ASUS ROG Phone II Proves To Be the Fastest Android Phone On the Market Currently (hothardware.com) 36
MojoKid writes: Gamer-targeted smartphones are beginning to pop up more often now, with devices like the Razer Phone 2, Xiaomi Black Shark, and the ASUS ROG Phone making waves in the market with performance enthusiasts. The latest release from ASUS, the ROG Phone II sports a specially binned chip from Qualcomm called the Snapdragon 855+. The higher performance SoC sports an octa-core CPU clocked at 2.96GHz, paired with an overclocked Adreno 640 GPU that can boost its performance up to 15 percent above spec. A generous 12GB of RAM, 1TB of storage and a 120Hz 6.59 FHD display trim out the rest of the ASUS ROG Phone II's specs. In addition, an enhanced on-board cooling system features a 3D vapor chamber, heat spreaders, and cooling pads that efficiently dissipate heat from inside the phone to the outside. It is designed to be above spec for the Snapdragon 855 chipset and necessary to keep 855+ stable during long gaming sessions. In benchmark testing, there's no question these system upgrades put up significantly better numbers than the average high-end Android phone on the market these days, such that the phone is about 10% faster than devices like Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 or the OnePlus 7 Pro. The ASUS ROG Phone II will be available later this month but pricing is still being determined.
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Oh hey, I didn't know about Maru until just now.
And I have an old Nexus 5 with a smashed screen, time to check it out :)
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It has enough power to run Linux in a container.
UserLAnd works decently on my S9+ along with DeX, but I'd prefer something more advanced.
https://github.com/CypherpunkA... [github.com]
Since pure Linux but non-Android phones will remain rare for many years a way to run ARM distros in containers will be useful for quite a while.
Sounds sic on paper (Score:4, Informative)
Problem with phone gaming is shitty controls.
And no, I don't consider carrying around a BT controller an option.
Or a mouse and keyboard for that matter. If I wanted to do that i could use a laptop.
Re: Sounds sic on paper (Score:3)
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And no, I don't consider carrying around a BT controller an option.
Just so I understand you... you don't like touch screen controls, but you aren't willing to use a controller as you'd need to do with any other gaming system.
There are plenty of games that are better with a touchscreen. Anything that's mouse-control-like driven.
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And no, I don't consider carrying around a BT controller an option.
Just so I understand you... you don't like touch screen controls, but you aren't willing to use a controller as you'd need to do with any other gaming system.
There are plenty of games that are better with a touchscreen. Anything that's mouse-control-like driven.
I'm not willing to purchase a phone as a gaming device if it means i also have to carry around additional items.
Much in the same way I wouldn't buy a phone that required me to carry around a hot-spot to make phone calls.
And it isn't "anything that mouse-control-like" driven either. The pointer of a mouse is much more precise than my fat sausage fingers. Anyone that has ever played a FPS knows that mouse-keyboard is WAYY better than controller or touchscreen. And it applies to other genre as well. I wante
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Mobile gaming is always going to be so constrained, you'll either end up carrying an external controller or having a device similar to a PSP or DS which is larger to accommodate the controls.
For most people, mobile gaming is just a casual way to pass the time while waiting for something, and there are plenty of simple touchscreen driven games for this kind of use.
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Yeah, bullshit. I've got r/l/c1/c2 buttons, a wheel which also clicks, 12 mappable buttons, as well as the mouse pointer being a lot more accurate that a finger print on a small screen.
"-like" part is important (Score:2)
It isn't about trying any random mouse-driven game, including the competitive twitchfest that require at least a 15-button mouse to be usable.
It's just hat, there are games that are specially designed *FOR* smartphones and uses *touch-screen specific* game mecanics.
Low-clickrate strategy games (of the more casual / less competitive type) were you basically just need to point an unit roughly to a playfield's tile.
"Plants vs Zombie" comes to mind (100% "saucage fingers on a tiny screen" compatible), as do "Wh
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Shitty controls, shitty screen, shitty sound, what's left? Oh hey, you can add the optional usb taser attachment.
A gamer phone is to a gamer laptop or PC (Score:2)
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Why would a _phone_ need to be fast? (Score:4, Insightful)
I mean, who uses a small UI, uncomfortable like that for anything but text messages, reading email, looking at your calendar and actually doing phone calls?
Re: Why would a _phone_ need to be fast? (Score:2)
Oculus Quest?
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I mean, who uses a small UI, uncomfortable like that for anything but text messages, reading email, looking at your calendar and actually doing phone calls?
Oh, hundreds of millions of people? Simcity on Android has over 50 million downloads. And that's Android, and it's one of thousands of decent games.
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Wow, an NES game.
Let me try to help, AC. We are talking about phones. Everyone, including your mom upstairs knows AAA games don't run on phones. If you think we're talking AAA games here, you're the former short bus rider here.
And just for your edification, SimCity is a PC game. It was never released on NES.
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That's not the only thing his mom upstairs knows.
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I read a story yesterday about various methods to stream games to phones from a desktop/laptop. The article even had a plastic mount for attaching a controller to the phone to use the phone as a display not unlike an old portable like a gamegear or a lynx or a switch or whatever kids have now. I looked but couldn't find it. As a PC gamer I don't get the appeal but the audience is there. However I feel the same way about iPads (i.e. toys) and people put keyboards on those too.
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Phone calls per second? That sounds expensive. The real gauge of speed is if you can mine bitcoins fast enough to pay for your phone plan.
gamer phone? (Score:1)
But can you root it? (Score:2)
Can you?
All for naught (Score:2)
Oh, like the ROG laptops? (Score:2)
Loaded with so much spyware crap you can't uninstall that the speed gained by using a lightning fast processor is nixed?
And yet (Score:1)
hey great, but can you actually buy it? (Score:2)
ASUS has the zenfone 6, which was fairly high powered at a nice price point.
Think you can buy it? Good luck!
It was announced for May to be shipping in June. A few markets have seen it, but it's *still* not in the US.
"But wait!", you say.. you've heard of people with it? Sure. It showed up on a couple of retailer's sites, and in ASUS's webstore. For about 12 minutes, until the paltry, less than 1000 units sold out. 1 months ago. This phone is literally delayed by months, and at this rate will probably
Being the fastest phone really isn't hard (Score:1)
It really isn't that hard to make the fastest cell phone. Sometimes I think my HP48SX is 100 times faster than my quad-core android cell phone.
All you have to do is remove all the bloat and build Android specifically for your hardware (not this treble garbage that halved the user-experienced speed of most phones).
Cool phone, but.. (Score:2)