The ASUS ROG Phone 3: A Comprehensive Review

The ASUS ROG Phone 3 has been on my desk for several days now, and I must say, it's a beast of a device. At first glance, it may seem like just another smartphone, but trust me, it's so much more than that. With its sleek design and impressive features, this phone is sure to appeal to gamers and non-gamers alike.

One of the things that caught my attention was the phone's size. I'm currently using a small Pixel phone, and while I've grown accustomed to its compact size, the ROG Phone 3 is a big phone by comparison. However, after spending several days with it, I found myself getting used to its larger dimensions and weight. The phone feels substantial in my hand, but not so large that it becomes unwieldy.

The question on everyone's mind was how responsive are the A-triggers? I'm glad to report that I never had any issues with them during extended gaming sessions. In fact, I played a session of Call of Duty for over an hour without any problems, and my kills were coming left and right. The A-triggers may be designed specifically for gamers, but they seem to work just as well for non-gamers like me.

Another question that arose was how the phone performs in general. I'm happy to report that it's a very good smartphone overall. The price point of around Rs. 50,000 is definitely reasonable considering all the features and performance this phone offers. As someone who doesn't play games frequently, I can attest to the fact that this phone is more than capable of handling everyday tasks like browsing, social media, and messaging.

In addition to its impressive performance, the ROG Phone 3 also boasts some excellent features. The stereo speakers are very loud and clear, making them perfect for watching videos or listening to music on the go. The haptic feedback is also top-notch, providing a tactile experience that's hard to ignore. And let's not forget about the screen quality – it's one of the best I've seen on any smartphone.

One area where the ROG Phone 3 falls short is in terms of IP protection. As someone who's careful about protecting their device from dust and water, this lack of protection was a bit of a disappointment. However, apart from that minor issue, this phone is a solid choice for anyone looking for a reliable smartphone.

Another question that arose during the review process was regarding the black crush issue. According to Asus, it's advisable to keep the refresh rate set to Auto, rather than forcing it to higher rates like 120 or 144Hz. This allows the screen to adjust its brightness and color accuracy on the fly, which makes a big difference in terms of image quality.

As we approach the end of our review, I wanted to address some frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the ROG Phone 3. Firstly, how does it perform for gaming? As someone who plays Call of Duty occasionally, I can attest to the fact that this phone is more than capable of handling demanding games without breaking a sweat.

The final question was how overall would you rate the ROG Phone 3? In my opinion, it's an excellent smartphone that offers a great balance of performance, features, and price. It may not be perfect – who is, right? – but for most users, I think this phone will be more than capable of meeting their needs.

Finally, in light of the upcoming big billion days sale, we should note that Asus has announced several variants of the ROG Phone 3 with different storage and RAM configurations. The base variant with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage will still be priced at around Rs. 50,000, while the mid-range option with 12GB of DDR5 RAM will cost a whopping Rs. 53,000. On the higher end, we also have the 256GB variant with 12GB of RAM, which will still retain its original price of around Rs. 59,000.

To make these smartphones even more affordable, several banks and financial institutions have partnered with Asus to offer interest-free EMI options for up to three months or six months or nine months, depending on the bank and plan chosen by the customer. This is a great way for customers to get their hands on this amazing device without breaking the bank.

In conclusion, the ASUS ROG Phone 3 has been an absolute blast to test out, and I'm confident that it'll be loved by gamers and non-gamers alike. With its powerful performance, excellent features, and reasonable price point, this phone is a solid choice for anyone in the market for a new smartphone.

