The ROG Phone 8 Pro remains one of the best-performing smartphones you can buy right now, but it could be dethroned in just a few months by its 'successor', the ROG Phone 9 Pro. It could debut before the end of 2024 in China, and early details suggest that we're in for an incremental upgrade, not another "reinvention" of the gaming phone like we've seen from ASUS on the current generation.