ASUS Zenfone 8 Long Term Review: SMALL BUT POWERFUL AF! All You Need To Know!

hello everybody welcome back to another video with lim reviews today i'm super excited to share with you my almost one month review of the asus zenfone 8. now this device here is a very compact device by powers it packs a punch in this little guy right here so i'm very excited to share with you my entire experience after using this little boy here for one month now all right so these days most smartphones are just getting more and more powerful they're also getting larger and larger in size for example we have the flip right here this is a massive device i also have the rog phone five right here uh all from the asus family but yeah very surprised to actually see ourselves coming out with a very small device like this in fact let me just show you the size difference guys this is how different the size is uh between the small guy and the big guy right here but like i said it's packing quite a lot of features and it is actually a very very good phone to use i would actually compare this to something like a pocket rocket if you get what i mean because it's just that good guys all right so in this video i'm going to be sharing with you everything that i like about this device and of course there's a couple of stuff that i still do not fancy about this asus zenfone 8 but we'll go through all that just in case you're wondering whether or not you should purchase this asus zenfone 8. alright guys so before i start this video i just want to say that if you support the channel uh don't forget to give it a like that is very much appreciated of course if you want to see more content like this feel free to sub to the channel yep let's begin with the video right away all right so first up we're just going to begin with the design and the build quality of the asus zenfone 8 that i have right here so after watching a couple of videos on youtube personally i feel that the videos do not do the phone justice what i mean by that is from the videos itself the device looks very plasticky and it doesn't look that good in fact some of you guys are even mentioning about the offset between the camera like it's just somewhere on the back panel right here but uh in actual fact based on my experience again i actually really love the the materials being used on this asus zenfone 8. so it has this very nice a soft and very silky smooth kind of back panel right here and this is actually quite solid guys it's not just like a cheap plastic kind of feeling so it doesn't at all feel like a cheap device or a mid-range device by all means okay and if you take a look at the sides here we do have this very nice fully blacked out aluminum frames with a very bright blue colored lock power button here which you can use to power up a quick shortcut or something like that so it's very nice here everything is just blacked out in this device right here it looks very stealthy guys in person so if you just move down to the bottom of the device here you actually get to see that again we have our type c part we have a very nice speaker this has zero speakers by the way and yes you do notice that we have an led indicator at the bottom so right now it's flashing red because my device is running out of juice so i have to get this video done very quickly but on the other side here is very clean and at the top here guys look at this we do have the headphone jack on a full flash powered up device right here so that is definitely something that i appreciate because i still occasionally use wired headsets all right so that's that enough with the build quality what you really need to emphasize right here is the size because it fits so well in one hand honestly speaking it is a little bit smaller for my liking but again if you're looking for a small device this is what you might want to check out uh one thing i do need to point out that i don't really like about this device is that the back panel is a bit too smooth and it's super slippery guys so if you're going to use this device um you should use the case that came in the box and yep mine looks a little bit worn out because i've been using it over the couple of weeks now and but this offers a lot of grip so all you need to do snap it on and you get this case like i said from the box itself which is pretty good flipping the device to the front here we do uh we are greeted with a 5.9 inch amoled display but before i go on to the display i just want to talk a little bit about that in display fingerprint scanner so this works pretty well what you need to do is of course just put your finger on there for a couple of seconds and it unlocks the device so what based on my experience this in-display fingerprint scanner here has been kind of a hit and miss occasionally sometimes it unlocks really fast like what you can see right now but sometimes it takes a couple of presses to actually get into the display so this is what you need to know about the in-display fingerprint scanner all right now back to the display we have a very compact 5.9 inch amoled display that is running at 1080p but because it is such a small size right here you're actually getting very high resolution and what i mean by that is the ppi count on this guy right here is close to about 440 ppi and that is very high guys you don't actually need a 2k display right here because the pixel density is already very high apart from that we have very great contrast levels awesome brightness levels i brought this device outdoors and i never had any issues with seeing the display of it directly under the sun so that's really good there but another thing that you need to take note of here is that this device does come with 120hz refresh rate so hear that guys the more expensive asus zenfone 8 flip only comes with 90 hertz but this guy comes with 120 hertz so what that means obviously is that everything is very smooth uh if you just