The ASUS ROG Phone 8 is one of the few remaining gaming phones, but even it is shedding much of its gamer aesthetic. But is it good?
When the ASUS ROG Phone 8 was first revealed, it felt like a piece of the world of smartphones was lost. The phone series with its unashamedly aggressive gamer aesthetic had adopted a more subdued design language. As a result, the company's actual mainstream device, the Zenfone 11 Ultra, looks like basically the same phone, with very minor differences between the two.
Of course, this does mean that some of these are downward adjustments. One example is the battery. While it keeps the 65W charging rate, the capacity is down to 5,500mAh which, depending on your usage, may or may not be substantial. The HDR10+ support on the prior generation's screen is now HDR10. And finally, the base model of the ASUS ROG Phone 8 only gets 256GB of storage.
With the results of both the synthetic and real-world performance tests, it's probably no surprise that it works well in your everyday use. Though I did run into a very specific hiccup involving Bluetooth LE. Despite running Bluetooth 5.4, and supporting LE tech, there's oddly no way to toggle it without toggling developer options, which is a tad strange.
Which is all well and good, but more importantly, the company previously claimed that the imaging on the ASUS ROG Phone 8 is better than every before, in an effort to make the gaming phone more appealing to the general public. On one hand, this claim is not untrue, but on the other, the improvement isn't by much.
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