Asus Zenfone 8 And Asus Zenfone 8 Flip Review By Ahadu the one

The Taiwan, company ASUS, introduced the eighth generation of its flagships in phone series, which included two models: the base before 8 and the before 8 flip, the flipped camera in ASUS smartphones debuted a couple of years ago, with the before 6 series then continued with the before 7 and has survived to this day. This is a pleasant surprise, since non-standard design solutions are not always reincarnated in the next generations of smartphones compared to the before 7 generation, where both models had a rotating camera mechanism. This year, the brand decided to give the user a choice. The line includes both a classic and a more exotic model. Over the years spent on the smartphone market, ASUS has retained two series of devices the gaming ROG phone and top end, but more classy before. If the target audience of ROG phone is mainly gamers, then before is more versatile.

Since the smartphone is a flagship, the price is appropriate somewhere around 982 dollars. What does ASUS offer us for this money? The before 8 flip packaging is a minimalistic gray box made of matte cardboard with a stylistic number. Eight on the front inside is a smartphone, a 30-watt charger, a type-c to type-c cable, a semi-jack tool. There is a slot for three positions: some accompanying literature and a protective bumper. The cover is made of dense black plastic and has a fine cellular texture.

In the case, the smartphone seems more bulky. Its appearance, in my opinion, is simplified, but fingerprints are not visible, which perfectly accumulate on the glass case. Another advantage of the bumper is a small latch that fixes the camera in the closed position. The before 8 flips design hasn't changed much since the last generation. The back like the front is glass and the edges are made of metal, but they have plastic inserts in the places for the antennas.

The back has rounding on the sides at the back approximately in the center. There is the brand logo and the name of the series to which our character belongs and, above the hole for one of the microphones is one of the main assets of the before 8 flip a trio of cameras on a rotating mechanism with a barely noticeable flip camera mark. The retractable camera block is also made of metal and glass and protrudes slightly above the body, which is why, when the device lies on a horizontal surface, the upper part is slightly raised. However, you can hide it a little with a protective cover. Since we started talking about the most interesting thing, the camera, then perhaps we will dwell on it in more detail in the closed position.

It does not attract much attention. It looks like a usual camera in selfie mode when the camera opens 180 degrees, the camera unit protrudes a couple of centimeters above the body, but there are also intermediate recline angles that are used for general photography. Thanks to this, you can shoot familiar objects from unusual angles or create, for example, interesting automatic panoramas, which I will discuss later separately. It is worth noting the pleasant vibration and sound emitted by the motor of the mechanism very interesting sensations, which makes you want to open and close the module. If we talk about the resource of the mechanism, then, according to the manufacturer, it is designed for three hundred thousand uses or five years of operation with 150 operations per day.

It sounds pretty good, but aimlessly playing with it is still not worth it, although at first it is difficult to resist. The smartphone comes in two colors galactic black, which we have on a review and glacier silver. Despite the fact that the word black appears in the name, it is rather dark gray, with a cold blue undertone, no gradients, just pure color and glossy finish in general, the before 8 flip looks monochrome and discreet, with only a bright turquoise power button, adding variety. The dark glass panel is beautiful, but it is a nightmare for the perfectionist, since the fingerprints are so noticeable due to the fact that the main camera works as a selfie camera as well. There are no distracting notches and the screen occupies 92 percent of the front panel.

The bezels around the display are small, but still quite noticeable at the junction between the screen and the top. You can see the earpiece speaker. It is worth noting that, unlike the base before 8, the flip version is not protected from dust and water. The main elements are arranged exactly like in the previous generation of before on the top. There is nothing but an auxiliary microphone.

On the opposite side. There is the main speaker, a microphone type c charging port and led indicator. There is no 3.5 millimeters audio port to the left of the display. There is a full-fledged slot for a pair of sim cards and a memory card on the right are the volume buttons and the power key, which is highlighted in turquoise, while in the before 7, the fingerprint scanner was combined with the power button. Now the fingerprint sensor is located in the screen.

