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
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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
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