Asus Zenfone 9 review
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- Anonymous
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- 29 Jul 2022
customer, 28 Jul 2022I'm looking for a compact and dual front facing speake... moreplease understand that the each model is being designed on the basis of the customer base it has in the market and ROG phones are majorly focused on the gamers and ZENFONE are focused on regular and day to day users and they too want somethings to make or show some differences among the devices they launch and thus demanding features available in other models is not so good but they will make some new things in upcoming devices
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- 29 Jul 2022
Mollisol, 29 Jul 2022side FP sensor and flat design (nothing phone 1, realme gt2... moreApart from mildly flat sides, there is nothing that resembles iPhone here. Even the flat sides are slightly extended around buttons and jack port, the back is slightly curved on the edges, camera looks nothing like ones on iPhone. I think ASUS did pretty well here as far as design goes. It's unique enough that you can't really mistaken it with anything else. Even Honor's dual ring camera looks totally different.
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- Anonymous
- J1x
- 29 Jul 2022
"Will receive 2 OS updates plus two more years of security updates"
Does that mean 2 or 4 years of security updates?
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- Nun
- 29 Jul 2022
Pumpino, 28 Jul 2022I see the move to a side FP sensor and flat design as negat... moreside FP sensor and flat design (nothing phone 1, realme gt2 explorer master, asus zenphone 9 etc) as negatives are big deal breakers for me. All these iphonny looking designs are shameful & an insult to the Android community.
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- gyi
- 29 Jul 2022
customer, 28 Jul 2022I'm looking for a compact and dual front facing speake... more"Why Asus couldn't make the speakers like in ROG phones."
Because Asus make the speakers in ROG phones like that. This is a compact phone. So the aim is to make it as small as possible, what is incompatible with front speakers. If you need frontal speakers, Asus made the ROG phones to you.
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- Anonymous
- tDF
- 29 Jul 2022
customer, 28 Jul 2022I'm looking for a compact and dual front facing speake... moreI just bought Zenfone 8 that basically have the same speaker set up. But I can tell you that it has one of the most balanced stereo sound (I also owned Pixel 4a, I think its speakers were better balanced). I don't think you'll regret it if what you care is the sound.
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- Zuzuz
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- 29 Jul 2022
Anonymous, 29 Jul 2022It is not compact. It is even larger than phones like S7 th... moreYa. And these phones are for those under 140cm in height.
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- Russel
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- 29 Jul 2022
zodiacfml, 29 Jul 2022too much compromise on a small phone, losing half the perfo... moreThey're still providing a decent battery while still offering 3.5mm headphone jack. I'd say that's a great thing.
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- Russel
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- 29 Jul 2022
Anders, 28 Jul 2022I am thinking. You're not. What you're doing is a... moreThis is not Asus's only phone.
And I am just happy that there is at least some manufacturer who cares about smaller phones and provide more options rather than aping Apple by ditching features that people find useful.
If Asus can give a compact phone while providing great battery life and a 3.5 mm headphone jack, why can't other do it even in bigger phones.
You sound more like a marketing advisor rather than a tech enthusiast.
Smaller phones have their target audience. They don't need to make a whole lot of them.
Stop being childish.
And Nokia's decision to support Windows Phone and HTC's lack of presence in smartphone space has nothing to do with this.
There's also LG.
Anyway, they have nothing to do with Asus is doing by giving us an option to have a compact flagship phone that still hasn't ditched features that at least some people care about.
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- zodiacfml
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- 29 Jul 2022
too much compromise on a small phone, losing half the performance in game.
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- Anonymous
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- 29 Jul 2022
blue, 28 Jul 2022And all of them also have bigger displays, you forgot to me... more*laughs in Samsung Galaxy S22*
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- Anonymous
- KZK
- 29 Jul 2022
Anonymous, 28 Jul 2022Most of them have much larger screens. Larger screen = mo... moreI don't know about other brands, but I do know that Samsung allows you to jump down the resolution to FHD. Not sure how much of an impact the battery life in FHD resolution will be like, so I won't comment much on it.
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- Anonymous
- tZj
- 29 Jul 2022
For that price, Asus could have at least give 1st gen LTPO display. The packaging doesn't seem that impressive either, with that thick body only holding 4300mah battery.
Positive points: SD8+gen1 looking like a big improvement over the SD8gen1 and the design a lot better than the dowdy Zenfone 8.
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- Nick Tegrataker
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- 29 Jul 2022
Anonymous, 29 Jul 2022Please, keeping making lame excuses.
We know that when ph... moreThat's not how it works. iPhone's throttling became a problem because Apple never communicated to their users about it and kept it a total secret until it was discovered. The older A-series SoCs could draw a lot of power to achieve excellent burst performance, more than what degraded batteries could possibly provide, so decreasing the peak performance was a necessary measure to prevent potential shutdowns caused by a sudden spike in the power draw.
This is why if you disable the throttling in the settings app and continue using your 4-5 year old iPhones for highly demanding tasks, they may shut down without any warning. Nobody would buy a new phone just because the battery is aging and slowing down the phone - they would try to replace the battery (which is much cheaper) first instead, especially if they are already invested in Apple's ecosystem.
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- Hbk112
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- 29 Jul 2022
I have asus 8 and this 9 seems to have worse-r main camera, 8's is lot better seeing the review and samples
I didnt like huge camera circles... Just campre it with 8...
I m ok woth plastic back and even side fp sensor
They should have gone faster with charging also... 8 and 9, both so slow
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- Manfromnowhere
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- 29 Jul 2022
Lovely Zenfone 9
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- Bartieeee
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- 29 Jul 2022
YUKI93, 28 Jul 2022Samsung Galaxy S22+, Xiaomi 12/12 Pro/12S Ultra, Vivo X80 P... moreXiaomi 12x has 100+ rating. It's all to do with processor efficiency.
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- Anonymous
- XW2
- 29 Jul 2022
Anonymous, 29 Jul 2022It is not compact. It is even larger than phones like S7 th... moreLol. S7 had huge bezels. Zenfone 9 shrinks down bezels to as low as possible. So, it's expected that Zenfone would have had slightly larger screen.