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Before you buy the Rog6

Danishblunt
Hall of Fame I
I just wanted to remind you guys that you should wait before purchasing the phone. So far there have been some changes that I really liked to see, however there were no changes in some regards that make me wonder if this is going to be another Rog 5 fiasco.

disclaimer I don't own the Rog6 yet.
Some thoughts beforehand:
Display: The amoled display seems awfully similair to the Rog5, only even more overclocked. Which means, more powerdraw. Pixelworks as usual in for the ride, meaning the delta < 1 is probably wrong again, however it seems they did not put in the dumbass motion chip which is already a huge stepup from the Rog 5. I don't think there will be any severe color banding issues this time around, however youll probably have the usual crushed blacks and blue / yellow tint. Albeit not very strong, very normal for a flagship with OLED.
Cooling: The cooling has no real huge benefit over the Rog5, while its larger and theoreticly better, it's passive cooling capabilities are going to be rather poor. Having the huge cooler on the back is a must, which is to me at least, quite annoying. Sad that they still didnt go the lenovo / Nubia route.
Performance: Yeah, performance is going to be very dependant on the cooler, once its used, the performance will most likely be great, without it, its going to be quite disastrous. I cant comment to much yet however, due to not enough data on this topic. The only thing I do know for a fact, it is going to perform rather poorly without the cooler.
Features: The Rog5 had some really bs features nobody wanted that would put the price higher for no reason. lucky for us they didnt bother with the essabre dac and seemingly got away with the dumb motionchip. However the useless 2nd screen is still there. The capacitive shoulderbuttons are still capacitive, so not physical buttons like on the black shark.
Dissapointments from my side:
They didnt get rid of the dumb display on the back which would drain battery for no reason.
Still capacitive instead of physical buttons
Speakers seem the same, despite normal phones being quite close to the speaker of the Rog5.
Durability concerns are still there due to their absolutely dumb decision to center the PCB and have batteries left and right.
Fingerprint seems quite bad once again. Really would have liked on the powerbutton or on the back.
Due to how similair the Phone is to the previous gen, also the power IC dying concern is also there.
Battery life is quite piss poor. You can empty the battery on games like genshin within 2 hours.
While the cooler provided with the phone is undoubtibly powerful and does what it should do, its very clunky and I would have liked something like a built in fan way more than having that chunk on my phone.
The goods:
It seems at the very least the provided cooler is powerful enough to cool down the phone.
They got rid of SOME of the nonsense
upgraded cameras
software packages have evolved, always a nice plus.

Overall, While I do see improvements in some ways, I still see some very obvious flaws as well. While these are mostly theories based on what I can see with limited ressources, only time will tell. I sincerely hope and think that the rog6 might actually be what the rog5 should have been, that being said, we never know.
I would generally not recommend anyone buying a Rog6 just yet, if youre in a region where you cannot get the active cooler, defnitely 100% do not buy, it will NOT be a good experience.


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Danishblunt
Hall of Fame I
BPM

Personally, I'm disappointed in the lack of support for the TwinView Dock. I use it a lot on the ROG Phone 3, so the ROG Phone 6 missing support for it doesn't make me want to replace my current phone. 😛


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This actually comes up surprisingly a lot.

Lord_Messi
Zen Master II
CHOOZR

hmm, has anyone tried using Gcam.apk?


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I already tried and its works fine

CHOOZR
Zen Master I
on the phone 6? how are the output pictures?
Lord_Messi

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/comment/218672#Comment_218672

I already tried and its works fine


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Danishblunt
Hall of Fame I
CHOOZR

on the phone 6? how are the output pictures?

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/comment/220300#Comment_220300


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very hit or miss. it needs some software improvements.

ASUS_Bot
Rising Star II
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