WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.110 you know there's something a little funny about someone who hasn't upgraded their phone in two years unboxing this 00:00:06.600 --> 00:00:13.380 this is the ROG phone and it is just 00:00:10.110 --> 00:00:16.470 about the most excessive mobile device 00:00:13.380 --> 00:00:20.279 that I have ever encountered 00:00:16.470 --> 00:00:24.300 it's equipped with a snapdragon 865 plus 00:00:20.279 --> 00:00:28.619 processor anywhere from 12 to 16 00:00:24.300 --> 00:00:33.570 gigabytes of memory 512 gigs of storage 00:00:28.619 --> 00:00:37.700 a 144 hertz OLED display that actually 00:00:33.570 --> 00:00:41.309 touched samples at 270 Hertz making for 00:00:37.700 --> 00:00:45.500 supposedly a nearly instantaneous feel 00:00:41.309 --> 00:00:49.590 to your touch inputs it comes with 00:00:45.500 --> 00:00:52.079 what's the phone power brick apparently 00:00:49.590 --> 00:00:57.780 charge is really fast it's got a six thousand milliamp hour battery comes 00:00:55.140 --> 00:01:03.090 with a type seat a headphone jack adapter yeah they took out the headphone 00:01:01.050 --> 00:01:14.340 jack it's got some well that's really nice it's got some extra rubber stoppers 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:16.530 included for the put there it is ladies 00:01:14.340 --> 00:01:21.689 and gentlemen now one of the design goals for ASUS with the ROG phone 3 was 00:01:19.229 --> 00:01:26.220 apparently to keep the form factor the same as the ROG phone 2 in order to 00:01:24.630 --> 00:01:32.729 improve compatibility with their previous generation accessories so you 00:01:29.430 --> 00:01:36.450 can expect to use the same like game pad 00:01:32.729 --> 00:01:38.280 adapter and like their grip and even 00:01:36.450 --> 00:01:41.909 their twin view dock which we did a video about last year on the Linus tech 00:01:40.320 --> 00:01:45.600 tips channel although it should be noted that if you use your last generation 00:01:43.470 --> 00:01:52.890 dock you're gonna be limited to 120 Hertz instead of 144 Hertz which is what 00:01:48.600 --> 00:01:55.320 the new ROG phone 3 runs at in terms of 00:01:52.890 --> 00:02:01.770 the design I'd actually say they did a pretty good job of maintaining the the 00:01:59.070 --> 00:02:06.899 gamer look but without overdoing it actually previous ROG phones I felt like 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:11.250 they had kind of over played the game rhiness of it and the thing is it's a 00:02:08.640 --> 00:02:15.030 phone so most of the time I would think you're probably using it 00:02:12.270 --> 00:02:19.350 as a phone as opposed to as a mobile gaming console and even mobile gaming 00:02:17.040 --> 00:02:22.440 consoles like they generally don't look like way over the top you can be sitting 00:02:20.610 --> 00:02:26.130 on the bus using them so I think this is I think they could dial it back a touch 00:02:24.090 --> 00:02:29.700 more but this is definitely a step in the right direction let's go ahead and 00:02:28.020 --> 00:02:32.970 actually let's go ahead and have a look at all the ports and everything so on 00:02:31.320 --> 00:02:37.770 the right you got your stacked up lock button and volume rocker right here 00:02:35.730 --> 00:02:42.000 these are the pressure sensitive air triggers so these are for gamers so you 00:02:40.590 --> 00:02:46.140 got your your shoulder buttons right there up on the top you got a whole lot 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:49.560 of not much apparently the phone has a for mic array for noise cancelling 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:55.260 though so that's a pretty nice you got a sim tray here actually Oh does 00:02:51.780 --> 00:03:00.330 it have microSD expansion the answer is 00:02:55.260 --> 00:03:04.650 no dual SIM yes microSD expansion no 00:03:00.330 --> 00:03:06.750 with that said 512 gigs is a friggin lot 00:03:04.650 --> 00:03:11.370 of storage as for why they didn't do a one terabyte option apparently it was 00:03:08.940 --> 00:03:18.600 because the only one terabyte drive available was ufs 3.0 not ufs 3.1 and 00:03:16.260 --> 00:03:23.100 they were after just nothing but raw speed down here we've got two USB type 00:03:21.060 --> 