 ROG's dream is to give all of this through just this. As a PC gamer since I was 6 years old, the problem has always been that PCs are difficult to master, both in assembly and even troubleshooting the software. None of that, however, matters with cell phones, which are now essentially plug-and-play gaming behemoths. And this is where ROG seeks to crown itself the king of all mobile gaming. Hi, I'm Rafael from Hardware Sugar and this is our review of the ROG Phone 6 Pro after two weeks of intense usage. The Phone 6 Pro is all about showmanship. ROG's design team shows long ago that in order to stand out from among the cell phone suits, you need to get crazy. And the Phone 6 Pro looks like at first glance that it belongs in an Evangelion episode as opposed to a formal meeting at work. In fact, the neutrality of most smartphones today, which focus on minimalist designs, can be quite boring. This tiny screen at the back serves no practical purpose other than to make you feel like you're holding something from the future. Which is cool. I can show you that your phone is charging, but most importantly, it is there to set you in the mood to game. The Phone 6 Pro feels great in the hands, instead of the typical blockish design used today which was inspired by the success of the iPhone 4 way back in 2010. There is a slight sensation of a curve as your hands wrap around the body of the phone. If you know who has used the S21 Ultra, Note 9 and numerous iPhones, this is both refreshing and comfortable to use for long periods of, well, gaming. And as a gaming powerhouse, it excels magnificently. ROG's native apps are designed to get you just as pumped to game through their flashy and gamer interfaces that I sometimes close the apps just so I could play the cinematic or enter into X mode. X mode is a system-wide setting which is supposed to make the phone even more optimized for gaming than it already is. It can be achieved through the press of the air triggers, a touch-sensitive side of the phone, outer shell, which you press a little harder on. This is not a new feature to the ROG phone line, however, as someone who has never tried a ROG phone before, it makes me wonder why other phones don't have this feature. It does it way with having a physical button and yet gives additional options for cell phone customizability. The Phone 6 Pro sports the latest Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 chip, the same processor which powers the Galaxy Z Fold 4. I have watched a lot of reviews of the Z Fold 4 and what most of them say is that even if it has the same battery as last year's Z Fold 3, the Fold 4 lasts much longer due to the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1. Speaking of battery, the Phone 6 Pro sports a 6000mAh battery which for a smartphone is absolutely massive. If you are curious, the Z Fold 4 only has a 4500mAh battery and a lot of users are already extremely happy with just that. The Gigantic battery and the latest Snapdragon processor makes it not only a cool gaming phone but also a gaming phone with substance. To borrow an old slogan favorite of mine, the Phone 6 Pro will keep going, perhaps even longer than the Energizer Bunny ever had. I lasted more than a day with a full charge that was with several hours of intense gaming and light YouTube and email browsing. The reason it also has a bigger battery is also because the phone sports a 165 hertz screen refresh rate which is in my opinion overkill yet extremely amazing. To put things in context, even my MSI gaming monitor only goes as far as 144 hertz and my S21 Ultra and M1 iPad Pro only go as far as 120 hertz. In short, this is the most buttery smooth screen I have ever touched. The difference is very subtle but you feel it when you are moving between apps and when you are gaming. Armory Create, the built-in ROG app which helps manage your games, is very helpful. It even offers you recommendations based on which games can run on high tier refresh rates. I found this very helpful considering I'm not as familiar with mobile game selections as opposed to PC games. Not all the recommendations worked though as some games recommended to me were region locked. While this isn't a Samsung phone, you get the best of what Samsung has to offer through their specialization in AMOLED screens. Yes, the ROG Phone 6 Pro's AMOLED screen is provided by Samsung and as a long time Samsung phone user, no other phone manufacturer in my opinion gets to nail it as well as Samsung does. The colors are wonderful and easy on the eyes. That combined with the aforementioned 165 hertz refresh rate really just makes me feel as though the ROG design team just wanted to throw everything they possibly could at this phone just for the sake of saying they threw all they could. When we get into the attachments, the ROG Q93 gamepad and the AeroActive Cooler are ROG's attempt to even further woo mobile gamers. Unfortunately the gamepad I received had a rare manufacturer's defect, an assessment I myself made based on how I couldn't find anyone else online