Unleash unmatched gaming performance with the ROG Phone 9, a mobile masterpiece that seamlessly blends high-powered gaming with a sleek, modern aesthetic.
DesignStyled for gamers
AI GamingFor the gaming edge
PerformanceIncredible gaming power
ThermalAlways fast, always cool
ControlPlays like a console
CameraAI-enhanced photography
DisplayCrisp 6.78” E6 AMOLED
BatteryMonster capacity for non-stop power
DESIGN
Timeless allure
The sleek all-black design expertly blends glossy and matte finishes, exuding a futuristic and sophisticated vibe. The matte finishes are crafted with a crystalized nano-texture for a silky touch and fingerprint-free surfaces.
DESIGN
AniMe Vision
The AniMe Vision auxiliary display features 85 programmable mini-LEDs for an array of exclusive animations that react to your interactions.
When turned off, AniMe Vision is totally invisible, so you can switch between an understated look and a gaming aesthetic at will.
DESIGN
Fearless gaming
Boasting an IP68 rating1 for dust and water resistance, the ROG Phone 9 gives you the freedom to game anytime, anywhere, with no fear.
AI GAMING
Unleashing AI-powered gaming
The ROG Phone 9 Series incorporates advanced AI-driven features that deliver an unparalleled gaming experience.
AI Grabber 2.0
AI Grabber utilizes AI for text recognition, making it incredibly easy to search for tips, and now it even supports a translation feature, ensuring smoother communication.2
AI Noise Cancelation
AI Noise Cancelation3 uses machine learning to identify different noise frequencies, making it easy for you to eliminate unwanted sounds for clear communication during gameplay.
X Sense 3.0
X Sense leverages AI image recognition to streamline your gaming tasks, such as detecting key events and auto-collecting items. Our latest 3.0 version even auto-upgrades character skills, enabling you to unleash your ultimate abilities with ease.2
X Capture 2.0
X Capture employs AI image recognition to detect key events and automatically records your moments of victory, team fights, and when you draw character cards in the game.2
PERFORMANCE
Snapdragon® 8 Elite
Experience gaming supremacy with the ROG Phone 9, the trailblazer in gaming smartphones, powered by the 3-nanometer Snapdragon® 8 Elite Mobile Platform. Your performance soars to stratospheric heights, with Qualcomm Seamless syncing effortlessly to Snapdragon X Elite-powered PCs, and each processor, including the AI-dedicated NPU, is significantly enhanced just for you.
A superior SoC demands an equally superior thermal system to unlock its full potential! GameCool 9 delivers with its 360° SoC Cooling System Gen 3 design, utilizing a variety of high-performance thermal materials. This system is engineered with a unique SoC-centered structure and complemented by the latest AeroActive Cooler X Pro, ensuring that heat dissipation never impedes your path to victory!
In the ROG Phone 9, we’ve retained the superior cooling components from our previous models while achieving a breakthrough in thermal management.
The graphite sheet used for heat dissipation has been increased in volume by 57%, a change that greatly enhances the distribution of heat across the device. This results in a more efficient cooling system, which in turn improves the device’s cooling performance by an impressive 12%5.
THERMAL
AeroActive Cooler X Pro
The newly designed AeroActive Cooler X elevates cooling accessories to the next level. Its fan blades have been increased in diameter by 12.5%, resulting in significantly greater airflow. In combination with the extended thermal material, this delivers up to 29%6 more effective cooling. This design keeps your device cool during intense gaming sessions.
The brand-new ROG Chill Case leverages Composite Vapor Chamber (CVC) technology, harnessing the properties of low boiling points in a vacuum environment to optimize the vapor cycle. This state-of-the-art design allows for a substantial temperature reduction of up to 17%7, ensuring you maintain peak performance during AAA mobile gaming sessions, but still keep cool.
Experience unparalleled command over your games with the acclaimed AirTrigger controls, putting a console-like gaming experience right at your fingertips. These innovative controls are versatile, responding to an array of gestures such as Dual Action, Press and Lift, and Gyroscope Aiming. Embrace the ultimate level of mastery with the ROG Phone 9.
AeroActive Cooler X Pro
Attach the AeroActive Cooler X Pro to instantly unlock 2 extra physical buttons, providing a console-like level of control that further elevates your gaming experience.