By the way the power button can be set to quickly access any app by double or long press, which is not particularly surprising today, but still quite convenient. If we talk about the location of the components the developers took into account the format of the device and placed them conveniently with a standard grip, the power button falls right under your right thumb. By slightly changing the grip, you can easily reach the fingerprint scanner with the same finger in this regard. There are no issues. Everything seems to be great in design.

The build quality in materials are at the highest level, but nevertheless there are issues I'm talking about dimensions and weight which largely affect ergonomics, of course, with a 6.67 inch display. No one expects the device to be compact, but don't forget about the thickness of the case and the fact that it weights, 230g, doesn't seem much, but in the hand the smartphone feels heavy bulky and uncomfortable for reference. The before 8 has a 5.9-inch screen and weighs 169 g. This proportion, in my opinion, is much more practical and versatile. We should also note the shift in balance when the camera is tilted because of this.

The device which is already not the most comfortable to hold, gets even more inconvenient. You always fear you'll drop the before 8 flip, thank god, there's an emergency folding of the camera in the event of a fall checked on the sofa it works, but this is unlikely to save from other possible damage, especially if the smartphone is without a case. Technically. The before 8 flip screens is the same as its predecessor, except that the fingerprint scanner is now in the display. One of its main advantages is the absence of a notch for the front-facing camera, which creates the impression of integrity.

Here we have a 6.67 inch super AMOLED matrix with a resolution of 2400 x, 1080, full HD plus and a refresh rate of 90 hertz. Of course, this is not 120 hertz, which many flagships offer, but 90 hertz is quite great as well in the settings you can select not only 60 or 90 hertz, but also the mode of automatic adjustment of the refresh rate it feels like in this mode the screen almost always or in most cases, works in 90 hertz. For some apps it reduces the refresh rate, but this is not easy to track, since the difference is not that striking. In addition, the screen supports HDR, 10 plus and covers 110 percent of the DCI p3 color space, the screen settings are very extensive. Basic functionality is provided by adaptive, brightness night mode, the ability to switch to a dark theme and set up always on.

There are several color rendering modes that can be found in the splendid settings. There are several presets default, natural cinematic standard and custom mode, for which there is a slider for adjusting the color intensity in each of these modes. You can also change the color temperature. You can change the font, the color of system, icons and the shape of app shortcuts, set an individual scale for each individual app set the style of the power button menu customize, the icons set, the animation speed, enable gesture control or navigation bar and customize the LED indicator. A lot has been taken into account, thanks to which you can customize the operation of the display and interface to suit any requirements.

The overall impressions are very good. The screen remains readable when exposed to direct sunlight. The screen does not fade. There are excellent viewing angles, even by default. The display offers high contrast and pleasant color reproduction, so you don't really want to adjust it in the settings.

The smartphone runs on Qualcomm's fastest chipset snapdragon 888. There are no problems at all with performance multitasking in games. Everything flies on the before 8 flip, regardless of the task in games. The smartphone is doing well on all settings. The case heats up slightly, but after an hour of playing PUBG, it only warmed up to 39 degrees.

The graphics are supported by the arena 660 accelerators. The lpddr5 ram is eight gigabytes and the storage UFS 3.1 is 256 gigabytes. Don't forget about the support for memory cards up to two terabytes. It has it all. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the before 8 flip is, of course, the camera.

The camera has five automatic positions, closed, three intermediate ones and fully open 180 degrees for selfies. However, nothing prevents you from adjusting the angle manually. The mechanism provides for this and does not negatively affect performance for those who are fond of mobile photography. This solution allows you to experiment with camera angles in photos and videos and, of course, get high quality selfies. Let's briefly go over the numbers.

