oh shut up okay nice so it's not very
often that this happens but we got a care package it turns out we are one of
the first to receive the ROG phone - and
when I say there's something a little unusual about the situation I think I
don't have to do much convincing because this is the ROG phone - yeah it comes in
a carry-on size luggage that is if you are a reviewer who gets the special
package that includes not just the ROG
phone but also every single accessory that is currently available for the ROG
phone so I'm gonna go ahead and crack
this puppy open and we are going to take
a look at it that is after I tell you
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phone apart guys that just did good toolkits all right so this is the part
of the video where I pretend that I haven't already looked at some of this
stuff so let's go ahead and crack open the ROG phone - first which mysteriously
is going to have all my accounts logged
into it and all myself oh that's a
little awkward I guess I had the button
smashed while it was in there okay so okay let's just go ahead and we'll just
reboot that that'll be fine yeah just fine okay well I'll get back to them you
know what no we'll talk we'll talk about the phone for a second here so okay well
we're off to a great start here today okay so what's special about this the RG
phone - has actually been covered previously but this is the final
hardware that we'll be shipping to customers sometime in the next I don't know two to
three weeks or something like that don't quote me on that because I actually forget so I'm just gonna go ahead and
peel my sticker off here so it actually bears a lot of resemblance to the
original ROG phone on the back we've got dual cameras 48 megapixel quad bear I
have actually taken some test shots I can talk to you guys a little bit about my initial impressions we've got a flash
and a second flash and this is pretty
sweet we've got our RGB illuminated ROG logo on the back we've got what appears
to be a button but if we look closer is
actually ah yes
making a return is that weird dual USB
type-c connector that's going to be used for some of the accessories we've got
there we go a dual SIM slot now I am a
touch disappointed that we're not getting microSD expansion given that
this is supposed to be like the phone with all the features but given that it
ships with up to 512 gigs of storage I guess it becomes a little bit easier to
forgive I mean personally I once I got
past about 128 gigs I never really got to the point where it mattered for me
anymore but your mileage may vary over on the other side we've got our lock
button as well as our volume rocker actually quite like this I appreciated
it it about appreciated it at about the note 10 and I liked it here too just
having buttons on one side of the phone and particularly on something that is
you know purports to be a gaming phone
having no buttons along the bottom edge is pretty nice to see now up here we've
got the trigger buttons I think they call them err triggers if I recall
quickly we're gonna try those out in a little bit so these are a pressure-sensitive buttons that are on
the top edges at the bottom we've got another type C offset this time as well
as a three-and-a-half millimeter jack and I think that pretty much does it oh
hey look at that our logo illuminated so
it's got RGB lighting you can actually configure it a number of different ways
and that's all done within the armory crate software
speaking of software so the first thing that I noticed about the ROG phone is
that unlike what a Suze promised me the software still had this like weird kind
of I don't know robotics like super game
relooking theme you know everything from the folders to the background to like
look at this like even my poor app icons
have this like weird ROG swirly thing going on around them but I was extremely
pleased when I realized that what had happened was I was just dumb and I
missed the prompt when I was first setting up the phone you can actually
set it to check this out they call it classic you can actually set it to the
classic theme and even though it's like
ROG and most ROG software has that kind
of obnoxious skinning and styling on it even though it's ROG you can apply what
is basically a completely clean stock
Android experience to this thing that you guys are probably already noticing
is shockingly smooth like even though
you guys are watching this at 30 FPS from my experience you should still be
able to have some of if not all of the experience that I'm having right now
this is freaking cool curiously a soos actually ships this thing running at 60
Hertz by default but changing it as as simple as going into refresh rate and
then you can pick 60 90 or 120 so 90 is
equal to the 1 plus 7 Pro and then 120
is equal to the razor gaming phone what do they call it do this call the razor
phone where's your phone - I think yeah razor phone - so that's equal to the
razor phone except not at all because unlike the razor phone - this is an OLED
panel which comes with the advantages that all that has so I'm not I don't
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
