https://wccftech.com/asus-rog-phone-5-pre-order-in-us/

Though ASUS announced the ROG Phone 5 earlier this year, it was not immediately available in the U.S. The Taiwanese manufacturer did not comment on why this is the case, since the company’s other products are available in droves there, but the flagship gaming smartphone is available to pre-order and at a high price, but not as much as one would have thought.

At $1,000, sure, the ROG Phone 5 is out of reach for customers who want to purchase some decent hardware for $500-$600, but our prediction was that ASUS would price it for at least $1,200 for the base version, which features 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage. That is a powerful configuration and will be overkill for a lot of users, but if you want the best of the best, this is what you will only settle for.