ASUS ROG Phone II vies for gaming phone crown

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The gaming phone segment isn’t exactly a big market. But there are several contenders there. And after a year since it launched its first model, ASUS is back with a bigger and better model. ASUS didn’t change much with the phone’s design but improved it in other respects. The ROG Phone II is the first smartphone to sport the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus chipset, a tweaked version of the 855 built for better gaming and virtual reality use. The phone now has a 6.59-inch display with a 120Hz 10-bit HDR screen with 1ms latency. It now shows images twice as fast as the 60Hz of a normal phone, but this also has 60Hz and 90Hz modes available.

The ROG Phone II also now gets a bigger 6,000mAh battery, which is one of the biggest out there for a smartphone. But if you expect to game a lot on this device, then you’ll burn through this quicker. ASUS promises up to seven hours of non-stop PUBG action on this device. And with 30W ROG HyperCharge using a standard 3A cable, it can charge up pretty quickly, too.

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ASUS partners with ‘PUBG’ publisher Tencent Games for new ROG Phone

It isn’t exactly a secret that ASUS is working on another ROG Phone, but it’s been revealed on Chinese social media site Weibo that the company is partnering with Tencent for the new gaming smartphone. Tencent’s gaming division is a video game publishing giant from China and it has published games like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Ring of Elysium, and League of Legends. The partnership means Tencent will help optimize its games and the gaming experience on the second-generation ROG Phone.

The phone is expected to launch in China sometime in July. Some of the rumoured specs of the ROG Phone 2 include a 120Hz display, updated Snapdragon processor, and most likely, more RAM.

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The ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo is a creator’s dream machine

In the past few months, it felt like the only innovation happened in the smartphone space. Or perhaps we can attribute that to the breakneck speed that industry is taking. But the mobile phone space isn’t the only industry pushing forward. ASUS at Computex 2019 in Taiwan is making its own moves in the laptop space. And it’s brought its best tech into its latest flagship model—the ZenBook Pro Duo.

At last year’s Computex, ASUS showed off the ZenBook Pro, a laptop that featured a secondary screen on the touchpad. ASUS called this the ScreenPad. The Taiwanese company builds on this idea with the ZenBook Pro Duo. It supersizes the idea and places the ScreenPad Plus right underneath the display, giving you an extra 14-inch full-width 4K secondary screen.

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Asus flips out (and up) with the ZenFone 6

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In the race to introduce almost bezel-less screens on smartphones, manufacturers have to get a bit creative with placement of the front camera. We’ve seen different interpretations of the pop-up front camera, OnePlus being the latest one to join the fray. Asus decides to forge its own path with the latest addition to the ZenFone line. The ZenFone 6 has a 6.4-inch 19.5:9 FHD+ notch-free display thanks to its rear camera that flips out and up to serve as your selfie shooter. This means the quality of your photos will remain the same, whether you shoot landscape, other people, your dogs, or yourself.

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