Asus ROG Phone 5S surfaces in Chinese retail listing: Is a launch imminent?

(Pocket-lint) - Asus appears to beryllium processing a caller mentation of its gaming-focused phone, the ROG Phone 5, which launched earlier this twelvemonth with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset. The upgraded model, however, which is thought to beryllium called ROG Phone 5S, mightiness battalion a Snapdragon 888 Plus.

The ROG Phone 5S precocious appeared successful merchandise listing connected a Chinese online retailer AliExpress, revealing that it could travel with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of retention oregon 18GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, arsenic good arsenic a 6,000mAh artillery with 65W accelerated charging and the Snapdragon 888 Plus. Keep successful mind, erstwhile Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 888 Plus this past summer, Asus suggested that chipset volition travel to a caller ROG phone.

The ROG Phone 5S, which is disposable for pre-order connected AliExpress, doesn't see a motorboat date, but it does enactment a azygous achromatic colour option. This each leads america to judge the telephone mightiness motorboat sooner alternatively than later. We inactive don't cognize astir the display, cameras, oregon dimensions, but considering it's an S-upgrade, 1 tin presume it won't beryllium excessively antithetic from past year's model. We fishy it'll athletics a 144Hz AMOLED display, astatine least.

Asus hasn’t officially announced the ROG Phone 5S yet, truthful instrumentality everything present with a pinch of salt. Perhaps we'll perceive from the institution soon.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 12 August 2021.