Asus ROG Phone 5s, ROG Phone 5s Pro launched in India with Snapdragon 888+ processor and 144Hz refresh rate | Digit

Asus has released the ROG Phone 5s and ROG Phone 5s Pro in India. This is a slight upgrade over the regular ROG Phone 5 lineup with a newer chip and better responsive display. The company has updated the processor to the Snapdragon 888+ and the screen now supports a 360Hz touch sampling rate. It has the same 6000mAh battery, 65W charging support, Android 11 with ROG UI, 64MP triple camera setup, a glass plus aluminium build material, and slick design elements to entice the gamers. Let’s begin with its price in India and sale details.

Asus ROG Phone 5s series Price and Availability

Asus India has priced the phones as follows:

• ROG Phone 5S 8+128GB: ₹49,999
• ROG Phone 5S 12+256GB: ₹57,999
• ROG Phone 5S Pro 18+512GB: ₹79,999

The phones will go on sale from February 18 at 12PM through Flipkart.com.

Asus ROG Phone 5s and ROG Phone 5s Pro offer a 6.78-inch FHD+ E4 AMOLED screen with a 144Hz refresh rate and 360Hz touch sampling rate. You get Corning Gorilla Glass Victus protection on top. The devices also sport an optical under-display fingerprint scanner.

The phones have thick bezels at the top and bottom which should endow a comfortable landscape handleability. Besides, in that black forehead of the phone resides a 24MP selfie shooter. The rest of the cameras situated by the back are a 64MP primary sensor, a 13MP ultrawide snapper, and a 5MP macro module.

At the core, both devices run Qualcomm Snapdragon 888+ chipset coupled with LPDDR5 RAM, UFS 3.1 storage, 6000mAh cell (split in two inside) that can be topped up by a 65W Quick Charge 5 and PD 3.0 supported adapter.

Other shared specifications are a secondary PM OLED screen (presenting notification alerts and custom logos), air triggers, rear capacitive touch buttons (only on Pro) 5G, dual 4G VoLTE, dual front-firing stereo speakers, 3.5mm headphone jack, WiFi 6e, Bluetooth 5.2, NFC, side-mounted USB-C 3.1 port, a USB-C 2.0 port at the bottom, Android 11 based ROG UI, and a bunch of accessory support.

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