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You're a power user. Can the Asus ROG Phone keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Asus ROG Phone. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.
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Rog phone is my first asus phone, and it will be my last. It took asus 9 months to release the phone, and still it has so many flaws. The screen is clear and beautiful, but reacts slowly on touch. The antennas are horrible and a huge shame when the phone was built for gaming. Ui could have been built better and the gaming mode should be like Oneplus. The battery is 4000 mah, but the screen only last the same as Oneplus 6, which has only 3300 mah. The fingerprint scanner is placed and formed different, on the cost of unstable and slow scanner. You actually need to hold the finger on the scanner. Not like huawei, Oneplus and Samsung, where you just need to touch it.
So in my opinion. A waste of money. But I need to live with it now for 6 months.
bamsemh said:
Rog phone is my first asus phone, and it will be my last. It took asus 9 months to release the phone, and still it has so many flaws. The screen is clear and beautiful, but reacts slowly on touch. The antennas are horrible and a huge shame when the phone was built for gaming. Ui could have been built better and the gaming mode should be like Oneplus. The battery is 4000 mah, but the screen only last the same as Oneplus 6, which has only 3300 mah. The fingerprint scanner is placed and formed different, on the cost of unstable and slow scanner. You actually need to hold the finger on the scanner. Not like huawei, Oneplus and Samsung, where you just need to touch it.
So in my opinion. A waste of money. But I need to live with it now for 6 months.
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So your saying its not worth buying?
iStasis said:
So your saying its not worth buying?
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Correct. Not unless you want an expensive gamer phone, not built for gaming.
consider there's still no updated twrp that can run with the latest firmware, which is kinda ironic on a bootloader unlocked phone, i'd say the community development strength is virtually DOA until further notice.
bamsemh said:
Rog phone is my first asus phone, and it will be my last. It took asus 9 months to release the phone, and still it has so many flaws. The screen is clear and beautiful, but reacts slowly on touch. The antennas are horrible and a huge shame when the phone was built for gaming. Ui could have been built better and the gaming mode should be like Oneplus. The battery is 4000 mah, but the screen only last the same as Oneplus 6, which has only 3300 mah. The fingerprint scanner is placed and formed different, on the cost of unstable and slow scanner. You actually need to hold the finger on the scanner. Not like huawei, Oneplus and Samsung, where you just need to touch it.
So in my opinion. A waste of money. But I need to live with it now for 6 months.
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I won this phone in a giveaway should i sell it or should i keep it?
What phone did you have already?
do we have a telegram yet?
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Would you say that the Nokia 8 is "fast" in day-to-day use? A higher rating indicates that you think the Nokia 8 exhibits fantastic performance. Like, is it as fast as your tears when you watch The Titanic?
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Seems pretty good to me.
Yes ... Pretty fast ... Great phone
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Would you say that the Nokia 8 is "fast" in day-to-day use? A higher rating indicates that you think the Nokia 8 exhibits fantastic performance. Like, is it as fast as your tears when you watch The Titanic?
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Nokia 8 has better geekbench 4 scores than pixel 2
Official Oreo release
That results good enough to get me on page 1 sorted by multicore when it's uploaded
Think I've got a goodun!
good performance
Last run now uploaded. Sitting 20th
Just run Gekkbench on my Nokia 8!
The Note 8 gets 6478 on multi-core (https://browser.geekbench.com/android-benchmarks) and my Nokia 8 gets 6471! Damn close!
ChayBrandon said:
Just run Gekkbench on my Nokia 8!
The Note 8 gets 6478 on multi-core (https://browser.geekbench.com/android-benchmarks) and my Nokia 8 gets 6471! Damn close!
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I just got
1940 single core
6543 multi core
Wow! Considering Nokia 8's are mid-priced phones they are killing it with the specs and performance!
QHD screen and higher performance than phones more than double the price!
HMD Global good job! Now just to unlock the bootloader! ;D
Yes I am loving this phone compared to my previous P9.
My issue is with the fingerprint sensor and location coming from a phone where it was on the back I find N8 very awkward and even too small.