get a system-wide dark beam that means a slight power savings there and in
addition to that the thing that really stood out when I was swiping around on
this thing wasn't even necessarily just the smoothness but the readability of
text while it's moving
those pixel response times are just dead
freakin sexy now I said it was a pretty
clean Android skin and it is it does have some of the like some of the
configuration options that I do like to see you can see that I changed my
navigation buttons to make this one back instead of having it over on this side
that was really simple just trying to see if there's anything else in here
that really matters what you might have noticed is that in the configuration
options there's really nothing about gaming like okay advanced has okay so
there's a few options to configure some tools that are something to do with
gaming you can turn your air triggers on it's kind of cool mode but it's not
really that gamer II so as it turns out most everything to do with gaming okay
the obnoxious styling is definitely there in the armory crate but actually
I'm gonna I'm gonna pivot for a second okay so most everything to do with gaming is configurable from within like
armory crates so that's where you can change your let me see if I can find it
launch animation no yeah this is what
happens when I do these things without you know click here to X Y a yes oh man
that's so ok that's kind of annoying you have to click this power button in order
to get rid of armory crate okay dang it
where is the tool where you configure all that stuff I was so sure it was with
an armory crate I'm still pretty sure
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
gonna go ahead and fire up like one of our videos because that way I make sure
I don't get a copyright strike or anything like that so let's see finest
there should be no shortage of a sous content that we've done recently that
should make them happy oh that's gonna click that it's tuned into our own
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when it comes out so let's go ahead and pull up I don't know this video yeah
running the one that we're doing right now is going to be a mistake that's
gonna make for a really bad experience Jake you might actually like this once
it finally loads give it give it give it a second here the speakers yeah they are
they are outstanding though if we could
ever get a video to actually load its
really loud and not just that sorry I'm
I'm trying to talk over basically my own
presentation volume of voice coming out
of this phone the really cool thing about it is that until you get to
probably vote I'd say 80% volume there is little to no noticeable distortion
I'm actually I'm just blown away by the speakers on this thing and it was
especially noticeable coming from the note 10 which actually got rid of the
traditional grille style speakers that you see here not just one but two of
them freaking cool and went to the
vibrating screen style of speaker where it did actually get pretty loud on the
note 10 but it didn't sound good and you
ran into the issue where once you turned it up the phone like vibrates in your
hand it's it's a it's a pretty unpleasant experience anyway
I kind of promised that a lot of this
video was going to be about the accessories so why don't we go through and have a look at what all comes with
this thing honestly most of these are going to look pretty familiar so I
haven't really talked specs but ROG phone
takes everything that was good about the specs of the original rog phone and
pretty much turns it up to an eleven so instead of the standard top-of-the-line
Snapdragon processor instead this time we're getting what do they call the 855
m or something like that no 855 plus sorry so what that is is
effectively it's the same silicon like don't imagine that you're getting a
completely different processor or anything like that but the 855 Plus is a
binned version of the silicon that has a higher maximum turbo frequency now that
comes with a performance advantage but it also comes with the disadvantage that
it's going to run harder and it's going to consume a little bit more power to
solve that first problem the fan makes a
return so remember that little rubber plug that I said I was gonna pull out
it's nice that they include this although it's not nice that this is
gonna be super easy to lose they should include like five of them I actually
don't understand why more companies don't do that like if there's something
they know for sure you're going to lose why not just include a bunch of them if
they cost nothing all right there we go yeah this is so hilariously they have
given so much thought to lighting on this thing oh really a firmware update
it's a fan you guys kidding me oh oh you
know what it has a headphone jack well
yeah it has RGB but I'm not like concerned about that so so get this I
told you guys that it's got two flashes on the back I'm gonna get out this other
accessory here to this one I've already taken a look at so this is their
lighting armor case and it's actually
got this like big cutout here for the
