Asus ROG Phone 3 review: The 144 Hz, 6,000 mAh gaming flagship that made gaming phones mainstream.
The template every gaming phone followed.
ROG Phone 3 set the template — 144 Hz AMOLED, 6,000 mAh, AirTrigger shoulder buttons, dual USB-C, RGB back, fan accessory — every gaming flagship since has followed. The mediocre camera and aged software support are the cost; as the genre's defining hardware moment it earned its place.
01Display
86/10086/100 — right at the average for gaming flagship phones of 2020.
02Camera
70/10070/100 — right at the average for gaming flagship phones of 2020.
03Performance
84/10084/100 — right at the average for gaming flagship phones of 2020.
04Battery
88/10088/100 — right at the average for gaming flagship phones of 2020.
05Build
80/10080/100 — right at the average for gaming flagship phones of 2020.
06Value
80/10080/100 — right at the average for gaming flagship phones of 2020.
- 144 Hz, 6,000 mAh, dual USB-C, AirTrigger 3 — the gaming-phone template.
- Snapdragon 865+ ran cool with the fan.
- Front-firing stereo is genuinely loud.
- Up to 16 GB RAM.
- 240 g brick.
- Camera tuning was mediocre.
- 30 W charging — slow for the cell.
- Support ended.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 1-phone cohort of gaming flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .