WEBVTT 00:00:00.060 --> 00:00:09.030 oh shut up okay nice so it's not very 00:00:06.720 --> 00:00:15.260 often that this happens but we got a care package it turns out we are one of 00:00:10.950 --> 00:00:17.460 the first to receive the ROG phone - and 00:00:15.260 --> 00:00:21.900 when I say there's something a little unusual about the situation I think I 00:00:20.250 --> 00:00:30.330 don't have to do much convincing because this is the ROG phone - yeah it comes in 00:00:27.660 --> 00:00:36.000 a carry-on size luggage that is if you are a reviewer who gets the special 00:00:32.790 --> 00:00:38.820 package that includes not just the ROG 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:46.140 phone but also every single accessory that is currently available for the ROG 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:49.200 phone so I'm gonna go ahead and crack 00:00:46.140 --> 00:00:52.230 this puppy open and we are going to take 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:54.690 a look at it that is after I tell you 00:00:52.230 --> 00:01:01.109 about this message from our sponsor hey Jake who was the private Internet access 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:08.610 check out private Internet access at the link in the video description if you want your access to be all right yeah I 00:01:06.630 --> 00:01:11.430 fix it gets a shadow - thinks I fix it we're not actually going to take the 00:01:09.659 --> 00:01:17.520 phone apart guys that just did good toolkits all right so this is the part 00:01:14.850 --> 00:01:20.850 of the video where I pretend that I haven't already looked at some of this 00:01:19.350 --> 00:01:30.390 stuff so let's go ahead and crack open the ROG phone - first which mysteriously 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:35.880 is going to have all my accounts logged 00:01:30.390 --> 00:01:39.900 into it and all myself oh that's a 00:01:35.880 --> 00:01:42.829 little awkward I guess I had the button 00:01:39.900 --> 00:01:48.479 smashed while it was in there okay so okay let's just go ahead and we'll just 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:51.149 reboot that that'll be fine yeah just fine okay well I'll get back to them you 00:01:50.009 --> 00:02:03.619 know what no we'll talk we'll talk about the phone for a second here so okay well 00:02:01.229 --> 00:02:07.860 we're off to a great start here today okay so what's special about this the RG 00:02:06.090 --> 00:02:12.150 phone - has actually been covered previously but this is the final 00:02:10.709 --> 00:02:16.959 hardware that we'll be shipping to customers sometime in the next I don't know two to 00:02:15.579 --> 00:02:22.000 three weeks or something like that don't quote me on that because I actually forget so I'm just gonna go ahead and 00:02:19.900 --> 00:02:26.379 peel my sticker off here so it actually bears a lot of resemblance to the 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:32.049 original ROG phone on the back we've got dual cameras 48 megapixel quad bear I 00:02:30.370 --> 00:02:38.890 have actually taken some test shots I can talk to you guys a little bit about my initial impressions we've got a flash 00:02:35.650 --> 00:02:41.859 and a second flash and this is pretty 00:02:38.890 --> 00:02:48.609 sweet we've got our RGB illuminated ROG logo on the back we've got what appears 00:02:45.370 --> 00:02:52.120 to be a button but if we look closer is 00:02:48.609 --> 00:02:56.170 actually ah yes 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:58.540 making a return is that weird dual USB 00:02:56.170 --> 00:03:06.549 type-c connector that's going to be used for some of the accessories we've got 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:08.650 there we go a dual SIM slot now I am a 00:03:06.549 --> 00:03:13.930 touch disappointed that we're not getting microSD expansion given that 00:03:11.109 --> 00:03:22.480 this is supposed to be like the phone with all the features but given that it 00:03:19.720 --> 00:03:27.819 ships with up to 512 gigs of storage I guess it becomes a little bit easier to 00:03:24.609 --> 00:03:30.129 forgive I mean personally I once I got 00:03:27.819 --> 00:03:34.120 past about 128 gigs I never really got to the point where it mattered for me 00:03:31.810 --> 00:03:37.299 anymore but your mileage may vary over on the other side we've got our lock 00:03:35.590 --> 00:03:41.859 button as well as our volume rocker actually quite like this I appreciated 00:03:39.129 --> 00:03:45.669 it it about appreciated it at about the note 10 and I liked it here too just 00:03:43.720 --> 00:03:51.579 having buttons on one side of the phone and particularly on something that is 00:03:48.209 --> 00:03:54.040 you know purports to be a gaming phone 00:03:51.579 --> 00:03:59.019 having no buttons along the bottom edge is pretty nice to see now up here we've 00:03:57.340 --> 00:04:01.750 got the trigger buttons I think they call them err triggers if I recall 00:04:00.459 --> 00:04:07.569 quickly we're gonna try those out in a little bit so these are a pressure-sensitive buttons that are on 00:04:05.650 --> 00:04:13.299 the top edges at the bottom we've got another type C offset this time as well 00:04:11.650 --> 00:04:20.470 as a three-and-a-half millimeter jack and I think that pretty much does it oh 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:21.909 hey look at that our logo illuminated so 00:04:20.470 --> 00:04:26.080 it's got RGB lighting you can actually configure it a number of different ways 00:04:23.770 --> 00:04:30.190 and that's all done within the armory crate software 00:04:27.550 --> 00:04:34.870 speaking of software so the first thing that I noticed about the ROG phone is 00:04:32.410 --> 00:04:43.810 that unlike what a Suze promised me the software still had this like weird kind 00:04:39.940 --> 00:04:46.210 of I don't know robotics like super game 00:04:43.810 --> 00:04:51.790 relooking theme you know everything from the folders to the background to like 00:04:48.760 --> 00:04:54.400 look at this like even my poor app icons 00:04:51.790 --> 00:04:59.800 have this like weird ROG swirly thing going on around them but I was extremely 00:04:56.950 --> 00:05:04.030 pleased when I realized that what had happened was I was just dumb and I 00:05:02.500 --> 00:05:08.800 missed the prompt when I was first setting up the phone you can actually 00:05:06.220 --> 00:05:15.990 set it to check this out they call it classic you can actually set it to the 00:05:11.140 --> 00:05:19.900 classic theme and even though it's like 00:05:15.990 --> 00:05:22.690 ROG and most ROG software has that kind 00:05:19.900 --> 00:05:30.250 of obnoxious skinning and styling on it even though it's ROG you can apply what 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:32.740 is basically a completely clean stock 00:05:30.250 --> 00:05:38.560 Android experience to this thing that you guys are probably already noticing 00:05:34.630 --> 00:05:40.540 is shockingly smooth like even though 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:45.880 you guys are watching this at 30 FPS from my experience you should still be 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:49.990 able to have some of if not all of the experience that I'm having right now 00:05:47.200 --> 00:05:54.850 this is freaking cool curiously a soos actually ships this thing running at 60 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:59.860 Hertz by default but changing it as as simple as going into refresh rate and 00:05:56.530 --> 00:06:02.860 then you can pick 60 90 or 120 so 90 is 00:05:59.860 --> 00:06:05.440 equal to the 1 plus 7 Pro and then 120 00:06:02.860 --> 00:06:08.080 is equal to the razor gaming phone what do they call it do this call the razor 00:06:06.610 --> 00:06:12.040 phone where's your phone - I think yeah razor phone - so that's equal to the 00:06:09.850 --> 00:06:17.230 razor phone except not at all because unlike the razor phone - this is an OLED 00:06:15.430 --> 00:06:21.400 panel which comes with the advantages that all that has so I'm not I don't 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:26.770 think as Zeus has given any kind of time frame for when they're planning to ship Android 10 with this thing but when you 00:06:24.850 --> 00:06:31.300 get a system-wide dark beam that means a slight power savings there and in 00:06:28.960 --> 00:06:35.920 addition to that the thing that really stood out when I was swiping around on 00:06:33.190 --> 00:06:41.389 this thing wasn't even necessarily just the smoothness but the readability of 00:06:38.380 --> 00:06:46.129 text while it's moving 00:06:41.389 --> 00:06:50.490 those pixel response times are just dead 00:06:46.129 --> 00:06:52.710 freakin sexy now I said it was a pretty 00:06:50.490 --> 00:06:56.550 clean Android skin and it is it does have some of the like some of the 00:06:54.659 --> 00:07:00.930 configuration options that I do like to see you can see that I changed my 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:05.009 navigation buttons to make this one back instead of having it over on this side 00:07:02.249 --> 00:07:09.120 that was really simple just trying to see if there's anything else in here 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:13.080 that really matters what you might have noticed is that in the configuration 00:07:11.310 --> 00:07:21.090 options there's really nothing about gaming like okay advanced has okay so 00:07:18.930 --> 00:07:25.289 there's a few options to configure some tools that are something to do with 00:07:22.830 --> 00:07:32.360 gaming you can turn your air triggers on it's kind of cool mode but it's not 00:07:30.449 --> 00:07:39.419 really that gamer II so as it turns out most everything to do with gaming okay 00:07:37.620 --> 00:07:44.580 the obnoxious styling is definitely there in the armory crate but actually 00:07:43.139 --> 00:07:50.789 I'm gonna I'm gonna pivot for a second okay so most everything to do with gaming is configurable from within like 00:07:49.349 --> 00:07:58.860 armory crates so that's where you can change your let me see if I can find it 00:07:54.319 --> 00:08:00.979 launch animation no yeah this is what 00:07:58.860 --> 00:08:05.939 happens when I do these things without you know click here to X Y a yes oh man 00:08:03.719 --> 00:08:10.500 that's so ok that's kind of annoying you have to click this power button in order 00:08:07.139 --> 00:08:12.210 to get rid of armory crate okay dang it 00:08:10.500 --> 00:08:16.979 where is the tool where you configure all that stuff I was so sure it was with 00:08:13.740 --> 00:08:18.089 an armory crate I'm still pretty sure 00:08:16.979 --> 00:08:23.610 it's in there let's launch it again actually no before we do that I want to talk about the speakers so I'm just 00:08:21.539 --> 00:08:26.669 gonna go ahead and fire up like one of our videos because that way I make sure 00:08:25.349 --> 00:08:32.190 I don't get a copyright strike or anything like that so let's see finest 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:37.050 there should be no shortage of a sous content that we've done recently that 00:08:34.260 --> 00:08:41.149 should make them happy oh that's gonna click that it's tuned into our own 00:08:38.849 --> 00:08:41.149 streams 00:08:42.389 --> 00:08:49.509 Wow I get the feeling that wish is 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:51.040 probably not going to sponsor our 00:08:49.509 --> 00:08:57.819 channel or put advertisements on our channel soon because we have a video coming making a video making a PC that's 00:08:56.050 --> 00:09:03.699 entirely built from components we bought on wish calm and let me just say it's 00:09:02.139 --> 00:09:08.139 not a good situation if you guys aren't subscribed already make sure you subscribe