Asus ROG Phone

Great screen ; Innovative peripherals system ; Solid performance ; Airtrigger controls are a gamers dream

Battery life could be better ; Not enough games that take advantage of the hardware

The ROG Phone is the ultimate gaming phone, but for most people it’s complete overkill

Great gaming enhancements ; Punchy 90Hz AMOLED screen ; Really good camera

Heavy at 200g ; Awkward second USB port cover ; Runs Android 8.1

It may look like an irate Decepticon, but thanks to a really good camera, a great screen and excellent gaming performance, not to mention a suite of overkill accessories, the ROG Phone manages to get right much of what the Razer Phone 2 got wrong,...

It’s gamer and proud for life ; Delightfully odd extra bits

The most polarising phone design… anywhere ; Unsubtle screen calibration ; Battery life isn’t great

It’s the weird bits that make the ROG a notable phone, but the last thing we needed was another “normal” Android

Unique look and amazing build quality.

The gaming hardware aesthetics may not be to everyone's taste.

Smartphones have become Jacks of all trades and it's hard to score their features in isolation. But as far as the "gaming" metric is concerned, nothing out there is currently at the level of the ROG Phone. It really does set a bar for what can be...

Fast throughput speeds in our tests ; Support for Wi-Fi 6E ; Three multi-gigabit ports ; Comes with network-security and parental-control software ; Can be expanded into a mesh system with additional units ; Gamer-friendly settings

Very expensive ; Huge footprint ; Middling file transfer and 5GHz signal range performance

The Asus ROG Rapture GT-AXE16000 is a hard-to-justify $700, but this Wi-Fi gaming router delivers all the tasty goods: excellent throughput performance, 10Gbps wired Ethernet connectivity, and support for Wi-Fi 6E.