art of the Republic of gamers and then the ROG eye logo here and I was like
powered case how exactly does it where
exactly does it get his power check this out so it's using like a light diffuser
layer so one of those plastic layers with kind of a like a like a frosted
sort of piece of plastic to carry light from that second flash there so that is
an RGB emitter light and it uses that to
light up the logo on the back the effect works surprisingly well oh yeah another
feature I haven't mentioned yet under screen fingerprint sensor not the
fastest that I've seen but definitely what I would call good enough so here's
what we're looking at in terms of speed it's fine it's not like blow you away
fast like what oneplus is doing with the 7 pro but it is acceptable all right so
I think our firmware updates done here yep there you go so our fans running
from our experience last time around even though this is a pretty minor
amount of airflow like it's not even
really loud like my microphones right here you guys can probably barely hear
that it actually did make a noticeable difference to the performance of the
phone in games not right away because that's not the problem with mobile
processors the problem is that they thermal throttle over time if you're actually gaming for 10 15 20 minutes
half an hour at a time which is pretty easy to do if you're playing something
like you know pub G or for tonight we're assuming that you make it past the first
little while you could actually be staying alive for half an hour at a time
all right so we checked out that accessory we've got the fan we got the
headphone jack as well so this is great because without having anything hanging
off the side of the phone where your hands need to sit you've got your headphone and your USB type-c taking
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
there and sliding it out of the duel u.s. type-c I almost almost lost this
thing already now I want to show you guys this thing so this is like some
pretty nerdy stuff as soon as you move it close there's an NFC tag inside the
case so it says lighting armor case detected do you want to apply the
exclusive theme now I guess so sure why
not I'm gonna turn that off the second the cameras aren't rolling anymore but
I'll leave it on for now so basically we got a wallpaper we get a different ugly
red ring about around things here and
yeah I guess I don't really have a whole lot to say about that beyond what I've
said already this is cool though so can
you guys see that okay on camera Jake is it is it that visible because if if we
didn't have filming lights on this the the lighting effect is actually quite
vibrant you can see it alright cool so that can
be configured and I'm so sure it was an armory crate so I'm gonna waste a little
bit of time here trying to trying to
remember where the profiles are oh yeah they are in here so you just go into
game profiles here and then you go to
touch display performance no maybe it's
not an armory crate can you look this up for me Jake if you can try and figure it
out oh is it in the console yeah it's in the console cool so there's games lobby and
console you always in here so in the console you can see your temperatures
you can see a clock speed how much memory is being used so this uses four
gigs if I believe it's LP DDR 4x memory
it also uses ufs 3.0 storage so we've
got the 512 get 12 gig version here sorry oh sorry you can see your GPU
temps you can adjust your fan speed system lighting here we go so you can
use lighting synchronization to actually synchronize with all your nerdy friends
who also have rog phones you know we're not we're not actually gonna do that
we're gonna turn that off you can go into your advanced settings and you can
make it dance to music so we can go ahead and try that out I'm just gonna
close this alright what should we put oh yeah I know what we'll do we'll just put
on a supernova
duh supernova where there's so many
songs called supernova there we go alright check this out guys you're
enjoying this too so as far as I can
tell unless the beat is really strong like we have right now it might as well
just be randomly flashing I think as
soos could've probably stood to put a little bit more effort into the
algorithm here but I actually wrote this joke that I was going to include in my
full review but I'll waste it now I figure the kind of people who are into
raving out to like the the the flashing RGB on their phone while they listen to
music are probably drunk enough by the
point they're doing it on ironically that's it doesn't really matter how well
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
up that feature it actually prompts you for access to the microphone so rather
than the phone hooking into the audio output on a software level it's actually
just listening to itself which seems
kind of bass-ackwards but yeah not my
problem I guess let's go ahead and fire armor you crate up again here and have a
look oh that's stupid animation there's
got to be a way to turn that off settings launch animation yes you can
kill it thank goodness so we have done
that now so also in here you can adjust the force of your button tap on the air