you can check that out when it 00:09:06.100 --> 00:09:11.769 when it comes out so let's go ahead and pull up I don't know this video yeah 00:09:10.509 --> 00:09:16.980 running the one that we're doing right now is going to be a mistake that's 00:09:14.319 --> 00:09:23.589 gonna make for a really bad experience Jake you might actually like this once 00:09:20.920 --> 00:09:32.259 it finally loads give it give it give it a second here the speakers yeah they are 00:09:28.529 --> 00:09:43.870 they are outstanding though if we could 00:09:32.259 --> 00:09:47.370 ever get a video to actually load its 00:09:43.870 --> 00:09:50.699 really loud and not just that sorry I'm 00:09:47.370 --> 00:09:53.800 I'm trying to talk over basically my own 00:09:50.699 --> 00:09:55.749 presentation volume of voice coming out 00:09:53.800 --> 00:10:00.639 of this phone the really cool thing about it is that until you get to 00:09:57.699 --> 00:10:05.259 probably vote I'd say 80% volume there is little to no noticeable distortion 00:10:03.309 --> 00:10:08.559 I'm actually I'm just blown away by the speakers on this thing and it was 00:10:07.059 --> 00:10:14.230 especially noticeable coming from the note 10 which actually got rid of the 00:10:11.649 --> 00:10:19.120 traditional grille style speakers that you see here not just one but two of 00:10:15.939 --> 00:10:21.639 them freaking cool and went to the 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:28.389 vibrating screen style of speaker where it did actually get pretty loud on the 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:30.730 note 10 but it didn't sound good and you 00:10:28.389 --> 00:10:35.170 ran into the issue where once you turned it up the phone like vibrates in your 00:10:33.699 --> 00:10:41.439 hand it's it's a it's a pretty unpleasant experience anyway 00:10:38.439 --> 00:10:43.149 I kind of promised that a lot of this 00:10:41.439 --> 00:10:47.889 video was going to be about the accessories so why don't we go through and have a look at what all comes with 00:10:46.179 --> 00:10:53.350 this thing honestly most of these are going to look pretty familiar so I 00:10:50.860 --> 00:10:55.899 haven't really talked specs but ROG phone 00:10:53.950 --> 00:11:00.010 takes everything that was good about the specs of the original rog phone and 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:04.480 pretty much turns it up to an eleven so instead of the standard top-of-the-line 00:11:02.589 --> 00:11:07.839 Snapdragon processor instead this time we're getting what do they call the 855 00:11:06.310 --> 00:11:13.690 m or something like that no 855 plus sorry so what that is is 00:11:11.620 --> 00:11:16.660 effectively it's the same silicon like don't imagine that you're getting a 00:11:14.860 --> 00:11:21.070 completely different processor or anything like that but the 855 Plus is a 00:11:19.089 --> 00:11:26.470 binned version of the silicon that has a higher maximum turbo frequency now that 00:11:24.370 --> 00:11:30.399 comes with a performance advantage but it also comes with the disadvantage that 00:11:28.570 --> 00:11:35.980 it's going to run harder and it's going to consume a little bit more power to 00:11:31.750 --> 00:11:38.589 solve that first problem the fan makes a 00:11:35.980 --> 00:11:41.410 return so remember that little rubber plug that I said I was gonna pull out 00:11:40.209 --> 00:11:46.089 it's nice that they include this although it's not nice that this is 00:11:43.750 --> 00:11:49.269 gonna be super easy to lose they should include like five of them I actually 00:11:48.070 --> 00:11:52.870 don't understand why more companies don't do that like if there's something 00:11:51.070 --> 00:11:57.639 they know for sure you're going to lose why not just include a bunch of them if 00:11:55.120 --> 00:12:02.019 they cost nothing all right there we go yeah this is so hilariously they have 00:12:00.040 --> 00:12:11.470 given so much thought to lighting on this thing oh really a firmware update 00:12:05.589 --> 00:12:14.920 it's a fan you guys kidding me oh oh you 00:12:11.470 --> 00:12:16.480 know what it has a headphone jack well 00:12:14.920 --> 00:12:21.490 yeah it has RGB but I'm not like concerned about that so so get this I 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:24.579 told you guys that it's got two flashes on the back I'm gonna get out this other 00:12:22.990 --> 00:12:29.949 accessory here to this one I've already taken a look at so this is their 00:12:26.680 --> 00:12:33.670 lighting armor case and it's actually 00:12:29.949 --> 00:12:35.589 got this like big cutout here for the 00:12:33.670 --> 00:12:42.310 art of the Republic of gamers and then the ROG eye logo here and I was like 00:12:38.790 --> 00:12:44.170 powered case how exactly does it where 00:12:42.310 --> 00:12:49.449 exactly does it get his power check this out so it's using like a light diffuser 00:12:47.620 --> 00:12:57.160 layer so one of those plastic layers with kind of a like a like a frosted 00:12:54.339 --> 00:13:04.930 sort of piece of plastic to carry light from that second flash there so that is 00:13:00.550 --> 00:13:07.329 an RGB emitter light and it uses that to 00:13:04.930 --> 00:13:12.009 light up the logo on the back the effect works surprisingly well oh yeah another 00:13:09.910 --> 00:13:16.660 feature I haven't mentioned yet under screen fingerprint sensor not the 00:13:13.809 --> 00:13:20.079 fastest that I've seen but definitely what I would call good enough so here's 00:13:18.910 --> 00:13:25.929 what we're looking at in terms of speed it's fine it's not like blow you away 00:13:24.069 --> 00:13:30.970 fast like what oneplus is doing with the 7 pro but it is acceptable all right so 00:13:29.319 --> 00:13:34.720 I think our firmware updates done here yep there you go so our fans running 00:13:32.920 --> 00:13:41.139 from our experience last time around even though this is a pretty minor 