ASUS has provided some details about the successor to the ROG Ally handheld. That will be the ROG Ally An official presentation will follow next month.
ASUS has shared more details about the successor to last year’s handheld in a video stream, although the company says it will hold an event on June 2 where it will provide more details about the device. That is during the Computex fair in Taiwan, where Tweakers is present. During the stream, ASUS says the device will be called the ROG Ally That does not seem to be so much a successor, but mainly an improvement of the original Ally. The device continues to have the same display, a 7-inch VRR screen with a maximum refresh rate of 120Hz.
One of the biggest improvements is in the battery. ASUS says in the stream that it is being significantly improved. The company provides more information to The Verge about the battery, which is physically larger. “It’s not about thirty to forty percent more battery capacity,” says Shawn Yen. “We’re talking about much more than that.” The battery life of the ROG Ally was one of the major negatives, also in Tweakers’ review.
Yen also tells The Verge that there will be more memory in the Ally X than the 16GB of the current model. The device also gets a larger M.2 2280 SSD slot. Furthermore, the Ally The existing buttons and joysticks are also improved.
ASUS also wants to replace the Ally’s UI. That will be Armory Crate 1.5, which should be released in July this year. That upgrade is also coming to the original Ally, the company says. All those improvements do have an impact on the price; ASUS says the Ally It cost 799 euros upon release.