Can't fault the performance.
Day to day use is very good. No lag or terrible performance. Switching between various apps is smooth and responsive. Even with heavy apps like Facebook, Skype calls and Playstore updating in the background, the phone works well without freezing or crashing.
Heavy games loads well and runs smoothly.
For its specs, its a very capable phone.
Will have to see how it holds up after 2 years...
shaunydub said:
Yes I am loving this phone compared to my previous P9.
My issue is with the fingerprint sensor and location coming from a phone where it was on the back I find N8 very awkward and even too small.
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Yes I agree the scanner is rather small but I actually prefer it being on the front of the phone.
As I normally press the home button to wake the device anyway it is just one fluid motion to pull out, and unlock the phone.
It was one of the reasons I steered away from the OnePlus 5T! That and I prefer dedicated hardware buttons for home, back and multi-tasking. Can't stand virtual buttons for this.
ChayBrandon said:
Yes I agree the scanner is rather small but I actually prefer it being on the front of the phone.
As I normally press the home button to wake the device anyway it is just one fluid motion to pull out, and unlock the phone.
It was one of the reasons I steered away from the OnePlus 5T! That and I prefer dedicated hardware buttons for home, back and multi-tasking. Can't stand virtual buttons for this.
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I'm in agreement with that. Hate software buttons and scanner on the back.
I prefer the back scanner, it was easier for me to press it with any finger when I picked up the phone.
I redid all of my fingerprints on the N8 and now I have better accuracy on the unlock which means my angle doesn't matter as much - most of the time I am able to use the phone with double tap anyway as I have smart devices / locations linked to it.
Very happy with the phone so far, performance is awesome and battery life excellent.
Consistent performance
Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the Nokia 1, all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the Nokia 1 is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
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The whorst purchase in 2018. Rating 2.5. will be beautiful in my closed, only this.
Got one as a backup phone and for the price is excellent. (bare in mind this is and entry level device... the lowest tier on Android devices, do not expect to be amazed!).
The SoC performs very well and even under heavy load does not warm too much, Android comes almost vanilla and so far just go 2 security updates. No bloatware, no nothing. Screen is small but very responsive.
Very fast response even on app switching, good mic and speaker, small to fit in any pocket and you actually can use chrome with a good performance.
Now the camera is entry level quality (still better than the ones on Vodafone brand devices with the same price tag), the screen is bellow HD and of course small and you will need an SDcard because it only has about 4.5GiB available in the eMMC.
For the price this will do wonders imho.
Phone is very compact and very easy for single handed usage.
stock android with nokia promise of software updates
Its all you can expect from this.
Very slow interface, very bad camera.
Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the LG V40, all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the LG V40 is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
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Overall I give this phone a solid four out of five. The only thing that is a bit lacking is battery life. That does not really affect me cuz I'm driving all day long and if my battery gets low I just plug in the charger. But if you're someone that doesn't have access to a charger during the day this phone might not be for you. Other than that it's a great phone. The only other flaw that I can find is that some of the games that I used to play on my Sony Z Ultra don't play quite as well on this phone, not due to shear processing power because this phone is smooth as silk, but rather the screen integrates into the bevels of the device so closely sometimes games don't recognize the inputs that you're trying to make because holding the phone by the edges actually makes the game think that you're making some other input (If that made any kind of sense). But at any rate overall, I think this is a great phone. I've had it about a week and was considering turning it in during the 15-day return period but won't. This phone is a keeper. (especially since I got it factory unlocked brand new for $349 and just a year ago this phone was close to $1,000)
Fwiw, my V40 replaced an S7 Edge that died. The V40 was slammed on every review I read for its 'smallish' battery. Android 9 and it's adaptive battery or whatever else is reponsible makes the V40 last a lot longer than the Edge ever did. I've heard Android 10 is even better at battery management
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Killer phone. The best deal of the century for $150 on ebay in like new condition. I dont think there is a better deal than LG phones out there. You get a 1-2 year old flagship for like 1/10 of the price. Used iPhones and Samsungs cost a fortune. I've had LG G2, g3, g4, g5,g6, g7, v30, v40 over the last 7 years. I've saved tens of thousands of $ in my family just by getting LG phones for $100-200 instead of buying thousand dollar samsung iphones. not to mention LG had amazing display with much better screen to body ration until almost 2018, back when iphone's screen ratio was like 60%, LG's was 75%+
LG is a top of the line phone for a small fraction of the price.
