are you really even a gamer if you don't have a gaming phone what are you playing
on your pc get out of here man
ASUS is back with a republic of gamers
rog gaming phone number six
and the six pro which we have today
and then it just goes back down okay
there's so much going on in this box right now how do i okay so that comes
out that's the phone and then what's over here this is a little card join the
republic for those who dare and i plug that into my cyberpunk motorcycle and
then we go and it's akira time it seems like there's more moving parts that i
want to hello but i think the box reminds you of like
just what we're dealing with here none of this is function it's all form it's
all fun maybe one of the most important things about this phone is that it's one
of the first is it the first on the market with the qualcomm snapdragon 8
plus gen 1 the top tier smartphone chip
it's exciting to see that chip debut in
a phone that may properly be able to take advantage of its performance this
is my pixel 3. this is my pixel 3 with a case on it it is still a little bit
thinner but it's pretty close can you see that andy so this is a chunky boy
and just like uh the previous rog phone
models or at least the the last one there's a display on the back on the 6
pro the 6 a non-pro does not have a
display it has an illuminated RGB logo now let's start here because this is the
this is the thing that kind of like defines the rog gaming phone this side
mounted USB-C port to make it a little bit easier to game and charge at the
same time they also have the one on the bottom but the one on the side here is
usb 3.1 gen 2 and this one is just 2.0
but they both will get you fast uh charging using the uh included 65 watt
adapter uh but this one also supports displayport 1.4 so you can output video
sim card slot because there is no sd card support it comes with 512 gigs of
storage on the top we have nothing maybe
a mic there or something on this side we got the volume rocker and the power
button and i guess these are like to denote the air triggers once again
for gaming over here you got a headphone jack yes oh as we turn it on we got the
display powering up on the back on the back we got 50 megapixel uh with a sony
im x7
sensor everyone's waiting for me to say those numerical designations uh next to
that is the ultra wide 13 megapixel ultrawide and next to that is an
interesting addition it's a macro 5 megapixel sensor this is for gamers
and gamers want to get really nice close-up shots of all their their little
chocobo mini figurines their little what are those things called funko pops and
on the front we have a 12 megapixel
also sony sensor imx 663 which is why it
was important for me to tell you about that first one don't forget it but first
the true reason why we're here thanks to team grip for sponsoring this video team
group is currently giving away an exclusive set of their 32 Gigabyte delta
RGB 6400 megahertz ddr5 RAM as support
for Intel's xmp 3.0 one click overclocking for ultra fast speeds in a
single click and it features 120 degrees of ultra wide RGB lighting with the
clean geometric silhouette team group will also be releasing a new gen 5 SSD
and all new aio liquid cooler that will be able to cool your CPU and m.2 2280
SSD at the same time learn more about the giveaway and their delta RGB ddr5
RAM at the link down below one of the big things that i didn't say about the
overall hardware of the phone is the screen it's a 165 hertz
display up from 144 hertz on the previous one and it's got
720 hertz touch sampling rate the end
result isn't going to be that much more noticeable like look at that
and it's an amoled screen hdr10 plus and
i think it's 111 dc ip3 color gamut coverage which means
that the color accuracy is going to be pretty good the rog phone 6 and 6 pro
can go up to 800 nits sustained brightness 1200 peak it's not quite to
the level of other flagship phones that we're seeing now that have like a thousand nit brightness sustained that
is so it's a one millisecond response time i guess if you have a physical
controller connected but it's 23 milliseconds touch latency
what does that mean it's got an as coating that's supposed to reduce
friction when hand sweating you know when your hand's sweating okay in the
comments if you know what an as coating is let us know in here we got the aero
active cooler they've updated this model a little bit for the uh gaming phone 6
and 6 pro it's got extra buttons on here i'm not
sure whether the previous one had four buttons i might have had two but this
one has a thermoelectric ai cooling system based on peltier cooling chip
peltier there's also the kunai 3 game
pad oh look at that case that's nice so this is like the nintendo
switch thing where you have the phone and then you have these bumper controllers that are kind of like
joy-cons that's not what that is oh you have to put this on the phone watch this
slides in these must be the joy-cons in the really
cool case oh yeah see there it is and then i can
this whole thing slides into that oh it just clips in cool all right so
you can connect that to your phone how do you know how do you oh that's the
release whoa
whoa oh these are these joysticks are legit
too oh look at that i just plugged it in and it's automatically working there's
no pairing or anything successful system update thank you sir you know i've got
to say i was pretty skeptical when i was like uh these gaming phones do you
really need that but now that i'm holding it i'm like this is a pretty good experience i don't know if i would
pay a thousand dollars which is what it costs for the rog phone six and thirteen
hundred euros slash usd for the uh six pro if you are
dropping that money this is like a nice experience i gotta say like this does
not feel cheap so let's strap this thing on what is that look at oh it's a stand
this is cool okay so you plug it in you
just put that on the top you clamp her down you can still use that usb-c port
there's pass-through when you plug this thing in that's awesome so this is an
interesting little bit of design here because most phones you know they won't
really they'll have the CPU of the phone you know wherever they can it makes
sense to fit it but the rog phone has the qualcomm
CPU right in the center of the phone and then above that they have a vapor
chamber and then graphite sheet that kind of disperses the heat from the CPU
and that helps normally but then when you strap this thing on it kind of like
