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

Final 12 months, the Asus ROG Cellphone 8 took a giant step in direction of changing into extra sensible for on a regular basis use with an IP68 ranking and a telephoto digicam. However Asus hasn’t forgotten that it is a gaming cellphone, so the brand new mannequin this 12 months 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’ll get to). In accordance with Asus, the 8 Elite has a forty five% benefit in CPU efficiency, a 40% quicker GPU and a 40% quicker NPU, in comparison with the 8 Gen 3 contained in the earlier ROG Cellphone.

The improved cooling system now includes a 57% bigger graphite sheet, which helps hold the brand new telephones operating a number of levels cooler in comparison with the 8-series. There’s an improved lively cooler too, but it surely’s greater than only a cooler. As ordinary, the Asus ROG collection excels with regards to first-party equipment.

The in-box AeroCase in addition to the elective 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 12 months). The Cooler additionally has two {hardware} shoulder buttons to go along with the AirTriggers which are on the cellphone 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 12 months, 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 12 months’s improve is you could allow a 185Hz refresh charge from the Sport Genie (up from 165Hz final 12 months). It will 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 cellphone. 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’s some technique 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’ll add GIFs so as to add animations as a substitute. There’s another trick on this AniMe Imaginative and prescient show – video games! There are 4 retro video games (primarily based on Breakout, Snake, Invaders and another) that you simply play on the again of the cellphone 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 previous mannequin. The battery ought to final a minimum of 4.5 hours of heavy gaming. Asus says that it’ll retain a minimum of 80% of its unique capability after 1,000 cycles (that’s three years of day by day charging). Charging is rated at 65W over USB-C and 15W wirelessly. The additional capability slows down charging a bit, 0-100% is completed in 46 minutes over a wire (up from 39 minutes on the previous one).

Let’s speak in regards to the digicam. Each telephones use a 50MP important 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 broad digicam on the again and the 32MP selfie digicam (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 12 months, whereas the vanilla mannequin doesn’t have one (though the ROG Cellphone 8 did). As an alternative, there’s a 5MP macro digicam on the vanilla ROG Cellphone 9.

Just a few extra issues price mentioning are that, in fact 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 referred to as Dirac Virtuo. Wi-fi choices embody aptX Lossless and the cellphone is licensed for each Hello-Res Audio and Hello-Res Audio Wi-fi. We talked about the Chill Case, that may be a passive cooling choice with a built-in vapor chamber to assist the cellphone unfold out the warmth and cut 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 difficulty safety updates for 5 years, which is one 12 months further in comparison with the ROG Cellphone 8.

Asus ROG Cellphone 9 Professional

Asus ROG Cellphone 9

The Asus ROG Cellphone 9 and 9 Professional could be pre-ordered beginning right this moment. For Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China, they are going to begin transport tomorrow. In Europe (together with the UK), transport will begin in December. The US launch is ready for January 2025, extra particulars to comply with. Different areas will see the brand new fashions in a while. The costs are beneath. Observe that the Version mannequin comes with an AeroActive Cooler X Professional bundled.