....do I like saving $15-20 THOUSAND in 7 years from buying LG phones? NO, I LOVE IT!
Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the ASUS ROG Phone 3, all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the ASUS ROG Phone 3 is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
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The best phone I had sees the Sony Xperia Z Ultra. It feels sturdy and I like the heaviness (I am the kind of guy who add the keyboard extension to an Xbox controller for make it heavier). The battery doesn't drain on heavy use nether does it feel like a toaster in the hands. It is the smoothest experience I ever had.
I am not fan of cameras on phone, it can't compare to a true camera. So not having the best camera on this phone is not a problem. It does the job I need it to do.
Black crush is a bit annoying in some cases but I am sure it'll be fixed and I didn't experienced it often. Before this phone I had a Galaxy note 2, Galaxy S7 edge, HTC U Ultra and a Galaxy note 10 plus on hands but none of this phone gave me a woah effect. Until I got my hands on this phone.
Only regret is that this phone will never have a big community, so there will not have much things going on this forum. But even so I am a proud owner of this of the rog phone 3.
5* from me
XDA_RealLifeReview said:
Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the ASUS ROG Phone 3, all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the ASUS ROG Phone 3 is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
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I had a Xiaomi Mi 9 before this phone, and I like the ROG Phone 3 a lot more!
Even the cameras are better than the Mi 9's cameras, which means good enough for me.
As @bASKOU wrote, the ROG 3 is quite sturdy and heavy - that's fine! -, and it's quite well balanced, so you can use it one handed (plus there is a dedicated option for this too), the 6Ah battery is a WIN, coupled with the SD865+ SoC you can't deplete it in a day - I charge it once in like 3 or even 4 days!
Yeah, it's a niche phone, it will never be the tinkerers' dream, there won't be dozens of custom ROMs and kernels for it - but for me it's also not a problem, since it has stock Android 10 (let's hope that ASUS will update it soon to Android 11 ), and the stock launcher is snappy enough (still, I'm using Nova Launcher Prime, since I love it!).
The 144Hz display is good enough, even if it has black crush visible here and there - that's also not a dealbreaker for me.
I bought the 12/128GB Tencent version with the global ROM, which I was able to update to the latest global (WW) ROM - everything's fine, there are no stutters, everything feels buttery smooth...
So let's sum it: I love my ROG Phone 3, it's the phone of my dreams, it ticks all the checkboxes for me.
I'm coming off a Oneplus 7T, which is a great little phone.
The Rog 3 has made me forget about it completely (well almost, nostalgia aside).
Have definitely fallen hard for this device.
More so than any other phone I've owned (despite its short comings).
I look forward to a good couple of years, using my new Rog 3.
Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the OnePlus Nord, all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the OnePlus Nord is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
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This phone will be my long time buddy i have it just for 2 days but im in Love with this phone!
iesheiden said:
This phone will be my long time buddy i have it just for 2 days but im in Love with this phone!
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It's definitely punching above it's price tag! The screen and performance are spot on - and the battery life seems good enough for me. They just need to sort the camera software out!
profet said:
It's definitely punching above it's price tag! The screen and performance are spot on - and the battery life seems good enough for me. They just need to sort the camera software out!
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Yes they should have the same camera software like the pixel and then you have a very good Camera .I think it is because of the programmed software that the camera cannot show its potential!
Battery life seems to be slightly worse than my 9month old OP 7T - this was after a week - so not the initial days high usage pattern.
Otherwise, I like the weight of the Nord vs the 7T and also the main camera seems to be marginally better.
I dont play games so not noticed any slowdown in every day usage.
The phone dialler app is also better IMHO