Weekly poll: is the Asus Zenfone 9 the perfect phone for you?
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- Anonymous
- 4Iy
- 31 Jul 2022
"If there were a cheaper version of the same design" is my poll vote.
Someone explain the purpose of making anything less than a flagship completely ugly with terrible "features".... oh, what's that? Profit? Ah, makes sense.
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- Anonymous
- Bb}
- 31 Jul 2022
Too expensive
- The Flip
- 4BT
- 31 Jul 2022
I'm not an Asus fan as I only had bad experiences with them especially when it came to battery life. Standby time was terrible on this Asus Windows 8 tablet with attachable keyboard I had. Sold it 2 years later for $50 when originally bought for about $230.
Then I owned a Zenfone Go variant with 5" display I got for 3000 pesos in the Philippines when living in Baguio. Battery would completely die 16 hours later even if I didn't use it. I did everything to try to conserve battery life and it still dies on me on 16-hour standby even if it's on airplane mode and the screen is off the entire time!
Never again with Asus. I had bad experiences with HTC too. Maybe I have bad luck with Taiwanese products? But with all that said, this looks like a decent product. Includes headphone jack which is always a plus as wireless headphones kills battery life at least 4x-10x faster and you're still obligated to charge that and the phone.
I'll stick to brands I can depend on. That seems like Samsung or Apple by this point. Motorola is letting me down with all these glitches on my Razr 5G. That Wi-Fi calling toggle never seems to go away no matter what I do. Google lost me once they went too large and with Tensor. Pixels are always plagued with issues. Google has poor QC. While Sony is too niche and expensive.
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- jar
- AAq
- 31 Jul 2022
raj, 31 Jul 2022lacks: proper software support camera quality wireless c... moreI've already skipped zenfone 8 for the reasons you mentioned.
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- Anonymous
- nDE
- 31 Jul 2022
Grey Wolf, 31 Jul 2022Hmm, I wonder why? Maybe because not so many people actuall... moreThat's not entirely true if you want a smartphone small enough that will make you use it less.
The iphone Mini is still the only proper small flagship. Asus is just unsuccessfully trying to get on that bandwagon.
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- Swaraj
- DkC
- 31 Jul 2022
When Asus makes something. They mean it . One of the few honest tech company left out there. Who sell phone as a piece of tech , Not as a fashion accessory or as a social status .
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- Anonymous
- sBS
- 31 Jul 2022
Hills od, 31 Jul 2022People talking about No Sd Slot are really stuck in the pas... moreProfessionals, Android emulation gamers, Offline users and extreme secure users who are used to MicroSD card instead of cloud storage: Are you sure about that?
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- medo
- rXR
- 31 Jul 2022
The phone is nearly my dream it has the perfect size for me so compact but it has high specs, good quality (although plastic back)and good display, big battery IP 68 certificate, unfortunately the camera midrange level so so disappointed ☹️
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- Z8user
- vaS
- 31 Jul 2022
Anonymous, 31 Jul 2022Yeah, I don't get why people diss about that one phone... morePeople in the majority somehow have this sense of entitlement that what they don't want shouldn't exist. The existence of this phone literally doesn't take away their sea of options yet somehow, that's not enough.
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- Anonymous
- nDE
- 31 Jul 2022
Anonymous, 31 Jul 2022Yeah, I don't get why people diss about that one phone... moreNever blame the corporation that's trying to get your money if you don't know better...
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- Anonymous
- 3SI
- 31 Jul 2022
Anonymous, 31 Jul 2022Yeah, I don't get why people diss about that one phone... moreIt‘s like that one scene from SpongeBob where Squidward arrives in the future, looks around and sees that everything is chrome. Then one flower in normal colors pops out, and as soon as that happens, a car comes and someone with a spray can makes that flower chrome as well.
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- Anonymous
- rJX
- 31 Jul 2022
Anonymous, 31 Jul 2022Luckily, you have 2000 phones to choose from. At 5.9 inch, ... moreYeah, I don't get why people diss about that one phone that is tailored for specific niche users.
They might as well be going to every Android phone comment section and post "This phone does not run ios. It's dead on arrival. You know ios is the best os and even Apple the best brand is using it."
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- Anonymous
- rJX
- 31 Jul 2022
Anonymous, 31 Jul 2022Yep. The lack of SD card is being overly exaggerated in 202... moreAnd next to be gone should be the screen. That is the one thing taking up most of the area of a phone. A screenless phone would be more compact. Also it avoids the fragile glass.
And then it would be the battery, that would be the component taking up most of the volume. By that time we would have the perfect phone.
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- Shadocx
- s0W
- 31 Jul 2022
Anonymous, 31 Jul 2022Just an unreleased Exynos 🤣
"Google believed that c... moreMaybe they are comparing their Pixel 6/6 Pro processing speed to the Pixel 5 which had a midrange SD765.
From what I've heard their Pixel 6 Pro takes many seconds to shoot night time pictures, I wonder if it wouldn't be better and faster with the SD888.
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- Shadocx
- s0W
- 31 Jul 2022
Anders, 31 Jul 2022Too small
Only 1080p display
Only 16 million colour displ... moreDisplay brightness and color accuracy are midrange level
Short software support
No 4k60 on front camera
No wireless charging
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- Grey Wolf
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- 31 Jul 2022
Anonymous, 31 Jul 2022Luckily, you have 2000 phones to choose from. At 5.9 inch, ... moreHmm, I wonder why? Maybe because not so many people actually buys small phones nowadays. Not even Apple, with their immense fan base, had good sales with their Mini series. And Apple fans are some of the most dedicated ones out there.
So, imagine other companies doing small phones (below 6”) on a regular basis. Not gonna happen any time soon.
Nowadays everybody is using their phones as power gadgets. Is the most important gadget in our lives. If you want a phone just for basic stuff, get a Nokia, lol.
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- 31 Jul 2022
raj, 31 Jul 2022lacks: proper software support camera quality wireless c... moreYeah, the combination of price and 2 years of OS updates doesn't make this an easy sell, especially for those who already have the Zenfone 8. Pricing is not as bad in other markets ($699 in US) but if the price doesn't drop to somewhere more competitive in all markets soon, maybe wait and see what the upcoming s23 will offer now that every market is going to get Snapdragon 8 gen 2 (by TSMC like 8+ gen 1) per recent rumor.
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- Anonymous
- Jvg
- 31 Jul 2022
The Flip, 31 Jul 2022"The Samsung Galaxy S22 ($800/€850) will receive four ... moreJust an unreleased Exynos 🤣
"Google believed that conventional chipsets weren't enough for what it wanted to be possible on a smartphone, and the Google Pixel 6 Pro is a culmination of years of research and development that led to Google's first customized Tensor chipset (produced by Samsung), along with the integration of that chipset with advanced software features and improving camera performance all around. The new chipset enables quicker and more efficient on-device language processing, and it allows for Google's computational photography to work faster than before."
Source: Pixel 6 Pro review.
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- Surge
- 6uf
- 31 Jul 2022
Olympus Oms, 31 Jul 2022Sugar in your tea? Nah November is my favourite month
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- The Android Freak
- fCI
- 31 Jul 2022
SShock, 31 Jul 2022Why? I have an iPhone that'll soon be 4 years old and ... moreGalaxy A53 and A73 will get 4 years of Major Android updates.