Weekly poll: the Asus Zenfone 10 shows small flagships still exist, are you getting one?

02 July 2023
While not all that small, the 10 smaller than everything that offers its particular combination of flagship chipset, high-end display and good battery.

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Still uninteresting, the flagship that consumes a lot of battery power but just got a < 5,000 mAh battery

    Anders, 02 Jul 2023No one's getting one. Even the liars in the comments. ... moreYou're like using this website as a stress toy. You're always venting your anger on it.

      Bob, 04 Jul 2023Dongles do not make for higher quality audio because it has... moreYou have absolutely no idea what you're saying.

      Dongle DACs have DAC chips for a reason, and that's to IMPROVE audio quality. CX31993 for example, up to 32bit/384kHz.

      And you're trying to tell me that doesn't make a difference in audio quality?

        Aj, 02 Jul 2023What phone do you have at the moment? OnePlus 7 Pro and Pixel 4, but I'm very shortly going to receive my Mi 11, which will become my new daily driver.

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          • Avgjoe
          • d%A
          • 06 Jul 2023

          I had zenfone 9 and while hardware was top spec,. software and bugs are overwhelming.amd Asus have no intentions to fix bugs but just to throw out new phone. Plus 2 years of updates are crap also.
          Before buying,.go on zenphone forum and look at loong list of problems that people wants to be solved, but nothing . Avoid

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            • Jimbob
            • 7@u
            • 05 Jul 2023

            Should have been smaller. 146mm is a stretch with edge to edge screen.

              hmm, 04 Jul 2023Sony with there narrow style like TV remote controller dont... moreThat's your view. 99% of people I know use either the actual volume or the width to decide if a phone is compact, using height is rather nonsensical.

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                • p7k
                • 04 Jul 2023

                Anonymous, 04 Jul 2023Don’t complain later about the lack of updates thenWith ZF9 that is 1 year old you end on android 14 while ZF10 you end on 15 so not much of a difference when you can save few hundred euro for that

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                  • p7k
                  • 04 Jul 2023

                  Chaos X 1982, 03 Jul 2023Because Asus had dedicated SD cards for ZenFone 6, 7, 7 Pro... moreSony with there narrow style like TV remote controller dont fit in the segment of compact or small phone cause the narrowness makes the phone tall. If sonly would have the 5V as 146mm tall like this Zenfone then we can talk about small or compact. To have just screen size as 6.1 inch but still be 153-155mm tall is nothing when 6.5 inch is expected screen size in this tall phones for screens. I have 6.67 inch screen in 161mm tall phone so for half a inch smaller phone i expect it to be 146mm tall max

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                    • p7k
                    • 04 Jul 2023

                    Anonymous, 03 Jul 2023Sure, the S23 has better camera, build & s/w support, b... moreI dont really care for iphones as it's not for me. also i13 is in same size as i14 cause they have one design for like 5 generation.

                    Better grip is solved with a case or you can just wrap the phone. Battery is all about how you use the phone where as for some it last for a week but for others it last a day so it's hard to say that just 400mAh more give you much and justify over 100 euro more in price.
                    And is there really much videos done to compare S23 with ZF10 ? To judge quality on them and that video stabilization ? While it's good to have 3.5mm jack but that also dont justify the higher price. While you say better camera s/w updates and build quality in favor of S23 i would think that is a must have for flagship premium device as these are the things where you cut corners to get cost down while for Asus it's seems that it's the parts where they cut cost down to have more profit from the device

                      Sad to see that this phone has a 800% storage markup and a 400% RAM markup...

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                        • Bob
                        • sXX
                        • 04 Jul 2023

                        24bit.96kHz USBC DAC, 03 Jul 2023Your idiocy and mentality never fails to amaze me. Every... moreDongles do not make for higher quality audio because it has to work with what it 1st receives from the device before it changes the sound to it's heavier bass/middle/high or whatever it prioritises then sends out to the headphones. Quality headphones will let your hear what the phone is capable of reproducing. Dongles add another cumbersome blob to get snagged on things hence why i look specifically for phones with a jack.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • 3E2
                          • 04 Jul 2023

                          Phone is literally the size of the original Note, I.e. the phone that coined the term phablet. It's not an even a phone proper, like everything else these days it is a phone-tablet (a phablet). True phones (pocketable even in small pockets, one handed use) have gone the way of the dodo.

                          In fact nothing over 130mm x 65mm is a mini, true minis are 120mm × 60mm or smaller in fact. We don't get anything close to that for almost a decade. This is not a mini, this is not even a phone, it's a phablet, just on the smaller side.

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                            • JebZilla
                            • 61r
                            • 04 Jul 2023

                            2 year OS support, no thanks.

                            I'm not bluffing either. My last phone was Samsung S10+ and now I'm using S23 Ultra and I still use my S10+ like a connected Steam Deck to play emulators and watch Netflix on my TV. My S10+ is still very very very usable and relatively snappy.

                            Smartphones are super capable of anything these days. App makers also tend to create apps that can be used by many users from all economic levels. So it made no sense for them to create apps that are too demanding. Camera is probably the next thing that might sway buyers to buy what phone. But overall the current generation of smartphone has hit the plateau and if a flagship is not supported with minimum of 3 years of OS upgrade and/or 4 years of security upgrade, I'd rather buy a budget phone.

                            Gaming on the other hand is the only place left where specs really matter.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • I2Y
                              • 04 Jul 2023

                              Anonymous, 04 Jul 2023I think I’ll consider the Zenfone 9 over this phone now.Don’t complain later about the lack of updates then

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                                • Anonymous
                                • I2Y
                                • 04 Jul 2023

                                Just get a s23 which is also the same size because of the asus huge bezels
                                Lots of downgrades and little to no support

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • tPG
                                  • 04 Jul 2023

                                  No, because I am still using Xiaomi Mi Max and I love it!

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • YYX
                                    • 04 Jul 2023

                                    I think I’ll consider the Zenfone 9 over this phone now.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • 7kL
                                      • 04 Jul 2023

                                      Vegetaholic, 03 Jul 2023Piece of garbage, very expensive for 5.9 incher, should be ... moreiPhone Mini has entered the chat!

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                                        • Rajek
                                        • YWi
                                        • 03 Jul 2023

                                        Where's the "It's too small for me" option? I'd imagine that's the reason 90% of people won't consider this phone.

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