1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,840 the ASUS rog phone 3 had a lot going for 2 00:00:03,199 --> 00:00:07,279 it assuming of course that you are some 3 00:00:06,560 --> 00:00:12,160 kind of hardcore mobile gamer you know high 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:18,560 refresh rate display fantastic performance but 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:21,760 the issue is that it was also super 6 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:23,519 bulky and heavy and a little awkward to 7 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:27,519 use if you're not you know laser focused on gaming so oh 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:32,320 wow this is really heavy too um so what i 9 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:36,880 was gonna say was so i have extremely high hopes for what 10 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:43,920 appears on paper to be kind of like an rog phone three 11 00:00:40,719 --> 00:00:44,879 except for the more general consumer 12 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:50,559 this is the zenfone 7 pro and i think ASUS 13 00:00:48,079 --> 00:00:52,399 has done an absolutely fantastic job with the look of this thing check this 14 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:57,680 out what do you think of this color brandon 15 00:00:55,360 --> 00:01:01,039 right exactly like depending on the angle it 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:06,400 can actually look completely black or it can look black 17 00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:10,159 but with like kind of a green ASUS logo or you get this shimmer 18 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:13,119 looks really cool let's get the unboxing out of the way though so 19 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:22,159 oops in here we've got a 20 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:25,280 case wow honestly feels 21 00:01:22,159 --> 00:01:26,000 awful that's weird it actually includes 22 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,439 two cases in the box who includes two cases in 23 00:01:28,479 --> 00:01:34,479 their box that is so weird this one feels uh quite 24 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:37,600 a bit better i mean it's not it's not perfect or anything but 25 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:42,159 definitely quite a bit better and i don't understand what just happened here so 26 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:48,960 there's a little flippy like doodle that seems to be 27 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,600 designed to what hold the camera in 28 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,880 place because yes that is one of the killer 29 00:01:52,159 --> 00:01:57,439 features of the zenfone 7 pro okay you also get a quick charger i think it charges at up 30 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:04,320 to 30 watts or something like that get one of those yup 30 watt charger 31 00:02:01,119 --> 00:02:07,439 usb type-c to type c cable and 32 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:11,200 boom an all-screen display 33 00:02:07,439 --> 00:02:12,959 or an all display front or 34 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:17,760 wow what do you call that anyway the point is there's no notch 35 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,959 no hole punch no interruptions and ASUS 36 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:24,400 achieves this by integrating a flip up style camera 37 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:27,360 just like they did on their zenfone 6 series 38 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:30,959 now i never actually covered the zenfone 6 series 39 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:35,040 and the reason for it was that i was really not happy with the 40 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:37,920 the camera flip mechanism so that's the first thing i want to check 41 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,319 out and what bothered me about it right off the hop 42 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:45,440 was that when you kind of shook the device around it would kind of flap 43 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:50,480 now ASUS claims that they have well that not only was the zenfone 6 version of it 44 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:53,519 far more durable than people expected but that they have redesigned it to the 45 00:02:52,239 --> 00:02:57,200 point where it can handle i think it's 200 flips a day or 100 46 00:02:56,319 --> 00:03:01,200 flips a day every day for five years and apparently 47 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,480 it's like stronger now and there's more contact points it's a 48 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:07,680 triple camera here i will be interested to see if it's any 49 00:03:06,239 --> 00:03:12,640 good and this seems to work if you don't want to flip up but like what happens if you try to 50 00:03:10,879 --> 00:03:15,920 flip it up with that thing on there okay let's turn it around to selfie camera 51 00:03:14,159 --> 00:03:20,720 here how does it know so this is like the 52 00:03:19,239 --> 00:03:24,720 anti-selfie switch if you like hate selfies you can 53 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:28,640 just you can make it impossible to take a selfie because there is no 54 00:03:26,879 --> 00:03:31,840 traditional front-facing camera on this device whatsoever anyway i'm not 55 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:40,000 a huge fan of this case so i'm just gonna i'm gonna take it off we're gonna have a look at the camera flip here 56 00:03:36,319 --> 00:03:40,400 still does it it seems like they've got 57 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:46,080 some really interesting mitigation strategies in place here though check this out so 58 00:03:44,319 --> 00:03:50,640 watch this if i shake it around and it pops out it's like hey hey that's 59 00:03:49,519 --> 00:03:57,680 not where it's supposed to be and it puts it back interesting hey okay how about how 60 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,680 strong is it 61 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:04,560 okay oh wow so it gives you about five 62 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:09,439 attempts and then it does that three times before it's like hey stop 63 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:15,920 i mean if it's as durable as ASUS says it is 64 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:19,840 looks great i mean compared to being stuck with 65 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:21,600 the like crappy front-facing camera that 66 00:04:19,840 --> 00:04:27,360 you'd normally have like even a non-pixel non-iphone like 67 00:04:24,639 --> 00:04:31,360 tier 2 rear-facing camera is going to absolutely 68 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,479 destroy the front-facing camera on even 69 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:37,440 those devices like obviously this is way sharper so 70 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:42,400 the primary camera on this puppy is a sony 64 megapixel