Asus ROG Phone 7 Ultimate

Asus ROG Phone 7 Ultimate

The Asus ROG Phone 7 Ultimate is a gaming phone that doesn't change very much about its look, but makes considerable leaps ahead when it comes to its internals and software.

The Asus ROG Phone 7 Ultimate is a gaming phone that doesn't change very much about its look, but makes considerable leaps ahead when it comes to its internals and software.

The phone, revealed Thursday with a starting price of $1,000, keeps many of the design aesthetics and personality of last year's Asus ROG Phone 6 Pro.

The phone, revealed Thursday with a starting price of $1,000, keeps many of the design aesthetics and personality of last year's Asus ROG Phone 6 Pro.

These include its LED indicator on the back, a 6,000-mAh battery that can easily last two days and a highly responsive touchscreen with a 720Hz touch sampling rate. But it's inside where the most substantial changes are including an upgraded Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip and new software features for customizing game play.

These include its LED indicator on the back, a 6,000-mAh battery that can easily last two days and a highly responsive touchscreen with a 720Hz touch sampling rate. But it's inside where the most substantial changes are including an upgraded Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip and new software features for customizing game play.

the Asus phone is tall, partly because the front-facing camera is placed in a bezel above the 6.7-inch AMOLED screen instead of within a display cutout like on many other Android phones. This could benefit gamers since you don't have anything obstructing the gameplay on your screen. But if you're used to a large-screen phone like the Galaxy S23 Plus or the iPhone 14 Pro Max, you might wince at the ROG being even bigger than its display. The phone also feels heavy, coming in at 239 grams (just a gram shy of the iPhone 14 Pro Max) compared with the similarly sized 196-gram Galaxy S23 Plus.

the Asus phone is tall, partly because the front-facing camera is placed in a bezel above the 6.7-inch AMOLED screen instead of within a display cutout like on many other Android phones. This could benefit gamers since you don't have anything obstructing the gameplay on your screen. But if you're used to a large-screen phone like the Galaxy S23 Plus or the iPhone 14 Pro Max, you might wince at the ROG being even bigger than its display. The phone also feels heavy, coming in at 239 grams (just a gram shy of the iPhone 14 Pro Max) compared with the similarly sized 196-gram Galaxy S23 Plus.