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Note: The text does not mention the ROG Phone 2 but instead refers to it as an example of a small pixel phone used by the reviewer.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys this is ranjit and in this video we'll be doing a faq video on this asus rog phone 3. now it's been a several months since i've been actually using this phone and this is one of those phones that i enjoyed using quite a bit in 2020 so again i asked some of you if you have any specific questions uh post about them so now it has got multiple update in fact i just got a new update yesterday so let's see how it fades now and asus is also now going to be launching one more new variant of this uh phone earlier we had the eight gigabytes with 128 gigabytes of storage and uh uh 12 gigabytes was with 256 but we'll also have what do you say 12 gigabytes of ram with 128 gigabytes of storage that's a new variant uh that will be for 53 000. it's launching during the big billion day and it's raining like crazy i hope the power doesn't go so let's start this and the first question i got was from arun and yes sir i'll also take up the question regarding the black crush issue on this smartphone and show you what is the experience with the latest update uh anyways the first question was from aruna uh he's asking in comparison to the rog phone too how much improved is the camera quality is asking and he's also asking have you by any chance tested the camera using the gcam mod uh to be very frank side by side i did not compare this one with the rog phone too but in rough estimate yes the camera is specifically the rear facing camera is improved compared to the rog phone too and this does support the g cam but personally i haven't used the g cam but i'm assuming if i use the g cam yes the camera quality and performance should actually improve i forgot to invoke my camera so let me invoke this and so let's just continue uh the second question i got is from the ashwadhan he's asking is it still having any focus hunting issues while recording video no it does not have that that was fixed i believe long time ago uh this is why naveen he's asked naveed sorry he's asking how's the software experience and is there any commitment from asus how long are they going to put software updates for like two or three years for this i approached asus india regarding the update situation and this is the answer that i got they said that uh this phone will get two years of software update and they also said to me that the android 11 update will be coming out to this smartphone very soon they didn't specify me the date but they definitely told so yeah two years of software update and uh the software experience has been good on the smartphone as you can see guys it's almost close to stock android i've installed tons and tons of as i told you i was using this phone quite a bit and uh it's been working fine very fluid i don't notice any hint of lagginess or anything on this phone it is very close to stock android apart from this as it's a gaming centric phone we have this x mode uh but apart from that it's very close to stock and the experience has been actually good in terms of for what you say the ui and all those things although this is the base eight gigabyte ram variant i never had a problem uh let's move to the next one this is by bhavesh chandra he's asking apart from gaming performance how well the rog 3 handles thermal throttling because an rog rog 3 i think there is no active vent at least what the rog phone 2 has so rog 3 actually also has an active vent if you notice there's a slit over here so we do have that so it also has that active cooling but yeah it's slightly sort of hidden on the rog phone three and it's been performing fine i would say i did not experience any uh thermal throttling issue i mostly play this game with cod and just because of this smartphone i played the call of duty mobile quite a bit uh let's move to the next one this is by harry singh he's asking can we use it as a daily driver i'm not a gamer but the specs on this phone appeal to me i feel it will be easy to last about four or five years currently he says he's using the pixel xl overall yes it's a pretty good smartphone i would say uh it's a flagship smartphone the only uh thing that is not flagship on this one is it does not have ip rating but apart from that i would say it's overall a very good phone uh the stereo speakers are amazing i'll actually play a clip later on one of the loudest and because it's proper front firing speakers we get a very immersive and the stereo separation is also very good so very good speakers haptic feedback again is very good and because of the snapdragon 865 plus blazingly fast one of the fastest i would say and this one actually has ddr5 ram which is faster than ddr4 that is used on most phones so blazingly fast performance as i've told you yeah i'm using the eight gigabyte this is the eight gigabyte ram variant handles everything without any issues uh and battery life because of that six thousand milliamp hour battery excellent battery life even for heavy users it should last about one and a half days if i don't do gaming i can easily pull it for about two days on this one and so yeah overall i i would say it's a very good smartphone if you're looking for a big size smartphone great battery life and great