ASUS ROG Phone 5, Pro, and Ultimate Now Officially Launched

ASUS just formally unveiled its latest flagship gaming smartphone under the ROG Phone 5 banner. Unlike previous releases, the Taiwanese tech giant is releasing three variants of the said offering namely ASUS ROG Phone 5, ASUS ROG Phone 5 Pro, and the limited ASUS ROG Phone 5 Ultimate Edition.

All these new gaming smartphones from ASUS sport 6.78-inch Full HD AMOLED display with 144Hz refresh rate as well as 300Hz touch sampling rate, perfect features for the best gaming and viewing experience. Inside each of the phones is a massive 6000mAh battery pack paired with 65W HyperCharge. 

What's more unique about this new ASUS ROG Phone 5 series is that the back panels of the Pro and Ultimate models sport what ASUS called ROG Vision display where its animation is customizable and can be set up or sync with alerts, device status, and more. The Ultimate model has color display while the Pro has monochrome. 

And yes, the phones have 3.5mm audiojack! Together with the latest and most powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor are the RAM and internal storage options up to 18GB and 512GB, respectively. 

ASUS ROG Phone 5 Specs:

• 6.78-inch Full HD AMOLED display 
• 144Hz refresh rate
• 2448 x 1080 resolution
• Corning Gorilla Glass Victus
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 5G processor
• Adreno 660 GPU
• 8GB / 12GB LPDDR5 RAM
• 128GB / 256GB UFS 3.1 internal storage
• 64MP + 13MP + 5MP triple rear camera with Ultrawide and Macro lenses
• 24MP front camera
• Android 11 with ROG UI
• In-display fingerprint reader
• 3.5mm audiojack
• Up to 5G support
• 65W fast charger
• 6000mAh battery

ASUS ROG Phone 5 Pro specs:

• 6.78-inch Full HD AMOLED display
• 144Hz refresh rate
• 2448 x 1080 resolution
• Corning Gorilla Glass Victus
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor
• Adreno 660 GPU
• 16GB LPDDR5 RAM
• 512GB UFS 3.1 internal storage
• 64MP + 13MP + 5MP triple rear camera with ultrawide and macro lenses
• 24MP front camera
• Android 11 with ROG UI
• In-display fingerprint reader
• 3.5mm audiojack
• Up to 5G support
• 65W fast charger
• 6000nAh battery

ASUS ROG Phone 5 Ultimate specs:

• 6.78-inch Full HD AMOLED display
• 144Hz refresh rate
• 2448 x 1080 resolution
• Corning Gorilla Glass Victus
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor
• 18GB LPDDR5 RAM
• 512GB UFS 3.1 internal storage
• 64MP + 13MP + 5MP triple rear camera
• 24MP front camera
• Android 11 with ROG UI
• In-display fingerprint reader
• 3.5mm audiojack
• Up to 5G support
• 65W fast charger
• 6000mAh battery

Pricing?

Here are the official European pricing for the ASUS ROG Phone 5 series. Do take note that Philippine pricing is not released yet so expect that local pricing will be slightly different than what we have below.

ROG Phone 5 8GB+128GB = 799 Euros
ROG Phone 5 12GB + 256GB = 899 Euros
ROG Phone 5 16GB+256GB = 999 Euros
ROG Phone 5 Pro 16GB + 512GB = 1,199 Euros
ROG Phone 5 Ultimate 18GB+512GB = 1,299 Euros