The main sensor here is a 64 megapixel, Sony, mix, 686, actual resolution, 16 megapixels with a viewing angle of 78.3 degrees, f, slash, 1.8, light sensitivity, autofocus and software stabilization mode called hyper steady as well as a wide angle, Sony, mix, 363, 12, megapixels module with f slash, 2.2 aperture and a 8mp telephoto lens with 3x optical and 12x digital zoom. Surprisingly, though, the before 8 flip belongs to the flagships. Not even the main sensor has optical stabilization. The following modes are available for taking photos in the camera, app photo manual and night modes. Portrait document and panorama mode deserves special attention, as it unleashes the potential of a flip camera to take a panoramic shot on the before 8 flip.

You don't have to twist your smartphone. The swivel mechanism will do it for you. As a result, we get a long image with practically no obvious traces of merging unusual, but very cool this. It is applicable in both horizontal and vertical photography, and you also can get interesting, panoramic selfies for videos. There are modes of fast up to 4k at 120 frames per second and slow motion, classic video mode up to 8k a pro mode and object tracking mode.

There is also a wind noise filter during recording and acoustic focusing, which will allow you to focus on the sound source in the video. Another interesting feature is free, focusing which will help to reveal the camera's abilities in this mode. You can select any object, if is in the frame after which the camera will smoothly, move it to the center of the frame and concentrate on it in the settings you can edit the location of the modes select the needed format set the command to the physical volume, buttons turn on the grid, preliminary autofocus and so on. Of course, there is Google Lens in HDR. Lots of people ask what is the quality of the images daytime photos from the before 8 flip are at a very flagship level, and this is true for each of the available modules.

The picks are characterized by excellent detailing contrast and clarity. Color reproduction is natural and pleasing to the eye. The wide angle, of course covers a larger angle, but the perspective is minimally affected. The telephoto module with 3x zoom is great as well. The optics do an excellent job of zooming in without noticeable loss of quality and the digital zoom is as good as you can expect, but at night everything just stops working.

The wide angle is the worst of all. It blurs everything and smooths out any textures and noise, which means there is no clarity and the photos look plain bad. The eight megapixel sensor tries its best to convey contrast, but the pictures lack detail and volume. Let's see about the battery now, with a five thousand milliampere hours battery, the before 8 flip lasts up to two days on a single charge, but this is with no games or YouTube binges. The smartphone supports fast 30 with charging, but the charging time is not that fast.

So, for example, from 14 to 94 the smartphone charges in one hour, 10 minutes, the before 8 flip offers flexible power consumption settings in the corresponding menu in the settings. The following modes are provided high performance, dynamic, durable and ultra durable energy saving. As well as an advanced mode in which you can adjust the energy consumption manually by key points, limiting the performance of GPU thermal limit setting the refresh rate, etcetera, in addition, there's battery optimization, for example, you can set the charge limit at eighty percent or ninety percent, as well as continuous charging, which will limit the charge rate to protect the battery wireless charging is sadly missing. Today, stereo sound is the norm for a flagship in the before 8 flip. It is provided by the main speaker, which is traditionally located at the bottom and the earpiece speaker.

Of course, the disproportionality of the speakers affects the sound. The lower one is obviously more powerful, but the stereo effect is still present. The phone is also very loud. There's a smart ringtone feature, a mode in which the ringtone volume depends on the background noise, the higher the noise level around the louder the ringtone will be. In addition, in the settings you can find the audio masters equalizer, which will allow you to adjust the sound for each type of content, games, movies or music and separately for the speakers.

The phone supports Wi-Fi, 6, Bluetooth, 5.2 NFC, and a stack of satellite navigation systems, GPS glass, vs, Galileo, less NARIC. It supports 5g as well. The software part of before 8 flip is represented by android 11, with a proprietary zen UI HL, unlike the shells of various Chinese brands. Zen UI has a lot in common with the pure android. The smartphone is not burdened with third-party software.

Everything is concise, simple and very multifunctional. You can customize an incredible number of functions for managing power, saving modes to choosing the color and shape of app icons. I talked about the key features in the relevant sections of the review, but there is more on the description box. While you are, there don't forget to subscribe and like this video, it really helped us to grow our channel watch. Another video on the end screen see you on the next video brought to you by Lenora.

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