Daily Authority: ROG Phone 5S announced 📈

Cell phones for gamers are a pretty incredible niche that has arguably helped improve the handheld gaming experience and make elite-level mobile gaming possible for many with Mobile Esports.

• One could definitely argue that gaming phones have driven innovation in high refresh rate displays and thermal cooling.
• The Razer Phone first had a 120Hz display in 2017, something that no iPhone, for example, has achieved yet.

At the same time, gaming phones put manufacturers in a bind: What good is a gaming phone with all the glowing bells and whistles if it isn’t absolutely the fastest on the market?

• Just no one points out that pretty much every flagship Android phone, unlike the PC world, is fast enough for gaming.
• Mind you, few phones have priority consistent Speeds and most can get pretty hot and hit thermal limits pretty quickly.

Anyway, Asus is stuck in this dilemma, so it was necessary to announce the new Asus ROG Phone 5S and ROG Phone 5S Pro:

• These are pretty much identical to the ROG Phone 5 series: The new specification is the Snapdragon 888 Plus chipset, which offers a small performance boost of around 5.5% thanks to an overclocked CPU chipset.
• There’s also a faster touch-response rate: the new devices offer a 360Hz touch capture rate that’s better than the original models’ 300Hz rate, although it’s also nominal – but that means it’s the fastest 24.0 ms latency is the world. The previous phone held the record at 24.3ms touch latency … so it’s not much, but it’s all about those marginal gains.
• There is no Ultimate device in the 5S series this time, but the 5S Pro has been upgraded to a whopping 18 GB RAM (LPDDR5) and 512 GB memory (UFS 3.1).
• The 5S retains the features Asus likes to talk about, including a GameCool 5 cooling system for additional overclocking and thermal control, and the sizeable 6,000 mAh battery remains split into two 3,000 mAh units to minimize the effects of heating.
• Even then, real professional gamers want to connect the external AeroActive Cooler 5 cooler to keep temperatures low.
• So it’s all a pretty natural improvement for the series, and there’s no need for ROG Phone 5 owners to upgrade – but if you do buy one, the new models are the latest and greatest, and Asus says the new ones are Models will replace the original models because the stock has run out.
• Asus didn’t announce global pricing for some reason … mind you, the base ROG 5 was a $ 999 release that jumped up as you added top-notch features and it seems unlikely there would be a discount?

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Second, how many times Netflix did this to me …

• With that in mind, my colleague Roger Fingas wonders if Netflix is ​​still worth a subscription and juggles various professionals like its original titles, from Stranger Things to The Witcher, documentaries, comedy specials and films that come and go.
• On the negative side, it is piled up with quickly canceled original titles that quickly get nowhere and a lack of third-party content as other services have emerged.
• However, what I think is lacking in this setting is that … you can come and go to any service very easily. Pay for a month and if you find yourself not watching, then sign out.
• There is very little to lock you up, although other services charge you annually to “save” you money, I think?

Applause,

Tristan Rayner, Managing Editor