Each year manufacturers talk up incremental improvements to a product they have already perfected. The most exciting space then is in the mid-range where manufacturers have to compete on features as well as price to attract customers who aren’t prone to replacing their handset every year. The trouble here is that mid-range smartphones tend to make buyers choose the features they want.Enter, the ASUS ROG Phone 6.
In Sling Shot the ROG Phone 6 maxed out the score and told us to instead download Wildlife Extreme. We did that and the benchmark could never actually finish a run.To sum up, whether you’re browsing the web, editing a document or video, the ROG Phone 6 performs incredible well. Powering things along is a 6 000mAh battery that doesn’t seem to give up. Even when it does eventually give up the ghost two days after a charge, you can be back up to 100 percent charge in 45 minutes. Most amazing, however, is Hyper Charge which charged the phone up for zero to 25 percent in just 10 minutes. It’s actually quite incredible to behold though we do wonder how this will affect the battery over the long term.The one sore point of the ROG Phone 6 is the camera.
This is ASUS’ unified RGB and hardware control software. Here you can choose which profile you want to run on your smartphone:– For gaming and other demanding tasks. Battery life is not prioritised while performance is. Rear lighting can be activated and the display’s high refresh mode is enabled.– As the name implies, this is a dynamic mode where battery life is favoured but performance can be ramped up as it is needed.