00:13:37.779 --> 00:13:42.670 amount of airflow like it's not even 00:13:41.139 --> 00:13:47.889 really loud like my microphones right here you guys can probably barely hear 00:13:45.730 --> 00:13:51.879 that it actually did make a noticeable difference to the performance of the 00:13:49.509 --> 00:13:54.369 phone in games not right away because that's not the problem with mobile 00:13:53.199 --> 00:14:00.579 processors the problem is that they thermal throttle over time if you're actually gaming for 10 15 20 minutes 00:13:57.610 --> 00:14:04.089 half an hour at a time which is pretty easy to do if you're playing something 00:14:01.869 --> 00:14:07.059 like you know pub G or for tonight we're assuming that you make it past the first 00:14:05.410 --> 00:14:11.170 little while you could actually be staying alive for half an hour at a time 00:14:09.149 --> 00:14:15.160 all right so we checked out that accessory we've got the fan we got the 00:14:13.299 --> 00:14:18.489 headphone jack as well so this is great because without having anything hanging 00:14:17.350 --> 00:14:23.649 off the side of the phone where your hands need to sit you've got your headphone and your USB type-c taking 00:14:22.089 --> 00:14:29.799 care of down here at the bottom I'm gonna pull this one off for a second oh so it's just a matter of sliding it open 00:14:26.860 --> 00:14:33.249 there and sliding it out of the duel u.s. type-c I almost almost lost this 00:14:31.839 --> 00:14:37.989 thing already now I want to show you guys this thing so this is like some 00:14:35.980 --> 00:14:42.850 pretty nerdy stuff as soon as you move it close there's an NFC tag inside the 00:14:40.419 --> 00:14:49.419 case so it says lighting armor case detected do you want to apply the 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:51.369 exclusive theme now I guess so sure why 00:14:49.419 --> 00:14:54.730 not I'm gonna turn that off the second the cameras aren't rolling anymore but 00:14:52.689 --> 00:15:00.569 I'll leave it on for now so basically we got a wallpaper we get a different ugly 00:14:57.189 --> 00:15:03.279 red ring about around things here and 00:15:00.569 --> 00:15:08.199 yeah I guess I don't really have a whole lot to say about that beyond what I've 00:15:04.929 --> 00:15:10.660 said already this is cool though so can 00:15:08.199 --> 00:15:16.119 you guys see that okay on camera Jake is it is it that visible because if if we 00:15:14.079 --> 00:15:19.790 didn't have filming lights on this the the lighting effect is actually quite 00:15:18.220 --> 00:15:25.430 vibrant you can see it alright cool so that can 00:15:22.520 --> 00:15:35.990 be configured and I'm so sure it was an armory crate so I'm gonna waste a little 00:15:27.050 --> 00:15:37.550 bit of time here trying to trying to 00:15:35.990 --> 00:15:45.340 remember where the profiles are oh yeah they are in here so you just go into 00:15:39.260 --> 00:15:49.700 game profiles here and then you go to 00:15:45.340 --> 00:15:51.230 touch display performance no maybe it's 00:15:49.700 --> 00:15:53.870 not an armory crate can you look this up for me Jake if you can try and figure it 00:15:53.540 --> 00:15:59.960 out oh is it in the console yeah it's in the console cool so there's games lobby and 00:15:57.980 --> 00:16:02.750 console you always in here so in the console you can see your temperatures 00:16:01.370 --> 00:16:10.420 you can see a clock speed how much memory is being used so this uses four 00:16:04.760 --> 00:16:13.850 gigs if I believe it's LP DDR 4x memory 00:16:10.420 --> 00:16:16.010 it also uses ufs 3.0 storage so we've 00:16:13.850 --> 00:16:19.940 got the 512 get 12 gig version here sorry oh sorry you can see your GPU 00:16:18.680 --> 00:16:24.710 temps you can adjust your fan speed system lighting here we go so you can 00:16:22.220 --> 00:16:28.910 use lighting synchronization to actually synchronize with all your nerdy friends 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:32.300 who also have rog phones you know we're not we're not actually gonna do that 00:16:30.290 --> 00:16:37.430 we're gonna turn that off you can go into your advanced settings and you can 00:16:34.460 --> 00:16:41.690 make it dance to music so we can go ahead and try that out I'm just gonna 00:16:39.410 --> 00:16:45.640 close this alright what should we put oh yeah I know what we'll do we'll just put 00:16:42.830 --> 00:16:45.640 on a supernova 00:16:45.860 --> 00:16:53.000 duh supernova where there's so many 00:16:51.200 --> 00:17:05.720 songs called supernova there we go alright check this out guys you're 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:08.630 enjoying this too so as far as I can 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:17.300 tell unless the beat is really strong like we have right now it might as well 00:17:12.439 --> 00:17:19.730 just be randomly flashing I think as 00:17:17.300 --> 00:17:24.140 soos could've probably stood to put a little bit more effort into the 00:17:21.350 --> 00:17:27.199 algorithm here but I actually wrote this joke that I was going to include in my 00:17:25.459 --> 00:17:32.660 full review but I'll waste it now I figure the kind of people who are into 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:37.220 raving out to like the the the flashing RGB on their phone while they listen to 00:17:34.190 --> 00:17:38.690 music are probably drunk enough by the 00:17:37.220 --> 00:17:42.350 point they're doing it on ironically that's it doesn't really matter how well 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:47.570 it syncs up with the music I think part of the reason it doesn't work very well is probably because as soon as you fire 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:52.669 up that feature it actually prompts you for access to the microphone so rather 00:17:49.850 --> 00:17:59.630 than the phone hooking into the audio output on a software level it's actually 