ASUS has announced the ROG Phone 8 Pro series in India, after it was introduced earlier today. It packs a 6.78-inch Full HD+ AMOLED HDR 1-120Hz LTPO display with 165Hz refresh rate option for gaming, up to 2500 nits peak brightness and is powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC with up to 24GB of RAM.
This has a 15% thinner, lighter body and the screen has thinner bezels, but ASUS says that it has not sacrificed the performance, and has a premium design and durability.
The phone has Rapid-Cooling Conductor design, part of the advanced GameCool 8 thermal design-conducts heat directly from the processor to the back cover. Additionally, the all-new AeroActive Cooler X clip-on cooler is now 29% smaller and promises 1.2X higher thermal efficiency, reducing the back cover temperature by as much as 26°C.
The phone has a 50 MP main camera with Sony sensor, 6-Axis Hybrid Gimbal Stabilizer 3.0, 13 MP ultrawide camera and a for the first time an ROG phone has a 32MP 3X telephoto lens with built-in OIS. The front 32 MP ultrawide selfie camera with RGBW sensor and has a field of view (FoV) that’s been increased from 73° to 90°.
The Phone 8 Pro has Anime Vision Mini-LED 341-element display that can display preset or user-created animations, and users can also unlock secret animations by touching their phone back-to-back with another ROG Phone 8 Pro / Pro Edition. In addition, the company says that it is the world’s first IP68-compliant gaming smartphone, built to resist dust and water ingress.
The phone has a dual-cell 5,500mAh battery and has 65W HyperCharge fast charging for full charge in 39 minutes and also comes with 15W Qi wireless charging.
ASUS ROG Phone 8 Pro specifications
- 6.78-inch (2400×1080 pixels) Full HD+ 1-120Hz LTPO (max 165Hz for gaming) Samsung E6 AMOLED 10-bit HDR 20:9 aspect ratio display, up to 2500 nits brighness, 107.37% DCI-P3 / 145.65% sRGB / 103.16% NTSC, Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 protection
- Octa Core Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 4nm Mobile Platform with Adreno 750 GPU
- 16GB / 24GB LPDDR5X RAM with 512GB / 1TB (UFS 4.0) storage
- Android 14 with ROG UI
- Dual SIM (nano + nano)
- 50MP rear camera with 1/1.56″ Sony IMX890 sensor, f/1.9 aperture, 6-axis Gimbal stabilization, 13MP ultra-wide camera, 32MP 3x telephoto sensor, OIS (8MP photos after pixel binning)
- 32MP front-facing camera, 90° FoV
- 3.5mm audio jack, dual speakers, 5-magnet stereo speaker, Dirac Virtuo for Headphone Spatial Sound, Tri-microphones with ASUS Noise Reduction Technology
- In-display fingerprint sensor
- Dimensions: 163.8×76.8×8.9mm;Weight: 225g
- 5G SA/NSA, Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 7 802.11 be, Bluetooth 5.4, GPS/GLONASS/Beidou, Galileo(E1+E5a), QZSS(L1+L5), NavIC(L5), USB Type-C, NFC
- Dust and water resistant (IP68)
- 5500mAh (typical) with 65W Hyper charge fast charging, Quick Charge 5.0 and PD Charging, 15W Qi wireless charging
Pricing
The ROG Phone 8 Pro 16GB of RAM and 512GB storage versions, is priced at Rs 94,999. The ROG Phone 8 Pro Edition with 24GB RAM and 1TB storage that includes Aero Active Cooler X costs Rs 119,999.
The Aero Active Cooler X will also be available for purchase separately for Rs. 5,999. The ROG Phone 8 Pro series will be purchasable at Vijay Sales Store, ASUS E-Shop, ASUS Exclusive Store & ROG Store soon, but the exact date has not been announced yet.