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Asus ROG Phone 5s And ROG Phone 5s Pro Released With A Snapdragon 888+ SoC And 6000 mAh Battery.

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The Asus ROG Phone 5s Series has just been unveiled by the company’s representatives. The ROG Phone 5s and ROG Phone 5s Pro are the two models of the new gaming smartphones. Both feature Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 Plus chipset, which supports 5G. The smartphones have a Samsung AMOLED E4 display with a 144Hz refresh rate, 360Hz touch sampling rate, and 1200 nits maximum brightness. Asus’ new ROG Phone 5s comes with as much as 18GB of LPDDR5 RAM, even as the ROG Phone 5s Pro is constrained to 18GB of RAM.
Asus’s latest gaming smartphones are currently only available on the company’s official website. ROG Phone 5s and ROG Phone 5s Pro prices and availability are still unknown. There is a lot of similar features between the two smartphones. Just a ROG Vision rear matrix color display and the additional touch sensors on the back panel distinguishes the ROG Phone 5s Pro from the rest.

Specifications of the Asus ROG Phone 5s And ROG Phone 5s Pro

Each of these smartphones is powered by Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 888 Plus SoC and Adreno 660 GPU, making them both excellent gaming smartphones. As for the latter, it is only available with 18GB LPDDR5 RAM configurations, while the former offers 8GB, 12GB, 16GB, and 18GB RAM configurations. There are three UFS 3.1 storage options for the ROG Phone 5s, including 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB, while the ROG Phone 5s Pro has only 512GB of storage. ROG UI is a skin on top of Android 11.
With Corning Gorilla Glass Victus protection, the Asus gaming smartphones come with a 6.78-inch Samsung AMOLED E4 display with full-HD+ (1,080×2,448 pixels). A 144Hz refresh rate, a 1ms response time, 360Hz touch sampling rate, and 1200 nits of peak brightness round out the list of features on this device.
There’s a 64-megapixel primary sensor, a 13-megapixel ultra-wide-angle sensor, and a 5-megapixel macro sensor on the ROG Phone 5s and ROG Phone 5s Pro. 24-megapixel primary sensor for self-portraits and video calls They both have a 6,000mAh battery and 65W fast charging. They are also equipped with front stereo speakers that have two speakers.
As for connectivity, there are dual-SIM 4G and 5G LTE support, Wi-Fi 802.11 n, Bluetooth v5.2, and NFC as well as GPS and GLONASS, as well as a USB Type-C port for charging. An In-display fingerprint sensor, face recognition technology, an accelerometer, e-compass, gyroscope, and proximity sensor as well as ultrasonic sensors for AirTrigger 5 and grip press are all included in the ROG Phone 5s/Pro.
It is available in Phantom Black or Storm White for the ROG Phone 5s, and Phantom Black or Storm White for the ROG Phone 5s Pro, respectively. Both ROG smartphones have dimensions of 173x77x9.90mm and a weight of 238g.

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Price and Availability

The Asus ROG Phone 5s starts at TWD 29,990 (approximately Rs 80,000) for the base model with 16GB RAM and 256GB storage. The second model, with 18GB RAM and 512GB internal storage, costs TWD 33,990. (more or less Rs 90,000). Phantom Black and Aurora White are available as options. TWD 37,990 (approximately Rs 1,00,000) gets you the ROG Phone 5s Pro with only 18GB RAM and 512GB of storage, and it’s only available in Phantom Black.

About the Company

Established in 1989, ASUS is a Taiwanese multinational computer hardware and consumer electronics company based in Taiwan. ASUS is the world’s No. 1 motherboard and gaming brand, dedicated to creating products for today’s and tomorrow’s smart lives.
With its Eee PC, ASUS revolutionized the PC industry in North America in 2007. With the ASUS ZenFone series, the company is leading the way in new mobile trends, and it is rapidly developing products in virtual and augmented reality, as well as IoT and robotics technologies. ASUS introduced Zenbo, a smart home robot designed to provide family members with companionship, entertainment, and assistance.
A world-class R&D team is part of the company’s workforce of more than 17,000 employees. ASUS, an organization pushed through innovation and devoted to quality, gained 4,385 awards in 2016 and generated sales of about US$13.3 billion.

Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 675 Processor Supporting Tripple Camera & Advanced AI

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Qualcomm, best known for its next-generation mobile technologies and powerful Snapdragon processors, has just launched the new Snapdragon 675, the latest high to the mid-range mobile computing platform. The production of the Snapdragon 625 is basically focussed on the better gaming experience, photography, and artificial intelligence (AI).

The Snapdragon 625 is being considered as an upgrade over the Snapdragon 670 SoC that was launched in August this year. The Snapdragon 625 chipset has the Kryo 460 architecture that is built on the ARM’s Cortex-A76 cores. The architecture is specially designed for high-end smartphones. It is the first time that the processor has been manufactured using the 11nm process. The processor has got two 2.0GHz performance cores, four 2.8GHz performance cores that are based on the Cortex-A75, and six 1.78GHz efficiency-based cores, making the processor faster.

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With Snapdragon 625, Qualcomm has brought the features, that were only available for high-end smartphones, to the mid-range smartphones. Snapdragon 625 has got a new Qualcomm Spectra 250L ISP for 14-bit image signal processing supporting a triple-camera setup, with 5x optical zoom, 48 megapixels, portrait mode, etc.

The processor is also focussed on improving the gaming experience and the AI features. According to the company, the AI features have been improved by 50% than the previous processors, with the help of third-generation Qualcomm AI Engine. The processor supports the Qualcomm Neural Processing Engine SDK, resulting in the addition of features like the adaption of user’s voice, working with multiple voice assistants, etc.

Also, the processor has faster performance, supporting high-end games like PUBG, Best NBA, Honor of Kings, Knives Out, etc. The processor uses the Adreno 612 GPU that supports OpenGL ES 3.2, Open CL 2.0, Vulkan, and DirectX 12. Snapdragon X12 LTE modem supports up to 600Mbps LTE connectivity that provides a support for playing the online games without any interruption.

The Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset is used in every other smartphone. The Snapdragon 625 can be considered Qualcomm’s attempt to provide the users of mid-range smartphones a better experience with its high-end features. By the first quarter of next year, you can find the Snapdragon 625 processors out in new Smartphones.