with the similar problem of a faulty joystick. I can however review the AeroActive Cooler which makes it a necessary attachment if you wish to dominate the mobile gaming arena. Yes games work wonderfully and smoothly without attachments but without the AeroActive Cooler or something like the Q93, your fingers will be eating up the screen and to be honest, I hate mobile gaming precisely because I was never comfortable with the controls of a touchscreen. The cooler is not only awesome to look at with a variety of RGB light schemes but it has actual tactile buttons which you can actually program into a trigger for your gun or to toggle ADS. Which if you ask me feels like cheating especially in the mobile gaming world because it highly disenfantages players who don't have a similar attachment. Of course if you don't mind stomping on other players then go right ahead. Nevertheless this can also be very useful to non-competitive games such as RPGs. You can actually hear the fan and feel the air gush out as the cooler does its magic of keeping your phone cool plus lengthening and improving your gaming experience. The choice of 3 camera lenses makes the phone 6 Pro competitive while at the same time not one to lead the charge in this category. I would still trust my S21 Ultra which is a 2 year old phone at this point to generate photos that just as good or even better. But for 85% of users, I really don't think anyone can really tell the difference. I commend ROG for making sure that it didn't fall back in the camera lenses department despite the goal of making a gaming powerhouse. In order to soften the blue, ROG actually provides a lot of freebies unlike all other flagship phones. It comes with a USB power adapter which is 65 watts which is very generous, a USB to USB C cable and even a specialized case for the ROG phone 6 Pro. The ROG phone 6 Pro model with 512GB of space and 18GB of RAM is locally priced at 65,000 pesos or 1,699 US dollars in the US. While the Aero active cooler you can get locally for around 6,400 pesos or 142 US dollars in the US. The latter is optional and I would recommend people to focus first on the phone 6 Pro itself and then decide later if they really want to upgrade with the attachment because it adds a lot of bulk to the phone. With that said, this is a really expensive phone. Like I said earlier, ROG is unapologetic about how it looks and plays just as how they are unapologetic about its price tag. This is a crazy expensive phone but it definitely stands up from the same old, same old. This loss leads to the most important question of them all. Who is this phone for? It's for two different kinds of consumers in my opinion. First it's for those who are passionate Android cell phone gamers who don't really need a fancy computer or tablet. In which case instead of spending the same money on a single graphics card or a PC desk setup, one can just go all in with a phone which also serves as an obvious work or school tool since it's also your phone. Everyone has to have one. The industry of mobile gaming is highly competitive and is very popular due to how accessible it is to almost any social economic class due to just how easy it is for lower and mid-tier cell phones to deliver a fun gaming experience. If gaming on your Android device gives you a lot of joy, then you most definitely will be getting the most consistent experience here. I say consistent because the only other phone which could presently match this is the Z Fold 4 because of the big screen. However, not every game has been formatted for that screen size. The phone 6 Pro being your standard candy bar phone, as they say, guarantees the games you play will be optimized. And if you're considering the Z Fold 4 for gaming, the phone 6 Pro is still dramatically cheaper and you can't add attachments like the cooler to it. And lastly, it is for the person who wants something different and who is also unapologetic about spending. If you want to spend on the best but have just been really bored with the standard form factor for years, then the phone 6 Pro gives you pretty much everything you need for the most part without it folding. I suspect that other than the camera, you are pretty much future proof for the next three to four years when it comes to mobile gaming with this device. In conclusion, this is a flagship phone which stands out from all the other candy bar flagship phones through its fun design and intuitive UI. With that said, we are giving the ROG Phone 6 Pro four candy points out of five for being a phone which is not only a gaming mega powerhouse, but for also being able a reliable work tool with fantastic battery life and a screen. It also includes our excellent cable management and CPU cooler repasting in cleaning. We also clean and repaste GPUs. In our physical store and you can also buy from our site www.hwsugar.ph 100% always up to date the inventory there. If the item in stock is available on the site, we also ship nationwide. Thanks for watching and maybe one of these days, we will see you at the shop.