triggers trigger success metric or functions without fingers leaving the
touch area that's pretty cool you can allow your fingers to rest on them I'm
gonna play with these more in time like I've mostly just set up the phone for
now I just wanted to show you guys kind of the basics because a lot of this software level exploration I'm not
really going to be able to do you know
in a review that's gonna be more focused on performance and stuff like that
one of the easiest ways to turn on RGB on the phone I think it goes on by
default when you have the case on don't quote me on that well okay is to go into
X mode oh no it's on because I have mode enabled so it took me a little
while to figure out how to turn the RGB on because you could do that RGB group
thing and you could create a group and then you could just manually set RGB so
you could do color cycling breathing static whatever the case may be but like
I don't want to have this weird group that people could connect to all the
time and so I was a little confused so it turns out there's just a button in
the notification shade here so you just enable X mode and then oh wow it changes
here oh wow that's so cheesy it changes your background too I mean
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
have the case on that turns off and when it does or when it yeah and it just RGB
is up this logo right here can you see that pretty well it's actually reasonably bright I'm I'm kind of into
it I would probably just have X mode on all the time and I think I might even
get away with that as a fairly light user because this thing has a six
thousand milliamp hour battery like this is a thick thick phone you can see that
so that's a note 9 for comparison there it is thicker than a note 9 it is taller
than a note 9 by a considerable margin and it's even wider than a Galaxy Note 9
let's go ahead and just throw them on the table here not by that much when it
comes to the width which is good because one-handed operation of a note series
phone is already a bit of a challenge and this thing especially given that
it's thicker is worse and then you go ahead and throw this case on which has
those extra layers for the light disbursement and it like honestly the
first thing I thought of when I held it with the case on for the first time was
like especially because it has like kind of a leathery finish you guys probably
can't see that on camera but it's got like this leathery finish I was like this feels like old a holding my
neighbor's cell phone back when cellular mobile phones were a new thing and
having those those like leather cases for them with the little flip down
microphone piece existed
it's pretty brutal with the case alright we're not going to take up too much more
time because as regular Watchers of our channel know our weekly podcast is
supposed to have started already so let's go ahead and have a look at some
of the accessories here before we before we go ahead and switch over to that oh
alright Nick wants me to do a merge call-out yes you're right Nick I should
do that stealth hoody is back in stock it's
actually sitting in the port and customs right now but it's gonna be back in our
warehouse sometime in the next approximately three to four days so what
we're telling people on the site is that they are shipping again as of next week
so you can go ahead and place an order stealth it has been one of our most
popular items we reordered a couple thousand of them this time and we're
hoping to keep them in stock a little bit longer than last time
yeah LTT Store comm there you go alright
so another accessory that's back and this one was really cool last time
around and I'm expecting it to be a little more refined this time around
because there's a difference between cool and legitimately very useful is the
twin view dock - I will say right out of
the gate that the materials don't
necessarily feel as as premium as last
time now I could be remembering wrong in
fact I kind of hope I'm remembering wrong but this thing seems kind of
really different it feels like the last one was intended to be handheld and
maybe that's why I'm getting a little bit confused here because this one is
clearly not this is like look at it it's got rubberized feet on the bottom of the
thing so there's a cooling fan here there's your headphone jack there I
guess charging is just handled via the O
at the back here and then Wow that is
something else alright let's go ahead and put this in so we'll slide it in a
little something like that and then do we just oh okay so we're gonna take that
thing up there OOP attach the dock use the phone to
push the spring retaining wall to the back then okay so I did it the opposite
way that was your problem I gotta lock the dock okay
attach the dark fasten the left yeah yeah I did that I went up but it oh
bloody hell firmware update that's fine
we'll just open up some other stuff while we wait around for heard you be lighting of course thank you a soos got
the got the basics taken care of you know I will say it comes with actually
pretty nice carrying case this time around although yeah the functionality is very
