![]() Mobile manager is a unified interface for handling phone maintenance tasks beyond battery ones. The Advanced settings menu houses pretty much all the other system-wide additional goodies ROG and Asus added on top of the Android 13 core. You can jump back to the display section of the review for a more in-depth overview of how the phone handles its refresh rate in the various modes provided by the system. Even without fully grasping what each option does, most users will likely find their way around it just fine. Such care for battery longevity is a rare sight on the current smartphone scene and is nothing short of a commendable effort.Įven though the ROG Phone 7/7 Ultimate has plenty of subtleties in its display behavior, the corresponding settings menu remains clean and well-organized. The platform even tracks your past charging cycles and warns you of sub-optimal behavior. Slow charging, max charging limits, and scheduled charging, complete with intelligent auto-scheduling, make for powerful tools. They are easily on par with what Qnovo offers. You can tweak the behavior and options of two of the default modes.Īsus has a solid set of Battery care features. Battery modes are merged with the overall System modes since the ROG Phone 5 generation. We already discussed just how far Asus has come in terms of battery savings, controlled charging, and longevity options. Since the ROG Phone 7/7 Ultimate is tuned for optimal performance, it makes sense that, by default, apps are prevented from autostarting until told otherwise. The Battery care menu and the per-app autostart manager are also available. First and foremost, this is where you can select from the trio of power modes and adjust their behavior. Options are abundant but not chaotic.įor instance, the battery menu has a few interesting gems hidden away. Every advanced feature included makes sense and is typically slotted and well-organized within a sub-menu or an app. To be fair, though, none that we would actually consider bloat. Speaking of options, the ROG Phone 7/7 Ultimate has quite a few. Many of these are free of charge as well. Both with and without a gamer spin to their look. Joking aside, the theme engine in ROG UI is potent and includes a vibrant online repository with plenty of full theme and wallpaper options to explore. It is "too clean," if that makes any sense to you. It almost looks like a kid "alt and tabbed" their way onto this interface when caught playing games instead of studying. What you get is an Android AOSP experience. Putting a vanilla theme on the ROG Phone 7/7 Ultimate might sound counter-intuitive, but with its relatively toned-down gamer aesthetic, it can pull it off and pass under the radar as a "regular" smartphone in most situations. Just in case this all gets a bit too much for you or simply isn't your cup of tea, Asus still includes a clean, almost AOSP-like theme as an option. If set up accordingly, the ROG Vision display on the back fires up, as well as any compatible Aura Sync logo on attached ROG accessories. An animation on the default wallpapers gets initiated, symbols shift, and glowing borders shine around icons. That kick-starts an impressive sequence that would fit right in a Transformers movie. The first thing you absolutely need to try out is pressing the X Mode toggle. The toggles are now back to being rather small circles, rather than the big rectangles from the ROG Phone 6. The number of options you are expected to want to "quick access" is a bit staggering. One swipe down for the quick toggles with the default ROG theme, and you might just feel like you are operating a nuclear reactor. The ROG Phone 6 is chock-full of all sorts of advanced options, toggles and menus everywhere. And speaking of software versions, Asus is now promising two major OS updates and four years of security patches starting with the ROG Phone 7 generation. ![]() The ROG Phone 7 Ultimate runs on the latest Android 13 at its core, so it's not just a case of Asus reusing and rehashing old software but rather impressive continuity on their end. Most of the upgrades that are in place are either visual redesigns and reorganizations or under-the-hood improvements. In fact, not a whole lot has changed visually coming from the ROG Phone 6, ROG Phone 5 or even the ROG Phone 3 and ROG Phone II before that. The ROG Phone 7/7 Ultimate is still very much part of that trend. Massive-looking motion animations, glowing effects, flames, reactors. Even though there is a clear trend of toning down the really "out-there" aspects of the ROG Phone line, it still delivers plenty of gamer "chic" out of the box. Buyers seem to appreciate and even expect a certain amount of aggressive lines, every conceivable shade of red, lots of mechanical, geometric and alien visuals. The Republic of Gamers brand has always had a certain "gamery" aesthetic attached to it.
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