00:03:28.230 C's but it should be noted that one of them which is actually there we go 00:03:25.020 --> 00:03:31.680 Handley marked on here is a USB type-c 00:03:28.230 --> 00:03:35.070 and the other is do not insert a USB 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:40.290 type-c cable to this port do not do that 00:03:35.070 --> 00:03:42.810 so that's the the red one on the bottom 00:03:40.290 --> 00:03:46.110 we've got another USB type-c it's offset again just like the previous one and as 00:03:44.670 --> 00:03:50.790 I alluded to before there is no headphone jack right here dual 00:03:47.910 --> 00:03:56.100 front-facing stereo speakers a la the HTC One and I'm expecting big things 00:03:53.700 --> 00:04:00.000 from them apparently they have tuned the crap out of these speakers for like 00:03:58.170 --> 00:04:04.640 great bass response or something like that or in the middle of the setup 00:04:01.590 --> 00:04:08.100 process here I'm gonna go with classic 00:04:04.640 --> 00:04:09.390 thank you a soos as of I believe last 00:04:08.100 --> 00:04:14.250 generation or might have been the first ROG phone offers the ability to set it 00:04:11.940 --> 00:04:18.150 up with a not horrendous game arelooking skin which I personally really 00:04:15.989 --> 00:04:23.350 appreciate now we're gonna get dropped onto the 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:25.030 cringy startup video I cheated on this 00:04:23.350 --> 00:04:33.780 video a little bit I have already been through this startup process and it is 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:52.500 hi larious scan the ROG totem ditch 00:04:33.780 --> 00:04:52.500 don't question it oh yeah oh yeah yeah 00:04:55.450 --> 00:04:58.500 sounds pretty good 00:05:04.630 --> 00:05:12.410 this is I do I love you guys 00:05:08.449 --> 00:05:15.289 very dearly but what the hell did I just 00:05:12.410 --> 00:05:22.009 watch welcome to the Republic of gamers now I'm good thanks oh that's actually 00:05:20.150 --> 00:05:25.819 kind of a clever design for the stock case so it'll protect it from you know 00:05:24.440 --> 00:05:31.280 getting dropped on a corner or whatever but it still it leaves the air triggers 00:05:27.530 --> 00:05:33.110 exposed and it allows this to be mounted 00:05:31.280 --> 00:05:38.960 let's take a look at this puppy now this is the arrow active cooler 3 there you 00:05:36.349 --> 00:05:44.000 go it's labeled under there and it's got a little kickstand it's got a little 00:05:41.150 --> 00:05:48.740 cooling fan and it's got a pass-through for your USB type-c as well as your 00:05:46.039 --> 00:05:53.960 headphone jack so the idea is you can go ahead and pop this puppy open like that 00:05:51.680 --> 00:06:00.860 pop your phone in there like that pop those dual USB type-c Xin to the bottom 00:05:56.659 --> 00:06:02.770 there and there we go you've got your 00:06:00.860 --> 00:06:09.590 phone propped up and you're ready for some hardcore gaming a bind X mode level 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:14.960 3 performance high yes so not only are they using a snapdragon 865 plus but 00:06:12.229 --> 00:06:20.690 apparently they allow you to manually specify if you want it to go into a 00:06:17.630 --> 00:06:22.759 higher performance tier and stay there 00:06:20.690 --> 00:06:27.740 because it's got well active cooling on the back of the phone how loud is it 00:06:23.990 --> 00:06:31.690 though oh it's audible here I'll hold it 00:06:27.740 --> 00:06:36.050 up to my microphone here you hear that 00:06:31.690 --> 00:06:38.330 it's really heavy Wow 00:06:36.050 --> 00:06:43.219 I actually hadn't really even thought about it up until now but I guess that's 00:06:40.729 --> 00:06:47.150 kind of what happens when you have quite literally every feature built into the 00:06:45.440 --> 00:06:50.780 thing so it has an in screen fingerprint sensor you can go ahead and set up a 00:06:49.159 --> 00:06:55.159 fingerprint here so it's an optical rather than ultrasonic one you can tell 00:06:52.849 --> 00:07:01.580 from the lights how's the speed of the fingerprint unlock though oh not bad 00:06:58.880 --> 00:07:05.569 that's acceptable not the fastest I've seen oh we should get some games we've 00:07:03.979 --> 00:07:12.440 