00:17:55.340 --> 00:18:04.280 just listening to itself which seems 00:17:59.630 --> 00:18:06.200 kind of bass-ackwards but yeah not my 00:18:04.280 --> 00:18:10.610 problem I guess let's go ahead and fire armor you crate up again here and have a 00:18:07.460 --> 00:18:11.800 look oh that's stupid animation there's 00:18:10.610 --> 00:18:17.330 got to be a way to turn that off settings launch animation yes you can 00:18:14.330 --> 00:18:19.940 kill it thank goodness so we have done 00:18:17.330 --> 00:18:25.610 that now so also in here you can adjust the force of your button tap on the air 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:27.890 triggers trigger success metric or functions without fingers leaving the 00:18:26.690 --> 00:18:32.270 touch area that's pretty cool you can allow your fingers to rest on them I'm 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:35.390 gonna play with these more in time like I've mostly just set up the phone for 00:18:33.980 --> 00:18:41.990 now I just wanted to show you guys kind of the basics because a lot of this software level exploration I'm not 00:18:38.870 --> 00:18:43.580 really going to be able to do you know 00:18:41.990 --> 00:18:48.230 in a review that's gonna be more focused on performance and stuff like that 00:18:45.890 --> 00:18:52.520 one of the easiest ways to turn on RGB on the phone I think it goes on by 00:18:49.900 --> 00:19:00.020 default when you have the case on don't quote me on that well okay is to go into 00:18:58.280 --> 00:19:04.010 X mode oh no it's on because I have mode enabled so it took me a little 00:19:01.790 --> 00:19:08.000 while to figure out how to turn the RGB on because you could do that RGB group 00:19:06.470 --> 00:19:12.050 thing and you could create a group and then you could just manually set RGB so 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:17.120 you could do color cycling breathing static whatever the case may be but like 00:19:15.740 --> 00:19:21.080 I don't want to have this weird group that people could connect to all the 00:19:19.460 --> 00:19:25.910 time and so I was a little confused so it turns out there's just a button in 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:31.250 the notification shade here so you just enable X mode and then oh wow it changes 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:37.160 here oh wow that's so cheesy it changes your background too I mean 00:19:35.630 --> 00:19:43.430 it's kind of cool I guess if you're into that sort of thing but there you go it also enables the RGB so when it doesn't 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:48.890 have the case on that turns off and when it does or when it yeah and it just RGB 00:19:47.540 --> 00:19:55.040 is up this logo right here can you see that pretty well it's actually reasonably bright I'm I'm kind of into 00:19:53.450 --> 00:19:59.990 it I would probably just have X mode on all the time and I think I might even 00:19:58.040 --> 00:20:05.270 get away with that as a fairly light user because this thing has a six 00:20:02.620 --> 00:20:13.040 thousand milliamp hour battery like this is a thick thick phone you can see that 00:20:10.070 --> 00:20:18.890 so that's a note 9 for comparison there it is thicker than a note 9 it is taller 00:20:16.040 --> 00:20:24.350 than a note 9 by a considerable margin and it's even wider than a Galaxy Note 9 00:20:22.850 --> 00:20:29.650 let's go ahead and just throw them on the table here not by that much when it 00:20:27.500 --> 00:20:34.400 comes to the width which is good because one-handed operation of a note series 00:20:32.270 --> 00:20:38.600 phone is already a bit of a challenge and this thing especially given that 00:20:36.230 --> 00:20:42.470 it's thicker is worse and then you go ahead and throw this case on which has 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:47.240 those extra layers for the light disbursement and it like honestly the 00:20:44.780 --> 00:20:51.740 first thing I thought of when I held it with the case on for the first time was 00:20:49.040 --> 00:20:54.410 like especially because it has like kind of a leathery finish you guys probably 00:20:52.910 --> 00:21:00.050 can't see that on camera but it's got like this leathery finish I was like this feels like old a holding my 00:20:57.500 --> 00:21:05.150 neighbor's cell phone back when cellular mobile phones were a new thing and 00:21:02.660 --> 00:21:11.470 having those those like leather cases for them with the little flip down 00:21:07.130 --> 00:21:11.470 microphone piece existed 00:21:12.210 --> 00:21:19.169 it's pretty brutal with the case alright we're not going to take up too much more 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:24.929 time because as regular Watchers of our channel know our weekly podcast is 00:21:22.139 --> 00:21:28.289 supposed to have started already so let's go ahead and have a look at some 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:33.450 of the accessories here before we before we go ahead and switch over to that oh 00:21:31.429 --> 00:21:35.639 alright Nick wants me to do a merge call-out yes you're right Nick I should 00:21:34.980 --> 00:21:40.169 do that stealth hoody is back in stock it's 00:21:38.190 --> 00:21:42.720 actually sitting in the port and customs right now but it's gonna be back in our 00:21:41.580 --> 00:21:46.889 warehouse sometime in the next approximately three to four days so what 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:51.139 we're telling people on the site is that they are shipping again as of next week 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:55.590 so you can go ahead and place an order stealth it has been one of our most 00:21:53.129 --> 00:21:59.070 popular items we reordered a couple thousand of them this time and we're 00:21:57.090 --> 00:22:02.029 hoping to keep them in stock a little bit longer than last time 