ASUS ROG Phone gets listed for late October release

If we are to believe the GearBest listing, the ASUS ROG Phone is set to come out around a month from now. The site states the phone will start shipping between October 22 and 24. The 8GB/128GB version is listed at around €1,140 (around CA$1,700), while the 8GB/512GB model goes for €1,400 (around CA$2,100). The phone is packed with a 90Hz AMOLED screen, binned Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, virtual trigger keys, 4,000mAh battery, and dual USB-C ports, among others. It was launched in June and the wait seems so long. Once it does come out though, is this a device you’ll consider getting?

Source: GSMArena

ASUS brings AI to dual-display Project Precog concept

Aside from unveiling the much-hyped ROG Phone, ASUS had one more surprise up its sleeve. During its ZenBook launch at Computex 2018, the Taiwanese company teased a laptop concept it’s planning to release in the coming year. Called Project Precog, this concept is the first dual-screen laptop from the brand and has what the brand says are artificial intelligence-related features. It will supposedly be able to do things like optimize your battery charging depending on the time of day, provide suggestions when you’re editing things like Excel documents, among other things.

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ASUS ROG outs its first gaming smartphone

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ASUS’s gaming brand Republic of Gamers just unveiled its first-ever gaming smartphone, taking on the likes of Razer and heating up this new niche segment. It seems like a no-brainer that the Taiwanese company set out to create its own gaming phone but what took them this long? According to ASUS, they wanted to make sure they weren’t just building a smartphone that was simply called a gaming phone but didn’t have any unique features to truly make it a gaming phone. What they set out to do with the ROG Phone is provide four key things: lag-free performance, efficient cooling, blur-free and stunning visuals, and gaming-centric handling.

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ASUS to bring the ZenFone 5 Lite to the US in late July

If you’ve been eyeing ASUS’ quad-camera-toting ZenFone 5 Lite, you might need to cross over to the US to score one. The phone, which will be called the ZenFone 5Q is arriving at the end of July for US$300 (around CA$390). The phone itself features a 6-inch 1,080 x 2,160 resolution display (sans notch) and runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 processor, up to 4GB/64GB memory and storage options, and four camera setup. You get a 16-megapixel main shooter with 80-degree f/2.2 lens and a 20-megapixel 85.5-degree front camera. Both come with secondary 120-degree wide-angle cameras. The phone is available through Amazon US.

Source: GSMArena