Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro review: the most powerful phone around
Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro: Two-minute review Asus took a bold turn towards the mainstream with the Asus ROG Phone 8 Pro in 2023, repositioning its flagship (but typically niche) gaming phone as something you might actually want to use day-to-day. You don't get two consecutive radical overhauls in the modern smartphone era, so the Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro serves as more of a gentle refinement. The chief improvement comes from the switch to Qualcomm's impressive Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, which provides a measurable bump in performance. This is paired with a whole lot of RAM and a passive cooling system that has been beefed up yet further. Whatever the contributing factors, the ROG Phone 9 Pro addresses our concerns over its predecessor's sustained performance, remaining consistently fast over longer gaming sessions. The ROG Phone 9 Pro sticks to the design template of last year's model, with the same (relatively) discrete shape and style. Quality of life features like w...