ASUS ROG Phone 5s costs 999 euros and Pro variant costs 1299 euros

ASUS has announced the European prices of the smartphones in the ROG Phone 5s series. The cheapest model costs 999 euros and is immediately available. The Pro variant costs three hundred euros more and will be delivered from Friday 19 November.

In ASUS’ webshop you can see that the entry-level model with 12GB memory and 512GB storage costs 999 euros. Customers who want 16GB of memory have to pay 1099 euros. These two phones are available immediately. The Pro variant with 18GB memory costs 1299 euros.

The gaming phones were unveiled in August and are minor upgrades to the ROG Phone 5 models. For example, the new smartphones have Qualcomms Snapdragon 888 Plus-soc, where the regular 5 series has to do with the normal 888-soc. In addition, the smartphones register the touch input 360 times per second, compared to 300 times for the ROG Phone 5.

Furthermore, all smartphones have a 6.78″ OLED screen with a maximum refresh rate of 144Hz and a resolution of 2448×1080 pixels. The smartphones also contain a 6000mAh battery that can be charged with 65W wired. At the back is Sony’s 64-megapixel sensor IMX686, In addition, there is a 13-megapixel sensor with a wide-angle lens, the selfie camera has a 24-megapixel sensor, and all phones have ultrasonic shoulder buttons.

The Pro variant has, in addition to the extra memory, a slightly faster version of the 888 Plus soc. With the regular 5s, the Cortex X1 core has a maximum clock speed of 2.84GHz, with the 5s Pro this is 3GHz. Also, the part of the soc that performs the machine learning tasks has a little more computing power in the Pro version. Finally, this smartphone has a color screen on the back for ASUS animations and an included AeroActive Cooler 5 that can provide additional cooling.