got a game let's say what's a game not all the kids play 7.9 gigabytes yeah 00:07:09.469 --> 00:07:14.769 no wonder you need a 512 gig freaking phone 00:07:13.689 --> 00:07:18.999 let's have a look at our game genie stuff that's actually pretty handy so 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:23.949 you can see your CPU temps what frame rate you're running at clock speeds 00:07:20.589 --> 00:07:26.919 whether X modes enabled you can lock 00:07:23.949 --> 00:07:29.919 down your brightness oh cool check that out so you got a little 00:07:28.269 --> 00:07:35.409 overlay that can show you some of those key specs if you want you can turn off 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:37.869 calls yes there's just a one touch 00:07:35.409 --> 00:07:42.309 screen recording button one thing to note though is that unlike the previous 00:07:39.939 --> 00:07:45.759 ROG phone they have not integrated twitch streaming so apparently that was 00:07:44.110 --> 00:07:49.659 because they just had issues with it from the briefing call that's really 00:07:47.979 --> 00:07:53.050 cool just being able to like quickly record like that new speed up button 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:58.079 okay so that probably just like closed background tasks and stuff like that 00:07:54.459 --> 00:08:01.269 still for a su software this is actually 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:04.119 surprisingly smooth and usable 00:08:01.269 --> 00:08:08.289 it looks like YouTube live streaming is ready to rock though battery more than 00:08:06.579 --> 00:08:14.019 two days remaining that's what happens to 6,000 milliamp hour battery refresh 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:16.809 rate you can set to auto interesting 00:08:14.019 --> 00:08:21.099 let's go straight to 144 Hertz all that stuff one thing I needed to change right 00:08:19.659 --> 00:08:27.099 away the first time I fired this thing up was to go to I think natural was the 00:08:25.029 --> 00:08:32.019 one that didn't look ridiculous in their splendid settings that puts us in sRGB 00:08:29.709 --> 00:08:36.129 mode for using the operating system things aren't so over the top the first 00:08:34.029 --> 00:08:41.110 couple pictures I took on it I was like wow this camera is horrible but it was 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:44.500 actually just the display that was horrible I mean the camera's still not 00:08:42.969 --> 00:08:48.790 gonna be competitive with something like the latest iPhone but it's a lot better 00:08:46.899 --> 00:08:53.709 than what we've seen on previous ROG phones that's for sure I'm gonna take a 00:08:50.589 --> 00:08:56.079 beautiful selfie well it's a selfie 00:08:53.709 --> 00:09:02.470 anyway that's something if I actually played a lot of mobile games the sound 00:08:58.990 --> 00:09:05.259 is really good like almost nothing uses 00:09:02.470 --> 00:09:08.920 you know proper dual amplified stereo speakers anymore like this it's always 00:09:07.300 --> 00:09:12.519 just like an amplified earpiece speaker for the other one and there are some 00:09:10.809 --> 00:09:18.009 pretty good ones out there but this is too real speakers facing you six 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:23.170 thousand milliamp hour battery that's a lot of battery 30 watt charging no 00:09:20.589 --> 00:09:26.290 wireless charging and when pressed a soos basically said well you know 00:09:24.790 --> 00:09:30.890 everything is trade-offs that's something that I would to be a basic flagship feature these 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:35.060 days but they didn't include it because they just wanted to make as much space 00:09:32.450 --> 00:09:38.150 for battery as possible that was a lot of the justification behind removing the 00:09:36.500 --> 00:09:42.410 headphone jack as well the cold hard truth is you know if you want my take on 00:09:40.580 --> 00:09:46.970 why brands are removing headphone jacks it's because if you can afford to buy 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:50.570 our product you probably have Bluetooth headphones anyway so like honestly 00:09:49.070 --> 00:09:56.810 though almost everyone here in the office has switched to