different like last time it really seemed more like you're supposed to use
the bottom for control on the top one to play your game we actually played around
with it we got both of them working if you guys are bored after you're done
watching this video you can go watch our video the original ROG phone but now
it's like feels like it's supposed to kind of sit there I guess so
by default it pulls up a list of all your apps up here and I don't know maybe
we could find like a game or something see this is weird behavior because it
puts my keyboard up here like I would think my controls are supposed to be
what just happened pop G search oh no I
have this installed okay did that just change color is that is
that a loading like guy is that a drive
indicator LED now interesting haven't
actually launched pugsy on it yet so you have to give it a sec checking
for updates okay just I just installed
this today how is there an 11 mega update whatever okay open the game this
is really not bad in terms of responsiveness though actually like that
is a pretty heavy app load this is the first time I loaded it it's like fairly
snappy right there I'm liking it yes
both screens appear to be OLED I haven't
actually checked but as far as I can tell this looks like they have pretty
much repurposed the the entire display
assembly from this one so the speaker girls are just covered by this plastic
piece here and then it's actually even got the same accent pieces and it still
has cutouts for sensors and stuff so there's a there's like a kind of little
faded cutout you can see here for the Ono here for the camera lens you guys I
don't think are gonna be able to see that and also I spoke too soon on the
whole loading time being really fast obviously so yeah this is I am I am
99.9% certain then this is at the exact same screen but by the time I do my
review of confirmed stuff like that okay I have read and agree to the whatever
okay more no yeah let's just sign it yep
yeah yeah yeah yeah whatever guessed
weird okay in the meantime while we're
waiting for that to load let's go ahead and have a look at some of the other
cool stuff in here so this guy right here seems to be a carrying case for the
RG phone and your accessories this is something that they didn't have last time and again is the kind of thing that
I'm probably not no way you have got to
because this a fanny pack a side satchel
so basically it's a slightly above the fanny pack
all right well Brandon you're gonna have to coach me on this anyway this is the
kind of stuff I normally wouldn't really cover in a review so you guys are just
gonna have the experience here with me so no no I think you're right I think it
I think it goes on this way all right yep there's a yep figured for configured
for kids kids who play for a night there
we go minecraft sorry minecraft minecraft
minecraft is back I went full adult mode
when I first tried minecraft man I turned it on for about 20 minutes and I
was just like I don't get it and then like I I couldn't figure out what the
objective was okay so yeah that's how
that goes on I wouldn't describe it as amazing but I guess it's
fine if you need a dedicated pouch to carry around your RG phone so it's got a
little nicely padded pocket in the front here that nice soft material also
shouldn't scratch anything or anything like that it's got whatever this is maybe you
could put your cooling module in there the back well of course it does
ROG you nerds the thing about a soos is
like they wear their nerdiness completely on their sleeves they're just
like yep we are shamelessly hilariously
just gonna do this RGB literally
although I'm surprised it doesn't have RGB lighting alright so then in here
you've got just a bunch of different like poaches and stuff I'm sure there's
some kind of like plan that they have for how you're supposed to put stuff in
here but I find it pretty hard to
believe that I would ever carry around something like this like I carry a
backpack already anyway though so maybe for people who don't already carry a
backpack this could make more sense
yeah put my water bottle in there alright also making a return is the
mobile desktop dock so this has a little bit more relevance now that Google
pulled the desktop mode out of Android 10 for the full release here it is
rumored that it's going to return but for now it's not there so this is a way
that you can quickly and easily hook your phone up and use it anymore like a
desktop experience now this one feels a
little bit more refined since last time around yeah did they forget the cable
again does this not have a charging cable hold on a second our power cable
yeah the oh sorry which one oh this yeah
they didn't include that they did it again okay so the source for this is a
USB 3 micro B this is a connector that
is basically a dead meme at this point
this is just the same thing no I think
it's just the same one maybe it's just cuz we had a pre prod one last time because the the
construction of it feels a little bit better so if you happen to have that
stupid cable lying around which took us a little while to find then you've got
