WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.840 the ASUS rog phone 3 had a lot going for 00:00:03.199 --> 00:00:07.279 it assuming of course that you are some 00:00:06.560 --> 00:00:12.160 kind of hardcore mobile gamer you know high 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:18.560 refresh rate display fantastic performance but 00:00:15.200 --> 00:00:21.760 the issue is that it was also super 00:00:18.560 --> 00:00:23.519 bulky and heavy and a little awkward to 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:27.519 use if you're not you know laser focused on gaming so oh 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:32.320 wow this is really heavy too um so what i 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:36.880 was gonna say was so i have extremely high hopes for what 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:43.920 appears on paper to be kind of like an rog phone three 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:44.879 except for the more general consumer 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:50.559 this is the zenfone 7 pro and i think ASUS 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:52.399 has done an absolutely fantastic job with the look of this thing check this 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:57.680 out what do you think of this color brandon 00:00:55.360 --> 00:01:01.039 right exactly like depending on the angle it 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:06.400 can actually look completely black or it can look black 00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:10.159 but with like kind of a green ASUS logo or you get this shimmer 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:13.119 looks really cool let's get the unboxing out of the way though so 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:22.159 oops in here we've got a 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:25.280 case wow honestly feels 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:26.000 awful that's weird it actually includes 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:29.439 two cases in the box who includes two cases in 00:01:28.479 --> 00:01:34.479 their box that is so weird this one feels uh quite 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:37.600 a bit better i mean it's not it's not perfect or anything but 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:42.159 definitely quite a bit better and i don't understand what just happened here so 00:01:40.880 --> 00:01:48.960 there's a little flippy like doodle that seems to be 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:49.600 designed to what hold the camera in 00:01:48.960 --> 00:01:52.880 place because yes that is one of the killer 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 00:01:56.960 --> 00:02:04.320 to 30 watts or something like that get one of those yup 30 watt charger 00:02:01.119 --> 00:02:07.439 usb type-c to type c cable and 00:02:04.320 --> 00:02:11.200 boom an all-screen display 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:12.959 or an all display front or 00:02:11.200 --> 00:02:17.760 wow what do you call that anyway the point is there's no notch 00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:18.959 no hole punch no interruptions and ASUS 00:02:17.760 --> 00:02:24.400 achieves this by integrating a flip up style camera 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:27.360 just like they did on their zenfone 6 series 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:30.959 now i never actually covered the zenfone 6 series 00:02:28.160 --> 00:02:35.040 and the reason for it was that i was really not happy with the 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:37.920 the camera flip mechanism so that's the first thing i want to check 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:40.319 out and what bothered me about it right off the hop 00:02:39.040 --> 00:02:45.440 was that when you kind of shook the device around it would kind of flap 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 00:02:47.920 --> 00:02:53.519 far more durable than people expected but that they have redesigned it to the 00:02:52.239 --> 00:02:57.200 point where it can handle i think it's 200 flips a day or 100 00:02:56.319 --> 00:03:01.200 flips a day every day for five years and apparently 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:04.480 it's like stronger now and there's more contact points it's a 00:03:03.040 --> 00:03:07.680 triple camera here i will be interested to see if it's any 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 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 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:20.720 here how does it know so this is like the 00:03:19.239 --> 00:03:24.720 anti-selfie switch if you like hate selfies you can 00:03:23.040 --> 00:03:28.640 just you can make it impossible to take a selfie because there is no 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:31.840 traditional front-facing camera on this device whatsoever anyway i'm not 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 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:40.400 still does it it seems like they've got 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:46.080 some really interesting mitigation strategies in place here though check this out so 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 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 00:03:55.040 --> 00:03:57.680 strong is it 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:04.560 okay oh wow so it gives you about five 00:04:03.920 --> 00:04:09.439 attempts and then it does that three times before it's like hey stop 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:15.920 i mean if it's as durable as ASUS says it is 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:19.840 looks great i mean compared to being stuck with 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:21.600 the like crappy front-facing camera that 00:04:19.840 --> 00:04:27.360 you'd normally have like even a non-pixel