speakers it's a good smartphone as i've told the only con i would say in real life usage is no ip protection apart from that yeah it's a pretty good phone now let's talk about the black crush issue and quite a few of you have actually asked me about this black crush issue on this one uh because this one has that 144 hertz uh panel um and gaurav and quite a few of you have asked gaurav says blacker issue a black crush issue how is it and will it get resolved any update from asus official yes the black crush issue was quite evident when the phone was launched in fact with even the couple of updates it didn't get solved and i noticed it quite a bit while actually using the netflix app uh so it was a issue with the netflix app i noticed that quite a bit uh but now with the latest update it in fact a couple of updates ago i don't recall it went down quite a bit but now this is the latest update that i just got yesterday and i even checked with asus about the phone it'll show us anyways of it for fair information as you can see uh the build number if the last one is 0.78 and above uh asus also said that this black crash issue has been solved according to them what was happening is that uh this has high level of calibration from the factory itself because it's having that 144 hertz panel but the problem with some of the streaming apps like netflix etc was that they were bypassing the calibration what was done on that and they were doing their own auto brightness stuff and that was cause seeing an issue let me do one thing let me actually place some a file on this let's play some trailer or something like that underground six trailer and uh to give you an idea uh the black crush issue has been almost solved i was facing it quite a bit earlier with netflix so let's try again i've connected to my hotspot that's what i don't like about ag broadband something like heaverian or something just goes down so yeah as you can see this is dark scenes and let it buffer because i'm using a mobile hotspot but to give you an idea you're really ruining the sound now you know that how good is the sound you got an issue this movement have 15 zooming i'm using a wild hot spot guys that's why the quality is a little bit down but it's good it goes very loud i'm going to reduce the volume and if you notice no black crush i'll lower the brightness also now that was the problem as you can see dark scenes now the black crush has been actually solved that issue at least i can't notice it earlier i used to notice it very easily during those dark scenes especially in netflix but as you can see right now again guys using the mobile hotspot that's why this broadband connection is down but let's keep it at lowest brightness again i don't notice that black crush normally so looks like uh the black crush issue has been sort of solved uh with the latest update it was annoyance i would say and i did notice it quite a bit uh almost all the time most of the time while watching netflix but now looks like with the latest update they have finally fixed it uh so let's move to the next uh what do you say uh topic and again guys that update as i told you 0.78 or above i think so it got uh solved after the 0.78 update which was the latest update i got it just yesterday anyways let's move to the next one this is by the way uh he's asking if you get a chance will you buy this phone over any other phone in this price range have you charged have you tried charging the device with both the usb port again guys this one has two usb ports one over here one over the side and uh if you try to charge it from both the ports it will only charge from this port it will stop charging from this port guys and i would say if you are looking for a powerful android smartphone what is the base price of this one around 50 000 what are the choices that you have apart from if you don't want chinese phones what are the options that you have this is the one that you have for the snapdragon 865 plus and what is the other option if you want a good what do you say a flagship sort of phone you have samsung but samsung is mostly putting their exynos 990 soc in most of the flagships that are officially sold in india and i just don't want to go about the exynos 990 you guys know so what other options do we have so i feel yes this is a very good smartphone at that 50 000 price point if you really don't want any other chinese vendors or something like that due to whatever data issues or whatever privacy overall i would say it's a very good phone as i've told you the call quality was good the screen that black crash issue finally got solved and yes overall it's a good phone only thing as i've told you is that ip protection anyways let's move to the next one uh this is by vinith uh did you see better loading time force call of duty on this rog phone three how did the gaming specific features help you in your experience again i didn't compare the loading of uh call of duty mobile on this and other smartphones but it was fairly fast guys the storage is very fast on this one i believe it's ufs 3.1 and again ddr5 so loads the games fast the thing that i like with these rog phone is this a triggers and that gives you undue advantage in games uh if you guys know i mostly play games via console so i'm used to what you said a controller on that and this a trickles tries to actually simulate that that's the reason i played