The Asus ROG Phone
II was announced yesterday and now we have pricing information for China. There
will be two versions – a very affordable, but quite customized Tencent version
and a vanilla model.
The custom Tencent
version of the phone will start at just CNY 3,500 – that’s US$ 510/€ 455. This is
for a model with cut down storage, 128GB, and 8GB of RAM. There’s also the
maxed-out version with 12GB RAM and 512GB storage for CNY 6,200 - US$ 900/€ 810.
You can pre-order
this model on JD.com, units should start shipping on July 31. Note that we
don’t know the extent of the Tencent customizations, but we guess the company’s
content will be heavily promoted to make up the price difference.
The vanilla Asus
ROG Phone II with 12GB RAM and 128GB storage will start at CNY 6,000
(US$ 870/€ 780). That's a huge 70% premium. Not that we expected the new ROG Phone
to cost less than the Zenfone 6. There will be some special edition versions
like the Zhizun for CNY 8,000 and the esports Armor version for CNY 13,000
(US$ 1,890/€ 1,690).