sensor with an f 71 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:46,800 1.8 lens on it you can really see like wow that is 72 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:51,919 really sharp for a selfie picture because obviously it is it shoots up to 8k video 73 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:56,240 and has optical image stabilization that's one of the differences between 74 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:59,520 the non-pro and the pro model and then the other cameras 75 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:03,520 let's uh go ahead and switch to the yep the ultra wide so this is a 12 megapixel 76 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:07,199 affair and see this is one of the things that makes 77 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:12,080 this a tier 2 camera you can really see a stark 78 00:05:09,919 --> 00:05:14,560 difference in my skin tones going from one of the sensors to the other now 79 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:18,160 that's an inherent thing when you change the sensor like on 80 00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:21,680 a camera these are completely different imaging 81 00:05:20,479 --> 00:05:28,479 pipelines but when you're google or when you're apple you do a better job of 82 00:05:25,759 --> 00:05:32,000 your post-processing to match them let's go ahead and switch to our telephoto 83 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:37,039 wow that one's got like kind of a blue or purple cast to it that really 84 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:38,639 that really does not look amazing they 85 00:05:37,039 --> 00:05:41,600 actually don't even advertise how many megapixels that sensor is which is a 86 00:05:40,479 --> 00:05:45,280 super weird move we could find that out relatively easily 87 00:05:45,479 --> 00:05:49,919 3264 by 2448 8 megapixels on the 88 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:54,960 telephoto so if pop-up's not a choice it's 89 00:05:52,479 --> 00:05:57,280 basically this versus a hole punch or a notch 90 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:03,520 really i mean me too you would think based on that pretty much every design 91 00:06:01,759 --> 00:06:08,960 out there has a hole punch or a notch in it that generally consumers would prefer that 92 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:11,600 but like no i i absolutely think this is way better 93 00:06:13,039 --> 00:06:20,080 whoa if you hold the volume button 94 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:21,919 it like look at this ASUS what do you 95 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:25,199 guys have in mind for this why would i want like pew pew pew i'm 96 00:06:23,919 --> 00:06:28,639 taking pictures that's hilarious 97 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:34,000 definitely a party trick this video is brought to you by audible listen to your 98 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:38,160 favorite audiobooks with the free audible app you can choose any 99 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:43,120 audio book to get started and your first one by the way is free members get one audiobook every 100 00:06:41,759 --> 00:06:46,960 month plus an extra editor's extra listen as well and you 101 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:49,759 can enjoy thousands of audiobooks podcasts guided wellness programs and 102 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:56,240 more with no credits needed so don't wait start your 30-day free trial at the link 103 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:59,919 in the video description it occurs to me now i actually have not talked through 104 00:06:57,919 --> 00:07:03,120 the specs of this puppy at all so it's running a snapdragon 865 processor it's 105 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:08,639 got six or eight gigs of RAM and 128 gigs or 106 00:07:06,319 --> 00:07:12,319 256 gigs of storage and what's cool is the storage is 107 00:07:10,319 --> 00:07:16,560 actually expandable so you've got your sim card slot over here and that also 108 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:20,240 has a micro sd holder in it in terms of the rest of the physicality 109 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:25,680 of this puppy on the bottom we've got a usb type-c port as well as a 110 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:28,880 speaker got your microphones down there as well 111 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:32,720 and then over on the right i like this actually you've got your volume rocker 112 00:07:31,039 --> 00:07:36,880 and then your lock button that can actually be reconfigured with double 113 00:07:34,639 --> 00:07:41,199 presses and long presses to activate other things up at the top nothing but the flip 114 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:45,599 camera so there's no headphone jack now one thing about this device that 115 00:07:43,919 --> 00:07:51,599 might be a little controversial is the fingerprint sensor ASUS 116 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:54,720 broke the mold and actually went with a side mounted fingerprint sensor on the 117 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:59,680 lock button and i don't know how i feel about this okay one thing i would have to one thing 118 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:03,599 i would have to see is if i can unlock it without picking up 119 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:09,759 the device so why don't we give why don't we give that a shot so if i were to just touch the side of 120 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:15,280 this phone that's not bad oh you got to kind of get 121 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:20,800 the spot right though what if i just kind of drag my oh so i 122 00:08:18,319 --> 00:08:24,720 just give my phone a little tickle you know what i actually i don't mind 123 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:29,039 that i'm not a huge fan of auto wick i actually like just pressing a button to wake my 124 00:08:27,039 --> 00:08:32,000 device so having the fingerprint sensor integrated there makes a ton of sense to 125 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:37,680 me there's some other nice creature comforts here one of the first things i noticed firing it up is 126 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:40,000 oh yeah got that high refresh rate display 127 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:44,159 really does make a big difference now it's not 144 hertz like the rg phone 128 00:08:42,560 --> 00:08:48,399 three or anything like that it's 90 hertz but to me the difference between 60 and 129 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:51,760 90 is like an enormous leap forward whereas the 130 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:57,040 difference between 90 and 120 or 144 outside of 131 00:08:55,040 --> 00:09:00,480 you know extreme hardcore gaming i really don't see it making that big of a 132 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:05,040 difference to the experience especially because it comes at the expense of battery life the other 133 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:09,680 