Asus Zenfone 8
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- Darknoor
- m4y
- 15 Feb 2022
Best compact phone, 08 Feb 2022why would anyone bother with another brand? Oh yeah because... moreIndeed this phone is super underrated but it is also Asus's fault for not selling it globally or giving a decent advertisement.
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- Anonymous
- m%V
- 08 Feb 2022
Best compact phone, 08 Feb 2022why would anyone bother with another brand? Oh yeah because... moreDisagree. Asus phones use to have the 'value' ring going for them nailing that niche compromise and offering great performance and features, but that no longer the case. And they messed up with nearly all iteration of Zenphone. Nearly all has hardware defects, starting withe Zenfone 3 family with the infamous light bar on the screen... Then, there's the support. They would stop the development cycle once the time is up (pretty prompt and accurate about it as well), whether the last release has serious bugs or not - it would just stop. Service centre and part... Oh boy, better hope you never have an accident with your phone.
And here comes to the worst part - Asus can brag about one international version of their phone with LTE/5G band support all their want. The fact is, they have highly limited carrier support for VoLTE and Wifi calling. It renders even this portion of hardware pretty useless.. At least OnePlus could force the feature on none support carrier. Honestly, I can no longer justify buying one with it given cost. ROG still have a proposition for gamers. I don't see where Zenfone has any more at that given cost.
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- Best compact phone
- nGu
- 08 Feb 2022
why would anyone bother with another brand? Oh yeah because they're probably Apple zealots or blindly buying the same trash year after year because they cant think.
Asus have done an amzing job with the Zenfone 8, so glad I bought one.
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- Tykkmann
- 0Z9
- 06 Feb 2022
RR73, 06 Feb 2022You have to update it manually... Download the A12 image f... moreThanks! Did it and it worked. Im not sure, but the «Wallpaper & style» (maybe more) setting is not appearing in the setting menu. Any solution?
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- RR73
- 6mM
- 06 Feb 2022
Tykkmann, 06 Feb 2022I still have Android 11 on my Zenfone 8. When will it upgra... moreYou have to update it manually...
Download the A12 image from ASUS's support site, and place the file in the root folder of your phone internal memory. The phone will detect it as system update file.
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- Tykkmann
- 0Z9
- 06 Feb 2022
I still have Android 11 on my Zenfone 8. When will it upgrade to 12? Live in Norway.
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- AnonD-124847
- 3nr
- 06 Feb 2022
RandyRiffin, 28 Jan 2022Well, then you could just get a midranger. It has headphone... more.. but midrange phones are same gabariti as flagships with cuts in every sections, also not every 3.5mm output are meen great quality(witch is "individual" taste).. zenphone 8 have beast one.. also the last phone (according to my memory) with awesome audio chips + "normal" or "compact" sized.. Samsung dropped out 3.5mm, LG is dead, Sony overpriced and almost done with smartphones job.. choice's are horrible these days for music lovers
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- Jay
- sxr
- 02 Feb 2022
MRDA, 26 Jan 2022I swear by Rocket Player, but turn the equaliser on if you ... moreHey thanks for the reco. Will check it.
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- Jay
- sxr
- 02 Feb 2022
EmilioC, 22 Jan 2022Poweramp. Is an excelent music player available in Google P... moreThanks man! Will check it.
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- RandyRiffin
- tAV
- 28 Jan 2022
Anonymous, 27 Jan 2022What part of "it's a dumb trend" did you not... moreWell, then you could just get a midranger. It has headphone jack and micro sd card and smaller camera and battery, and you don't mind a bigger phone so...
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- Anonymous
- a40
- 27 Jan 2022
RandyRiffin, 16 Jan 2022Your argument is only true if headphone jack and micro sd c... moreWhat part of "it's a dumb trend" did you not understand? Reduce other components sizes - pick a smaller camera, reduce the battery charging rate, give it a slightly smaller battery, heck make the phone 1mm wider and taller. Reducing features is not omitting them.
- MRDA
- 7WK
- 26 Jan 2022
Jay, 22 Jan 2022Hey everyone. What're your music player for Asus Zenfo... moreI swear by Rocket Player, but turn the equaliser on if you want ReplayGain to work.
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- Hanif Fikri
- ib4
- 25 Jan 2022
tituskl, 15 Jan 2022MicroSD card does not take up any significantly more space ... moreSo true...its a marketing strategy where you should pay more for bigger storage..My Xperia X Compact is small yet packed with sd slot. Also if the latest Xperia could do sd slot why all other companies could not?
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- AnoM
- ibf
- 25 Jan 2022
tituskl, 15 Jan 2022MicroSD card does not take up any significantly more space ... moreI got to agree that the taken up space for Micro SD slot and headphone jack is non-sense. That is a non-sense excuse by manufacturer to exclude the hardware. Of course, these trend, trace back to it’s root problem, is Apple, who is the first one to exclude these. There are never a problem to include these, only shameful Apple that say these hardware taken up their smartphone space. I know, like it or not, it has become a trend, a bad one. These trend push the usage of wireless earphone, and also cloud service. But, this problem is not solely happen on ASUS.
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- EmilioC
- LXf
- 22 Jan 2022
Jay, 22 Jan 2022Hey everyone. What're your music player for Asus Zenfo... morePoweramp. Is an excelent music player available in Google Play Store. I use it in all my cell phones since 2010
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- Jay
- t7Q
- 22 Jan 2022
Hey everyone. What're your music player for Asus Zenfone 8, given this phone doesn't have one that is propriety. I am looking for a music player that will utilize the DAC of this phone for flac, hi-fi music files. Thanks, everyone!
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- RandyRiffin
- tAV
- 16 Jan 2022
tituskl, 15 Jan 2022MicroSD card does not take up any significantly more space ... moreAnyways. You still have to pay respect to Asus for still fitting THIS many features in such a small package. for showing other companies that they can put a headphone jack in their phones, as Asus did it also with a power hungry chipset and lots of cooling.
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- RandyRiffin
- tAV
- 16 Jan 2022
tituskl, 15 Jan 2022MicroSD card does not take up any significantly more space ... moreYour argument is only true if headphone jack and micro sd card takes up very little space (which it does I guess). Sure, they are the ones who designed the phone, but there is still a feature constraint/limit in a certain body size. You can't fit a 5000mAh battery Snapdragon 888 chip in a 6.2 inch phone, even though it is still big display.
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- RandyRiffin
- tAV
- 16 Jan 2022
tituskl, 15 Jan 2022MicroSD card does not take up any significantly more space ... moreI just checked. Yes.. this phone does have dual sim. So what you're saying is there is no reason for any company to ditch micro sd card? Then why did they do it?
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- tituskl
- EJM
- 15 Jan 2022
RandyRiffin, 13 Jan 2022Well... how much can you fit in this small chassis, along w... moreMicroSD card does not take up any significantly more space than a headphone jack. Don't defend this nonsense as if they had no other choice. Does this phone have a dual SIM option? If so they quite literally have the space for a microSD slot in the single SIM variant.
I'm always confused by the argument of "they didn't have enough room" when they're the people who DESIGNED the thing. They choose how much room there is. If they failed to design the phone with enough room for basic features... that's still on THEM.