The ROG 6 PRO has a SECRET Cavity! - TEARDOWN

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[@SWISS-1337]

For those that don't know, the cavity in that model is where they store the soul of a dishonourable employee, so when you bent it in half, the spirit escaped. Asus will be super annoyed, because that spirit will go back for revenge now.

[@SWISS-1337]

@@gogoichandan wut?

[@ashwin.unlead]

@@SWISS-1337 he was being sarcastic lol

[@SWISS-1337]

@@ashwin.unlead I just didn't know what that phrase meant lol

[@ashwin.unlead]

@@SWISS-1337 haha no worries dude :)

[@arrlcj]

@@SWISS-1337 you're slow

[@rievenbelmont]

That hidden cavity is for the Pro versionor the ROG 6 pro d. They added heatsink that opens up when the aircooler is attached

[@tylern6420]

Surely they should have put some points into endurance, after maxing the power stats

[@Gatkovski]

It's called ROG Phone 6D Ultimate

[@mitul_minhazoul_haque]

exactly

[@Zach2Wheels]

agree

[@sutty101]

Yep that was my thoughts on it. Same internal layout, just different motherboard. Wondering is it only the section with the CPU is the difference on the 6D.

[@DragonOfTheMortalKombat]

0:07 "I was just minding my own business bending it in half, when it actually bent in half." JerryRigEverything 2022

[@jasonmorris4eva]

lol...classic 😂😂

[@CupCatsss]

“I can’t believe it would just… do that!! They never do that!”

[@ThreeTwentyTech]

You're every phones worst nightmare

[@mammymountain2057]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@syak_wasangka]

Not every, only poorly constructed ones

[@iam_sketch]

Or we should say every bad phones' worst nightmare Graveyard kind of

[@o3MTA3o]

@@syak_wasangka has a single phone survived? Honest question.

[@S3verance]

Phone: Can't wait to meet my new owner!

[@reichlichsegen4430]

Each time I watch Jerry, I can't stop imagining buying a phone made by Jerry in the future

[@RavnHood]

His name is Zach

[@renofumi28]

@@RavnHood it's Zack. Watch him on WVFRM podcast to prove I'm right

[@13galaxy]

@@RavnHood his name is zack

[@ThatPhilBurgGuy]

His name is Zak

[@petpaltea]

I don't know if you know or if anybody told you yet, his name is Zack.

[@sircsolerom764]

The 6d ultimate replaces the cavity with an open portal that you operate through their software. My understanding is that they added more copper In the open chamber and you use the fan to draw more heat out of the phone. Hope that helps!

[@perikles7740]

9:45 "kinda like earth in 50 years" 💀

[@DaddyFlowers]

Thank you for always giving amazing tech reviews, and thank you for sponsoring kiwico my daughter loves them so much it’s nice to see them get talked about

[@linkssz1699]

The ROG phone 6 ultimate has a flip out fan in that same spot so my guess is the 6 pro uses the same body but they put that chunk of plastic inside instead of the fan.

[@ItsReaxxion]

ROG Phone 6D Ultimate*

[@DDLarssonii]

I just bought Rog 6D ultimate. I don't understand anything but is my new phone will be break soon 😢

[@DDLarssonii]

my English is bad 😭

[@linkssz1699]

@@DDLarssonii your phone won't break as long as you take care of it.

[@FastSloth87]

@@DDLarssonii Just don't sit on it.

[@sandeshgautam5685]

Zach:- "Bends phone with all his might." *Phone Breaks* Zach:- Surprised Pikachu face.

[@unclemaggot]

not all phone breaks tho

[@smallwhitefox142]

And then the one device you expect would completely snap in half, bites back (literally) (talking about samsung galaxy tab s8 ultra...)

[@sandeshgautam5685]

@@smallwhitefox142 xD😂

[@davinlaroche3029]

I use a Cubic Boron Nitride (CBN) cutter for resurfacing cast iron cylinder heads. I guess being cubic makes it harder than the boron nitride paste used as a heat sink in that phone?

