I'm pretty excited for the ROG Phone 2. I honestly hate the look of it; it's far too "gamer-y" for me. I mean, it makes sense since it's a gamer product. But everything else about it looks great. High refresh rate for the screen, double USB-C ports, really good battery life. And it comes with a headphone jack! If it has water resistance, that's what I'm gonna go for. Otherwise, I guess I'm gonna keep my Note9 for a while.
I didn't hear about ROG Phone 2 and it has some features which I really like, but I think the killer for me was lack of Micro SD and a better camera.
If only there would be a flagship phone which has all: an awesome camera (I snap loads of photos, the whole "best camera is the one you have with yourself" mantra), big battery and a Micro SD slot, it would be an instant buy for me.
So far I've been upgrading my Samsung Galaxy from 2 -> 4 -> 8+ as that was the closest I could find to what I wanted from the phone, but I'm happy to change to any other brand.
I can understand the lack of focus on the camera, but yeah the missing MicroSD slot for a gamer phone doesn't make much sense to me. That seems like an important feature for that kind of phone to have.
Honestly, I'm very disappointed that Samsung also started stripping down its Note line. That's the phone that should have all the features--MicroSD, headphone jack, stylus, amazing camera, etc.
I'm in the same boat as you are. I've been going from Samsung phone to Samsung phone for ages now, but they've taken their "pro" line and started taking out "pro" features...just like Apple. :\
