I have been thinking lately, I really like Asus as a brand. I have their motherboard in my PC (a high end one at that, X670 Creator w/ 10gbps ethernet ports and Thunderbolt/USB 4), their new peripherals (ROG Azoth, Chakra mouse), the ROG Ally, and even my laptop is an ROG AMD Advantage edition. I see quality and value in this brand which is why I wanted to point out a potential design flaw in your current phone line. I really like everything about it other than one thing - the specs. There is zero reason for a premium brand like Asus to be putting out phones incapable of a basic WQHD or 1440p display. And yes, I realize these are "gaming phones" (that term is an oxy moron and meaningless btw) but you are just tricking people with that term to get them to accept a garbage 1080p display and not buy a normal phone that could handle every game on the app store anyway. Remember, framerate may be more important to some, but that does NOT mean to leave the beauty out of the picture. I can totally also understand base model, the ROG Phone 8 or 9 non-pro, to come with a 1080p display. But for a phone of the price they are charging, saying you will "get better performance" on 1080p is a stupid excuse to make the phone only 1080p capable. People paying $1200 for a phone very much expect the option to downscale the display while gaming if NEEDED and then not have to live with a 1080p inferior phone for the rest of the time when they just need 24 FPS.
Every other phone company goes 2k or higher, why do you think you can sell any units being inferior in specs? The whole reason I loved Asus was they have something under the hood for the price, and it is the complete opposite and a failure for their phones. Also, if they WERE going to spend all the budget on power and nothing else, why in the hell didn't they simply pick a Snapdragon8g3x variant? Dimensity 9400 is the infinitely better choice for gaming, so I really have no clue how the ROG phone considers itself anything other than a mid range phone at high end prices. And not just that, wow they picked like the bottom of the barrel chip. Exynos would have been better this year, or hell why not work with Nvidia and make a Tegra K3? Or, at the VERY least, get something like a G3x in there? Of course not, just lower the specs of the phone and call it "gaming". I am really disappointed in you guys, because I wanted to have a full line up of your stuff. Turns out the last piece in the phone was just thrown together like every other year... I guess I have to go with Sony, Google, or Samsung again.
I'll be buying one of these phones as soon as you keep the high RAM while also giving it a workable SoC and etc