[@JonLabbe]

I come to JRE videos for the tear downs, but stay for the dry humor "Like earth in 50 years" 😂😂😂

[@cmooris]

I'm using the Asus ZenFone 9 which was roughly released at the same time as the ROG 2022. My phone seems to be really solid in comparison but it would be interesting to see a JerryRigEverything durability test on the ZenFone 9 to see if it shares any of the same faults.

[@dns15r]

3:24 "But it'll still be interesting to explore this hole more thoroughly" -Jerryrig

[@Neon_SilverFox]

Always love to hear your smooth transition from the phone, to a quick jab, back to the phone like it wasn't there.

[@L.-..]

10:08 "Come hang out with me on Instagram if you are bored" 😂😂😂😂 Because the ones on Twitter are getting some quality entertainment.. Love the subtleness..

[@saotii]

Ty for video and for you work, Zack. Got last week your photo with Cambry and I'm sooooooooooo happy!

[@ellendegenerated1]

“Kinda like Earth in 50 years”, he said. He’d better be not that Oracle everyone is about to dread

[@imdadmohamed4599]

4:27 "before the accident" says Jerry who snapped the phone in half🤣

[@SirMath3w]

love your LTT t-shirt :)

[@undisputeddespicable]

Bro, where's hummer ev's update...

[@GurveerKhera]

I think it is for the 6D, the one which opens up and uses a modified cooler as well to let the heat pass. They had the same design in place & for some reason decided not to use it on this one.

[@smgofdvld]

reminds me of my s7 edge for the most part it's crazy how build materials don't change all that much.

[@antoniohagopian213]

S7 edge is a tank and is one of the best phones ever. This is trash.

[@yeehenjo5385]

why you didn't do a durability test and teardwon with the newer pocophone

[@kuaqimai]

Did asus did not include the bend test for their durability test?

[@suryakamalnd9888]

Amazing video bro

[@cityhunterrandy7635]

9:45 - "It's like a water cycle and a tiny ecosystem but without the ecosystem... kinda like Earth in 50 years" - DEEPPPP

[@arsenictrioxide8415]

I love him breaking the phones i can't afford

[@genrevz]

The newer version has a physical vent at the back

[@RoyTravels]

They should remove that usb c port in the middle and move the pier button at the top part.

[@TesGon]

At ROG phone 6D (dimension) Ultimate that have this VENT working and opening if you attach external cooling unit. So maybe here its just a prototype, not fully used but a base for it already developed ? I think this is what it is.

[@ThreeTwentyTech]

I find your videos very calming

[@syedhassaanmujtababokhari6199]

If they reposition the batteries from horizontal to vertical orientation it can help with the structural integrity. Although by the looks of it ROG needs to add a midplate and increase the frame thickness or try a different alloy altogether. For 1300 this surely is possible. If Apple of all companies can offer a stainless steel frame ROG certainly can.

[@SMGJohn]

Then you add weight, for what? You think people who buy gaming phones take them to a construction site??? I kind of understand why Asus CEO said to never listen to consumers. Because it they did their phones would weight 6kg and be powered by a diesel engine.

[@alaaeid8320]

If you have vertical batteries you will not have the space in the middle which is needed for the processor cooling. ASUS knew for sure that the design in this way is going to make the phone easier to bend. However, the reason for this is to align the location of the cooling fan accessory with the processor and since the cooling fan is installed in the middle (best location for weight distribution) they have to make space for the processor to be at the same location where the cooling fan will be installed to get the most benefit out of it so in order to make the needed space while having good battery capacity is to have 2 small batteries instead of one big battery. Another side benefit which will be the distribution of weight when playing in landscape. It is not because of batteries safety somehow, ROG 6 Pro is a gaming phone where you need to focus on performance, high frame rate and graphics while trying to resolve the heat issue which will affect the performance. If you are into gaming and you want to enjoy performance gaming phone then you have to compromise. Therefore, by knowing that the phone is easy to bent because of this, then you know that ASUS know what they are doing, it is just something they needed to do for performance. Yes the bend seems bad and not desirable but we should appreciate that the company is differentiate the design of gaming phone than normal phones, they are trying to get the best design for performance and they have engineered the phone with an outstanding design and internal alignment with the current existing technologies as in future technologies may change.

