Asusgaming smartphoneLast featured Jul 2020
Asus ROG Phone 2
I'd buy itI'd buy this.
Stacked with the fastest hardware, huge battery and 120Hz display, but the camera is a compromise and the phone is massive.
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- Price when I covered it
- £400–900
- Featured in
- 6 videos · 2019–2020
- Category
- Phones · Gaming phones
What I liked
- fastest hardware
- huge battery
- 120Hz display
- Faster
- Fastest phone with Snapdragon 855 Plus
- 6,000mAh battery lasting into a third day
What I didn't
- older chip makes gaming features redundant
- weak camera
- massive size
- Higher power draw
- Heavy at 240g
- Fingerprint-prone back
In my words
Straight from the video. Tap a timestamp to hear me say it.
“should I save a bit of money and buy an older gaming phone like let's say the asus rog phone 2 and the answer is probably not”
“I've played with the ROG phone to at 120 and I felt like I sometimes notice the difference”
“which is faster”
“the rock phone 2 is an insane and gaming smartphone with pretty good cameras”
Every time I covered it
Most recent first, so you can see if my view has changed.
1:51Unboxing World's Fastest Phone.Used as the baseline the ROG Phone 3 improves on in nearly every way.
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6:32Top 13 BEST Smartphones of 2020 (Mid Year).He would not buy an older gaming phone like this, as the old chip makes the cooling extras redundant.
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3:20Top 20 BEST Smartphones of 2019.Stacked with the fastest hardware, huge battery and 120Hz display, but the camera is a compromise and the phone is massive.
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8:2025 Questions with MKBHDMarques tried the 120Hz ROG Phone 2 and only sometimes noticed the difference over 90Hz.
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2:47Why the most Innovative Smartphones fail.Mentioned as a faster alternative to his daily phone, though he stuck with the Galaxy S10 5G.
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0:00Asus ROG Phone 2 UNBOXING - Fastest smartphone on Earth.An extreme, very fast gaming phone with a huge battery and a polished display, held back for him only by merely decent cameras.
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Why it's on these shelves
- Battery hero
“the kind of battery that can get you into your third day of usage”
▶ 3:19 - Camera nerd
“this is a capable camera setup especially for a gaming phone”
▶ 7:17
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