Insert the ROG Tessen mobile controller, and your ROG Phone 9 is instantly transformed into a professional-level portable gaming console, delivering exceptional comfort for extended play.
The ROG Phone 9 is not just a gaming phone; it’s also a flagship phone with outstanding photography capabilities. Its software and hardware are designed to provide you with the highest quality mobile photo experience.
50 MP
Wide camera
13 MP
Ultrawide camera
5 MP
Macro camera
32 MP
Front camera
CAMERA
Elevate your photography
Capture every moment with precision and clarity . Our advanced camera technology ensures lifelike, distortion-free images and versatility for any scenario, from wide-angle shots to detailed portraits.
Equipped with a 50 MP Lytia 700 Sony sensor, the main camera captures crystal-clear moments. The wide-angle lens is perfect for room shots, and the lossless 2x zoom serves as a 50mm prime for character portraits.
Discover the extraordinary in the details with the 5 MP macro camera, bringing the smallest wonders to life in stunning close-up shots right from your fingertips.
Featuring a 13 MP ultrawide lens, it captures expansive landscapes and portraits even in confined areas. Its unique freeform lens design curbs distortion, ensuring lifelike, distortion-free images.
Main
Macro
Ultrawide
CAMERA
32 MP RGBW Ultrawide selfies
The front-facing camera, with its 32 MP RGBW sensor, incorporates extra white pixels to enhance light capture, resulting in crisp, low-noise images even in dim lighting conditions.
It also features a 90° field of view, perfect for wide-angle group selfies. You can effortlessly switch between a standard 1x view and a 0.7x ultrawide perspective to suit various photographic needs.
CAMERA
AirTrigger Capture
AirTrigger isn’t just for gaming — it’s also useful for photography. In landscape mode, now you can set the right AirTrigger as a shutter button to easily capture or record amazing moments.
CAMERA
6-Axis Hybrid Gimbal Stabilizer 4.0
The main camera boasts a remarkable 6-Axis Hybrid Gimbal Stabilizer 4.0, offering unparalleled stability and up to ±5 degrees of movement correction for steady videos and blur-free photos in action.
Elevating video steadiness, the ROG Phone 9 combines hardware OIS with an advanced EIS software algorithm that utilizes gyroscopic data to ensure fluid, shake-resistant video capture.
AI Portrait Video
Introducing AI Portrait Video, where cutting-edge AI algorithms create a stunning depth-of-field effect. With real-time focal point identification and face recognition capabilities, it even recognizes your beloved pets for captivating portrait videos. Combined with OZO Audio technology, it delivers the clearest recording experience, adding lifelike audio ambience to your videos.
AI Object Sense
Experience the power of AI Object Sense, where intelligent image analysis divides the scene into distinct sections, such as sky and grass. By optimizing each sections individually, it delivers stunning, vibrant results that appear both vivid and natural.
AI Panning
Immerse yourself in the fluidity of AI Panning shots, where the intelligence of AI effortlessly tracks and sharpens the focus on dynamic subjects, ensuring they remain distinct and crystal clear, while the background smoothly blends into a stunning motion blur.
Photo Vibe
The Photo Vibe feature elevates your moments, turning them into a gallery of emotions with a spectrum of styles to match every mood. With Photo Vibe, each image you capture is infused with a distinct atmosphere, creating a consistent ambience that resonates deeply.
AI Night Vision
Illuminate the night with AI Night Vision. Cutting-edge AI algorithms enhance brightness and reduce noise, ensuring your videos remain sharp and full of color, even in the lowest light conditions.
Semantic Search
Through multimodal learning, the device enables natural language searches in the gallery, settings, and search functions.
Circle to Search
Circle to Search, powered by Google, is a feature on the ROG Phone 9 series that lets you quickly search what's on your screen — images, videos, or text. Simply long-press the home button or navigation bar and draw a gesture to gather information from your Gallery, web, and social media10.
