Asus Zenfone 12 Ultra launches with Snapdragon 8 Elite, improved gimbal stabilization
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- 06 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 06 Feb 2025Zero burn in >>> burn-in, green lineBetter battery life of OLED > Worse battery life of LCD
Deeper blacks of OLED > greyish blacks of LCD
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- James Nana
- m5g
- 06 Feb 2025
What's with the pricing of this phone. I just don't get who this phone is for. For £/€/$ 50 more you can get the flagships from Samsung and Apple. Get even more value with VivoX200 Pro and Pixel 9 ProXl with much features and better cameras
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- Milkooo
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- 06 Feb 2025
Enchantres, 06 Feb 2025Still 2 years major update? Asus never learn. in its home m... moreI agree. They can slap all the AI features they want, people, me included, will still be off put by that atrocious 2 year software support.
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- Anonymous
- Mrj
- 06 Feb 2025
Well, looks like it's the same story as last time. A 3.5mm port do not make an otherwise bad phone good, especially when this price point is around what the S25+ and OnePlus 13 cost. Both of which have better software support and QHD+ displays. Oh and the latter has standard IMS so you can still get VoLTE with custom ROMs, where with this you can't even unlock the bootloader.
Concerningly Sony did the exact same thing last year, there's no way a headphone port and SD card slot make a phone with barely 3-4 years of updates and a 1080p screen worth the same as the Galaxy Ultra.
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- Enchantres
- raQ
- 06 Feb 2025
Still 2 years major update? Asus never learn. in its home market taiwan, asus is almost dead with only 1.89% market share.
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- afronoia
- XTk
- 06 Feb 2025
With those bs AI inclusions, maybe Asus used it first to draft that camera island thingy as well. I'm not a designer but I don't even want to believe that shape and camera arrangement is actually someone's idea.
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- rizki1
- 6cn
- 06 Feb 2025
DarlingYext, 06 Feb 2025"This phone is at the level of iQOO 13, Xiaomi 14T Pro... more14T honestly is more of a premium mid range... with mid range SoC, mid range build (plastic frame, GG5), it's telephoto just 2x etc
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- AntonelPAPI
- 8xq
- 06 Feb 2025
What is "Ultra" about this, one of Sony's most affordable SoCs, surely a cheap optical fingerprint reader... Next
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- Edward Coventry
- mp2
- 06 Feb 2025
Lucy M, 06 Feb 2025Except for Camera Island! Almost everything is good.I like it. Least pretentious camera island. They don't even try to pretend every lens is the same size
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- Shadocx
- s0V
- 06 Feb 2025
This phone is a scam, it should be priced around 900€.
Since they're not making small phones anymore, why not call it Asus Zenfone 12?
What's "Ultra" about it?
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- promeu
- L1T
- 06 Feb 2025
C'mon ASUS, where ara the tiny ones! Zenfone 9 and 10 renewal!
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- xhp
- 06 Feb 2025
DarlingYext, 06 Feb 2025"This phone is at the level of iQOO 13, Xiaomi 14T Pro... moreFun fact: The Z11 Ultra is actually priced ~$600 here (normally) in my country. It's currently on discount rn and priced ~$500.
https://id.store.asus.com/zenfone-11-ultra-zenfone-11-ultra.html
Another fun fact: ROG Phone 8 also priced the same as Z11 Ultra here.
https://id.store.asus.com/rog/rog-phone-8-12gb-256gb-rog-phone-8-12gb-256gb.html
That's why I'm a bit confused when so many people here said that Zenfone is expensive, while ngl it's not that expensive in my country & far cheaper than base Samsung S-series.
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- Anonymous
- vaS
- 06 Feb 2025
DashF, 06 Feb 2025No flagship is giving headphone jack these days. Minimum 4 ... moreRM10 with SD 8 Elite says hi.
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- Anonymous
- vaS
- 06 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 06 Feb 2025oled > lcdZero burn in >>> burn-in, green line
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- Mhark
- P@c
- 06 Feb 2025
Damn, the sample photos looks like a time travel back to the past haha, crushed and overly grainy shadows (main), telephoto is quite noisy too and the ultra wide has a lot of watercolor texture, I really loved Zenfone 5 and Zenfone 2 5.5 laser, but after that they really plummeted.
- DarlingYext
- 6mM
- 06 Feb 2025
rizki1, 06 Feb 2025This phone is at the level of iQOO 13, Xiaomi 14T Pro... As... more"This phone is at the level of iQOO 13, Xiaomi 14T Pro..."
In no possible way is it anywhere near as good as either of those, might be closer to something like the base 14T.
This Zenfone is a $600 phone with a crazy brand behind it, that somehow thinks otherwise, because of AI. Maybe the price is AI generated as well as that design, and that's the issue.
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- Anonymous
- fCE
- 06 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 06 Feb 2025You want me to pay over $1000 dollars to deliberately destr... moreoled > lcd
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- Anonymous
- Sr6
- 06 Feb 2025
You want me to pay over $1000 dollars to deliberately destroy my eyesight with that cheap mediocre OLED screen? At least put an IPS LCD on it and divide the price by 3 and then we can talk. Also sd card slot is missing.
Less features more price huh?
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- Anonymous
- Sr6
- 06 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 06 Feb 2025Out of topic but need help guys. Are asus laptops better th... moreNo. Both suck. Try Hewlett Packard