non-iphone like 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:31.360 tier 2 rear-facing camera is going to absolutely 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:32.479 destroy the front-facing camera on even 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:37.440 those devices like obviously this is way sharper so 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:42.400 the primary camera on this puppy is a sony 64 megapixel sensor with an f 00:04:40.400 --> 00:04:46.800 1.8 lens on it you can really see like wow that is 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:51.919 really sharp for a selfie picture because obviously it is it shoots up to 8k video 00:04:49.840 --> 00:04:56.240 and has optical image stabilization that's one of the differences between 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:59.520 the non-pro and the pro model and then the other cameras 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 00:05:01.840 --> 00:05:07.199 affair and see this is one of the things that makes 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:12.080 this a tier 2 camera you can really see a stark 00:05:09.919 --> 00:05:14.560 difference in my skin tones going from one of the sensors to the other now 00:05:13.520 --> 00:05:18.160 that's an inherent thing when you change the sensor like on 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:21.680 a camera these are completely different imaging 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 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:32.000 your post-processing to match them let's go ahead and switch to our telephoto 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 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:38.639 that really does not look amazing they 00:05:37.039 --> 00:05:41.600 actually don't even advertise how many megapixels that sensor is which is a 00:05:40.479 --> 00:05:45.280 super weird move we could find that out relatively easily 00:05:45.479 --> 00:05:49.919 3264 by 2448 8 megapixels on the 00:05:48.960 --> 00:05:54.960 telephoto so if pop-up's not a choice it's 00:05:52.479 --> 00:05:57.280 basically this versus a hole punch or a notch 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:03.520 really i mean me too you would think based on that pretty much every design 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 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:11.600 but like no i i absolutely think this is way better 00:06:13.039 --> 00:06:20.080 whoa if you hold the volume button 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:21.919 it like look at this ASUS what do you 00:06:20.080 --> 00:06:25.199 guys have in mind for this why would i want like pew pew pew i'm 00:06:23.919 --> 00:06:28.639 taking pictures that's hilarious 00:06:28.960 --> 00:06:34.000 definitely a party trick this video is brought to you by audible listen to your 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:38.160 favorite audiobooks with the free audible app you can choose any 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 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:46.960 month plus an extra editor's extra listen as well and you 00:06:45.440 --> 00:06:49.759 can enjoy thousands of audiobooks podcasts guided wellness programs and 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 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:59.919 in the video description it occurs to me now i actually have not talked through 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 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:08.639 got six or eight gigs of RAM and 128 gigs or 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:12.319 256 gigs of storage and what's cool is the storage is 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:16.560 actually expandable so you've got your sim card slot over here and that also 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:20.240 has a micro sd holder in it in terms of the rest of the physicality 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 00:07:23.280 --> 00:07:28.880 speaker got your microphones down there as well 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:32.720 and then over on the right i like this actually you've got your volume rocker 00:07:31.039 --> 00:07:36.880 and then your lock button that can actually be reconfigured with double 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:41.199 presses and long presses to activate other things up at the top nothing but the flip 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:45.599 camera so there's no headphone jack now one thing about this device that 00:07:43.919 --> 00:07:51.599 might be a little controversial is the fingerprint sensor ASUS 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:54.720 broke the mold and actually went with a side mounted fingerprint sensor on the 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 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:03.599 i would have to see is if i can unlock it without picking up 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 00:08:07.280 --> 00:08:15.280 this phone that's not bad oh you got to kind of get 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:20.800 the spot right though what if i just kind of drag my oh so i 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:24.720 just give my phone a little tickle you know what i actually i don't mind 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 00:08:27.039 --> 00:08:32.000 device so having the fingerprint sensor integrated there makes a ton of sense to 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 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:40.000 oh yeah got that high refresh rate display 00:08:38.560 --> 00:08:44.159 really does make a big difference now it's not 144 hertz like the rg phone 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 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:51.760 90 is like an enormous leap forward whereas the 00:08:50.560 --> 00:08:57.040 difference between 90 and 120 or 144 outside of 