Duel Smartphone Gaming, Lenovo Legion Phone Dan Asus ROG Phone 3

Illustration of Lenovo gaming smartphones and Asus ROG (Ilham Amin / VOI)

JAKARTA - Lenovo and Asus ROG are simultaneously releasing their gaming smartphones. Both of these phones have high-end gaming specifications that will provide an interesting experience for its users.

First there is the Asus ROG Phone 3, under the auspices of the sub-brand Republik of Gamers (ROG) this phone is the successor of the Asus gaming smartphone series. This phone is equipped with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus 5G chipset, which is reliable for gobbling up heavyweight games.

ROG Phone 3 has a FullHD + AMOLED screen with a 144Hz refresh rate and a 6.59 inch size which is equipped with a fingerprint on display. As the successor to the ROG Phone series, this phone is already running the Android 10 operating system (OS) with the ROG UI interface.

While Lenovo Legion is also confirmed to use the same chipset as ROG Phone 3, namely the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus 5G. The Lenovo Legion System-on-Chip (SoC) is paired with up to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and up to 512GB of UFS 3.1 storage.

Lenovo Gaming Smartphone Display (Lenovo dock)

As rumored, the Lenovo Legion will have an FHD + resolution screen, with a refresh rate of 144Hz and a touch sampling rate of up to 240Hz. In addition, Lenovo Legion also uses a new interface design based on Android 10.

Although these two phones were released at almost the same time. Each of these phones has different advantages and is a special attraction for consumers.

The following describes a number of interesting features that the Lenovo Legion and Asus ROG Phone 3 have:

1. Chipset that Support for Gamers

Both the Lenovo Legion and the Asus ROG Phone 3 are equipped with the latest chipset from Qualcomm, namely the Snapdragon 865 Plus 5G. This chipset offers the best performance for smartphone processors, and has also been supported by 5G connectivity.

Both of these phones also have special features that can improve smartphone performance when playing games. If on ROG Phone 3 there is X-Mode to optimize the performance of each application and game. Lenovo carries out Duel, an interface feature that changes the phone's display to landscape mode to make playing games easier.

2. Battery Management

As a gaming cellphone, a large battery capacity is a mandatory requirement that cannot be missed. The ROG Phone 3 still maintains a 6,000mAh battery capacity that supports fast charging technology up to 30W.

Asus also immersed new cooling technology, namely the Aero Active Cooler 3 with a vapor chamber and a larger heatsink to get rid of hot temperatures when the cellphone is used for a long time.

Lenovo Legion Phone battery configuration (Lenovo dock)

While the Lenovo Legion actually carries two batteries with a capacity of 2,500mAh each and when the total reaches 5,000mAh. Even though it is 1,000mAh adrift of its competitors, the Lenovo Legion Duel supports turbo charging of up to 90W which means that this phone can charge from 0 to 50 percent in just 10 minutes.

The goal is to reduce the effects of heat. It is also claimed that Lenovo is supported by dual liquid cooling and copper pipes for heat dissipation. The position of the USB-C port for charging is located at the bottom and sides.

3. Camera

Both ROG Phone 3 and Lenovo Legion Phone don't forget the essential essence of a smartphone. This time the Asus ROG Phone brings three rear cameras with configurations, the main camera lens with a 64MP Sony IMX686 sensor, a second 13MP ultra-wide angle lens, and the third lens is a macro lens. For the 24MP resolution selfie camera.

Asus ROG Phone 3 launch (screenshot Asus)

Meanwhile, Lenovo has a dual camera module on the back of the phone, with a 64MP main lens paired with a 16MP secondary sensor. Interestingly, for the front camera, Lenovo uses pop-up technology in horizontal or landscape mode.

So users can play while recording videos or do live streaming on Twitch or YouTube. The pop-up front camera of the Lenovo Legion Phone Duel has 20MP capability that can record 1080p HD or 4K 30fps video.

4. Features and Accessories

Lenovo Legion Phone Duel also provides touch buttons, aka trigger buttons, such as the L1 / R1 on the PlayStation controller stick. Then added a button called pressure sensitive.

Unfortunately, Lenovo on its official website doesn't explain the details of its features and uses, such as the Asus ROG Phone 3 with AirTrigger 3. Another supporting feature for playing games is the gyroscope sensor.

Meanwhile, ROG Phone 3 comes with various gaming accessories, for example the ROG Kunai 3 Gamepad, ROG Clip, ROG TwinView 3 Dock.

Other accessories that also support the Asus ROG Phone 3 and other Asus ROG products are the ROG Cetra RGB headphones, the ROG Falchion portable wireless gaming keyboard, and the ROG Strix XG16 portable gaming screen.

Both the Lenovo Legion Phone and the ROG Phone 3 have a myriad of other interesting features such as Bluetooth v5 .0, GPS / A-GPS, NFC, and a USB Type-C port.

Gaming features on Asus ROG Phone 3 (screenshot Asus)

5. Price

Questioning the price, the Asus ROG Phone 3 is priced at Rp. 16.9 million to the highest variant of 16GB RAM + 512GB internal memory for Rp. 18.6 million. Asus also presents the Asus ROG Phone 3 Strix Edition variant which uses the regular Snapdragon 865 chipset with 8GB RAM and 256GB ROM for Rp. 13.5 million.

As a new competitor in the gaming smartphone competition, Lenovo has not provided detailed information regarding the price of the cellphone and the accessories it will sell. This is likely due to the new Lenovo Legion Phone being marketed in China first before other countries.

However, it is estimated that if the Lenovo gaming cellphone enters Indonesia it will be sold at a price of around IDR 8.1 million for the 12 / 128GB variant and IDR 12.5 million in the highest variant with 16 / 512GB.