ASUS Zenfone 8 Unboxing – First Impression / Review By HardReset.Info

Welcome in front of me is a brand new released, ASUS before 8, and today I will go over unboxing along with an overview of this phone. So, let's pop it straight open there we go now. The packaging seems rather nice. At least the color is refreshing, not the typical black or completely white boxes. So, let's pop it in here we got. We got a case, it's a hard case, so hard plastic one.

Let's pop it out, I guess uh Isis couldn't make a com normal package, where the sticky foil just gets normally open, but oh well, so there we go there's a plastic case, and then we get some paperwork. So we don't really care about that. Let me get the phone itself in here, see what once we got here. So apart from that, we get the charger type c to type c. As you can see right here and the charging brick there, we go, so I'll just set up the side, nothing else in here pop it in and throw it to the side.

So, let's start off with a break. This is a 30 watt charger. So relatively nice and let's pop the phone out now we go. Let's turn it on. So while it's going to be turning on, I'm going to quickly go over the specifications of this phone, so it has a below 6 inches, display 5.9 to be precise.1080P by 2400 display super AMOLED, so you're going to get really nice black colors these pixels off black. It also comes with 120 hertz, refresh rate uh, hdr10, plus certification, uh 1100 and its peak brightness.

Let me just quickly finish up the setup, not very good. At multitasking yeah 1100 peak brightness, uh, 82.9 percent screen to body ratio so actually looks it looks a little better than 82 or 83. I would say not, not sure why I think the size of the phone has a little to do with it. It's tiny, so the percentages seem a little low, even though it is fairly good, also uh in terms of pixel density. It has 446 pixels per inch.

That is solely the fact, with this, this being a below six in the display uh with the typical 1080p resolution. Okay, now that it's set up, let me max it out. It looks like it comes with dark mode enabled by default, unless I picked it by somehow anyway, so there it is. You make your wallpaper a little brighter just so you can see the actual screen. This looks nice apply and there we go, so you can see.

It looks really nice also pop the case, while I'm at it there we go now. The case is basically the same thing as the back of the device. Uh apart from just being plastic, has the same logo in the same place. I don't really like it. It just makes it feel kind of cheap, but apart from that, it seems to be really nice now.

One thing that I have to mention is super nice here, um personally, I really like curved displays, that's kind of why I'm using still my outdated mate 20 pro um. So when I have seen this device, I really like the fact that it's tiny, but the display itself just kind of puts me off, because it's not curved, but I have to say one thing in terms of, for instance, if you're looking for a curved display like I am primarily because of the gesture navigation, it just for me feels so much better with a curved screen uh here the screen basically ends it's this. What Samsung, for instance, used to call their phones, 3d, glass or whatever? So it is a little rounded at the edge, and it is rounded to the point that it basically melts with the frame itself making it feel super nice. So yeah just thought. I would point out point that out now moving to the camera department at the back, as you can see, it looks kind of underwhelming.

We have only two cameras, but personally I do prefer to see less cameras rather than more and trash cameras, which has been the trend recently for majority manufacturers so going over those uh. The main sensor is a 64 megapixel wide sensor, and then we got a 12 megapixel ultra-wide. So honestly, it seems perfect. Now those cameras do pull twice uh twice of what normal cameras do from what I remember, the 64 or 12 was also doubles as macro lens, and also some other gimmick uh that other lens does something else. So that being said, uh technically it has quad camera setup, which is, in my opinion, just fine.

At least the functionality is of the quad camera setup and to be completely fair. I'd rather see those two cameras rather than uh. Damn, for instance, add a 5 megapixel macro 2 megapixel depth sensor. I genuinely despise this. It's such a trash way to market your device just by adding literal trash to your device.

Just so it seems better, so props to ASUS for not doing that hands down really a really nice thing to well, not include, which is kind of hilarious thing, to say that being happy, that there is no additional cameras, but if they're useless. What's the point so anyway, going back to the cameras um, they shoot at 8k, 4k and obviously 1080p. So at 8k you will be locked to 24 frames per second, so nothing really great, but if you drop it down to 4k, which is probably going to be more than enough for everyone uh, you can shoot at 30, 60 and also 120. Now. One thing that I want to see right of the bat is if that 120 is a normal speed or slow motion, because if it's 4k 120 of normal speed, then that is just going to be a little outside, I would say the norm.

So we have video quality, um, 4k, oops, 4k, 60, so yeah, no, it's locked to 60 only which still is perfect. Even though on this display, you probably won't even see the difference, considering it's only a 1080p display. But anyway, if you have any kind of like decent TV, 4k TV, you can pop that footage there, and it should look just outstanding. So I'm going back to the camera, I'm going to capture a couple photos, just the typical trash photos that I usually do nothing really special, so number one. I'm going to see how the micro works.

If I can even get it to work, because I'm really interested in that, so I can't really find the micro, in this case hdr. This is ultra-wide okay, so you will use ultrawide as a macro. I think that's what they want me to do, move further to improve focus there we go. So, let's quickly, look at how this came out. Honestly, it looks fairly okay, a little lacking on the resolution.

I can't really get close into it. The brightness of the device isn't necessarily anything outstanding here, as you can see. Maybe let me just make the camera a little brighter. Not this way and I'm going to drop the brightness of the lights so compensate. Hopefully this will make the um make it look a little better.

There we go, so we should have a little more brightness now, okay. So if you look closely like right exactly here, however, it is in focus. There is a lot of detail uh, but this is already zoomed in all the way, so it kind of falls off a little. But let's see if we can do anything better with the 64 megapixel wide sensor, just make sure that it is set to capture at full quality camera sound, don't care camera resolution, we go 64. , so obviously it was said to be a little lower.