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:07.529 yeah LTT Store comm there you go alright 00:22:05.399 --> 00:22:10.980 so another accessory that's back and this one was really cool last time 00:22:09.419 --> 00:22:13.769 around and I'm expecting it to be a little more refined this time around 00:22:12.809 --> 00:22:26.999 because there's a difference between cool and legitimately very useful is the 00:22:17.429 --> 00:22:32.269 twin view dock - I will say right out of 00:22:26.999 --> 00:22:37.529 the gate that the materials don't 00:22:32.269 --> 00:22:40.619 necessarily feel as as premium as last 00:22:37.529 --> 00:22:41.940 time now I could be remembering wrong in 00:22:40.619 --> 00:22:47.820 fact I kind of hope I'm remembering wrong but this thing seems kind of 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:52.289 really different it feels like the last one was intended to be handheld and 00:22:50.549 --> 00:22:56.519 maybe that's why I'm getting a little bit confused here because this one is 00:22:54.059 --> 00:23:01.259 clearly not this is like look at it it's got rubberized feet on the bottom of the 00:22:58.980 --> 00:23:06.840 thing so there's a cooling fan here there's your headphone jack there I 00:23:03.570 --> 00:23:12.559 guess charging is just handled via the O 00:23:06.840 --> 00:23:14.519 at the back here and then Wow that is 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:19.320 something else alright let's go ahead and put this in so we'll slide it in a 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:23.800 little something like that and then do we just oh okay so we're gonna take that 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:28.840 thing up there OOP attach the dock use the phone to 00:23:26.890 --> 00:23:33.880 push the spring retaining wall to the back then okay so I did it the opposite 00:23:31.450 --> 00:23:39.190 way that was your problem I gotta lock the dock okay 00:23:37.020 --> 00:23:45.610 attach the dark fasten the left yeah yeah I did that I went up but it oh 00:23:41.670 --> 00:23:46.750 bloody hell firmware update that's fine 00:23:45.610 --> 00:23:52.840 we'll just open up some other stuff while we wait around for heard you be lighting of course thank you a soos got 00:23:50.770 --> 00:23:58.090 the got the basics taken care of you know I will say it comes with actually 00:23:56.590 --> 00:24:02.650 pretty nice carrying case this time around although yeah the functionality is very 00:24:00.580 --> 00:24:06.640 different like last time it really seemed more like you're supposed to use 00:24:04.630 --> 00:24:10.240 the bottom for control on the top one to play your game we actually played around 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:13.120 with it we got both of them working if you guys are bored after you're done 00:24:11.770 --> 00:24:17.260 watching this video you can go watch our video the original ROG phone but now 00:24:15.370 --> 00:24:22.840 it's like feels like it's supposed to kind of sit there I guess so 00:24:21.010 --> 00:24:27.820 by default it pulls up a list of all your apps up here and I don't know maybe 00:24:26.020 --> 00:24:31.870 we could find like a game or something see this is weird behavior because it 00:24:30.250 --> 00:24:41.500 puts my keyboard up here like I would think my controls are supposed to be 00:24:33.600 --> 00:24:44.370 what just happened pop G search oh no I 00:24:41.500 --> 00:24:50.980 have this installed okay did that just change color is that is 00:24:47.170 --> 00:24:54.190 that a loading like guy is that a drive 00:24:50.980 --> 00:24:55.540 indicator LED now interesting haven't 00:24:54.190 --> 00:25:05.530 actually launched pugsy on it yet so you have to give it a sec checking 00:25:01.750 --> 00:25:07.060 for updates okay just I just installed 00:25:05.530 --> 00:25:15.100 this today how is there an 11 mega update whatever okay open the game this 00:25:12.700 --> 00:25:20.350 is really not bad in terms of responsiveness though actually like that 00:25:18.220 --> 00:25:27.360 is a pretty heavy app load this is the first time I loaded it it's like fairly 00:25:23.530 --> 00:25:32.110 snappy right there I'm liking it yes 00:25:27.360 --> 00:25:34.870 both screens appear to be OLED I haven't 00:25:32.110 --> 00:25:37.330 actually checked but as far as I can tell this looks like they have pretty 00:25:37.060 --> 00:25:42.310 much repurposed the the entire display 00:25:40.270 --> 00:25:46.060 assembly from this one so the speaker girls are just covered by this plastic 00:25:44.170 --> 00:25:50.290 piece here and then it's actually even got the same accent pieces and it still 00:25:47.800 --> 00:25:53.770 has cutouts for sensors and stuff so there's a there's like a kind of little 00:25:52.060 --> 00:25:56.830 faded cutout you can see here for the Ono here for the camera lens you guys I 00:25:55.840 --> 00:26:00.700 don't think are gonna be able to see that and also I spoke too soon on the 00:25:59.140 --> 00:26:07.420 whole loading time being really fast obviously so yeah this is I am I am 00:26:04.530 --> 00:26:10.570 99.9% certain then this is at the exact same screen but by the time I do my 00:26:08.950 --> 00:26:19.240 review of confirmed stuff like that okay I have read and agree to the whatever 00:26:14.070 --> 00:26:22.350 okay more no yeah let's just sign it yep 00:26:19.240 --> 00:26:25.930 yeah yeah yeah yeah whatever guessed 00:26:22.350 --> 00:26:27.550 weird okay in the meantime while we're 00:26:25.930 --> 00:26:31.930 waiting for that to load let's go ahead and have a look at some of the other 00:26:29.470 --> 00:26:36.460 cool stuff in here so this guy right here seems to be a carrying case for the 00:26:34.780 --> 00:26:44.680 RG phone and your accessories this is something that they didn't have last time and again is the kind of thing that 00:26:39.760 --> 00:26:48.730 I'm probably not no way you have got to 