The Asus ROG Phone
flies high with an overclocked Snapdragon 845 chipset and 8GB of RAM. But what
if there was a more affordable version with less RAM? TENAA says that there is
not one but two. The Z01QD model has three RAM capacities: 8GB, 6GB and 4GB.
Storage remains a choice between 128GB and 512GB.
The 2.95GHz CPU
clockspeed is unmistakable and so is the futuristic design of the back. But the
camera on that back may not be the same – TENAA lists only a single 12MP
shooter instead of the 12+8MP dual cam on the current ROG phone.
It looks like
there’s a dual camera on the back, regardless of what the specs claim. There’s
an inconsistency in the battery too – 3,850mAh instead of 4,000mAh – but that’s
probably the difference between minimal and typical capacity. Even if the
camera and battery are the same, a lower RAM capacity can be enough to shave a
few euro off the € 1,000 price.
Meanwhile, there’s the Asus Z01RD, which we
spotted in Geekbench with a (non-overclocked) Snapdragon 845 chipset. It has a
6.18” screen with 1,080 x 2,246px resolution (18.7:9). Overall, it appears to
be a version of the Zenfone 5z.
