Asus ROG Cellphone 9 and 9 Professional arrive with SD 8 Elite, larger batteries and higher cooling

Final yr, the Asus ROG Cellphone 8 took an enormous step in direction of changing into extra sensible for on a regular basis use with an IP68 ranking and a telephoto digital camera. However Asus hasn’t forgotten that this can be a gaming telephone, so the brand new mannequin this yr will increase efficiency on all fronts.

Asus ROG Cellphone 9 collection

The Asus ROG Cellphone 9 and 9 Professional are powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite, which is paired with as much as 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM (9,600Mbps) and as much as 512GB UFS 4.0 storage on the vanilla mannequin and as much as 24GB and 1TB on the Professional (there are different variations that we are going to get to). In response to Asus, the 8 Elite has a forty five% benefit in CPU efficiency, a 40% sooner GPU and a 40% sooner NPU, in comparison with the 8 Gen 3 contained in the earlier ROG Cellphone.

The improved cooling system now encompasses a 57% bigger graphite sheet, which helps preserve the brand new telephones working a number of levels cooler in comparison with the 8-series. There may be an improved energetic cooler too, nevertheless it’s greater than only a cooler. As regular, the Asus ROG collection excels with regards to first-party equipment.

The in-box AeroCase in addition to the non-compulsory Chill Case characteristic “Audio Redirection”. They’re formed in order that the sound from the bottom-firing speaker is redirected forwards. Mixed with the front-firing prime speaker, you get a greater stereo expertise.

There’s extra – the AeroActive Cooler X Professional has a subwoofer, so that you simply get 2.1 sound with it (this was current on the AeroActive Cooler 7, however was faraway from the Cooler X final yr). The Cooler additionally has two {hardware} shoulder buttons to go along with the AirTriggers which might be on the telephone itself. The cooling efficiency has been improved as properly with bigger fan blades (+12.5%) and extra thermal compound, leading to 29% higher cooling.

Like final yr, the Asus ROG Cellphone 9 and 9 Professional have 6.78” AMOLED shows with FHD+ decision, 1,600 nits brightness in excessive brightness mode (2,500 nits peak) and 107% DCI-P3 protection. This yr’s improve is that you would be able to allow a 185Hz refresh fee from the Recreation Genie (up from 165Hz final yr). This can solely be supported in choose video games.

However there’s a second show on board, kind of. Now each fashions have AniMe Imaginative and prescient – a grid of mini-LEDs that can be utilized to customise the look of the telephone. The ROG Cellphone 9 has 85 LEDs (the earlier vanilla model simply had 4 RGB LEDs), whereas the ROG Cellphone 9 Professional has 648 LEDs – that’s virtually double the 341 LEDs that the 8 Professional had.

There may be some methodology to Asus’ insanity. The AniMe Imaginative and prescient on the Professional has sufficient decision to render textual content in Chinese language and Japanese. And you may add GIFs so as to add animations as an alternative. There may be yet one more trick on this AniMe Imaginative and prescient show – video games! There are 4 retro video games (primarily based on Breakout, Snake, Invaders and yet one more) that you simply play on the again of the telephone utilizing the AirTriggers.

Again to extra sensible options, the Asus ROG Cellphone 9 pair is supplied with 5,800mAh batteries, that’s 300mAh greater than the outdated mannequin. The battery ought to final no less than 4.5 hours of heavy gaming. Asus says that it’s going to retain no less than 80% of its unique capability after 1,000 cycles (that’s three years of each day charging). Charging is rated at 65W over USB-C and 15W wirelessly. The additional capability slows down charging a bit, 0-100% is finished in 46 minutes over a wire (up from 39 minutes on the outdated one).

Let’s speak in regards to the digital camera. Each telephones use a 50MP predominant primarily based on the 1/1.56” Sony Lytia 700 sensor. The 6-axis hybrid gimbal stabilization has been improved and now corrects +/-5°, up from +/-3°. The 13MP extremely vast digital camera on the again and the 32MP selfie digital camera (with an RGBW sensor and a 22mm lens) are the identical.

This solely leaves the telephoto module – the Professional makes use of the identical 3x 32MP module (1/3” sensor) from final yr, whereas the vanilla mannequin doesn’t have one (regardless that the ROG Cellphone 8 did). As a substitute, there’s a 5MP macro digital camera on the vanilla ROG Cellphone 9.

A couple of extra issues value mentioning are that, after all the ROG Cellphone 9 and 9 Professional have a 3.5mm headphone jack. It was tuned by Dirac and helps high-resolution binaural know-how known as Dirac Virtuo. Wi-fi choices embody aptX Lossless and the telephone is licensed for each Hello-Res Audio and Hello-Res Audio Wi-fi. We talked about the Chill Case, that could be a passive cooling choice with a built-in vapor chamber to assist the telephone unfold out the warmth and scale back temperatures by as much as 17%. This case additionally has the Audio Redirection characteristic.

Asus will ship two OS updates to the ROG Cellphone 9 and 9 Professional and can concern safety updates for a complete of 4 years.

Asus ROG Cellphone 9 Professional

Asus ROG Cellphone 9

The Asus ROG Cellphone 9 and 9 Professional may be pre-ordered beginning as we speak. For Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China, they are going to begin delivery tomorrow. In Europe (together with the UK), delivery will begin in December. The US launch is about for January 2025, extra particulars to comply with. Different areas will see the brand new fashions afterward. The costs are under. Word that the Version mannequin comes with an AeroActive Cooler X Professional bundled.