call of duty quite a bit on this one because of the a triggers i was having undue advantage i would say so if you are sort of a gamer yes the a triggers make huge difference and now you can actually split the a triggers between two actions if you want earlier on the rog phone two that was not possible uh so you can even use the slide option and this area that area left area right area you can customize it so a trigger is the thing that really makes a difference and apart from that i felt that the speakers are excellent on this one and also the haptic feedback is really really good on this and again that's six thousand milliamp hour battery anyway so let's move to the next one this is by karan kapoor he's asking are you missing the headphone jack uh being a gaming smartphone i think removable headphone jack is not a good decision what do you think yes i definitely uh missed the 3.5 mm headphone jack that is missing on the rog phone too it was a bad move in my opinion anyways let's move to the next ananta is asking how's the ram management uh is there any drop in fps when too many games are installed like cod and pes ram management has been good as i've mentioned even earlier this is the base minion that comes with 8 gigabytes of ram and even with this one i never had an issue of ram management on this smartphone and again loading is fast because the storage is really really fast on this one and that it comes to ddr5 memory so no issues with that but yeah now we have the option of the new 12 gigabyte ram variant also so if you really want that you can go with that that's going to launch in the big billion day but frankly speaking i did not have a ram management issue or anything even with this base 8 gigabyte ram variant though i even have the 16 gigabyte international variant that was sent to me but i've been using this one no issues of ram management uh this is by frozen he is saying he's asking would love to know about the camera performance and how good it is compared to other flagships i would say the cameras are decent on this the rear facing camera is the new 64 megapixel sensor from sony and it's a decent camera i would say and uh i felt it does a better job than rog phone 2 and here are some of the samples that i took in my office itself and as you can see did here decent job this is an artificial lighting but i would not say that this is a camera centric smartphone if you really want a camera centric flagship smartphone then i would suggest you something like the samsung galaxy ultra with that 108 megapixel or something like that that is really a camera centric smartphone if you want to compare with that yes that does take better pictures but again that again comes with the exynos 990 so i would say for regular stuff the camera is decent but it's not the best camera out there that's my frank opinion in fact i shot a lot of pictures via this and post i post on twitter and even instagram with this regular stuff that's not an issue but i won't say uh it's the best camera out there that i would say in india official phones that's the samsung galaxy note 20 ultra uh next question is from jack mohan he's asking does it have call recording option as asus ui is closer to stock android yes it does have call recording options you can enable it if you want uh how is the phone for daily use considering it weights it's a big and a heavy phone no doubt about it here is my main machine so let's have a look at it 238 grams is the weight of this one so certainly on the heavier side guys and i would say you will have to use this phone for about four or five days then you'll get used to it for the first one or two days you will feel heavy this is something like the largest uh iphone so that is the max series if you're comfortable with that you will be comfortable with it but what i've noticed is i keep changing phones a lot right now i'm using the small pixel and you generally get used to the size and weight after about four or five days of usage but again yeah it's a big phone no doubt about it uh this is by trina he's asking how responsive are the a triggers is there any latency when you play a game for a longer period of time i never had an issue with the a triggers i mostly play call of duty and to be frank i never played continuously more than one and a half hours but during that time i never had a problem again if you want to know more about heavy gaming again check with sundar from technology job i know that he does play quite a bit more than i play but i personally never had a problem with the 8 triggers and that's the reason i actually use this again this phone a lot for playing call of duty uh this is by satya she's asking uh how's the rog phone 3 overall we know that it's the best smartphone in the market for gaming but how is the rog phone 3 as a complete smartphone i feel overall it's a very good smartphone at around 50 000 price point as i mentioned earlier in fact i'm not a gamer it's just that because this had that a triggers i actually played a call of duty and i was getting good kills i started playing but i mostly use my smartphones not for gaming and i felt uh as also a non-gaming smartphone it is a good small if you you're okay with the size of this because the stereo speakers are excellent very loud a great haptic feedback the screen quality is good very actually if you don't even play the game because of