The Future of Mobile Gaming: Exploring Rog 8's Potential in 2024

Rog 8 Comprehensive Review

 

Introduction:

Asus created the Rog series specially for gamers. Asus has Rog PCs, Rog Laptops and Rog smartphones.  The Asus Rog Phone 8 is balanced b/w gaming and daily uses and is certainly eye catchy. 

Asus Rog Phone 8 and 8 Pro were released on the 8th of Jan 2024 by Asus (Tauwanesies company)

Design and Build Quality:

The Rog Phone 8 is based on Android gaming Smartphones. The Rog phone 8 has the Pressure-sensitive Zone (Gaming Trigger), especially for hardcore gamers and gaming content creators.

The phone's dimensions are 163.8 x 76.8 x8.9 and weighs around 225 g Frount glass is built Gorilla Glass Virtue 2 and black glass is made up of Gorilla Glass with Aluminum Fram.

The phone is designed especially for gamers in mind the phone has a good grip and is comfortable for a long time.

The Rog Phone 8 is IP68 dust/water resistant (up to 1.5m for 30 min)

 

Display:

Screen size 6.78 inches, resolution 1080x2400 pixels (388 ppi density), and aspect ratio 88.2% screen to body ratio.

Display technology LTPO AMOLED, 1B colours 

Brightness 1600 nits(HBM) and peak brightness up to 2500 nits

Rog of features like HDR10+ support, and Always-On display.

 

Performance:

Processor Qualcomm SM8650-AB Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (4 nm) and chipset details Octa-core (1x3.3 GHz Cortex-X4 & 3x3.2 GHz Cortex-A720 & 2x3.0 GHz Cortex-A720 & 2x2.3 GHz Cortex-A520).

RAM and internal storage options 256GB 12GB RAM, 256GB 16GB RAM

Benchmark scores and real-world performance AnTuTu: 1639368 (v9), 2167612 (v10)

 

Camera:

The rear camera setup

• 50 MP, f/1.9 24mm wide, gimble OIS
• 32 MP f/2.4 with 3x optical zoom
• 13 MP f/2.2 which is 120˚ ultrawide 

Features- 

• the  Gimble Stabilizing System in Rog 8/pro enhances video stability 
• video can be  recorded as 8K@24fps, 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/120/240fps, 720p@480fps
• gyro-EIS, HDR10+

The Front Camera-

• 32 MP, f/14.2 80˚ wide 

Feature- 

• HDR, Panorama, HDR
• 1080p@30fps

 

Battery Life:

Rog 8/pro comes with a 5500 mAh battery.

can support 65W wired, 30W and 15W wireless, 

The Rog 8/pro can be charged within 39 minutes with a 65W charger

 

Software and User Interface:

The Asus Rog 8/Pro comes with its own UI the Rog UI. This UI is designed for gamers and offers various advanced options like triggers, toggles and menus.

UI is quite user-friendly and easy to use, Here's a guide on the few overlays.

1. Open RTSS and make sure both the hotkey handler and overlay editor plugins are turned on.

2. Go to the properties of the Hotkey handler plugin.

3. Look for the "Overlay editor plugin" and click "Configure".

4. You'll see four settings, each for a different overlay hotkey. Click the three dots next to each.

5. Give each setting a name, like "Overlay 1 Hotkey", and type "Load" in the "Overlay message" box.

6. Then, in the "Parameters" box, type the exact file name of the overlay you want for that hotkey.

7. Choose a hotkey for each setting. Do this for all four options.

8. Now, when you press the main toggle hotkey, you can show any overlay. Then, use the hotkeys you set up to switch between the four overlays.

Connectivity:

Network compatibility 5G SA/NSA, Duel 4G VoLTE

Wi-Fi 7 802.11, Bluetooand v5.4 and, NFC capabilities.

USB type-C and 3.5 mm Headphone jack

 
Security and Privacy:

Biometric authentication methods Fingerprint (under display, optical)

Security features

• OS update: The Rog 8/Pro will get two major OS updates
• Security patch updates: Rog 8/Pro will get security patch updates for 4 years until 2028.

 

Additional Features:

The Asus Rog 8/Pro comes with several additional features that give consumers an overall good gaming experience and everyday usability.

• 6-Axis Hybrid Gimbal Stabilizer- equipped camera
• Air trigger Controls
• AeroActive Cooler Buttons
• X sense 2.0
• Aura RGB Lighting (8 pro)

Accessories Compatibility

• ROG Tessen Movile Controller 

Price

Rog 8 pro: INR 94,999/-

Rog 8      : INR 91,990/-

Pros:

• Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip provides excellent performance for gaming and other demanding task.
• 165 Hz refresh rate provides a very smooth visualization experience.
• good battery life 
• good pairs of cameras
• wireless charging

Cons:

• Indian Model misses the telephoto lens.
• only two OS version update
• no mm wave 5g (it doesn't support faster 5G network)
• no RGB lighting on the pro model

 

Conclusion:

The Rog brings unique features to the table but lacks only a few, which is not a deal-breaker Rog series' main consumers are Moblie gamers and for them, it's the only smartphone that provides good gaming features and gaming UI. 

the only problem with the phone is the slow connection to 5G bands which is not good if you travel a lot. 

 

Final Rating: [3.8 of 5]