[@syedhassaanmujtababokhari6199]

@@alaaeid8320 Okay. I'd like to propose another solution. Keep the same battery orientation. Add an aluminium midplate, attach it to the vapour chamber. It'll act like an additional heatsink for the processor and provide additional cooling to the batteries as well. This way the cooling accessory can be used, they design will remain almost as is. The additional battery cooling will extend battery life and help with faster charging speeds since heat is the No 1 enemy of a Battery. For the frame, they can try and use a stronger version of aluminium alloy. The weight remains mostly the same. Result improved strength, better battery and processor performance. Or If they don't want to experiment with a different alloy, they can use a thicker back glass and on the screen. That will also help with the heat and solve the structural problems but not as much as the midplate. Any arguments??

[@SMGJohn]

@@syedhassaanmujtababokhari6199 I have a question, what kind of space age alien technology are you using to add a relatively THICK aluminium plate and then "attach" it to vapour chamber but maintain the same weight to the phone?????? I mean, you do realise that heat has to move somewhere, just slapping on a big freaking aluminium plate wont do anything. I am also curious what is a "stronger version" of aluminium, you do realise this sounds about stupid as it does? If you had said titanium, yeah then sure you could effectively double the strength with titanium plate which will even weight less than aluminium. I am not sure who is interested in a 6000 dollar markup for a titanium version versus the usual 1000 dollar aluminium version. Are you?

[@syedhassaanmujtababokhari6199]

@@SMGJohn Hmm. Seems like you're the kind of person who would buy a sub par product for a premium price just because the people who made it gave some bs reasons for cost cuts. My guy every problem can be fixed with clever engineering. And yes there are different varieties of alloys. For example there's 6000 series aluminium which is inferior to 7000 series. Some smartphones use 6013 and 6063 grade aluminium. Some use 7075 grade as well which is the highest grade used in phones right now. A big example of this is the iPhone 6/6+ Bend gate where apple used 6000 series alloy which is diluted and cheaper to manufacturer and also weaker. For 6s/6s+ they switched to 7000 series alloy. That fixed the issue. Trust me most problems like these can be fixed with clever engineering, and minimal cost deviations. The only reason ROG didn't do this is because their accountants probably would've done a CBA and reached to the conclusion that if this becomes a problem for them (lawsuits) it'd be cheaper to settle the lawsuit than actually fix the problem. And this isn't the fist time a company has made such a decision. If iPhones weren't as dominant, chances are Apple would've kept using the inferior grade alloy and dealt with any issues quietly. Argue that my guy.

[@ikonikian475]

"I was just minding my business bending my phone in half and it actually bent in half" I hate it when I bend something I shouldn't bend and it breaks too

[@RealLifeTech187]

The cavity is a vent that's used in the ROG Phone 6D Ultimate to blow air over the SoC. I guess Asus changed it's mind on this one.

[@Blaster_Unity_UB]

The long-awaited teardown is here!

[@Eitya]

"Was minding my own business bending it in half, and it bent in halk" no shit LMFAO a great quote Jerry !

[@guybuddy]

Crazy that a phone as gaming centered as this doesn't have foam balls, way to go ROG.

[@SMGJohn]

Bruh

[@TheDZHEX]

It does have more bass than any other phone I've ever seen tho Yes, it actually does sound somewhat bassy.

[@guybuddy]

@DZHEX I don't doubt it, but, it's meant to be the pinnacle of mobile gaming and that extra sound dampening does wonders. Just a small thing they definitely should have done for the price in my opinion.

[@akshaykumar-mnjc2mnj]

He turned Rog 6 into foldable phone after bending it.