that 144 hertz thing it is very very responsive it feels very very blazingly fast so that's actually a good thing and overall i would say the build quality is solid it does not feel like cheap or anything like that also i like the ui which is actually very close to stock android and yes if you are that gamer you have that a trigger sir the only con as i mentioned is no ip protection that's the only practical thing that i'm missing but apart from that it's a very good smartphone and guys about that black crush issue what asus guys told me is that uh actually you should keep the refresh rate many people are just forcing the refresh rate to that higher 120 or 144. they said that it's advisable to keep it on auto so because many of these what do you say uh ott apps like uh streaming apps uh don't work that great on that 144 hertz or something if you keep it on auto that is the best setting so uh that demo what i showed you earlier playing netflix i just kept it 100 uh what do you say auto thereby when you're doing gaming it automatically ramps up but when you uh it's not required it automatically scales down and it'll also help you in getting better battery life so guys uh these were the faq uh topics uh questions that i got regarding the asus rog phone three certainly a very good android smartphone and i i would say if i was not a tester and i have to change phone every two or three weeks i would have still been using this smartphone as my primary smartphone it served me actually well the performance is good battery life is actually pretty good almost two days without gaming or one and a half days and regular usage i was getting so certainly a very good smartphone and uh guys as we know uh the new variant of this one is going to be launched the regular variant that is that eight gigabytes of ram 128 gbs storage will be for 50 000. the new variant that is with 12 gigabytes of ddr5 ram uh will be 3000 rupees more at about 53 000 and then we also have the 256 gigabyte variant that came with the 12 gigabytes of ram that is uh still at the original price of about 59 000. and because this big billion days sale is there uh you can actually get what you say no cost emi for three six or nine months on the smartphone with various providers like bajaj flipkart uh what is a credit card and all the debit cards whatever they uh have partnered with what you say flipkart and also uh during this bbd sale uh flipkart has a tie-up with sbi cards credit cards and debit cards so if you're using that you'll again get a further discount with that sbi card whatever offer is there so anyways guys that's it for now for this video of the asus rog phone 2 what do you feel about the same do let me know in the comment section below anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next video take care guyshi guys this is ranjit and in this video we'll be doing a faq video on this asus rog phone 3. now it's been a several months since i've been actually using this phone and this is one of those phones that i enjoyed using quite a bit in 2020 so again i asked some of you if you have any specific questions uh post about them so now it has got multiple update in fact i just got a new update yesterday so let's see how it fades now and asus is also now going to be launching one more new variant of this uh phone earlier we had the eight gigabytes with 128 gigabytes of storage and uh uh 12 gigabytes was with 256 but we'll also have what do you say 12 gigabytes of ram with 128 gigabytes of storage that's a new variant uh that will be for 53 000. it's launching during the big billion day and it's raining like crazy i hope the power doesn't go so let's start this and the first question i got was from arun and yes sir i'll also take up the question regarding the black crush issue on this smartphone and show you what is the experience with the latest update uh anyways the first question was from aruna uh he's asking in comparison to the rog phone too how much improved is the camera quality is asking and he's also asking have you by any chance tested the camera using the gcam mod uh to be very frank side by side i did not compare this one with the rog phone too but in rough estimate yes the camera is specifically the rear facing camera is improved compared to the rog phone too and this does support the g cam but personally i haven't used the g cam but i'm assuming if i use the g cam yes the camera quality and performance should actually improve i forgot to invoke my camera so let me invoke this and so let's just continue uh the second question i got is from the ashwadhan he's asking is it still having any focus hunting issues while recording video no it does not have that that was fixed i believe long time ago uh this is why naveen he's asked naveed sorry he's asking how's the software experience and is there any commitment from asus how long are they going to put software updates for like two or three years for this i approached asus india regarding the update situation and this is the answer that i got they said that uh this phone will get two years of software update and they also said to me that the android 11 update will be coming out to this smartphone very soon they didn't specify me the date but they definitely told so yeah two years of software update and uh the software experience has been good on the smartphone as you can see guys it's almost close to