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NOMADIC LIFESTYLE / PART 2<br />
GAMING & LAPTOPS<br />
PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT<br />
<strong>IFA</strong><br />
<strong>IFA</strong> Home<br />
& Entertainment<br />
Electronics<br />
NEW GAMING PHONE BY ASUS<br />
In its 30th anniversary year, ASUS<br />
is at <strong>IFA</strong> with its 13-year-old gaming<br />
sub-brand Republic Of Gamers<br />
(ROG) to showcase several new<br />
products, including the ROG Phone<br />
II. Aiming for the three pillars of<br />
best-ever performance, battery<br />
life and immersive experience,<br />
the second evolution of this<br />
smartphone has already proved<br />
successful in China: in July it<br />
sold out the initial run within 73<br />
seconds and took over 2.5 million<br />
pre-orders. When it releases<br />
in Europe in October, gamers<br />
can expect a landscape-aligned<br />
6.59in screen with curved-edge<br />
strengthened glass, a 6000mAh<br />
KEY SELLING<br />
<br />
POINTS<br />
1 / Qualcomm’s Snapdragon<br />
855 Plus processor<br />
2 / 6000mAh battery for<br />
extended playing time<br />
3 / Corning Gorilla Glass 6<br />
armoured screen<br />
battery, twin speakers with DTS:X<br />
Ultra processing, the elusive 3.5mm<br />
headphone jack and – crucially for<br />
the highest-possible performance<br />
– Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855<br />
Plus processor. It has desktopclass<br />
12GB of LPDDR4X RAM to<br />
provide both high capacity and high<br />
bandwidth, as well as up to 512GB<br />
of UFS 3.0 storage for lightningquick<br />
app installs and game loading.<br />
ROG have already secured deals<br />
with major publishers to ensure<br />
popular games are available on<br />
their mobile platform.<br />
» HALL 12 / STAND 110<br />
HEADSET OF<br />
THE GODS<br />
Named after ‘leetspeak’ –<br />
the coded language used<br />
by gamers – Danish gaming<br />
peripherals company L33T<br />
has a new range of products<br />
on display at <strong>IFA</strong> under a<br />
distinctive Viking mythologybased<br />
brand concept. The<br />
tattoo-style raven logo<br />
represents Odin’s familiar<br />
which hovered over the<br />
battlefield, much like an RPG gamer.<br />
It’s a fun idea, using Norse heritage to<br />
give all products a fantasy theme, even<br />
extending to categorising headsets as<br />
‘helmets’, mice as ‘hand-weapons’ and<br />
mousemats as ‘shields’. The Gjallarhorn<br />
headset is named after a horn used<br />
by the gods to call armies to battle. It<br />
is a sturdy but relatively light headset,<br />
with a flexible light-up microphone<br />
and the raven logo illuminated in RGB<br />
on each ear.<br />
» HALL 12 / STAND 109<br />
KEY<br />
<br />
SELLING<br />
POINTS<br />
1 / Gamer-focused design<br />
with full RGB light<br />
2 / Built-in flexible<br />
microphone<br />
3 / Self-adjustable<br />
headband<br />
ACER: SWIFTNESS AND LIGHT<br />
Targeting media professionals and<br />
“creators”, Acer claims the new<br />
Swift 5 is the world’s lightest 14in<br />
clamshell laptop. But with its powerful<br />
NVIDIA graphics card, 10th Gen<br />
Intel Core processors for accelerated<br />
AI performance, 56Wh battery for<br />
long battery life, and nearly three<br />
times faster wireless speeds, it can be<br />
an option for gamers needing to play<br />
well away from the PC. Innovations<br />
include an embedded fingerprint<br />
reader for security and convenience,<br />
fast charging and a lightweight but<br />
strong magnesium-lithium chassis..<br />
» HALL 12 / STAND 102<br />
KEY<br />
<br />
SELLING<br />
POINTS<br />
1 / 12.5 hour battery life<br />
2 / Lightweight at only<br />
990g<br />
3 / Narrow-bezel 14in<br />
FHD IPS touchscreen<br />
SHARPEST CUT<br />
BY RAZER<br />
The holy grail of gaming is the<br />
portable laptop that’s optimised<br />
for performance so users can<br />
continue PC gaming while<br />
on the move. San Francisco<br />
and Singapore-based gaming<br />
lifestyle brand Razer is about to<br />
release the Blade Stealth, which<br />
could be the smallest, lightest, thinnest, most<br />
powerful gaming laptop yet. At 13in diagonal,<br />
0.66in thick and with a matt black anodised<br />
aluminium shell for strength and style, its<br />
NVIDIA GeForce MX150 (25W 4GB GDDR5<br />
RAM) graphics pushes more pixels, especially<br />
important if the user is playing a multiplayer<br />
online battle arena (MOBA) game at 60fps.<br />
KEY SELLING<br />
<br />
POINTS<br />
1 / Ultra light and ultra thin<br />
2 / 100% sRGB colour<br />
saturation for exceptional<br />
visual clarity<br />
3 / Quad-core Intel Core i7<br />
processor with turbo boost<br />
for maximum performance<br />
» HALL 12 / STAND 101<br />
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