[@killingtime4444]

"Not one should go full HTC" Solid advice, Zack

[@yogeshsoni8135]

The most brutal phone tester on the earth 😂😂🙌🙌

[@feelitnj]

These king of videos are very helpful to other people to spend their money on a good device....thanks for doing that....🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍❤❤❤love from Sri Lanka

[@outinfo-rsa4252]

i am like six montchs without Jerry content but "little lego" part confirmed that the content is still 10/10

[@tristanmeade]

The white stickers are diffusers for light and the cavity is there to allow light to pass through to lightup the text "dare to play"

[@astronomylover996]

Thanks for making the teardown video quicker.

[@metawolf987]

"I was just minding my own business, bending a phone, and the phone ACTUALLY bent". Only on JerryRig.

[@HarnaiDigital]

I definitely agree with you Jerry on the OIS part. Since durability problem can be solved easily by using a phone case but OIS. That made me sad too. Great Video.

[@arshenio45]

If you need a case to have a string phone you might as well use thicker metal dont you agree?

[@michaelchang273]

@@arshenio45 it's more to do with the dual battery design, the phone would be a lot stronger in the middle if the li-on battery was a single battery that runs along the length of the phone

[@andrewtimothy9792]

​@@arshenio45 rog phone 5 users here, been using the phone for 1.5 year and a half now. Fell a lot of times, but i never noticed any bending. Everything is still tightly sealed and straight. I think the only way for you to bend a phone that way irl, is when you put it in your back pocket and sit on it, which you are not supposed to do to any phone anyway. I'm not saying it's ok for a phone to just completely split in half. But i think people need to realise that the force needed to bend the phone is waaay more than the force it's gonna get just being in your pockets.

[@IuliaNH2]

Nice to see this. I have a Rog phone 2 and i wanted an upgrade. But i can wait for Rog 7, maybe they will improve the internal structure.

[@SASMacDroid]

I have the rog phone 6 512gb storage and 16gb ram in black and i even tried putting pressure onto it to see if it will flex a bit but it seemed fine and i have a screen protector and a case on it and nothing happened up to now so if i guess you take care of the phone normally you should be fine but yea i had the rog phone 3 before and i didn't have to worry about that bending it is a tank

[@idk-uv7vx]

The cavity is there because of the rog 6d ultimate which has a vent that opens when you use the aero active cooler

[@dexteralex3118]

Kinda like earth in 50 years. 🥲 Jerry constantly hitting us with existentialism

[@ivan_horvat]

What about apple watch ultra screen scratch test? Is it actually sapphire this year?

[@ZephyrDavid]

Next ROG Phone 6D! I think the black cavity is for that heatsink that the 6D have.

[@hostagnathoma6364]

Spec is no use if it broken. Remember that quote!

[@kalebtravers9870]

When are you gonna do the Apple Watch ultra?? I just got mine and am so excited to see how it stands up to you!

[@zhorik3341]

Только хотел было, Джерри, посмотреть обзор от тебя на ROG 6 и на тебе, уже снял, красавчик.

[@muditswain2832]

"Like the earth in 50 years" Jerry's nightmare precognitive skills never lie.

[@michaelknight8797]

that cavity hole is for the dimensity chip version aka rog 6D ultimate with built in active cooling vent (hardware) ... you should probably do a stress test on that model.

[@facurojas4477]

Cool Renault shirt Jerry!

[@MishraV.VishaL]

Jack unveiled the ROG phone flip before even Asus did. 🤣😅

[@Onimaru003]

Jerry Wreak Everything

[@parthsoni1847]

The cracked white glass looks like someone broke the frozen ice...

[@bazrazin1]

fun in the fundamentals of the universe- what a line, also companies should include steel or titanium plates to pass the bend test.

[@abidashhar8627]

R.I.P ROG Series after Jerryrig their darkest secret

[@GiGi-fd9dy]

Please try to teardown and glass test the Huawei Mate50 Pro Kunlun glass

[@SMGJohn]

Should test the Legion Y90 gaming phone, its got different battery placement but sacrifices battery capacity.