stock android i've installed tons and tons of as i told you i was using this phone quite a bit and uh it's been working fine very fluid i don't notice any hint of lagginess or anything on this phone it is very close to stock android apart from this as it's a gaming centric phone we have this x mode uh but apart from that it's very close to stock and the experience has been actually good in terms of for what you say the ui and all those things although this is the base eight gigabyte ram variant i never had a problem uh let's move to the next one this is by bhavesh chandra he's asking apart from gaming performance how well the rog 3 handles thermal throttling because an rog rog 3 i think there is no active vent at least what the rog phone 2 has so rog 3 actually also has an active vent if you notice there's a slit over here so we do have that so it also has that active cooling but yeah it's slightly sort of hidden on the rog phone three and it's been performing fine i would say i did not experience any uh thermal throttling issue i mostly play this game with cod and just because of this smartphone i played the call of duty mobile quite a bit uh let's move to the next one this is by harry singh he's asking can we use it as a daily driver i'm not a gamer but the specs on this phone appeal to me i feel it will be easy to last about four or five years currently he says he's using the pixel xl overall yes it's a pretty good smartphone i would say uh it's a flagship smartphone the only uh thing that is not flagship on this one is it does not have ip rating but apart from that i would say it's overall a very good phone uh the stereo speakers are amazing i'll actually play a clip later on one of the loudest and because it's proper front firing speakers we get a very immersive and the stereo separation is also very good so very good speakers haptic feedback again is very good and because of the snapdragon 865 plus blazingly fast one of the fastest i would say and this one actually has ddr5 ram which is faster than ddr4 that is used on most phones so blazingly fast performance as i've told you yeah i'm using the eight gigabyte this is the eight gigabyte ram variant handles everything without any issues uh and battery life because of that six thousand milliamp hour battery excellent battery life even for heavy users it should last about one and a half days if i don't do gaming i can easily pull it for about two days on this one and so yeah overall i i would say it's a very good smartphone if you're looking for a big size smartphone great battery life and great speakers it's a good smartphone as i've told the only con i would say in real life usage is no ip protection apart from that yeah it's a pretty good phone now let's talk about the black crush issue and quite a few of you have actually asked me about this black crush issue on this one uh because this one has that 144 hertz uh panel um and gaurav and quite a few of you have asked gaurav says blacker issue a black crush issue how is it and will it get resolved any update from asus official yes the black crush issue was quite evident when the phone was launched in fact with even the couple of updates it didn't get solved and i noticed it quite a bit while actually using the netflix app uh so it was a issue with the netflix app i noticed that quite a bit uh but now with the latest update it in fact a couple of updates ago i don't recall it went down quite a bit but now this is the latest update that i just got yesterday and i even checked with asus about the phone it'll show us anyways of it for fair information as you can see uh the build number if the last one is 0.78 and above uh asus also said that this black crash issue has been solved according to them what was happening is that uh this has high level of calibration from the factory itself because it's having that 144 hertz panel but the problem with some of the streaming apps like netflix etc was that they were bypassing the calibration what was done on that and they were doing their own auto brightness stuff and that was cause seeing an issue let me do one thing let me actually place some a file on this let's play some trailer or something like that underground six trailer and uh to give you an idea uh the black crush issue has been almost solved i was facing it quite a bit earlier with netflix so let's try again i've connected to my hotspot that's what i don't like about ag broadband something like heaverian or something just goes down so yeah as you can see this is dark scenes and let it buffer because i'm using a mobile hotspot but to give you an idea you're really ruining the sound now you know that how good is the sound you got an issue this movement have 15 zooming i'm using a wild hot spot guys that's why the quality is a little bit down but it's good it goes very loud i'm going to reduce the volume and if you notice no black crush i'll lower the brightness also now that was the problem as you can see dark scenes now the black crush has been actually solved that issue at least i can't notice it earlier i used to notice it very easily during those dark scenes especially in netflix but as you can see right now again guys using the mobile hotspot that's why this broadband connection is down but let's keep it at lowest brightness again i don't notice that black crush normally so looks like uh the black crush issue has been