00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:51.010 because this a fanny pack a side satchel 00:26:48.730 --> 00:26:53.490 so basically it's a slightly above the fanny pack 00:26:54.900 --> 00:27:00.400 all right well Brandon you're gonna have to coach me on this anyway this is the 00:26:59.080 --> 00:27:04.530 kind of stuff I normally wouldn't really cover in a review so you guys are just 00:27:02.080 --> 00:27:09.970 gonna have the experience here with me so no no I think you're right I think it 00:27:07.510 --> 00:27:20.200 I think it goes on this way all right yep there's a yep figured for configured 00:27:15.550 --> 00:27:21.390 for kids kids who play for a night there 00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:28.210 we go minecraft sorry minecraft minecraft 00:27:23.770 --> 00:27:30.360 minecraft is back I went full adult mode 00:27:28.210 --> 00:27:37.360 when I first tried minecraft man I turned it on for about 20 minutes and I 00:27:34.840 --> 00:27:43.510 was just like I don't get it and then like I I couldn't figure out what the 00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:46.410 objective was okay so yeah that's how 00:27:43.510 --> 00:27:51.510 that goes on I wouldn't describe it as amazing but I guess it's 00:27:49.020 --> 00:27:55.620 fine if you need a dedicated pouch to carry around your RG phone so it's got a 00:27:53.640 --> 00:28:00.539 little nicely padded pocket in the front here that nice soft material also 00:27:59.309 --> 00:28:07.100 shouldn't scratch anything or anything like that it's got whatever this is maybe you 00:28:04.890 --> 00:28:15.330 could put your cooling module in there the back well of course it does 00:28:11.690 --> 00:28:17.210 ROG you nerds the thing about a soos is 00:28:15.330 --> 00:28:24.679 like they wear their nerdiness completely on their sleeves they're just 00:28:19.110 --> 00:28:27.840 like yep we are shamelessly hilariously 00:28:24.679 --> 00:28:28.950 just gonna do this RGB literally 00:28:27.840 --> 00:28:33.299 although I'm surprised it doesn't have RGB lighting alright so then in here 00:28:31.049 --> 00:28:36.870 you've got just a bunch of different like poaches and stuff I'm sure there's 00:28:34.860 --> 00:28:41.279 some kind of like plan that they have for how you're supposed to put stuff in 00:28:38.159 --> 00:28:42.960 here but I find it pretty hard to 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:46.799 believe that I would ever carry around something like this like I carry a 00:28:44.970 --> 00:28:51.679 backpack already anyway though so maybe for people who don't already carry a 00:28:48.450 --> 00:28:51.679 backpack this could make more sense 00:28:51.919 --> 00:28:59.669 yeah put my water bottle in there alright also making a return is the 00:28:56.850 --> 00:29:05.730 mobile desktop dock so this has a little bit more relevance now that Google 00:29:02.760 --> 00:29:10.730 pulled the desktop mode out of Android 10 for the full release here it is 00:29:08.580 --> 00:29:15.899 rumored that it's going to return but for now it's not there so this is a way 00:29:13.380 --> 00:29:24.000 that you can quickly and easily hook your phone up and use it anymore like a 00:29:17.820 --> 00:29:26.490 desktop experience now this one feels a 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:31.350 little bit more refined since last time around yeah did they forget the cable 00:29:30.059 --> 00:29:35.330 again does this not have a charging cable hold on a second our power cable 00:29:37.010 --> 00:29:47.490 yeah the oh sorry which one oh this yeah 00:29:45.120 --> 00:29:55.890 they didn't include that they did it again okay so the source for this is a 00:29:51.710 --> 00:29:58.909 USB 3 micro B this is a connector that 00:29:55.890 --> 00:30:01.980 is basically a dead meme at this point 00:29:58.909 --> 00:30:02.820 this is just the same thing no I think 00:30:01.980 --> 00:30:08.669 it's just the same one maybe it's just cuz we had a pre prod one last time because the the 00:30:07.350 --> 00:30:12.690 construction of it feels a little bit better so if you happen to have that 00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:16.710 stupid cable lying around which took us a little while to find then you've got 00:30:14.690 --> 00:30:20.460 DisplayPort so you can have display for it as a source so you can switch between 00:30:17.909 --> 00:30:26.009 your phone and your computer microSD you've got Gigabit Ethernet for USB 00:30:22.710 --> 00:30:27.990 threes HDMI or DisplayPort out which I 00:30:26.009 --> 00:30:33.149 guess is pretty cool and I was actually planning to show this on my Acer 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:34.860 predator monitor here sorry guys but I'm 00:30:33.149 --> 00:30:38.460 not going to because they didn't include that cable and last time it took us like 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:42.960 20 minutes to find one of those cables around here because they suck they all 00:30:40.649 --> 00:30:48.350 break and we don't have any devices that use them anymore because all of those 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:51.090 devices break so it's kind of pointless 00:30:48.350 --> 00:30:57.480 here's the Y gig display dock I think we should give this one another try 00:30:53.029 --> 00:30:59.039 last time it was like pretty cool but it 00:30:57.480 --> 00:31:05.100 was a little bit blocky I mean it was blocky there were some compression 00:31:01.529 --> 00:31:06.570 artifacts so we're gonna give that a 00:31:05.100 --> 00:31:11.690 shot I think probably in the full review and then the last one that's really 00:31:08.340 --> 00:31:14.490 important for today is this the kunai 00:31:11.690 --> 00:31:18.480 gamepad I'm just going to pull the plastic off this so it's a little bit 00:31:15.809 --> 00:31:24.870 easier to see well I'm making such a mess of everything here now last time 