PUBG WHIZZ Asus ROG Phone 5

Like sticking a bone-rattling stereo in your Astra or hanging an 85in TV on the wall of your bedroom, some things are obviously overkill – but that doesn’t mean we don’t still want them. The smartphone equivalent is Asus’s new ROG Phone 5, an absurdly powerful blower that’ll have hardcore gamers trading in their liquid-cooled keyboards to buy one. Underneath the 6.78in 144Hz AMOLED display (which has an extra-responsive 300Hz touch sampling rate) you’ll find a beefy Snapdragon 888 5G processor and up to 16GB of RAM, which means you’ll be able to bump up the graphics settings without worrying about the phone having a breakdown. The whopping 6000mah battery should mean you won’t find yourself in need of a charger at the wrong time… and if you do, the side-mounted USB-C port means you don’t even need to stop playing, plus its 65W fast-charging skills allow it to go from flat to almost full in less than an hour.

Pick either the Ultimate or the Pro version and you also get a ROG Vision matrix display on the rear of the phone that can show customised animations. Overkill? Sure. But don’t pretend you don’t want one. As hot as... the rage of a pro when the Wi-fi conks out from £799 / asus.com