Asus ROG Phone 2

The Asus ROG Phone 2 is a beautiful beast that has the panache you’d expect of a top-shelf gaming device. We understand why Asus wants this to be seen as a phone for mainstream users. The gaming credentials, as impressive as they might be, still surpass the existing gaming software for phones by a healthy margin and thus might not justify the high cost from a pragmatic standpoint. And if you judge it as a regular high-end flagship, you get a phone with excellent performance, a great AMOLED display with variable refresh rate, a mature software, and the convenience of never having to worry about running out of charge. At the same time, from this perspective, the mid-range camera and the extra-large footprint of the phone could count as a disadvantage for many. As far as hardcore gaming enthusiasts go, the ROG Phone 2 should be extremely exciting and covetable, no matter what the price. We will still need to live with the ROG Phone 2 to know if it’s something we’d recommend, but for now, it seems like a step in the right direction.