Asus unveils ROG Phone 5 series

Asus unveiled its gaming-centric ROG Phone line-up with the launch of the ROG Phone 5 series. ROG Phone 5 Pro and ROG Phone 5 Ultimate, the smartphones in the series are built on the same blueprints but with different design theme on the back covers and RAM & storage configurations. Besides, the Pro and Ultimate variants get two additional touch sensors on the back cover over the vanilla ROG Phone 5.

The ROG Phone 5 series goes on sale in India from April 15 at 12 pm, exclusively on Flipkart. The ROG Phone 5 is priced at Rs 49,999 and Rs 57,999 for the 8GB RAM + 128GB storage and 12GB RAM + 256GB storage variants, respectively. The ROG Phone 5 Pro is priced at Rs 69,999, and the ROG Phone 5 Ultimate is priced at Rs 79,999.

The ROG Phone 5 comes in storm white and phantom black colours with a glossy clean dot-matrix design on the back cover similar to the popular ROG products like the ROG Zephyrus G14 (review). The vanilla model has an illuminated ROG logo, which supports 8 different lighting schemes

The ROG Phone 5 Pro comes in black space colour theme. The luminated ROG Logo of the ROG Phone 5 is replaced here to the matrix PMOLED display called by the company as the ROG Vision. This tiny display shows customisable graphics for scenarios like incoming calls, loading a game, charging, entering X-mode, etc.

The Ultimate variant in the series is similar to the Pro model but with different colour theme and PMOLED display on the rear cover. It comes in matte white colour and sports a monochrome PMOLED display, instead of colour PMOLED one on the Pro variant.