Some companies may be
giving up on the idea of Android gaming phones, but not Asus, which is releasing the
ROG Phone 7 today. It has all the trademark "gamer" laser-beam design language and flashy LEDs, but also some wild engineering additions when it comes to cooling your super-hot phone.
Specs include a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and—the highlight of the spec sheet—a whopping 6000 mAh battery with 65 W charging. The display is a 165 Hz, 6.78-inch, 2448×1080 Samsung AMOLED. The phone has two USB-C ports, one on the side and one on the bottom, and a headphone jack. There are three rear cameras, a 50 MP main camera, a 13 MP wide-angle, and a 5 MP macro, while the front camera is 32 MP.
There are two models, the ROG Phone 7 and ROG Phone 7 Ultimate. The specs are the same; the ultimate just adds a rear "ROG Vision" display. This is a 2-inch OLED display with six different modes to show things like the time, charging level, an incoming call, or a few purely aesthetic animations. The Ultimate model also interfaces better with a clip-on fan accessory, the "AeroActive Cooler 7."
Asus' extreme cooling ideas are what make this a gaming phone. Asus says the phone has a "revolutionary new rapid-cycle vapor chamber design, which increases heat dissipation efficiency by up to 168 percent" over the last ROG phone, which already had better-than-normal cooling.
arstechnica.com
