The ROG prince

With its imperious power and some specialised accessories thrown in, can the latest chunky Asus set a new standard for gaming phones?

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from ₹71,999 / rog.asus.com/in

Smartphones are the handheld consoles of our time, but some are more committed to on-the-go gaming than others - and for the Asus ROG Phone 6 it's very much a top priority.

With a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 under the hood (the same chip found in Samsung's Galaxy S22 Ultra, and one that can hold its own against Apple's A13 Bionic and Intel's laptop CPUs) plus 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and a sharp 6.78in screen that offers a higher-than-strictly-necessary 165Hz refresh rate, it has all the stuff we'd be looking for in a top phone, gaming or not.

So what makes the ROG Phone 6 particularly suited to mobile fragging? The additional USB-C port halfway up the left-hand side is a clue, because it comes with more accessories than any phone we've ever seen, including a dedicated clip-on controller and a fan to keep it cool when things get frantic. So can it make the most of all that power?

Handful and Gretel