After launching the ROG Phone 5 series earlier this year, Asus has launched upgraded versions of the previous models today. Dubbed as the ROG Phone 5s series, the company introduced two new smartphones to replace the standard ROG Phone 5 and the higher-end ROG Phone 5 Pro/ Ultimate. Although there are not many changes, both the devices bring a few significant upgrades over their predecessors.
The ROG Phone 5s and the ROG Phone 5s Pro packs similar features, other than the upgraded processors, new screen refresh rate, and touch response rate settings.
Under the hood, the ROG Phone 5s series packs the Snapdragon 888+ SoC, unlike the under-clocked, vanilla Snapdragon 888 chipset in the predecessors. The Snapdragon 888+ is essentially an overclocked version of the standard Snapdragon 888 chipset, with its primary core clocked at up to 2.99GHz as compared to the lower 2.84GHz on the latter. So, users can expect to get better performance from the ROG Phone 5s devices than the previous models.
Other than these, the ROG Phone 5s and the 5s Pro come with the same hardware and software features as their predecessors. There is a triple camera setup at the back featuring a primary 64MP lens, a 13MP ultra-wide lens, and a 5MP macro lens. There is a 24MP selfie snapper at the front.
Coming to the color variants of the ROG Phone 5s series, the standard ROG Phone 5s comes in two colors, namely, Phantom Black and Storm White. However, the ROG Phone 5s Pro comes only in the Phantom Black color option.
Although there is no information on whether Asus will bring the devices to other regions such as India, Europe, or the USA or not. We will keep you in the loop if the company announces something about it in the future.
