ASUS ROG Telephone 8 and eight Professional leak reveals full specs and extra

Not too long ago, there have been quite a few leaks, in addition to confirmations from ASUS in regards to the upcoming ROG Telephone 8. Whereas we nonetheless don’t have an entire image of the gaming-focused handset, we’re a lot nearer to figuring out all the pieces we have to know due to a brand new leak that arrived right now.

The oldsters over at Home windows Report have gotten their arms on renders, specs, and equipment for ASUS’s subsequent addition to the ROG Telephone line. Beginning off, the report claims ASUS could exchange the Final mannequin with a Professional mannequin. Primarily based on the renders, there gained’t be a lot of a distinction when it comes to design between the bottom and Professional fashions. The largest distinction seems to be how low the road that divides the two-tone colours on the again is.

ASUS has stayed fairly in line with the design of its gamer telephones for years, however this time it would deviate a bit to make the look a bit extra palatable for the typical consumer. It seems each variations of the telephone are barely extra subdued, regardless of maintaining the RGB emblem. Most notably, the Professional mannequin appears to have dropped the Final’s again show. The digital camera bump could have additionally been redesigned, going from a rectangular-like form to one thing extra square-ish.

Lastly, it seems the vanilla and Professional fashions could are available two colours. The bottom mannequin appears to come back in both grey or black, whereas the Professional mannequin appears to supply darkish grey or black.

ROG Telephone 8 specs

The outlet’s leaked spreadsheet seems to additional help that each telephones will carry a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip and Qualcomm Adreno 750 GPU. The 2 fashions might also share a 6.78-inch FHD+ Samsung Versatile AMOLED show, Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2, a 5-magnet speaker system, Wi-Fi 6/6E help, and a 5,500mAh battery. Curiously, the battery could be a downgrade from the Telephone 7, which carried a 6,000mAh battery.

The place the fashions could differ is within the reminiscence, storage, and digital camera classes. The bottom mannequin is alleged to have 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 256GB of UFS 4.0 storage, whereas the Professional gives both 16GB or 24GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 512GB or 1TB of UFS 4.0 storage. For the cameras, the Professional may include a Sony IMX890 50 MP most important sensor (the identical lens that seems within the Nothing Telephone 2), 13 MP ultrawide, 32MP lens with 3X optical zoom, and 32MP entrance digital camera. There’s no info on the bottom mannequin’s digital camera setup, however the renders present a distinct lens is getting used for the third digital camera.

Though the telephone is extra toned down than earlier iterations, it seems ASUS remains to be giving the Telephone 8 numerous equipment. There appears to be two totally different instances — clear and strong black — with the black case lending area for the AeroActive Cooler X accent. It additionally seems that the cooling accent can double as a telephone stand.

ASUS revealed on social media that it’s going to announce the ROG Telephone 8 at CES 2024. The corporate additionally introduced on its Weibo account, the gadget will launch in China on January 16. For the time being, there’s no phrase on how a lot the ROG Telephone 8 or 8 Professional will value.