Rog 6, another hard pass.

[Danishblunt]

Aight so I already talked with people who bought the phone and it seems all ASUS's ressoruces went to the Zenfone 9. The Rog6 is already a huge dissapointment, even when compared to the Rog6.
1.) Camera quality despite superior lens is on average worse. This is due to the fact that the IMX686 has had tons of time to develop and get optimized via software. So this could get better over time.
2.) The rog 6 is similair to the Rog5 when it comes to bugs.
3.) Speakers are an extreme dissapointment, lack of bass and generally just bad quality. Most consumer phones are superior.
4.) small downgrades here and there (micrphone, dac etc.), doesn't really mean much in terms of experience, but is a problem if price stays the same, which it does. If you're gonna go downgrade on stuff, you need to either change price or put good stuff somewhere else, such as actually good fingerprint.
5.) Fingeprint is as awful as Rog5, if you have smudgy fingers you can't unlock anything.
6.) Due to same dumb design, phone is fragile as hell.
7.) Same extremely dumb cooling system that relies on an external cooler. Using the phone without cooler is a recipe for dead brick if ASUS doesnt change their thermal management.
8.) Performance is good if you use the phone with active cooler, even without the cooler it performs great, however it gets way to hot. This will be handled like the Rog5, where they throttle the hell out of it without cooler trough updates.
9.) Battery drain is massive, in demanding games like genshin we look at 1.5-2hours gameplay at best.
Honestly it's extremely hard to recomment the Rog6 over the competition, especially red magic and lenovo Y90. I had high hopes for this one, but got shattered.
Well you know what they say right? 7 = lucky number. Also the gen2 finally seems like a true next gen chip with much better efficiency. Please ASUS, don't mess up the Rog7.

[Danishblunt]

Jesp.r

The big question is... Is it worth a change from Rog3 to Rog6 knowing all this? In general, ignoring the color bands, I'm happy with Rog3, but it's a 3-year-old phone and the degradation is already showing... I had intended to buy Rog6, but I'm not sure... maybe the zenfone9 is a better choice . What is your opinion?

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If you can live with the colorbanding the rog3 is superior in every single way.

[Jesp_r]

Do you think rog 7 will be the solution? I don't know what to think... switching to zenfone is an option that I value, but I would prefer a zenfone 9 flip... I imagine it won't take long to announce it...

[Danishblunt]

Jesp.r

Do you think rog 7 will be the solution? I don't know what to think... switching to zenfone is an option that I value, but I would prefer a zenfone 9 flip... I imagine it won't take long to announce it...

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Hoenstly the zf9 seems like a solid device, if it doesnt dunk on itself like the zf8 its seriously not a terrible device.

[thirty]

So I just cancelled my pre-order after reading this and about the upcoming SD 8 Gen 2.
I will not switch brands because either the software sucks, the hardware is missing important stuff like the phone jack or hdmi support or they're not available outside China.
Every asus product I own has always been top notch and I'm not going to blame them for a soc that can't possibly be integrated well into a phone-sized device. I really look forward to the next iteration and hope my current device won't explode in the meantime.

[Danishblunt]

thirty

So I just cancelled my pre-order after reading this and about the upcoming SD 8 Gen 2.

I will not switch brands because either the software sucks, the hardware is missing important stuff like the phone jack or hdmi support or they're not available outside China.

Every asus product I own has always been top notch and I'm not going to blame them for a soc that can't possibly be integrated well into a phone-sized device. I really look forward to the next iteration and hope my current device won't explode in the meantime.

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Sadly ASUS has downgraded the rog6, there is nothing else to say. The older Rog phones were amazing, something happened in the 2020 area where ASUS started reforming internally and now we get this crap. We are used to a certain standard, we are spoiled users that want our top notch devices back, not some half backed device that only resembles the old phones.
Sure the chipset were just bad, you're 100% right, but ASUS handled them way worse than any other brand. It's a fact. With the Rog5, they just added features that don't really matter or are even bad for gamers, motion chip cough cough
Honestly, the fact that the speakers flatout sound worse than an Iphone 13 pro non max is just unacceptable for a gaming phone. The speakers were one of the main reasons I purchased my Rog3 and still love it. I sincerely hope ASUS gets their shit together again for the Rog phones. I think ASUS might just have given up honestly, I mean the competition is extremely fierce, the red magic is simply way more popular in the region where it matters.