sort of solved uh with the latest update it was annoyance i would say and i did notice it quite a bit uh almost all the time most of the time while watching netflix but now looks like with the latest update they have finally fixed it uh so let's move to the next uh what do you say uh topic and again guys that update as i told you 0.78 or above i think so it got uh solved after the 0.78 update which was the latest update i got it just yesterday anyways let's move to the next one this is by the way uh he's asking if you get a chance will you buy this phone over any other phone in this price range have you charged have you tried charging the device with both the usb port again guys this one has two usb ports one over here one over the side and uh if you try to charge it from both the ports it will only charge from this port it will stop charging from this port guys and i would say if you are looking for a powerful android smartphone what is the base price of this one around 50 000 what are the choices that you have apart from if you don't want chinese phones what are the options that you have this is the one that you have for the snapdragon 865 plus and what is the other option if you want a good what do you say a flagship sort of phone you have samsung but samsung is mostly putting their exynos 990 soc in most of the flagships that are officially sold in india and i just don't want to go about the exynos 990 you guys know so what other options do we have so i feel yes this is a very good smartphone at that 50 000 price point if you really don't want any other chinese vendors or something like that due to whatever data issues or whatever privacy overall i would say it's a very good phone as i've told you the call quality was good the screen that black crash issue finally got solved and yes overall it's a good phone only thing as i've told you is that ip protection anyways let's move to the next one uh this is by vinith uh did you see better loading time force call of duty on this rog phone three how did the gaming specific features help you in your experience again i didn't compare the loading of uh call of duty mobile on this and other smartphones but it was fairly fast guys the storage is very fast on this one i believe it's ufs 3.1 and again ddr5 so loads the games fast the thing that i like with these rog phone is this a triggers and that gives you undue advantage in games uh if you guys know i mostly play games via console so i'm used to what you said a controller on that and this a trickles tries to actually simulate that that's the reason i played call of duty quite a bit on this one because of the a triggers i was having undue advantage i would say so if you are sort of a gamer yes the a triggers make huge difference and now you can actually split the a triggers between two actions if you want earlier on the rog phone two that was not possible uh so you can even use the slide option and this area that area left area right area you can customize it so a trigger is the thing that really makes a difference and apart from that i felt that the speakers are excellent on this one and also the haptic feedback is really really good on this and again that's six thousand milliamp hour battery anyway so let's move to the next one this is by karan kapoor he's asking are you missing the headphone jack uh being a gaming smartphone i think removable headphone jack is not a good decision what do you think yes i definitely uh missed the 3.5 mm headphone jack that is missing on the rog phone too it was a bad move in my opinion anyways let's move to the next ananta is asking how's the ram management uh is there any drop in fps when too many games are installed like cod and pes ram management has been good as i've mentioned even earlier this is the base minion that comes with 8 gigabytes of ram and even with this one i never had an issue of ram management on this smartphone and again loading is fast because the storage is really really fast on this one and that it comes to ddr5 memory so no issues with that but yeah now we have the option of the new 12 gigabyte ram variant also so if you really want that you can go with that that's going to launch in the big billion day but frankly speaking i did not have a ram management issue or anything even with this base 8 gigabyte ram variant though i even have the 16 gigabyte international variant that was sent to me but i've been using this one no issues of ram management uh this is by frozen he is saying he's asking would love to know about the camera performance and how good it is compared to other flagships i would say the cameras are decent on this the rear facing camera is the new 64 megapixel sensor from sony and it's a decent camera i would say and uh i felt it does a better job than rog phone 2 and here are some of the samples that i took in my office itself and as you can see did here decent job this is an artificial lighting but i would not say that this is a camera centric smartphone if you really want a camera centric flagship smartphone then i would suggest you something like the samsung galaxy ultra with that 108 megapixel or something like that that is really a camera centric smartphone if you want to compare with that yes that does take better pictures but again that again comes with the exynos 990 so i would say for regular stuff the camera is decent but it's not the best camera