Asus ROG Phone 5 first look: The gaming phone starts at Rs 49,999

Asus ROG Phone 5 comes with a 6.78-inch AMOLED HDR10+ display with a 144Hz refresh rate and 300Hz touch sampling rate. Asus says that eye comfort on the device has been improved with DC Dimming support plus lower blue light emissions. (Express Photo: Anuj Bhatia)

Asus ROG Phone 5 is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor coupled with Adreno 660 GPU. The RAM and storage goes up to 12 GB and 256GB on vanilla ROG Phone 5. On ROG Phone 5 Pro and ROG Phone 5 Ultimate Edition, it goes up to 16GB+512GB and 18GB+512GB respectively. Asus has brought back the headphone jack in all the variants. (Express Photo: Anuj Bhatia)

Asus ROG Phone 5 Pro runs on Android 11 out of the box with ROG UI on top. It is backed by dual 3,000 mAh MMT design batteries (6,000 mAh in total) with support for 30W hypercharger via both ports. (Express Photo: Anuj Bhatia)

Asus ROG Phone 5 comes with RGB lighting on the back showing off the company's low. The ROG Phone 5 Ultimate edition and ROG Phone 5 Pro come with ROG Vision monochrome PMOLED and ROG Vision - Color PMOLED display respectively on the back. (Express Photo: Anuj Bhatia)

Asus ROG Phone 5 has a triple-camera setup on the back with a 64MP Sony IMX686 sensor, 13MP ultrawide camera and 5MP macro camera. On the front, it has a 24MP selfie camera placed inside the notch. (Express Photo: Anuj Bhatia)

Asus ROG Phone 5 optional accessories include ROG Kunai 3 Gamepad, The Professional Dock, ROG Clip, Lighting Armor Case. The vanilla ROG Phone 5 starts at Rs 49,999 whereas the Pro and Ultimate Edition are priced at Rs 69,999 and Rs 79,999 respectively. (Express Photo: Anuj Bhatia)

X-Mode gives users the ability to set different performance parameters from CPU/GPU performance to touch sensitivity settings and display refresh rate whereas Armoury Crate allows users to customize performance, touch, display and network-related settings on a game-by-game basis. (Express Photo: Anuj Bhatia)

Asus has given users option to choose between 60Hz, 120Hz and 144Hz refresh rates. They can also choose auto refresh rate. (Express Photo: Anuj Bhatia)