Asus has given its ROG gaming phone line a redesign that keeps its focus on games while also improving general phone function. Announced Monday at CES 2024, the Asus ROG Phone 8 and Phone 8 Pro are powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip. They pack a 6.78-inch display with a refresh rate as high as 165Hz and — in the Pro edition — specs as high as 24GB of memory and 1TB of storage. In a first for Asus’ gaming phone line, the Phone 8 series includes wireless charging and IP68 resistance to water and dust.
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The phones now adopt a punch-hole front-facing camera style, which eliminates the large top bezel that hid the front-facing camera in prior ROG phones. While this does mean games played at full screen will now have a small interruption of space around the punch-hole, Asus also gives you the option to slightly shrink the display area to avoid the front-facing camera. This differs from rival RedMagic’s strategy of including its selfie camera underneath the display for an uninterrupted full screen, but that approach often comes at the cost of image quality for photos.
The ROG Phone 8 takes advantage of its AI-focused Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 to enhance a number of features about the phone part of this gaming phone. The Semantic Search processes anything entered into the launcher, device settings or photo gallery search boxes on the device in order to return results. For voice and video calls, the ROG Phone 8 includes an AI noise-canceling feature that Asus says will work in both standard calls and in-game chat. You can use AI to generate a phone wallpaper from selected objects, tones and other backgrounds.
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Asus has also revamped its cameras, primarily a 50-megapixel main camera that’s supported by a stabilizer…
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