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Rog 6, another hard pass.

Danishblunt
Hall of Fame I
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.
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yosef019
Rising Star II
this phone not worth the WW money
i got the CN 128/12 for 650$ im searching phone in android world that can handle battery like iphone 13 pro max
@Danishblunt any recomendation on android phone ^
well iphone trotle the hell out of the phone too
trotle the screen too that why i hate iphone

FunBike31
Community Legend I
A smartphone is not just about a battery, if that were the case I would recommend the BlackView BL8800 Pro which I must evaluate soon, otherwise I must still have the BV9500 Pro in the office, 10,000mAh will be enough for you, on the other hand you have to do with it bugs and ASUS deserves 5* for bug support compared to Blackview, this same ASUS that I rank dead last on this point, that is to say 🙂
Joking aside, prioritize your important points, for less hardware spec you sort with https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3?

Danishblunt
Hall of Fame I
FunBike31

A smartphone is not just about a battery, if that were the case I would recommend the BlackView BL8800 Pro which I must evaluate soon, otherwise I must still have the BV9500 Pro in the office, 10,000mAh will be enough for you, on the other hand you have to do with it bugs and ASUS deserves 5* for bug support compared to Blackview, this same ASUS that I rank dead last on this point, that is to say 🙂

Joking aside, prioritize your important points, for less hardware spec you sort with https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3?


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I am actually interested in the BV9500 Pro, my moms boyfriend is a handyman and looks for that type of phone. I read many good things about it, how is it?

afk
Star I
I bought the phone for Indian Rs.50000 and Mother board replacement cost is Rs.40000 as per service centers.
It got screwed after 13-14 months after I bought. As warranty only comes for 1 Yr.
Premium Phone ? huh

Danishblunt
Hall of Fame I
@afk
tsbreuer

I have noticed that the audio wizard for some reason randomly decides to play with the equalizer to lower distortion or focus on a specific sound on the song, which ends up creating a mess.

I literally cannot manage to get it to sound properly through the entire song, because the audio wizard will try to though the entire song keep changing the balance to adapt, and it just ends up coming out as a complete shitfest. I have tried all 4 music modes and at this point i'm just looking for a way to disable the automatic equalization, let me deal myself with the distortion if it happens.

Its to the point i'm considering looking into rooting the phone and getting a custom rom when possible because this is terrible, it straight up makes the speakers go from sounding great to just sounding worse than any midrange garbage phone.

I really REALLY dont understand why you would make the audio equalizer not have an off option to just let us do what we want with it.


Terrible audio equalization, any way to disable audio wizard?
As you can see here, fanboys will still buy, If ASUS keeps cheaping out and create phone that dies, even more $$$$$ for ASUS. Look at Rog2 subforum, dead Rog2 everywhere.