ASUS has officially launched its fourth generation of gaming smartphones called the ROG Phone 5 series. The lineup includes a total of three devices, namely ROG Phone 5, ROG Phone 5 Pro, and ROG Phone 5 Ultimate.

Each of these smartphones offers Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 5G processor and a massive 6,000mAh battery with 65-watt charging. Further, the handsets feature a 144Hz display refresh rate with a 1ms latency and an industry-leading 300Hz touch sampling rate on top of an HDR10+ AMOLED screen.

The ASUS ROG Phone 5 series feature a 6.78-inch display with a 20.4:9 aspect ratio with a 2448 x 1080 pixel resolution and 1,200 nits of peak brightness. It also features an in-display fingerprint scanner, face recognition and ultrasonic sensors for its triggers.

The smartphones feature a 64-megapixel primary shooter, a 13-megapixel ultrawide-angle lens and a 5-megapixel macro, as well as a 24-megapixel selfie camera. Additionally, the phones sport symmetrical dual front-facing speakers. 

While the above is the same for each device, the smartphones differ when it comes to RAM. The ROG Phone 5 and ROG Phone 5 Pro feature 16GB of RAM, and the ROG Phone 5 Ultimate offers up to 18GB of RAM. Storage-wise, the ROG Phone 5 sports 256GB of storage, and the ROG Phone 5 Ultimate and ROG Phone 5 Pro feature 512GB of storage. 

Available exclusively on the ASUS ROG Phone 5 Pro and ASUS ROG Phone 5 Ultimate is ‘ROG Vision,’ a rear display that shows customizable animations in response to various system and in-game events. 

The ASUS ROG 5 Pro’s ROG Vision offers a colour display, whereas the ASUS ROG Phone 5 Ultimate sports a monochrome version. The ASUS ROG Phone 5 series will be available starting in Q2. Canadian pricing hasn’t been revealed yet.

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