{"video_id":"XZkuaj1Jf1Q","title":"This phone makes my hands look BIG! - ASUS Zenfone 8","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2022-05-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":481,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":4.48,"text":"who would have thought ASUS would make it to eight iterations of their zenfone","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.76,"end_s":11.04,"text":"lineup and still not spell phone right it's p","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.0,"end_s":14.08,"text":"h o n e ASUS not f o n e","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.04,"end_s":17.199,"text":"i can have some fun with these","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.08,"end_s":19.76,"text":"who am i who am i no you don't get an","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.199,"end_s":22.88,"text":"einstein vibe you know what what they say defy","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.16,"end_s":28.4,"text":"ordinary i'd say this is a better than bare minimum included phone 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great not the fastest i've seen it's no one plus but not bad at all","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":475.12,"end_s":482.4,"text":"i like it and i like telling you guys to subscribe to ShortCircuit so you don't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":478.96,"end_s":482.4,"text":"miss more videos like this one","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"who would have thought ASUS would make it to eight iterations of their zenfone lineup and still not spell phone right it's p h o n e ASUS not f o n e i can have some fun with these who am i who am i no you don't get an einstein vibe you know what what they say defy ordinary i'd say this is a better than bare minimum included phone case i really don't like those clear kind of vinyly plastic ones this is kind of a harder plastic feels a little more robust it's kind of weighty but actually compact interesting wow it's really holdable this is a kind of different feeling phone it's got like uh it kind of reminds me of a galaxy s6 or s7 but more modern feeling in the hand somehow so you don't have that two and a half d glass that you see on a lot of the newer flagship phones a lot of people will like that a lot of people prefer a flat glass but in terms of the shape right and the antenna bands it does kind of remind me of those other phones but then i also get kind of like a almost couple generation ago like a pixel 2 vibe to the to the feel of it because it's got a nice skinny screen it's got the color accented lock button actually we should probably go through the rest of the i o and then it's like it's kind of it's thicker rather than being a super skinny slab it feels really good in the hand and the the curve the curve back here is just kind of perfect for sitting in your hand like that i really like the hand feel bear in mind of course i do have slightly smaller hands another thing that's a bit of a blast from the past is of course the inclusion of a three and a half millimeter jack got our volume rocker over here we've got a usbc port that can take up to 30 watts of power for quick charging it's a 4 000 milliamp hour battery and then around that we've got a dual camera system with a 64 and a 12 megapixel sony sensor this is kind of a funny one to me in ASUS marketing materials they actually say hey the 64 megapixel one is like really good so you could just use that as your telephoto lens and just zoom in it's like yeah especially some of the earlier dedicated telephoto lenses on phones that has kind of always been the case that when they had inferior sensors on them but longer lenses you could just use your main shooter and just digitally punch in and it looked as good if not better these days though especially with a lot of the you know ai fixing that's done with by folks like apple and samsung that's not really the case anymore thanks to ifixit for sponsoring today's video ifixit wants to help you skip your next phone upgrade by helping you replace your battery or fix your screen using one of ifixit's fix kits they start at just 11 us dollars and allow you to repair camera lenses screens replace batteries and they've got step-by-step guides with photos and detailed instructions so visit the links in the description to find the repair kit for your phone 30 watts max charging right there and they include a type c to type c cable thank you ASUS underscreen fingerprint sensor feels pretty responsive but we won't know until we actually go to unlock the phone oh that's interesting maybe due to the smaller screen but ASUS opted to set it to gesture based navigation by default so for you know checking out some underwear on lttstore.com we want to go back just a little something like that and then if you want to multitask a little something like that interesting i mean you don't really have a ton of space even though the chin bar and forehead bar are both very respectable it's not like you have a ton of space on this screen to take up with buttons and the like now that is an improvement over those older phones it's got a 120 hertz e4 samsung amoled display that peaks at i think it's a 1100 nits of brightness so that means that if you were to fire up netflix or you know any other HDR capable video watching program like oh i don't know say let's head over to youtube you are probably going to be getting a better HDR experience on this screen than you would on the main one in your living room of course because this isn't really that large of a phone screen i can't say that i would recommend doing all of your movie watching on it you can see that while it is easily one-handable it's pretty small even compared to an older flagship phone like my daily driver note 9. surprisingly nice feeling haptics that's kind of unexpected a lot of the time on more budget oriented phones that's one of the first things that they just don't bother putting the work into because it doesn't really show up on the spec list the way that the soc or the RAM or whatever else do and it's easy to just ignore it but they actually feel pretty nice oh actually we should talk about the specs because while i've referred to it as more budget optimized it still has flagship-ish internal specs making it a really unusual almost like a sony-esque phone it's it's you know small when every other flagship is gigantic these days but it still has a snapdragon 888 processor up to 16 gigs of lpddr5 memory up to 256 gigs of ufs 3.1 storage bluetooth 5.2 wi-fi 6. basically everything that you would expect from a flagship phone except there's like that weird stuff missing i guess to fit into this compact frame like normally you'd see a triple camera or you'd have wireless charging it's like reverse charging all that kind of stuff but they were like no we're going for compact high performance but lower price and maybe some of the creature comfort features not really present there's no micro sd expansion but it does have dual sim man that is yeah that is a good looking display oh yeah one of the other selling points that you wouldn't normally find on a i don't even know what this thing is it's not it's like budget flagship i guess that you wouldn't find on a budget phone is an amplified earpiece speaker for stereo uh i think this one should have it though yeah so you get the bottom firing speaker along with the amplified earpiece speaker it's a lot harder to put decent speakers in a small frame like this and that display looks really good yeah i would keep my expectations tempered in terms of the camera ASUS is doing a better job than they ever have in the past but it's not um you know the most exceptional thing after processing it looks a little bit better than the viewfinder does so credit for that what's up sergey i'm pretty good is there a recording there for you oh yeah nice all right sweet oh now seems like uh as good a time to mention as any that ASUS has another version of this phone though the zenfone 8 flip and that one is 6.6 inches instead of 5.9 inches on the display it has their like rear camera it's a triple camera rain it flips around instead of having a hole punch selfie camera on the front which i'm still not a big fan of especially with how sort of wide the bezel around it is on this particular one it's got a 5 000 milliamp hour battery rather than a 4 000 milliamp hour battery a couple other couple other key upgrades but also some downgrades so it has sd card expansion but the display doesn't get as bright honestly i think this one is was the right one to send me because if nothing else it's pretty unique like snapdragon 888 in this form factor almost nobody is doing anything like that and as long as you don't care about wireless charging i would say that you're getting basically everything that you could need unless you are like a shutter bug and you want to take the best possible mobile photos yeah it's one handable oh yeah how's the response okay unlock speed not bad not great not the fastest i've seen it's no one plus but not bad at all i like it and i like telling you guys to subscribe to ShortCircuit so you don't miss more videos like this one"}