Asus has a monster phone for serious mobile gamers

Gamers have had a choice of beefy, ultra-high-spec PCs for years. But when it comes to mobile phones that are good for gaming, it's mostly down to choosing a flagship that hopefully won't melt after 30 minutes of PUBG. 

This may change with Asus' new phone, announced at Computex on Monday. Called the ROG Phone — in line with Asus' ROG family of gaming-oriented products — it's got the specs to power the most demanding of mobile games. 

The Asus ROG Phone is a 6-inch smartphone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor clocked to 2.96GHz, Adreno 630 GPU, up to 8GB of RAM and up to 512GB of storage. That's top of the class by any metric; in fact, no other phone on the market offers such powerful specs at this moment.  Read more...