Asus launches the ROG Phone 6 and 6 Pro to bring even more gaming power to Android

It might be overkill, but that screen looks great

Asus launches the ROG Phone 6 and 6 Pro to bring even more gaming power to Android0 The ROG Phone 6 Pro comes with an extra screen on the back.

Asus announced two new devices in its gaming-focused Republic of Gamers phone lineup, the ROG Phone 6 and the ROG Phone 6 Pro. They’re gamer phones for gamers who like to game, and the upgraded displays look pretty impressive.

Both models run Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor, and come with up to 512GB of storage. They have 6.78-inch OLED screens, the same size as the previous ROG Phone 5S, but their 165Hz refresh rates and 720Hz touch-sampling rates are both substantial improvements over the last model. They have 6,000mAh batteries, same as previous models, and an upgraded three-camera setup. The Phone 6 will start at €999 and the 6 Pro at €1,299 — they’re set to launch in the UK and Europe first, and Asus says they’ll come to the US, India and elsewhere later.

The ROG Phone 6 comes in black and white, and the 6 Pro only in white. The biggest difference between the two models is the second OLED screen on the back of the 6 Pro, which is sort of cool looking but not generally very practical. You can also get a bit more RAM on the Pro model — the Phone 6 tops out at 16GB of memory, but the Pro will go up to 18GB. Suffice to say the regular Phone 6 model will probably be enough for most people.

Asus is clearly trying to build a phone you could also use as your everyday device; the company has been slowly refining the ROG Phone’s design over the last few models so it doesn’t scream “gamer phone!” quite so loudly. But this is very much still a gamer phone. Much of the phone’s design is about optimizing cooling, for instance, and the phrase “we developed a unique 360-degree CPU cooling technology” was definitely uttered during the product’s announcement stream. (The vapor chamber is 30% larger now!) Asus even updated the Aeroactive Cooler accessory, which is basically just a giant clip-on fan that doubles as a simple controller for playing games.

Asus launches the ROG Phone 6 and 6 Pro to bring even more gaming power to Android1

The phone’s specs are as impressive as ever, particularly the display’s refresh and response rates. But as usual with the ROG Phones, the question is: to what end? You don’t need 18GB of RAM to play even the most complicated games on Android. Asus has a somewhat spotty history of timely software updates, too, and is only promising two years of Android and security updates for these devices. For the price, you can probably find a device to do most phone things better. And even as cloud gaming brings more high-powered games to your smartphone, you just don’t need as much on-device power to make them work well. The ROG Phone 6 is a cool device, but still doesn’t seem like a very practical one.

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