thing that makes me really happy about the screen is that it doesn't look bad like it's 134 00:09:08,959 --> 00:09:14,160 pretty it's pretty normal for manufacturers to 135 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:16,720 you know have like the vibrancy absolutely cranked right out of the box 136 00:09:15,839 --> 00:09:21,680 but out of the box on this it's fine i did 137 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:26,240 end up preferring to set splendid to i think it was standard 138 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:27,120 and then a little bit of a cooler color 139 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:31,760 temperature but even in their more vivid modes it's 140 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:36,880 not intolerable like you used to see with like older samsung devices for example 141 00:09:34,399 --> 00:09:39,920 it's an OLED display so you can expect you know perfect blacks and ASUS claims 142 00:09:39,279 --> 00:09:43,519 and i have no reason not to believe them whatsoever 143 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:47,760 that they've achieved delta e's of less than one on this 144 00:09:46,399 --> 00:09:51,920 display it actually looks freaking awesome oh one thing i want to 145 00:09:49,839 --> 00:09:54,720 know is if we have stereo audio and using some extra lengths of wires 146 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:58,320 impromptu cable ties to keep this mess under control the 147 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:02,399 final step is to install the speakers don't sound great to ASUS 148 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:08,480 credit though they do have an amplified earpiece speaker so i'm really happy to see that so the screen 149 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:11,200 honestly really happy with it goes up to 700 nits for 150 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:15,360 outdoor reading that's not the highest on the market by any stretch of the imagination but it's good enough that 151 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:20,160 you'll be able to comfortably use it outdoors color accurate OLED nice fast pixel 152 00:10:18,959 --> 00:10:24,240 response times and high refresh rate sounds good but 153 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:28,240 the thing that might hold me back from daily driving a phone like this 154 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:32,399 is the bulk and the weight but i guess that's kind of par for the course when 155 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:36,959 you put a 5 000 milliamp hour battery in here and that seems to be 156 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:40,240 right in line with ASUS's vision for this 157 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:43,040 device is it seems to be like the phone that you're not going to have to switch 158 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:48,000 out for a long time because you're going to be able to take great selfies because you're actually 159 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:51,279 using your rear camera to take selfies for the longest time like in three years 160 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:54,640 i doubt there will be phones with better selfie cameras than the 161 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:58,880 rear camera on this one which you'll use for your selfies the battery 162 00:10:56,079 --> 00:11:04,000 it's 5 000 milliamp hours and this is really cool they've included a ton 163 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:08,640 of battery optimization tricks that normally you would have to kind of 164 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:13,680 micromanage yourself you can say i only want to charge my battery up to 165 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:14,720 80 which by the way is still 4 000 166 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:21,120 milliamp hours and that's gonna make your battery not just last a long time for the day 167 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:26,079 but last a long time for its entire life and there's some other really cool stuff 168 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:28,480 here too like you can tell it to only 169 00:11:26,079 --> 00:11:31,680 top up the battery you know in the hour and a half before 7am when i normally 170 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:37,279 wake up that way it's not just sitting there holding a charge all night which is also 171 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:40,800 really bad for it now the device doesn't include wireless 172 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:44,720 charging which i think some people could see as a negative these days 173 00:11:42,399 --> 00:11:47,120 from a longevity standpoint i can see why they might not include it because it 174 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:54,079 does generate more heat in the battery which can make it not last for as long 175 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:56,399 so what is ASUS created here 176 00:11:54,079 --> 00:12:00,160 it's a phone that i can't find an obvious flaw in 177 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:03,360 like even just you know taking a couple quick pictures obviously this is not a 178 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:07,120 comprehensive camera test but just a couple quick pictures here i can see 179 00:12:04,959 --> 00:12:12,240 greens are a little bit too boosted uh reds are a little bit muted like 180 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,800 yeah there's definitely still work for them to do on their color science but 181 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:19,200 it's absolutely usable like even b-tier camera 182 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:22,639 processing has come a long way and there's a lot else going for it high 183 00:12:21,279 --> 00:12:27,279 refresh rate display nice big battery honestly i think jesus 184 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:30,880 kind of has a winner on their hands here this is the kind of phone that 185 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:35,279 i could see using for you know three four five years 186 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:39,279 as long as ASUS supports it so this is something that 187 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:42,399 i think some Android manufacturer i'd love to see it be ASUS needs to just 188 00:12:40,959 --> 00:12:45,839 step up to the plate and say we're gonna support these devices for as 189 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:50,480 long as apple supports an iphone can you do it ASUS let's see 190 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:53,760 hopefully you guys enjoyed this first look at the zenfone 7 191 00:12:52,079 --> 00:12:57,360 pro make sure you subscribe so you don't miss any more of our videos 192 00:12:55,680 --> 00:13:00,320 i actually have one coming that's going to be a lot of fun we're going to unbox 193 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:10,320 this oh it's heavy oh 194 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:10,320 main gear gaming pc see ya