out there that's my frank opinion in fact i shot a lot of pictures via this and post i post on twitter and even instagram with this regular stuff that's not an issue but i won't say uh it's the best camera out there that i would say in india official phones that's the samsung galaxy note 20 ultra uh next question is from jack mohan he's asking does it have call recording option as asus ui is closer to stock android yes it does have call recording options you can enable it if you want uh how is the phone for daily use considering it weights it's a big and a heavy phone no doubt about it here is my main machine so let's have a look at it 238 grams is the weight of this one so certainly on the heavier side guys and i would say you will have to use this phone for about four or five days then you'll get used to it for the first one or two days you will feel heavy this is something like the largest uh iphone so that is the max series if you're comfortable with that you will be comfortable with it but what i've noticed is i keep changing phones a lot right now i'm using the small pixel and you generally get used to the size and weight after about four or five days of usage but again yeah it's a big phone no doubt about it uh this is by trina he's asking how responsive are the a triggers is there any latency when you play a game for a longer period of time i never had an issue with the a triggers i mostly play call of duty and to be frank i never played continuously more than one and a half hours but during that time i never had a problem again if you want to know more about heavy gaming again check with sundar from technology job i know that he does play quite a bit more than i play but i personally never had a problem with the 8 triggers and that's the reason i actually use this again this phone a lot for playing call of duty uh this is by satya she's asking uh how's the rog phone 3 overall we know that it's the best smartphone in the market for gaming but how is the rog phone 3 as a complete smartphone i feel overall it's a very good smartphone at around 50 000 price point as i mentioned earlier in fact i'm not a gamer it's just that because this had that a triggers i actually played a call of duty and i was getting good kills i started playing but i mostly use my smartphones not for gaming and i felt uh as also a non-gaming smartphone it is a good small if you you're okay with the size of this because the stereo speakers are excellent very loud a great haptic feedback the screen quality is good very actually if you don't even play the game because of that 144 hertz thing it is very very responsive it feels very very blazingly fast so that's actually a good thing and overall i would say the build quality is solid it does not feel like cheap or anything like that also i like the ui which is actually very close to stock android and yes if you are that gamer you have that a trigger sir the only con as i mentioned is no ip protection that's the only practical thing that i'm missing but apart from that it's a very good smartphone and guys about that black crush issue what asus guys told me is that uh actually you should keep the refresh rate many people are just forcing the refresh rate to that higher 120 or 144. they said that it's advisable to keep it on auto so because many of these what do you say uh ott apps like uh streaming apps uh don't work that great on that 144 hertz or something if you keep it on auto that is the best setting so uh that demo what i showed you earlier playing netflix i just kept it 100 uh what do you say auto thereby when you're doing gaming it automatically ramps up but when you uh it's not required it automatically scales down and it'll also help you in getting better battery life so guys uh these were the faq uh topics uh questions that i got regarding the asus rog phone three certainly a very good android smartphone and i i would say if i was not a tester and i have to change phone every two or three weeks i would have still been using this smartphone as my primary smartphone it served me actually well the performance is good battery life is actually pretty good almost two days without gaming or one and a half days and regular usage i was getting so certainly a very good smartphone and uh guys as we know uh the new variant of this one is going to be launched the regular variant that is that eight gigabytes of ram 128 gbs storage will be for 50 000. the new variant that is with 12 gigabytes of ddr5 ram uh will be 3000 rupees more at about 53 000 and then we also have the 256 gigabyte variant that came with the 12 gigabytes of ram that is uh still at the original price of about 59 000. and because this big billion days sale is there uh you can actually get what you say no cost emi for three six or nine months on the smartphone with various providers like bajaj flipkart uh what is a credit card and all the debit cards whatever they uh have partnered with what you say flipkart and also uh during this bbd sale uh flipkart has a tie-up with sbi cards credit cards and debit cards so if you're using that you'll again get a further discount with that sbi card whatever offer is there so anyways guys that's it for now for this video of the asus rog phone 2 what do you feel about the same do let me know in the comment section below anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next video take care guys\n"