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it's doing great it's living its best life people the zenfone 9 is here ASUS is still making phones that aren't ridiculous gaming things but turns out yeah the zenfone line has been around for a while there's been nine of them and this one may be the best one yet the thing with zen phones at least in the past couple generations i think they're making a flagship phone but they're not making it ridiculously oversized so that only people with large hands can use them the zenfone 8 was a compact size it was around six inches and they're doing the same thing with the zenfone 9 it's a 5.9 inch display but it's one of the first phones on the market with the latest snapdragon uh eight plus gen one they tried to simplify their naming scheme and it only got more complicated for you guys i'm gonna unbox the other version i i had the black version here and this is the what did you call it sandstone moonlight white sandstone in the moonlight all right what do we got in the box here we have another box compact size big possibilities inside we have the sim removal tool and it's been a bit of a trend lately uh an included case okay and then user guide inside there okay and then we have the phone itself come to papa oh it felt good what was that noise you know in a world full of phones with like five and six cameras on the back it gets a little tryptophobic so i appreciate uh ASUS just saying like you know what we're just gonna have two big old phone big old cameras on the back whoosh you know it looks like it looks like a minion the cameras are a big thing that ASUS has upgraded uh over the uh the zenfone 8 and we'll talk about that but first let's talk about the actual exterior of the phone you know what that's why i thought it was sandstone because the back has this sort of like texture on it feels like sandstone we got this metal rail all around uh the side which is like vaguely iphone like but also not uh because it's like got kind of a rounded edge on it so that's cool on the top look at that there's a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack i'll say right now this is this phone starts at 6.99 and it's got the latest chip so it's not one of those like low end uh uh phones like the pixel a series where they were like i will put a headphone jack on there for the people who can't afford bluetooth headphones every phone should still have a headphone jack on it i'm sorry there's room for it and even in a 5.9 inch phone screw you apple on this side we got the volume rocker and the power button which doubles as a fingerprint sensor which also doubles as a multi-function button with swipe functionality we're going to talk about that that's exciting on the bottom we got the speaker and this phone also they have front-facing speakers where the other speaker is here and the earpiece and the ones on the bottom so sort of front-facing usb-c port sim card slot no sd card support on this one and the other side is blanc what else we got in the box oh a little fancy compartment with a charging cable USB-C to c and a power adapter this is 30 watts i did a little bit of testing with it i got from 35 to 100 in an hour i got 30 in just 20 minutes so that's not bad actually that's i mean i've seen better the one other big thing that i wanted to say about uh the exterior right off the bat is that this is my pixel 3 okay it's that perfect size where i can reach all the way across with my phone when i use these bigger phones i'm like what's the point like am i supposed to be double handing do you guys have big phones why do you why do you have big phones what's the point okay anyways the point is that i like smaller phones because you can do the one-handed thing and ASUS is really one of the only manufacturers out there that is still deciding to make a compact phone with decent specs i mean you can find like quote-unquote compact phones out there but most of them are going to be like really low end i've seen some people say that this might even be the best compact phone even considering the iphone minis and i don't i don't want to say that but i will tell you that people are saying that i'm protected i won't tell you what to do but i will tell you to check out our sponsor manscaped their performance package 4.0 kit is designed to contain everything you need to make grooming below the waste easy it includes the updated lawnmower 4.0 with wireless charging weed whacker nose trimmer for the tricky areas plus some other goodies like the crop preserver and crop reviver sprays for deodorizing and toning get 20 off plus free international shipping using the link in the description below as you can see here the bezels aren't like the you know what you'd expect from a flagship phone uh there's a little bit more of a chin and a what do you call that forehead over the top so you can see on my pixel 3 it still has those so thankfully i'm already used to it but this is a 5.9 inch screen 1080 by 2400 super amoled with apparently 1100 nits peak brightness which you know that looks that looks pretty bright it's got HDR 10 plus wow so that's the peaks that you're gonna get when you're watching something with high dynamic range the other thing is it's 120 hertz screen so we're up to flagship standards with that it's crazy especially seeing 120 hertz on such a small display like this going from the pixel 3 which is 60 hertz i guess to 120 hertz on this thing it's just like a crazy difference and because it has the latest snapdragon phone i mean i've been using this for a day or two i have not experienced any kind of slowdown you click on something it goes this baby flies also contributing to that performance is the eight gigabytes of RAM that comes with default the the 699 price point is gonna get you uh eight gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of storage but there's 256 gigs storage and up to 16 gigs of RAM as well if you really want to spec this thing out i don't know how expensive that one is it's probably over a thousand dollars while we're talking about the display we were talking about this place a second ago let's do a youtube thing i mean that's looking pretty nice the greens are popping looks pretty sharp there they are love those guys those dark lobsters okay i mean it's a phone oh i'm already disappointed as usual iphones are kind of like the gold standard for phone speakers right now yeah this definitely sounds like a little bit tinier but is pretty good oh yeah this is a 13 pro i mean what does that start at like 1200 bucks or something so this is a thousand sustained brightness on the 13 iphone 13 pro and this has 800 sustain brightness the peak brightness is very similar this is 1100 this is 1200. yeah they're both on max brightness now they look pretty similar nice job ASUS all right let's talk about the cameras because they're these big chunkers on the back of the device so i don't know which is which but one of these is a 50 megapixel main camera and the other one is a 12 megapixel ultra wide the main camera uses the sony imx 766 uh sensor the ultra wide whatever one is the ultra wide uses the imx 363 which is the same sensor used in the 6a uh 12 megapixel camera and all of the previous pixels so maybe zenfone was going for something where they were like okay we're going to be drawing in some pixel fans with this let's bring back that old camera sensor that they all know about for sure so those rear cameras can do 8k video recording at 24 FPS 4k at 30 or 60 and up to 120 FPS slo-mo so that's nice to see and on the front camera it's a 12 megapixel sony imx 663 sensor okay so ASUS talked about