00:31:22.889 --> 00:31:32.820 around I don't remember the gamepad having exceptionally impressive buttons 00:31:29.149 --> 00:31:37.649 so I would like to see what kind of 00:31:32.820 --> 00:31:40.110 experience I can expect to have here you 00:31:37.649 --> 00:31:44.669 know this is not immediately obvious how this goes together it is it does goes 00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:50.669 together exactly like wow did did did they just completely rip off I wasn't 00:31:48.570 --> 00:31:55.440 gonna use the word rip off Brendan I was we both used the word rip off because 00:31:52.740 --> 00:32:06.690 this is pretty this is pretty 10 out of 10 ripped off yeah it's I mean in 00:32:02.940 --> 00:32:10.399 fairness it's not like Nintendo's joique 00:32:06.690 --> 00:32:12.240 on adapter doodad is a bad idea 00:32:10.399 --> 00:32:14.940 alright so let's have a look at what these things do no motion control or 00:32:13.679 --> 00:32:22.440 anything they're super light so these are basically just wires that pass through two buttons 00:32:18.150 --> 00:32:24.600 so you've got your ABXY actually feel 00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:30.300 not bad I wouldn't describe them as amazing like it's not like wow this like 00:32:27.060 --> 00:32:32.820 stands out but I would say that I would 00:32:30.300 --> 00:32:42.870 even say they're good a decent feeling analog stick r1 r2 r4 you might ask oh 00:32:39.420 --> 00:32:45.900 well where's our free then that is here 00:32:42.870 --> 00:32:48.420 so you've this one is a trigger as well 00:32:45.900 --> 00:32:51.630 so you I'm gonna have to double-check this but it looks like you've actually 00:32:49.710 --> 00:32:56.460 gotten like analog control on this one not this one this one or this one though 00:32:54.540 --> 00:32:59.940 so you've got four total buttons on the back here that's pretty cool and then 00:32:58.830 --> 00:33:04.980 over on the other side you've just got your d-pad your joystick and then four 00:33:03.030 --> 00:33:08.700 more buttons over here so you can squeeze these ones down here with your 00:33:07.080 --> 00:33:11.790 ring fingers or your pinkies if you're weird probably you'll use your ring 00:33:10.650 --> 00:33:15.540 fingers it's actually kind of uncomfortable for me it sits right in 00:33:14.010 --> 00:33:18.660 between my pinky and my ring finger I have really small hands though so 00:33:17.310 --> 00:33:26.750 probably for most people that won't be an issue and then Jake are you able to 00:33:23.580 --> 00:33:28.710 grab me a USB type-c to type-c cable 00:33:26.750 --> 00:33:32.580 what are the odds that we would have one of those lying around because this thing 00:33:30.510 --> 00:33:38.790 isn't actually hold on a second I can switch to wireless mode yeah why don't 00:33:37.170 --> 00:33:45.060 you uh why don't you do that it's a start function select profile I have no 00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:50.420 idea how to pair this please tell me this comes with instructions oh it comes 00:33:49.110 --> 00:33:57.210 with lots of things how interesting ah yes so this is for 00:33:55.080 --> 00:34:02.850 the other mode so why don't we go ahead and enable that while we figure out if 00:33:59.700 --> 00:34:06.330 we can connect it this way wirelessly so 00:34:02.850 --> 00:34:10.260 I guess this could be well I have ended 00:34:06.330 --> 00:34:12.000 up ah you almost got me there we have 00:34:10.260 --> 00:34:15.360 ended up with a lot of junk on this table so I guess this is like I'm 00:34:13.680 --> 00:34:22.740 sitting here like this with my controller and then thank you Jake here 00:34:18.390 --> 00:34:25.470 let's see if that works all right so 00:34:22.740 --> 00:34:29.190 here's our Type C let's switch to USB mode so it's got bluetooth wireless and 00:34:27.870 --> 00:34:39.019 USB mode go ahead and plug this in I guess out 00:34:33.089 --> 00:34:45.899 the back sure okay 00:34:39.019 --> 00:34:48.139 and oh that's weird 00:34:45.899 --> 00:34:56.609 so it's controlling the bottom screw date why am I even surprised anymore at 00:34:54.179 --> 00:34:58.740 this point do not remove your phone from the parent accessory while you're 00:34:57.990 --> 00:35:03.599 updating the firmware okay so we'll talk about this one in a 00:35:02.369 --> 00:35:09.420 minute here let me just see if there's anything else that I'm forgetting still no I think that's I think that's 00:35:07.349 --> 00:35:13.680 basically it we have unboxed everything so we do legitimately just have to wait 00:35:11.130 --> 00:35:17.960 for the firmware at update the mobile desktop dock has like a 6-pound manual 00:35:19.190 --> 00:35:26.460 alright warning do not remove your phone 00:35:23.970 --> 00:35:34.019 from the current accessory yes yes we won't we're all yes we're all enjoying 00:35:29.819 --> 00:35:48.890 this I'm just gonna move some of this 00:35:34.019 --> 00:35:48.890 stuff there we go cool 00:35:51.310 --> 00:36:02.230 yep Wow this must be a pretty substantial update oh wow I wonder if it 00:35:59.860 --> 00:36:09.820 is is this a little place to put your little rubber doohickey while you are 00:36:04.390 --> 00:36:12.280 using this I don't actually think so but 00:36:09.820 --> 00:36:20.710 that could well it does fit really perfectly do you think so Jake that this 00:36:17.410 --> 00:36:23.650 this little thing here is like a a spot 00:36:20.710 --> 00:36:32.740 to put the rubber piece to make sure you don't lose it is it oh sorry 00:36:28.300 --> 00:36:35.680 right there so it's also a little handle 00:36:32.740 --> 00:36:40.150 to pop it out of the dock I don't know it could just be a little handle to pop 00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:46.090 it out of the dock yeah we could go with that all right well yeah guys 00:36:44.770 --> 00:36:51.100 realistically I don't think 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