Asus ROG Phone 5s and 5s Pro launched with Snapdragon 888+ and 18GB RAM

(Pocket-lint) - Asus has unveiled a spec-bumped mentation of its awesome ROG Phone 5, and this 1 comes with immoderate mouth-watering powerfulness nether the hood. 

The ROG Phone 5s and ROG Phone 5s Pro are incredibly akin to their predecessors, but travel with a much almighty processor and are disposable with a ridiculous magnitude of RAM. 

Specifically, Asus swapped retired the Snapdragon 888 platform and replaced it with the Snapdragon 888+, which has much almighty superior cores. The telephone besides comes successful configurations with up to 18GB of RAM. That level of RAM successful a telephone is - rather frankly - ludicrous.

For the Pro model, that's the lone RAM variant disposable successful a exemplary which besides comes with 512GB storage. As for the non-Pro, that comes successful 8GB, 12GB and 16GB RAM variants with 128GB, 256GB oregon 512GB retention too. 

The lone different existent quality betwixt the Pro and the modular exemplary is connected the backmost of the phone. Where the regular 5s has colourful LED animation array connected the back, the Pro has an existent AMOLED-based sheet susceptible of much precocious animations. 

Otherwise, the 2 phones are the aforesaid and practically identical to the ROG Phone 5 from earlier successful the year. Both person immense 6.78-inch AMOLED displays built by Samsung with up to 144Hz refresh rates and up to 1200 nits highest brightness. 

They're covered successful Corning Gorilla Glass Victus for durability, diagnostic HDR10 and HDR10+ support, and person almighty stereo speakers with purpose-built amplifiers to present large audio. 

It's not conscionable successful processing and graphics the ROG Phone 5s has tons of power, it's besides successful artillery capabilities. With a 6000mAh battery, it's among the astir capacious connected the market, and tin beryllium filled up rapidly utilizing 65W wired charging. 

There's a triple camera strategy connected the backmost - the aforesaid arsenic earlier - featuring a 64-megapixel superior camera, 13-megapixel ultrawide and 5-megapixel macro. 

You besides get the aforesaid interaction delicate enarthrosis buttons that tin beryllium programed/mapped to circumstantial functions connected a per-game basis, positive 2 rear interaction sensors, and a show with 360Hz interaction sampling rate. In different words, it's a telephone built for gamers, and if it's thing similar the ROG Phone 5, it'll beryllium excellent. 

Asus' ROG Phone 5s is disposable from contiguous successful Europe. In the UK, the 16GB/512GB ROG Phone 5s exemplary volition acceptable you backmost £999, portion the 18GB/512GB Pro exemplary has a £1099 terms tag and is disposable for pre-order. 

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 4 November 2021.