amplifies the cooling power that's already there because of that setup and
on either side of the CPU they have two
3 000 milliamp hour batteries so you got a 6 000 milliamp hour battery all
together in this thing i believe now attaching the aero active cooler should
put us right into advanced power modes man every time you
unlock it it makes that sound so armory crate is the app included with the rog
ui flavor of Android that you can choose to
use or you can use uh choose to use like ASUS is more kind of non-gamery zen ui
which they use in like the zenfone and that kind of stuff and uh here in armory
crate is this where i would choose power modes oh yeah here we go okay CPU GPU we
got the temperature we've got the refresh rate maxed out networking
enhancement battery endurance is low
but i guess because you know those kind of those gotta play off and trade off
with each other you know they they don't get along well oh change it so you can
change it to ultra durable so we got way more battery
lasting and then you can change it to x mode so like i just went into the
settings earlier and changed it to 165 hertz manually but then armory crate
kind of will let you do this as like you can set profiles and just switch between
them like that i'm confusing the CPU a lot right now it's getting pretty mad
arrow active cooler more settings uh
i can't uh i can't change things here now we are plugged in now we have
maximum power it's going i i just do you hear that
whoa this is the most annoying thing about
mobile games every time i do a video where it's like going to involve me
playing some sort of like high fidelity mobile game i'm like all right let's do
let's let's try it out and then it's like waiting 22 days later
one thing i wanted to talk about briefly was the fact that this is a gaming phone
and yeah it comes with the cool accessories it's got the cooler and it's got the most powerful processor and an
Android phone on the market and all that stuff and that's cool but is it good as like a phone and i
think that on a number of things it is a little bit disappointing it's ipx4 which
is just splash proof uh you know water resistance they're promising two years
of security updates and two Android os updates but other phone makers are
promising three years or three os updates or even like four or five when
it comes to like the oems other things i didn't talk about audio it's got the
cirrus logic cs35l45 amp just like the previous model
i wanted to talk about the speaker situation because unlike other phones
you also have these big bezels like this is a pixel 3 and at this point it was
already getting kind of old that we had bezels like this so but i understand why
they put them there because i will appreciate front facing speakers
especially on a gaming phone dude the RAM situation is similar to the rog 5
where you got 16 gigs on the 6 and 18
gigs on the 6 pro yeah the RAM is one of the few differences between the 6 and
the 6 pro so like it's a 300 difference but what are you getting the the rear
display the 6 doesn't have the animated display and the pro does so is that
worth 300 that'll be up to you because everything else is the same unless i'm wrong this
is how you move around okay pretty cool
we found the game genie that lets us uh configure the air triggers okay
ultrasonic buttons turn them on here we go tap
yeah i'm tapping it nice there they are i think the last time i did the rog
phone i couldn't figure out the triggers i was like how do they where are they
but like to be fair there's some configuration that has to happen you
can't just like drop in so i guess that's still the argument for like a
switch or a steam deck or something the new air trigger system apparently
there's 14 different actions you can perform between like swiping left and
right swiping up and down hitting certain parts of the screen that's cool
to have that uh available to you you know what else is cool and available
ShortCircuit hoodie wow you were just waiting for me to put that on
oh man i'm so gamer right now oh and now
the cooler's working the lights are on okay we're experiencing some technical
difficulties with uh the gaming side there but suffice to say
for the uh for the hardcore gamers you're gonna have some options available
to you you got some cool accessories you got the armory crate to make sure that
you can customize your experience how you want to do it how do i get out of here
crab rave show me what you got
pretty good
oh man yeah this one is like missing a little
bit of mids that this one fills out nicely um we're on the 50 megapixel main
shooter right now i guess and then there's a 0.6 option that okay so that's
using the 13 megapixel ultra wide now i can shoot video at 8k and 24fps 4k at
120 slow motion mode that's pretty good
stabilization like whoa
whoa i'm actually pretty impressed by that what do you think Jake uh am i your
favorite ShortCircuit host you're one of them i'm going to have 12 of my
favorite hosts gonna burn it to the ground those photos aren't horrible
that's the ultra wide one so it's going to be a little less this is the 50
megapixel highest quality lots of detail
uh colors are maybe a bit washed out i mean overall it seems like it's like a
decent camera for sure i don't think that it's gonna let anyone super down
but again why a macro lens instead of a telephoto just put that on that's the
selfie cam okay now i'm in a macro mode oh man you can tell that's only five
megapixels is it dirty back here that doesn't look like alloy at all
yeah now that i see like other photos the color is definitely lacking i mean
it could it could tell that there was a lot of colors going on here so it popped
everything anyways i think that's about enough playing around in a very
non-professional way the rog phone 6 pro
it's a gaming phone it has the top-end mobile
CPU you can get in a phone right now it's got a crazy amount of RAM 16 gigs
or 18 gigs in the pro version it's got a completely unnecessary back display it
also doesn't have wireless charging and i wonder if they didn't include it
because of the rear display so it's missing a few things that you definitely
want to see on a you know thousand plus thousand dollar smartphone on the other
hand it's got all these cool gaming features so if you are somebody who is
just like lives and breathes mobile gaming it seems like this is one of the
best options if if not the best option for the person who like absolutely needs
that you know mobile gaming experience but
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