Before you buy the Rog6

[Danishblunt]

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.

[Slnn3R]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJT3-BiBU4E
I do think ROG Phone 6 need specific KUNAI 3 model, If look at this video, the Box said KUNAI 3 Gamepad "ROG PHONE 6 EDITION", also I notice the Phone Case to attach the KUNAI 3 Controller is different, this KUNAI 3 Gamepad ROG PHONE 6 EDITION's Phone Case back side have larger 'hole' area compare to the previous model KUNAI 3 Gamepad.
Other than that, everything look the same, I guess you should still able to use the old KUNAI 3 gamepad in the new ROG Phone 6, maybe the Phone Case will not able to fit well or even it fit well with the phone I believe it doesnt fit well with the AeroActive Cooler 6.
But I assume the Bluetooth mode will work well as usual with the old KUNAI 3 Model in ROG Phone 6.
and from the video, we can see that the KUNAI 3 Gamepad ROG PHONE 6 EDITION Phone case fit the ROG Phone 5 and also work well as intended.
However I doubt the KUNAI 3 Gamepad is durable enough or will obtain enough support from ASUS based on my experience. Once the software update of the Controller is messed up, there is no way to revert it to any stable version, and the controller won't work anymore.

[ktw]

It sounds like RedMagic 7 Pro or BlackShark 5 Pro will be a better fit for you in your case 😛.
I'm also going to wait for a while to see how others' true experience with the ROG Phone 6 series goes, since ASUS has a not-so-good name for the inconsistent quality of the 1st batch of delivered products in the past. Hopefully, that gets improved this time 😉. And I wouldn't really call the camera upgraded until they add OIS and get better algorithms. Tested with every gen of ROG phones in-store in the past and their camera experience is only meh~ok level.

[Danishblunt]

ktw

It sounds like RedMagic 7 Pro or BlackShark 5 Pro will be a better fit for you in your case 😛.

I'm also going to wait for a while to see how others' true experience with the ROG Phone 6 series goes, since ASUS has a not-so-good name for the inconsistent quality of the 1st batch of delivered products in the past. Hopefully, that gets improved this time 😉. And I wouldn't really call the camera upgraded until they add OIS and better algorithms. Tested with every gen of ROG phones in-store in the past and their camera experience is only meh~ok level.

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Nah the algorythm aka software processing is absolutely top tier. There is no other manufacturer that does a better job in neutral processing than ASUS does. Not having OIS isnt actually that big of a deal IF asus actually allows the camera to use ressources. I don't know if the Rog6 does something similair to my kernel, but if it does, then lack of OIS isnt a problem for images, only videos.

[ktw]

Nah. ASUS still has room for improvement for its image processing algo. The HDR is generally soft, something that many would agree with. The low light condition is definitely one of ASUS's weaknesses, and without OIS it's worse. And although we've seen improvements in conditions with backlighting for the past few years, it's still not as good as other real top-tier flagship phones.
I think MKBHD has it pretty well said about the camera experience on ROG Phone 6 (and that also applies to other ROG Phones). People buying this phone are probably not for the camera, but at its price point, you would expect it to at least keep up with other premium-priced flagship phones out there. The thing is that it just feels a level behind.

[Canedra]

The most important question for me, is DC dimming available at 60hz only?