now let's try the ultra wide which I am a fan of I think
it's a fun camera to have wow looks pretty good Sven is a little
bit soft in the face uh and the red of
the clock is a little bit orange and a little bit fuzzy but nothing too crazy
everything looks a lot more lifelike and I didn't actually change any settings
though the Vancouver side in the back does look a little bit more mangled
which is interesting colors again look pretty decent the red of the sign uh the
darkness of the background is not lost of course we gotta take a picture with
the 5 megapixel macro the love tiger
same problem we had with the unit hurts I wish it told you what four to six
centimeters is because I don't know and having to look over is silly in my mind
at least if you get close to an object in the main camera modes it does warn
you that you should either move back or switch into the macro mode but it would
be great if it just moved in the Mac mode automatically these look pretty good our little subjects looking
handsome as always this is an 8K video 24 FPS one thing to note is it does
punch in a bit when you switch to 8K all the cameras do have Eis so not Optical
image stabilization but electronic I would say pretty darn solid and again
most people are probably gonna be filming at 8K but there was no lag or
hitches or anything like that and the mic is good but I wouldn't say is like
as good as the Samsung's Googles and apples of the world now let's check out
the selfie shooter because you know sometimes you want to snap a quick selfie and send it in the Discord server
with all your pals uh when you get a big dub so let's see how this looks it does
look very clear it's a 32 megapixel camera so of course it should brightness and color temperature looks good for
sharpness I know some will kind of overcompensate with the sharpness and
it's like whoa but this one here looks pretty good one thing to note is taking
a video right away it's really punched in I actually looked around for settings
to punch it out it's like if you were this close to me in a grocery store I would take a step back so something to
be aware of if you have short arms that might not be very impressive but the
exposure changing for my face does look good it's time no not an update no what
do they call if I wear two monocles Bionicle
it's done playing gunshot man this game looks good this is everything on Max and
uh we're running out of solid 60. gentian doesn't allow for more than 60
FPS so we can't fully utilize the 160hz screen but this looks great and if you
don't want to take my word for it here's some information from Labs like most the
phones we've tested with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 this phone performs excellently
in Dolphin emulator playing Mario Kart Wii the seven and seven ultimate were
both locked at 61 FPS for against an impact it was 60fps give or take a frame
here there on both the 7 and 7 Ultimate Call of Duty mobile locked 95 and
unhappy raccoon 60fps give or take a couple with the seven performing
slightly worse than the 7 Ultimate but with all this gameplay and stuff like that how much did the battery actually
last well Labs check that out as well both the 7 and 7 Ultimate were able to
last up to 35 hours that's really impressive if you're just gonna be like
on a bus or on a plane for a long trip and just watching a video on your phone
at you know low brightness and for what the min minimum battery is the phone was
able to get 3.3 hours so if you're a big mobile gamer and you just want to
absolutely play at it's the best all the time don't expect this to last super
long but if you're somebody who's just gonna hang out and watch a video on
their phone for a while this will last you ages so I thought the cool it
started with a temperature of 25 degrees and got to a peak of 40 but with the
cooler it started at 23 degrees and got to a peak of 41 and the score of the
test was actually higher without the cooler than with the cooler what it all
comes down to is that pretty much the 7 and 7 Pro are identical performance was
extremely similar between the two and the frame here or there that was
different is probably just margin of error or you know luck of the draw and
but what's interesting is that whole the cooler making the phone perform worse
maybe that little bit of power draw means the soc can't fully perform I'm
not sure but maybe just maybe the looks make it worth it let's throw it on and
see in force it on here it tells you the cooler
temperature and the system temperature which 93 degrees Fahrenheit I don't
speak Freedom Units but I mean it sounds high does give you a nice cooling effect
from the fans on your hands though which is nice and it gives you an additional four buttons so you have this kind of
grip trigger and then index finger trigger as well nice the app looks
pretty cool so it has a smart mode a cool mode Frosty and Frozen so cool is
just steady airflow smart will change it based on whatever it wants to do and
frosty is high speed but I cannot do frozen unless I'm plugged in uh it
doesn't even actually tell you what it is all right in the settings for air triggers we can see though there's
different squeeze gestures for Google assistant or X mode which is just you
know pushing the phone into higher performance levels and then the squeeze Force Level so the amount of force
needed to do all these different features we do have lighting controls so
you can have your like notifications for incoming call for music X mode charging
what's nice is you can also change the lights on the left and right side of the
unit so you have two different colors uh yeah it's pretty neat looking what's
really cool is uh this Aero active portal so if you click on that it'll
actually open up the phone to help rapidly dissipate heat pretty tricky to
see but it is open my iPhone can't do that I don't know if you can hear it
super clearly but it is decently loud though if you're on the bus and this is
you got your fan on just bump the stereo what's cool is that the cooler actually
has some extra ports on it so you have the pass-through for the USB and it adds
another headphone jack so that's cool if you don't want to have you know something come off the side here because
again your hands are going to be here you still get to use a headphone jack here we go let's try Frozen mode
like you put this on beside your bed ASMR White Noise for you let's try going
back into engine impact to see if we get even more performance wow still run
smooth and we know for a fact it didn't make a huge difference anyways thanks to Labs overall this phone can game it can
take pretty decent photos it makes neat sounds and the cooler is hard to get off
a thousand dollars that's the regular
seven there's actually no pricing we have for the seven ultimate yet and even
release date is just kind of Q2 though I assume the seven will come out uh this
month in April depending on how much the ultimate goes for some of these features
are kind of neat like that pmo-led screen that you'll rarely see is neat
this little Port that opens up to go off the phone is neat this Aero cooler is
neat for myself I think this is a pretty solid package I love the option of using
the Army crate scan or just talk Android and of course with the Snapdragon hn2
you're gonna get solid performance and battery life as we saw is you know solid
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