So, okay, so let's check this out again as before it looks perfect again uh. I didn't really capture it and focus too well, as you can see specifically here, it's blurry, but anyway it still does perfect job, really detailed photo um. One thing that I also mentioned uh the both is also fairly nice, so you can see the background being fairly nicely blurred without anything like super, super annoying. Looking artificial and stuff like that, so it does look really nice um! Now, let's see what else we got portrait see how portrait does with needles. I'm not sure if you've seen this at one moment, but when you hold the shutter button it does, I believe, allow you to record- or at least it's on the photo mode.

It was recording at one point: I'm not exactly sure how, but it started recording so anyway uh. Let me just remove these couple that I captured right here. Okay, so there's the portrait uh now portrait starts looking a little wonky a little too dark, and I'll, say grainy. It looks weird compared to the previous photo, but still it is detailed. So anyway, uh honestly in terms of the camera department, I would want to see something a little better for a flagship device considering this is supposedly a flagship phone, so those cameras seem a little more of a mid-range phone rather than a flagship and honestly this I really like this and the price is, I would say, really competitive, considering it costs around, I believe 600 or something like that dollars.

So for that price it is well one of the cheapest flagships, but also it lacks in certain departments. Uh one would be obviously the camera it's. The camera leaves a lot to be desired, even though it captures primarily perfect, just normal photos. It has no additions to it like there's nothing extra so it for I don't know, I'm maybe a little spoiled um with phones, considering there is a lot of them coming through here, but yeah do those cameras just leave a lot to be desired and make it a little feel like more of a mid-range phone, even though it is packing some decent specs in here, which probably I guess that is probably what they were going for to make a semi-mid-range. I guess mid-range, expensive device, but pack as much of tech in here as they could consider.

It comes with a snapdragon 888, 5g um, 128, gigabytes storage, at least with a minimum 6 gigabytes ram. Now the version that I have right here comes actually with 256 and 8 gigabytes ram. So it's a little more decked out, but yeah first phone, this size. This is outstanding honestly and the only thing that could make this phone even better would be a better camera. But honestly, I think now that I think about it.

I think ASUS is just a little uh out there with the camera, considering their gaming phones, don't have any good cameras, and it looks like these headphones aren't really blowing anything out of the water with their cameras as well, but anyway, let's finish up the uh, the overall uh specs right here so like I said it comes with a snapdragon 888, two different versions of storage, 110 to 8 and 256, with uh, well ram very, ranging from 6 gigabytes all the way to 16. So we have 6, 8 and 16 now both of the versions, so 128 has 6 or 8 gigs and 256 has 8 or 16. Personally, probably the 256 uh eight gigabytes will be all everybody needs out there, but there might be people that are just willing to push the spec sheet to the max and go with the 16. I want to quickly look at one additional thing. I want to see if it has a spender, expandable storage, so I kind of doubt it but oh yeah.

Furthermore, I definitely doubt it. The size of this is a little too small for expandable storage, but just so everybody can see yep there. It is so it's a dual sim tray, no expandable storage here, which is a little of a shame, but still can't really complain that much so uh. Apart from that, it comes with the UFS, 3.1 storage, so recording those 8k videos will be a little faster when it comes down to processing it and then, lastly, it has a four thousand milliampere battery built into it with, like I said, before, 30 watt charger, uh included. Now the 4000 seems a little small.

I would say considering there are phones that are packing a little bigger batteries. But personally, when looking at this phone right here, the screen is way smaller than what majority of the phones need to power up. So probably the battery should be good enough in here, and they do advertise uh the charging speeds uh that it can get up to 60 and 25 minutes and up to 100 and 80 minutes now these are primarily a lab results, so expect a little less, but still it should be fairly close to those numbers so yeah. Lastly, uh just kind of going over this, the phone itself and my thoughts on it uh the size of it is just amazing. I really like smaller devices, don't really like the entire trend of basically going big.

So as you can see, comparing to something like a mate 20 pro which and nowadays seems to be a fairly small device. This is basically the size of an iPhone mini which I really like, and it helps that it comes with flagship specs of snapdragon 888 you'll get perfect speeds out of that one outside that, it feels enhanced nice, but it does have this kind of cheap. Looking aesthetic to it like. You cannot say that this looks perfect compared to some other flagships. It just looks like an outdated phone in a way from just an aesthetic standpoint, so we'd really like to see something that looks a little better than this, but other than that yeah.

It does have basically everything that you would need. I believe it also has wireless charging. Let me just quickly grab my charger if I can just like pull it out there. So there we go, there's my charger and am I wrong. It looks like I am wrong, so it seems to not have a wireless charging anyway um, so yeah finishing this off at about six uh six hundred seven hundred dollars and this device is really nice uh.

It has packs just flagship, great specs, but comes at a significantly lower price tag than what normal flagships nowadays come at. So it is an outstanding device. I really like it and the size of it. If you're looking for a small phone, there is not many options here, especially with this kind of hardware. In it, the other option would be probably the iPhone, but it's kind of the pick on you get to pick.

If you want apple or android, so if you prefer android, this is probably the only way for you to go, and I can't say it's a bad way to go. This device is good so anyway, this would conclude this overview of it. Uh and it seems to be the phone seems to be perfect. So yeah, that's all I can say uh. If you found this video helpful, don't forget to like to subscribe, and thanks for watching you.

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