[@awwk8452]

Nice I was waiting for this

[@randyvo4857]

Can you do the red magic 7s pro next?

[@CSICrime2341]

Moving back up to the top to remove the cameras, we have the itty bitty 5 megapixel macro cameras camera which does not have OIS. The other two are mounted together at the same housing. We have the 50 megapixel camera on the left and the 13 megapixel ultra-wife camera on the right -both of which have smaller footprints than we would normally see in a flagship, and surprisingly, neither of them have any optical image stabilization. We haven't had a phone without OIS in years, and especially not on a flagship that costs $1300. I'm almost more disappointed by the lack of OIS than I am at snapping in half.

[@PerpetuusTenebris]

The shots you were constantly taking at ASSus were perfectly timed, I gotta say.

[@timohess3909]

So when using that phone its better to have a hard case . I suggest a rugged one. There are some awesome ones available

[@anjanrabha6685]

Starting the video joke was very funny🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@re-fix9678]

Thank for video brother❤

[@jeo2857]

"I was just minding my own business bending it in half when it actually bent in half." Yeah, I mean how dare it just break in half like that right???

[@bipinv4638]

It's just me or that mini Hummer kept on Jerry table has some meaning?

[@rodneyumengan2394]

i think that chamber is for the ROG Phone 6D ultimate that open up when the cooling fan is used

[@KnifeLover97]

Hey Zach. Are we ever going to get a tear down and durability test of the iPhone 14 pro max?

[@MrtalentedReid]

Thanks for the update zack

[@KSCR-liveonYT]

@jerry please make a video on how ROG phones have serious motherboard issues.Wifi and hotspot stops working after a few months and the only workaround is replacing motherboard.ASUS hasnt recalled the devices yet

[@Sunshrine2]

The cavity in this phone cannot be a "conduit" as conduit needs to conduct something. Cavities filled with air are terrible conductors. (Hence we use double/triple glazed windows where between each layer we use a "non-conductive gas"-air in the cheapest, argon in the mid-range, or ultra-low pressure argon in the priciest.)

[@mcm2418]

Jerry Rog everything

[@badger6359]

I love that your just saying instagram now 😂😂😂😂

[@thespecsroom_tz]

The finger snap will never get old...

[@anthonyfisher2587]

Just purchased a metal JerryRigEverything knife! Can't wait.

[@adornawas4325]

Maybe one of the reason why ROG 6 not strong enough because the dual battery is not on vertical position so it's can't support the whole body of the phone

[@WurldReel]

The cavity actually opens up on the 6d!

[@nytraven87]

I think the hole on black glass part , is for IAP to be fed through to help separate and replace back glass ??

[@kevinfernandez9999]

The strongest part of the phone seems to be the battery, since this phone has a split battery with a gap in the middle , it easily bent

[@danielphillips2759]

Ever think about a laptop tear down ? Just purchased the MacBook M2 Pro

[@Arjanpreet312]

8:50 the heat gets transferred to back glass which is then cooled by external air cooler

[@sanjeev2003]

Dave2d would love the blue. 😎

[@carlosmarioreinosos8505]

Gracias

[@KAALA432]

Lot of cool stuff in there 👍👀

[@sweetmedusa36]

Back from night works and no sleep jump into your channel damn,i need knew phone but....

[@EspionageTV]

I wish I had a 45 mm aluminum Apple Watch to send u for a durability test

[@owino_emmanuel]

"I was just minding my own business bending in half when it actually bent in half" 🤣🤣🤣

[@kasrashirvanian5980]

Hi Zac , can you update us on the library and also when will regular pixel 7 teardown skin will be available?

[@Morning3580]

When are you going to the iphone pro line

[@ericgbt]

5:35 maybe 2 cells to balance long hours gaming phone

[@beerandskittles585]

We need some drop test🎯

[@damiresq]

i think heat has to do a lot with the phone structure it self resulting very fragile easy to bend. the irony is that by being a "gaming" phone, it needs to deal with human frustration, which usually consists in bending the phone :))