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who would have thought ASUS would make it to eight iterations of their zenfone

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lineup and still not spell phone right it's p

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h o n e ASUS not f o n e

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i can have some fun with these

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who am i who am i no you don't get an

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einstein vibe you know what what they say defy

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ordinary i'd say this is a better than bare minimum included phone case i really

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don't like those clear kind of vinyly plastic ones this is kind of a harder

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plastic feels a little more robust it's kind of

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weighty but actually compact

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interesting wow it's really holdable

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this is a kind of different

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feeling phone it's got like uh it kind of reminds me of a galaxy s6 or s7

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but more modern feeling in the hand somehow

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so you don't have that two and a half d glass that you see on a lot of the newer

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flagship phones a lot of people will like that a lot of people prefer a flat glass but in terms of the shape

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right and the antenna bands it does kind of remind me of those other phones

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but then i also get kind of like a almost

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couple generation ago like a pixel 2 vibe

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to the to the feel of it because it's got a nice skinny screen

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it's got the color accented lock button actually we should probably go through

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the rest of the i o and then it's like it's kind of it's thicker rather

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than being a super skinny slab it feels really good in the hand and the the

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curve the curve back here is just kind of perfect for sitting in your hand

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like that i really like the hand feel bear in mind of course i do have

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slightly smaller hands another thing that's a bit of a blast from the past is

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of course the inclusion of a three and a half millimeter jack got our volume rocker over here we've

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got a usbc port that can take up to 30 watts of power for quick charging it's a

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4 000 milliamp hour battery and then around that we've got a dual camera system with a 64

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and a 12 megapixel sony sensor this is kind of a funny one to me

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in ASUS marketing materials they actually say hey the 64 megapixel one is

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like really good so you could just use that as your telephoto lens and just

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zoom in it's like yeah especially some of the earlier

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dedicated telephoto lenses on phones that has kind of always been the case

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that when they had inferior sensors on them but longer

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lenses you could just use your main shooter and just digitally punch in and

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it looked as good if not better these days though especially with a lot

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of the you know ai fixing that's done with by folks like

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apple and samsung that's not really the case anymore

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underscreen fingerprint sensor feels pretty responsive but we won't

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know until we actually go to unlock the phone oh that's interesting maybe due to the

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smaller screen but ASUS opted to set it to gesture based navigation by default so

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for you know checking out some underwear on lttstore.com we want to go back just

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a little something like that and then if you want to multitask a little something

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like that interesting i mean you don't really have

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a ton of space even though the chin bar and forehead bar are both very respectable it's not

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like you have a ton of space on this screen to take up with buttons and the

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like now that is an improvement over those older phones

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it's got a 120 hertz e4

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samsung amoled display that peaks at i think it's a

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1100 nits of brightness so

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that means that if you were to fire up netflix or you know any other

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HDR capable video watching program like oh i don't know say

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let's head over to youtube you are probably going to be getting a better

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HDR experience on this screen than you would on the main one in your living room of

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course because this isn't really that large of

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a phone screen i can't say that i would recommend doing

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all of your movie watching on it you can see that while it is easily one-handable

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it's pretty small even compared to an older flagship phone like my daily

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driver note 9. surprisingly nice feeling haptics that's

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kind of unexpected a lot of the time on more budget oriented phones that's one of the first

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things that they just don't bother putting the work into because

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it doesn't really show up on the spec list the way that the soc

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or the RAM or whatever else do and it's easy to

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just ignore it but they actually feel pretty nice oh actually

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we should talk about the specs because while i've referred to it as

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more budget optimized it still has

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flagship-ish internal specs making it

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a really unusual almost like a sony-esque phone it's

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it's you know small when every other flagship is

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gigantic these days but it still has a snapdragon 888 processor

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up to 16 gigs of lpddr5 memory up to 256

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gigs of ufs 3.1 storage bluetooth 5.2

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wi-fi 6. basically everything that you

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would expect from a flagship phone except there's like that weird stuff

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missing i guess to fit into this compact frame

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like normally you'd see a triple camera or you'd have wireless charging it's

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like reverse charging all that kind of stuff but they were like no we're going

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for compact high performance but lower price

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and maybe some of the creature comfort features not really present there's no

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micro sd expansion but it does have dual sim man that is yeah that is a good looking

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display oh yeah one of the other selling points that you wouldn't normally find on a

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i don't even know what this thing is it's not it's like budget flagship

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i guess that you wouldn't find on a budget phone is an amplified earpiece

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speaker for stereo uh i think this one should have it

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though yeah so you get the bottom firing speaker

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along with the amplified earpiece speaker it's a lot harder to put decent speakers

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in a small frame like this and that display looks really good yeah

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i would keep my expectations tempered in terms of the camera ASUS is doing a

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better job than they ever have in the past but it's not

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um you know the most exceptional thing

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after processing it looks a little bit better than the viewfinder does

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so credit for that what's up sergey

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i'm pretty good is there a recording there for you oh yeah

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nice all right sweet oh now seems like uh

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as good a time to mention as any that ASUS has another version of this phone

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though the zenfone 8 flip and that one is 6.6 inches instead

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of 5.9 inches on the display it has their like

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rear camera it's a triple camera rain it flips around instead of having a hole

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punch selfie camera on the front which i'm still not a big fan of

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especially with how sort of wide the bezel around it is on

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this particular one it's got a 5 000 milliamp hour battery rather than a 4

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000 milliamp hour battery a couple other couple other key upgrades

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but also some downgrades so it has sd card expansion but the display doesn't

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get as bright honestly i think this one is

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was the right one to send me because if nothing else

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it's pretty unique like snapdragon 888

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in this form factor almost nobody is doing anything like that

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and as long as you don't care about wireless charging

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i would say that you're getting basically everything that you could need

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unless you are like a shutter bug and you want to take the best possible mobile

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photos yeah it's one handable

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oh yeah how's the response okay unlock speed not bad

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not great not the fastest i've seen it's no one plus but not bad at all

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