how their camera ui is easy to use one-handed i guess in this scenario translates to them just using something that looks like iOS's camera module are you guys ready look at these guys okay so that's using the regular 50 megapixel sensor on the back hey okay it's a little bit gray it's a little bit uh you know i i think i'd like a little bit more pop in there so the main camera is already pretty wide there and when you go to the ultra wide i mean i'm very happy with how wide that situation is good gravy you can get the whole situation in there one of the really cool additions that made me a bit more excited for the zenfone 9 was that they have this like what they're calling you know an advanced gimbal system based on some demo videos that i've seen it does a really good job of like emulating you know kind of like one of those handheld gimbals and to help you have even steadier photos they have this like guide system where you have to if you keep that little ball in the circle then you're it's saying that your videos are going to be a little smoother i want to take a video now what do you think about that i'm going to go running excessive shaking on screen and said excessive shaking keep the phone stable no that's pretty smooth okay so even at the point where it told me excessive shaking keep the phone stable it still looked really stable and for the selfie camera let's take a demo shot for that yeah the colors i mean just looking at the viewfinder here the colors are like a little um muted for me i would like a little bit more pop not too much but like you know on top of all the things that are so great about this phone if the camera is just okay that's fine with me now the phone is not perfect i'll say that right now because there's no wireless charging that's a big annoying thing for me i wireless charge my pixel 3 all the time it does have a 43 000 milliamp hour battery 4 300 4300 43 000 you could ride it into space i haven't charged it since i did that charging test yesterday and it's still only at 52 percent and i've been using it you know kind of on and off as much as i would i would use a normal phone i'm not sure if i said it already but the zen ui that they include with these end phones is a lot leaner it seems to me than the uh custom Android skin that they put on the rog gaming phones it basically seems like stock Android i mean when you go into the settings there's not a ton of like extra crazy stuff but what i did notice is that as you kind of dive into the settings there's just a few little quality of life tweaks that i thought were were good like in the battery section for example you have a battery saving mode but they also give you a high performance mode and a way to like customize all that ASUS has also gone out of their way to add the type of shortcuts that i love to see in a phone for one i mentioned earlier the power button fingerprint sensor also doubles as a scroll uh scroll you can add scroll functionality to it i disabled uh the swipe up and down thing where you can bring the notification bar down by swiping on the side because i don't really like that uh but you know if you want that there it's there and i believe you can customize it for other things let's go see you can have check notifications so you can swipe to uh open your notification slide you can refresh the web page so like instead of scrolling down from the top home end of web pages i don't even know about this that's actually seems like it would be really useful maybe i should enable that and look at that it it's kind of finicky i don't know if i'll have that enabled all the time but the other cool thing about this is that you can customize the double tap action on the power button there's also gestures you can do with uh a back double tap so right now i think iphone has this as well but this is not a standard thing on Android phones at all and if i've set it to double tap to open the flashlight it did it now this is probably not useful in a small phone but they also have an option where i think if you if you swipe down past the little navigation pill at the bottom it'll enter one-handed mode and you can do stuff with that and then put it back up what is this now mobile manager i didn't even know this was a thing but i guess this is an ac one of one of the things ASUS has added that you can optimize your your RAM and storage and stuff like that so that's cool bell really really wants me to talk about gaming performance on the phone because it's got the snapdragon 8 plus gen 1 which is the new chip everybody's talking about everyone who wants to play genshin impact our fancy new Labs team did some testing on one of the zenfones that we have here and let me tell you about it the Labs team notes that the zenfone 9 is able to achieve 60 FPS in some some games that they tested like real racing three and shadow fight three but in gentian impact it couldn't quite get there it it could only manage 40 FPS although apparently ASUS uh did some magic development stuff and were able to make the 120 hertz display work well with lower frame rates and games so that you don't experience micro stuttering so that's good they also noted that during gaming the overall temperature stayed low uh we're seeing a peak temperature of 51 degrees but it hovered more most of the time more around 40 degrees and in my experience that was true as well i think while i was charging it uh from 35 percent to 100 i did notice the back of the phone getting a little warm but it wasn't anything that seemed problematic and it cooled down uh relatively quickly so there's that okay bell just brought up something interesting that i didn't know about so i was going to say one of the great things about the phone another great thing is that it's ip68 water and dust resistance however ASUS says on their website that it's ip68 65 because over time the ip68 protection may degrade and then get down to 65. drop three points yeah on one hand i'm like okay good on you ASUS for saying that but on another hand i'm like but maybe it should just stay ip68 and okay the last kind of interesting tidbit that i wanted to say about the zenfone 9 is that they apparently have these modular accessories there's a case that can go on the back and then have like a magnetic attachment for either like a little wallet thing for your cards or for a kickstand which i thought was cool but i'm probably not gonna buy because it's probably you know more expensive than you know a comparative cheap thing i could get on the internet but they also have this interesting like backpack mount thing with like a retractable connector so that's cool probably no one will get that but hey it gave me the vibes of like lg back when they were making uh they were they were like getting into the modular thing and they released that phone i forget what the phone was called you could take out the bottom of the phone and you could slot in either a new battery or there were also like there was like a camera uh module and then there was also an audio module for like higher quality audio playback that was a time where we had like fun innovations and phones and while the zenfone 9 doesn't quite achieve that level of quirkiness it's really nice to see that at least one manufacturer is still taking the idea of you know flagship quality somewhat affordable compact phones seriously because that's exactly what i want ASUS knew that this is what i needed and i love them and i love you for watching this video subscribe to ShortCircuit or don't and help me burn it to the ground there are other videos you could watch too like my pixel 6a review okay see you later"}