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2022 Winners and Losers: Asus

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Asus doesn’t make as many phones as it used to but the Taiwanese maker has established itself on two notable fronts in the smartphone world – gaming phones and compact flagships. Zenfone 9 is the mainstream flagship phone from the brand with a focus on one-handed usability, while the ROG Phone 6 lineup is still the benchmark in the gaming phone segment. Let’s see what went well and what could be improved.

Winner – Zenfone 9

Asus built the best compact phone of the year and it’s not even close. The dimension on the Zenfone 9 are perfect for one-handed handling and you don’t sacrifice performance or build quality here. Zenfone 9 ticks all the checkmarks of a 2022 flagship with its 120Hz AMOLED display, Snapdragon 8 + Gen 1 chipset and a notably improved main camera compared to its predecessor.

Winners and Losers: Asus

Add in a clean design that stands out from the other phones on the market and battery endurance that punches above other similarly sized phones and you’ve got a real winner. Zenfone 9 is also present in several of our editor’s top 5 phones of the year rankings which is another form of praise for this device.

Winner – ROG Phone 6 Pro/6D series

It’s hard to find faults for the ROG Phone 6 Pro and ROG Phone 6D series – they represent the pinnacle of gaming phones for 2022. Asus offers the complete gaming phone package and this year brought the two best flagship chipsets available in the Android realm – Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 in the ROG Phone 6 and 6 Pro and MediaTek’s Dimensity 9000+ in the ROG Phone 6D series.

Winners and Losers: Asus

The 10-bit AMOLED screens with 165Hz refresh rates are a real joy to use as are the AirTigger 6 ultrasonic touch sensors and class-leading stereo speakers and battery life. You can configure ROG Phone 6 Pro with up to 18GB RAM and 512GB storage and Asus offers an extensive list of first-party accessories rivaled by none in the segment.

Winners and Losers: Asus

The extra effort put into the thermal management of the notoriously demanding last few generations of Snapdragon chips and the bevy of user customization options are what stand out on the ROG Phone lineup to this day. If we could see one area of improvement for future-generation ROG Phones, it would have to be the…

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Asus ZenWiFi XD6 Review | PCMag

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The ZenWiFi XD6 ($379.99) is a two-piece Wi-Fi 6 mesh system designed for homes of up to 5,400 square feet. It’s easy to install and manage, and the included Asus AI Protection Pro software gives you powerful, lifetime parental controls and network security tools. The XD6 performed admirably in our throughput and signal strength testing, but it couldn’t quite keep pace with its more powerful (though more expensive) sibling, the Editors’-Choice-award-winning Asus ZenWiFi XT8.

Wired or Wireless Backhaul? Why Not Both?

The XD6 uses two identical white nodes to provide wireless coverage for homes of up to 5,400 square feet. They share the same cylindrical design as the ZenWiFi XT8 system, but at 5.1 by 5 by 2.3 inches (HWD), they are much smaller than the XT8 nodes, which measure 6.3 by 6.2 by 2.9 inches.

There are other differences, as well: The XT8 is a tri-band system, while the XD6 is a dual-band system, and the XT8 offers more advanced connectivity options, including multi-gigabit WAN ports and USB 3.1 connectors for plugging in printers or external hard drives. In comparison, the XD6 is limited to a 1Gbps WAN port and three 1Gbps LAN ports, all of which are located around back along with the power jack.

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As with many mesh systems that offer LAN ports, you can use the ports for wired backhaul communications between the two nodes, or you can use the 5GHz Wi-Fi band for backhaul. Interestingly, the XD6 is also capable of switching between the two on the fly, something that not every mesh system offers. You can set up both wired and wireless backhaul, and let the router decide which one will provide better performance at any given time. 

Asus Zenwifi XD6 router ports

There’s a tiny LED indicator on the front of each node. The router node LED glows blue during setup and is solid white when connected, while the satellite node LED blinks blue during pairing with the router and turns solid white when connected to the router. Inside are six antennas, a 1.5GHz tri-core CPU, 512MB of RAM, 256MB of flash memory, and 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) circuitry.

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