AI Call Translator
Engage in seamless conversations with AI Call Translator that converts your spoken words into text and voice for the recipient, and translates their responses back to you.8
AI Transcript
Imagine an AI-powered personal assistant that transcribes your meeting recording into text in real-time, offering the convenience of creating summarized notes with just a single tap.9
AI Wallpaper
The AI wallpaper, powered by Qualcomm’s NPU, not only generates a personalized backdrop for your device by intuitively adapting to your preferred style and color scheme but can also incorporate ROG’s Fearless Eyes into your wallpaper for a touch of gaming spirit.8
DISPLAY
185 Hz display
The ROG Phone 9 boasts a cutting-edge 6.78” E6 AMOLED display, featuring adaptive refresh rates that minimize power usage. Ramp up your gaming experience with a refresh rate of up to 185 Hz11 via Game Genie, while enjoying an ultra-responsive 720 Hz touch sampling rate. With a peak brightness of 2500 nits, visibility remains clear even under direct sunlight, ensuring uninterrupted gaming and movie watching. Plus, its Delta-E < 1 color accuracy delivers stunningly accurate visuals.
Eye Protection Mode
in all refresh rate settings
BATTERY
Unbounded power
The ROG Phone 9, utilizing the new technology, increases the battery’s energy density by 3.5%. This enhancement elevates the battery capacity to 5800 mAh, resulting in a significant improvement in overall battery life. It can also withstand more charge-discharge cycles — even after 1000 cycles — while still retaining more than 80% of its original capacity.7
Experience immersive theater-quality sound with Dirac Virtuo ™ on any headphones, whether wired, Bluetooth®, or USB-C®, enhancing your gaming, movie streaming, and music listening.
The ROG Phone 9 features Qualcomm® aptX™ adaptive and aptX Lossless for high-fidelity Bluetooth audio with ultra-low latency.
3.5 mm headphone jack
AUDIO
Grab-and-go theater
Discover unparalleled audio with the ROG Phone 9. The addition of a new subwoofer in the AeroActive Cooler X Pro amplifies the bass by 123.9%7, resulting in a dominant 2.1-channel sound experience perfect for gaming and entertainment.
AUDIO
Audio Redirect
Embrace front-facing audio with the Audio Redirect feature for the ROG Phone 9 Series’ cases. The built-in chamber and sound-guiding element direct sound from the bottom speakers to the front, enhancing your gaming and videos. Enjoy specially tuned audio that brings every detail to the forefront.
AUDIO
ROG Pelta
Experience theater-quality sound on-the-go with our headset, designed to deliver spatial sound with versatile connectivity options including Bluetooth®, SpeedNova 2.4 GHz wireless, and USB-C®. Their comfortable, lightweight design ensures immersive audio that seamlessly integrates with your lifestyle. ROG Pelta is the ideal match for the ROG Phone 9 series, leveraging the Dirac Virtuo™ technology to envelop you in spatial sound experience, no matter the way you connect with your headset.
ROG Phone 9 - Specifications
Design
Storm White
Weight and Dimension
227g 163.8x77x8.9 mm
Operating System
Android™ 15 with ROG UI
Processor
Qualcomm® Snapdragon® 8 Elite Mobile Platform 4.3GHz, 64-bit, Octa-core Processor
GPU: Qualcomm® Adreno™ 830
Memory
LPDDR5X 16GB
Storage
UFS4.0 512GB
Display
6.78" FHD+ (2400x1080 pixels) SAMSUNG Flexible AMOLED LTPO 1~120Hz, Max to 165Hz in system setting / 185Hz in Game Genie Supports Always-On display, refresh rate down to 1Hz. 2,500 nits peak brightness 1,600 nits HBM HDR10 supported 107.37% DCI-P3 / 145.65% sRGB / 103.16% NTSC color gamut coverage Corning® Gorilla® Glass Victus™2 Capacitive touchscreen with 10-point multitouch (supports glove touch)
Rear Camera
Main Camera Sony® Lytia 700: 50 MP image sensor - 1/1.56” large sensor size, F1.9 aperture, Gimbal OIS Quad Bayer technology - 12.5 MP, 2 µm large effective pixel size / 50MP JPEG & RAW output available 23.8mm equivalent focal length in 35mm film camera 6p lens 2x2 On-chip-lens phase detection autofocus LED flash Ultrawide Camera 13 MP, 120° ultrawide-angle camera Free-form lens 12.7mm equivalent focal length in 35mm film camera Macro Camera 5MP Macro Camera
Speaker Multi-magnet dual stereo speakers Headphone Jack Support 3.5mm headphone jack Audio Output Hi-Res Audio up to 384 kHz / 32-bit for 3.5mm output Dirac Virtuo for Headphone™ Spatial Sound AudioWizard with multiple listening profiles Microphone Tri-microphones with ASUS Noise Reduction Technology
Video Recording
8K UHD (7680 x 4320) video at 30 fps for main rear camera 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) video at 30 / 60 fps for main rear camera, at 30 fps for ultrawide rear camera 1080p FHD video recording at 30 / 60 fps 720p HD video recording at 30 / 60 fps 3-axis electronic image stabilization for rear cameras HDR10+ video recording (4K UHD video) for main 50MP and ultra-wide 13MP camera Time Lapse (4K UHD video) Slow Motion video (4K at 120 fps; 1080p at 240 / 120 fps; 720p at 480 fps) Take still photo while recording video
Wireless Technology
802.11 be/ax/ac/a/b/g/n Supports 2.4GHz/ 5GHz/ 6GHz WiFi Bluetooth® 5.4 (HFP + A2DP + AVRCP + HID + PAN + OPP), supports Qualcomm® aptX™ Adaptive and aptX™ Lossless Wi-Fi Direct NFC * WiFi 7 availability and features are dependent on regulatory limitations.
