So, Asus has finally brought its ROG Phone to India. The much-touted gaming smartphone from Asus has been topping the charts for its performance and experience.
Asus ROG phone will be available exclusively via Flipkart in India.
On the other side, we have a new Honor phone in India as well. The successor to Honor 7C, the new budget Honor 8C will be available exclusively via Amazon India.
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ASUS Rog Phone India Launch
The Asus ROG is a gaming smartphone personalized to run top end games smoothly with extended gaming sessions.
The Asus ROG Phone comes with a tall 6-inch OLED Full HD+ display. The smartphone runs on Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor clocked at 2.96 GHz, specifically tuned for high-end gaming performance.
Coming to the optics, the device has a dual rear camera setup comprising of a primary 12-megapixel sensor and a secondary 8-megapixel sensor. Up front, it has an 8-megapixel wide sensor.
In terms of software, the Asus ROG Phone runs on Android 8.1 Oreo-based ROG Gaming UI.
Asus ROG Phone: Top Gaming Features
The Asus ROG Phone has been specifically designed to be a gaming smartphone. The device packs in a ton of gaming features, to name a few:
GameCool System: It always the ROG phone to cool down when you are playing heavy games for extended sessions.
Vapour-Based Cooling Technology: The device works on a vapour-based cooling technology which helps the ROG phone to significantly low down the thermals levels.
Heat Distribution: The Asus ROG phone comes with a copper heat spreader that helps to reduce heat.
3D Vapour Chamber: The chambers transfer the heat away from the processor to offer better performance.
AeroActive Cooler: Asus ROG phone also features an optional AeroActive Cooler to blow off air from the back panel of the phone.
Asus ROG Phone Price In India
Initially announced at Computex 2018, Asus ROG Phone was launched at a starting price of $899 (around Rs 63,500) for the base model with 128GB storage. The top-end variant comes with 512GB storage and costs $1,099 (around Rs 77,550).
Asus ROG Phone Price In India: The Asus ROG Gaming phone in India has been launched at Rs 69,999.
Honor 8C India Launch | Honor Band 4 India Launch
Honor 8C is here in India now, successor to the budget Honor 7C. The Honor 8C will come with a 19:9 display running with Snapdragon 632 SoC. The smartphone comes with face unlock, new gradient colour options and some top features.
With Honor 8C, the company also launched the brand new Honor Band 4 in India alongside the smartphone.
Honor 8C sports a 6.26-inch HD+ notched 19:9 display with an 86.6 per cent screen-to-body ratio. The device will run on octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 SoC coupled with 4GB of RAM.
The device will come with EMUI 8.2 on top of Android 8.1 Oreo.
At the back Honor 8C has a dual rear camera setup comprising of a 13-megapixel primary sensor and a 2-megapixel secondary sensor. Up front, Honor 8C has an 8-megapixel fixed focus selfie camera with a f/2.0 aperture.
The whole package will be backed by a 4,000mAh battery with no support for any fast charging.
Honor 8C Price In India | Honor Band 4 India Price
The Honor 8C price in India will be similar to its Chinese pricing, which may come down as well. In China Honor 8C is available at CNY 1,099 (around Rs 11,150) for the base 32GB variant and CNY 1,399 (around Rs 14,150) for the 64GB variant.
Honor 8C price in India starts at Rs 11,999 for the 32GB base version, while the top end 64GB storage model is priced at Rs 12,999.
Honor 8C will be available in India exclusively via Amazon India and HiHonor online store from December 10.
Honor Band 4 Price in India will be somewhere around Rs 2,500 or maybe more.