IF YOU ARE KEEN ON PLAYING POWER-
HUNGRY, HEAVY GRAPHICS GAMES
ON YOUR SMARTPHONE, HERE ARE
SOME PREMIUM GAMING PHONES
THAT YOU CAN BUY.
By Nidhi SingalHERE IS A
LIST OF SOME
PREMIUM
GAMING
PHONES THAT
YOU CAN BUY
IN INDIA
GAMING PHONES
emember, the good old Nokia
N-Gage? The ultimate gaming phone
unveiled in 2003, which had a huge
fan following. Cut to 2019 - thanks to
popular games such as PUBG, smartphone
manufacturers are once again reviving the
gaming phone market. With games available
for download from application stores and
other sources (on Android), almost any smart-
phone can be used for basic gaming. However,
most of the mid-segment phones struggle
with heavy games. If you are keen on play-
ing power-hungry, heavy graphics games on
your smartphone, try these premium gamingApple iPhone
XS Max
The iPhone XS Max fea-
tures a massive 6.5-inch
Super AMOLED screen
and supports HDR
playback for enhanced
viewing experience. It
is powered by the A
Bionic processor with
8-core neural engine,
which offers up to 50
per cent faster graph-
ics performance that
A11 chip. The overall
gaming experience is
complemented with
the amazing sound and
great battery backup. If
the 6.5-inch display is a
little too big for you, con-
sider the XS (a smaller
sibling with 5.8-inch
display priced starting
99,900). Although priced starting76,900,
the XR 64GB variant
is retailing around
58,000 in the market. 1,09,900 onwards
R
Asus ROG phone
Asus has a dedicated range of ROG gaming lap-
tops. A ROG phone is well thought of extension
for mobile gaming. Users can choose between
the 60Hz refresh rate and a higher 90Hz refresh
rate. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor
is clocked at 2.96GHz, higher than the standard
clock speed of the processor, which allows it to
handle heavy graphics games. It also has car-
bon pads, a large vapour cooling chamber, and
a copper heat spreader. This is paired with 8GB
of RAM and 128GB of storage. Surprisingly, the
storage is non-expandable. There are touch-sen-
sitive AirTriggers that can be used as left and
right gamepad buttons. Within the Game Center,
a user can customise game profiles, fire up X
Mode, and do more. `68,