Navigation
GNSS support GPS(L1/L5), Glonass(L1), Galileo(E1/E5a), BeiDou(B1i/B1c/B2a), QZSS(L1/L5) and NavIC.
SIM Cards
Dual-SIM / Dual-Standby support Slot 1: 5G/4G/3G/2G Nano SIM card Slot 2: 5G/4G/3G/2G Nano SIM card *5G services are only supported in 5G network-enabled locations in 5G-ready countries.
Equivalent 5,800 mAh (typical) high-capacity battery Supports Quick Charge 5.0 and PD Charging
Power Adapter
Output: 3.3-21V 3.25A, supports up to 65W QC5.0 / PD 3.0 / Direct Charge adapter
In the Box
Clear Case USB-C® to USB-C® cable (120 cm) Ejector pin (SIM tray needle) USB power adapter (65-Watt) Documentation (user guide, warranty card)
Remarks:
All images are simulated for illustration purpose.
The AeroActive Cooler X Pro is an optional accessory for the ROG Phone 9 and 9 Pro, sold separately, but is included exclusively with the ROG Phone 9 Edition.
Snapdragon® is the product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
OZO is a registered trademark of Nokia Technologies Oy.
The ROG Phone 9 Series provides 2 OS updates and 5 years of security updates.
The device has been tested for water resistance using IEC 60529 standard and has achieved an IP65/68 rating. Water and dust resistance can deteriorate over time in normal usage, or if the device is damaged, repaired or taken apart. The device should never be completely submerged underwater, and should not be allowed to come into contact with seawater, brine, chlorinated water or drinks. Failure to observe correct precautions will invalidate the device warranty and the function of water and dust resistance. Water resistance is tested by submerging the device to a depth of 1.5 meters in tap water for 30 minutes. After the test the device is removed and fully dried, then checked for normal operation. Please note that the device has a USB-C charging port, and this USB-C port must be completely dry before any attempt is made at charging. For related warranty information, please refer to the product warranty card.↑
This AI gaming feature is developed by the ROG Phone team and only supported in certain software applications.↑
This feature only supported in certain software applications, such as game comms, IM calls and phone calls. Call quality depends on environment, carrier network conditions, and many other factors. Actual results may vary.↑
Manufacturer’s performance data, compared to Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3.↑
Test result provided by ASUS labs, compared to the warmest spot of the back cover of ROG Phone 8 while gaming. Actual performance may vary depending on conditions.↑
Test result provided by ASUS labs, compared to AeroActive Cooler X. Actual performance may vary depending on conditions.↑
Test result provided by ASUS labs. Actual performance may vary depending on conditions.↑
The AI Call Translator and AI Wallpaper features will be made available via the latest software update for specified models, along with additional software packages. In addition, these features require the presence of specific mobile applications. AI Wallpaper only works on specific models. AI Call Translator only works on specific models: it requires the Phone app, and supports English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Chinese (Cantonese), Danish, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.↑
The AI Transcript feature will be made available via the latest software update for specified models and will require integration with the Recorder app. Additionally, this feature supports multiple languages, including Chinese, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.↑
The Circle to Search feature will be made available via the latest software update for specified models, countries or regions.↑
The 185 Hz refresh rate can only be enabled in Game Genie while playing mobile games.↑