DisplayPort so you can have display for it as a source so you can switch between
your phone and your computer microSD you've got Gigabit Ethernet for USB
threes HDMI or DisplayPort out which I
guess is pretty cool and I was actually planning to show this on my Acer
predator monitor here sorry guys but I'm
not going to because they didn't include that cable and last time it took us like
20 minutes to find one of those cables around here because they suck they all
break and we don't have any devices that use them anymore because all of those
devices break so it's kind of pointless
here's the Y gig display dock I think we should give this one another try
last time it was like pretty cool but it
was a little bit blocky I mean it was blocky there were some compression
artifacts so we're gonna give that a
shot I think probably in the full review and then the last one that's really
important for today is this the kunai
gamepad I'm just going to pull the plastic off this so it's a little bit
easier to see well I'm making such a mess of everything here now last time
around I don't remember the gamepad having exceptionally impressive buttons
so I would like to see what kind of
experience I can expect to have here you
know this is not immediately obvious how this goes together it is it does goes
together exactly like wow did did did they just completely rip off I wasn't
gonna use the word rip off Brendan I was we both used the word rip off because
this is pretty this is pretty 10 out of 10 ripped off yeah it's I mean in
fairness it's not like Nintendo's joique
on adapter doodad is a bad idea
alright so let's have a look at what these things do no motion control or
anything they're super light so these are basically just wires that pass through two buttons
so you've got your ABXY actually feel
not bad I wouldn't describe them as amazing like it's not like wow this like
stands out but I would say that I would
even say they're good a decent feeling analog stick r1 r2 r4 you might ask oh
well where's our free then that is here
so you've this one is a trigger as well
so you I'm gonna have to double-check this but it looks like you've actually
gotten like analog control on this one not this one this one or this one though
so you've got four total buttons on the back here that's pretty cool and then
over on the other side you've just got your d-pad your joystick and then four
more buttons over here so you can squeeze these ones down here with your
ring fingers or your pinkies if you're weird probably you'll use your ring
fingers it's actually kind of uncomfortable for me it sits right in
between my pinky and my ring finger I have really small hands though so
probably for most people that won't be an issue and then Jake are you able to
grab me a USB type-c to type-c cable
what are the odds that we would have one of those lying around because this thing
isn't actually hold on a second I can switch to wireless mode yeah why don't
you uh why don't you do that it's a start function select profile I have no
idea how to pair this please tell me this comes with instructions oh it comes
with lots of things how interesting ah yes so this is for
the other mode so why don't we go ahead and enable that while we figure out if
we can connect it this way wirelessly so
I guess this could be well I have ended
up ah you almost got me there we have
ended up with a lot of junk on this table so I guess this is like I'm
sitting here like this with my controller and then thank you Jake here
let's see if that works all right so
here's our Type C let's switch to USB mode so it's got bluetooth wireless and
USB mode go ahead and plug this in I guess out
the back sure okay
and oh that's weird
so it's controlling the bottom screw date why am I even surprised anymore at
this point do not remove your phone from the parent accessory while you're
updating the firmware okay so we'll talk about this one in a
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
basically it we have unboxed everything so we do legitimately just have to wait
for the firmware at update the mobile desktop dock has like a 6-pound manual
alright warning do not remove your phone
from the current accessory yes yes we won't we're all yes we're all enjoying
this I'm just gonna move some of this
stuff there we go cool
yep Wow this must be a pretty substantial update oh wow I wonder if it
is is this a little place to put your little rubber doohickey while you are
using this I don't actually think so but
that could well it does fit really perfectly do you think so Jake that this
this little thing here is like a a spot
to put the rubber piece to make sure you don't lose it is it oh sorry
right there so it's also a little handle
to pop it out of the dock I don't know it could just be a little handle to pop
it out of the dock yeah we could go with that all right well yeah guys
realistically I don't think we're gonna wait around like 10 minutes for this
stupid thing to do its thing so make
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actually super stoked to see how this thing handles prolonged gaming sessions
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