bluetooth headphones at this point they don't 00:09:54.260 --> 00:10:00.350 sound as good but boy are they convenient I love that I'm screen 00:09:59.090 --> 00:10:10.250 recording downloading games in the background and running this game at 120fps and this thing is just going like 00:10:04.760 --> 00:10:12.980 it's going yep we're running at 117 120 00:10:10.250 --> 00:10:17.570 FPS like I said I really you know I don't feel it as much as I do on a large 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:25.940 display but it's definitely better smooth turns out I didn't know how to 00:10:23.330 --> 00:10:30.770 steer but do my shoulder buttons do in this game do they do anything I'm in 00:10:28.220 --> 00:10:34.610 ninth oh I suck maybe this is why I'm hating on all the mobile gamers cuz I'm 00:10:32.810 --> 00:10:38.630 just not good enough to be them the chassis is starting to heat up a little 00:10:36.020 --> 00:10:43.130 bit though now that my GPUs at like 70 plus percent usage CPU at 40 this is a 00:10:41.570 --> 00:10:46.300 pretty demanding game especially these frame rates oh and now it needs another 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:52.610 600 Meg's that was just that was just the intro oh 00:10:50.110 --> 00:10:56.540 lordy that's fine all I wanted to see was high refresh rate and it was 00:10:54.410 --> 00:11:01.520 definitely high I'm not even gonna deploy a parachute that's for wimps 00:10:58.490 --> 00:11:06.190 on epic quality we're actually still 00:11:01.520 --> 00:11:09.530 only seeing about 22 to 25 FPS oh yeah 00:11:06.190 --> 00:11:12.050 what's up now what's up now what's up 00:11:09.530 --> 00:11:18.170 now I don't even know what's up now whoa whoa gotcha how do I pick things up I 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:26.060 don't I don't know I don't know how to pick things up I don't play this game hey what's up what's up now no way these 00:11:24.380 --> 00:11:32.000 can't be real people he's got to be BOTS this is terrible it's getting a little 00:11:27.710 --> 00:11:34.400 toasty that 80% CPU usage definitely 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:40.880 running a little hotter now that's fine because all I really wanted to know is 00:11:35.540 --> 00:11:44.300 how the game ran between 25 26 FPS 00:11:40.880 --> 00:11:48.340 at epic quality oh I get it they call it 00:11:44.300 --> 00:11:51.620 epic quality because epic games I get it 00:11:48.340 --> 00:11:53.810 but what a jokester you are mr. Sweeney 00:11:51.620 --> 00:12:00.170 oh that's while recording though how is it without recording oh now my from on 00:11:56.450 --> 00:12:03.290 now my CPU usage be much lower and my 00:12:00.170 --> 00:12:06.100 FPS is like pins no I'm not quiet okay 00:12:03.290 --> 00:12:10.940 we dip to like 28 there for a second oh okay that's pretty cool we were still 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:14.240 getting very playable frame rates while recording though from my first 00:12:12.740 --> 00:12:20.600 impressions the bottom line here is pretty simple the RG phone 3 is exactly 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:22.610 as advertised it's got a gigantic high 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:27.530 refresh rate high brightness OLED display it's got a massive battery it's 00:12:24.920 --> 00:12:31.460 got gamer optimized features like being able to quickly screen record turn your 00:12:29.870 --> 00:12:35.180 seat view up to the maximum speed you know configure your air triggers and all 00:12:33.950 --> 00:12:41.780 that good stuff they've got a bunch of accessories I love that they gave thought to intergenerational accessory 00:12:39.350 --> 00:12:47.390 compatibility and really the bottom line for this one is do you need a gaming 00:12:44.780 --> 00:12:50.930 phone like does anyone need a gaming phone there's people out there I mean do 00:12:48.800 --> 00:12:54.440 you need a gaming phone and if you do this is looking like a pretty swell 00:12:53.780 --> 00:13:00.620 option oh yeah subscribe to a ShortCircuit so you don't miss any of our unboxings and 00:12:58.790 --> 00:13:04.330 impressions and just try and stuff it's good it's a good channel it's a good 00:13:02.060 --> 00:13:04.330 Channel