00:08:55.040 --> 00:09:00.480 you know extreme hardcore gaming i really don't see it making that big of a 00:08:58.880 --> 00:09:05.040 difference to the experience especially because it comes at the expense of battery life the other 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 00:09:08.959 --> 00:09:14.160 pretty it's pretty normal for manufacturers to 00:09:12.560 --> 00:09:16.720 you know have like the vibrancy absolutely cranked right out of the box 00:09:15.839 --> 00:09:21.680 but out of the box on this it's fine i did 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:26.240 end up preferring to set splendid to i think it was standard 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:27.120 and then a little bit of a cooler color 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:31.760 temperature but even in their more vivid modes it's 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:36.880 not intolerable like you used to see with like older samsung devices for example 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:39.920 it's an OLED display so you can expect you know perfect blacks and ASUS claims 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:43.519 and i have no reason not to believe them whatsoever 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:47.760 that they've achieved delta e's of less than one on this 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:51.920 display it actually looks freaking awesome oh one thing i want to 00:09:49.839 --> 00:09:54.720 know is if we have stereo audio and using some extra lengths of wires 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:58.320 impromptu cable ties to keep this mess under control the 00:09:56.480 --> 00:10:02.399 final step is to install the speakers don't sound great to ASUS 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 00:10:06.640 --> 00:10:11.200 honestly really happy with it goes up to 700 nits for 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 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:20.160 you'll be able to comfortably use it outdoors color accurate OLED nice fast pixel 00:10:18.959 --> 00:10:24.240 response times and high refresh rate sounds good but 00:10:22.800 --> 00:10:28.240 the thing that might hold me back from daily driving a phone like this 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 00:10:29.760 --> 00:10:36.959 you put a 5 000 milliamp hour battery in here and that seems to be 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:40.240 right in line with ASUS's vision for this 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 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 00:10:45.920 --> 00:10:51.279 using your rear camera to take selfies for the longest time like in three years 00:10:49.760 --> 00:10:54.640 i doubt there will be phones with better selfie cameras than the 00:10:52.800 --> 00:10:58.880 rear camera on this one which you'll use for your selfies the battery 00:10:56.079 --> 00:11:04.000 it's 5 000 milliamp hours and this is really cool they've included a ton 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:08.640 of battery optimization tricks that normally you would have to kind of 00:11:05.680 --> 00:11:13.680 micromanage yourself you can say i only want to charge my battery up to 00:11:10.640 --> 00:11:14.720 80 which by the way is still 4 000 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 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 00:11:22.560 --> 00:11:28.480 here too like you can tell it to only 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 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 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:40.800 really bad for it now the device doesn't include wireless 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:44.720 charging which i think some people could see as a negative these days 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:47.120 from a longevity standpoint i can see why they might not include it because it 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:54.079 does generate more heat in the battery which can make it not last for as long 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:56.399 so what is ASUS created here 00:11:54.079 --> 00:12:00.160 it's a phone that i can't find an obvious flaw in 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:03.360 like even just you know taking a couple quick pictures obviously this is not a 00:12:01.680 --> 00:12:07.120 comprehensive camera test but just a couple quick pictures here i can see 00:12:04.959 --> 00:12:12.240 greens are a little bit too boosted uh reds are a little bit muted like 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:14.800 yeah there's definitely still work for them to do on their color science but 00:12:13.760 --> 00:12:19.200 it's absolutely usable like even b-tier camera 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:22.639 processing has come a long way and there's a lot else going for it high 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:27.279 refresh rate display nice big battery honestly i think jesus 00:12:25.680 --> 00:12:30.880 kind of has a winner on their hands here this is the kind of phone that 00:12:28.880 --> 00:12:35.279 i could see using for you know three four five years 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:39.279 as long as ASUS supports it so this is something that 00:12:36.800 --> 00:12:42.399 i think some Android manufacturer i'd love to see it be ASUS needs to just 00:12:40.959 --> 00:12:45.839 step up to the plate and say we're gonna support these devices for as 00:12:44.560 --> 00:12:50.480 long as apple supports an iphone can you do it ASUS let's see 00:12:49.040 --> 00:12:53.760 hopefully you guys enjoyed this first look at the zenfone 7 00:12:52.079 --> 00:12:57.360 pro make sure you subscribe so you don't miss any more of our videos 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 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:10.320 this oh it's heavy oh 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:10.320 main gear gaming pc see ya