Asus launched the ROG Phone 5 series in India on Wednesday. There are three new phones to boot. Asus has launched one ROG phone each year since 2018, so you can say that it is breaking from convention this year. There is the ‘regular’ ROG Phone 5 (the subject of this hands-on), ROG Phone 5 Pro, and ROG Phone 5 Ultimate—this is a limited-edition. The fact that there are more options to choose from is one reason why Asus chose to skip ROG Phone 4, the brand told Financial Express Online on the sidelines of the launch.
The other reason—and you can take Asus’s word for it—is that it changed a lot of things, especially on the inside, to make the fourth-generation of the ROG Phone stand out from everything else it had done before. “This is a ‘majorly’ new chapter which is why this was one of the key thought processes internally in the company to move from 3 to 5 directly…