check out my instagram right here it is watery smooth guys so very very nice display and it also supports hdr 10 plus so watching videos on disney plus like i have here netflix as well is a really awesome experience although you do need to know that obviously because it's a smaller display so yep it is a little bit smaller but yeah everything runs very fine here i love the display guys this is a very very high quality display that you're getting on the asus zenfone 8. all right next thing i want to talk a little bit about here is the performance now this guy here is running the snapdragon 888 it comes with 128 gigabytes of fast storage ufs 3.1 and of course it also comes with 8 gigabytes of ram so it's pretty good here let me just show you a very quick uh geekbench score that i got for this device right here so i did do the geekbench test and what you can see here is a very strong score it got more than 1100 for the single core and 3500 plus for the multiscore score right here so yep it's definitely performing very well in terms of the benchmarks but in terms of day-to-day use how does it feel like to launch apps let me just show you right away you can see on the display right here so it's very fast obviously instagram launches up very quickly if you just go into your camera bam it just starts up you go into your gallery it's also very fast everything is blazing fast if you're using this for basic operating stuff all right but let me touch a little bit on the gaming factor of this device right here what i need to point out is for games that are very graphic intensive like zhenshin impact and if you go to pub g mobile and you go with the highest gaming highest graphics settings right there you can go up to ultra hd or fyi it does get pretty warm guys so what i mean by pretty warm is that the processor was calculating the temperatures to be about 46 to 47 degrees celsius and at that point honestly speaking it feels very hot to the touch it reminds me very much of the mi 11 when i was testing out the gaming as well it was just so warm that you don't really want to hold the phone anymore to game so not only was the hit on the entire back panel here but even while touching the display and playing your games you feel that the display also heats up so it's a very unpleasant experience of course this is only if you are gaming at the highest graphics that you you might want to try out but my personal advice here is of course you know you have the higher specs but maybe drop it a notch or two to get that sweet spot in between balancing the heat as well as the performance so that's what i can say about games like junction impact and pubg so if you're another gamer like myself i play a lot of mobile legends or maybe you play lighter graphic games like subway surf then you have no issues there it is very cool it goes up to about 38 degrees celsius which honestly speaking is a very common thing so no complaints about that there uh one more thing i think that i should mention here as well is if you're playing games like mobile legends or wall riff for that matter so obviously you're having a 5v5 kind of gameplay and the display is a little bit too small and it does get a little bit difficult to actually uh fight the game because everything is so small all the heroes are so tiny and the crips are even smaller but yeah that's what you do get with a smaller display all right guys so that's the performance next thing i want to talk a little bit about is the cameras at the back so as you can see here this device here comes with two cameras only so two straightforward sensors we have a 64 megapixel main sensor and we also have an ultrawide sensor here that caters to all your needs so we don't have any dev sensor or macro lens here which is totally uh not necessary at all so you get to save a bit of cost there and yep in terms of the cameras guys i did find that the quality of images coming from this device right here again is surprisingly good so yes it is using the sensors from last year it's not the latest sensor and you don't get that on the asus zenfone 8 but i must say that the image quality taken during the day is very pleasant you have nice colors very very natural kind of skies so you don't see over saturated kind of images from what you can take from the eso zenfone 8 everything looks very natural and when you go indoors it's also very punchy in terms of the color so that's what i kind of like there now when you take the device at night and night mode is also a pretty good job being done on the asus zenfone 8 here uh the only thing i might call out here is that there's a bit of lens flare when you're taking uh pictures of like lights and objects like that but overall i think that the image quality coming out from the asus zenfone 8 here is a really pleasant surprise again like i mentioned it is not using the latest set of sensors here but it does do the job pretty well and i'm pleased with the cameras right here alright so that's this in terms of the camera next thing i want to talk a little bit about here are the stereo speakers so we have speakers at the top and bottom and guys this is one of the better speakers here and what i mean by that is the audio comes out from it feelings very rich it gets pretty loud as well in fact if i put it side by side with the asus zenfone 8 flip again sorry to compare that with this guy but yes the audio actually sounds a bit better from this little monster right here [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right guys so that's the kind of audio quality you can expect to get from the asus zenfone 8. uh it does get a bit uh shaky at the back like you do feel some vibrations at the back because of that speaker but guys this is a very nice speaker here very rich kind of sound coming out from this guy and if you don't like the sound there you can always plug in your own wired earphones to listen to music on the asus zenfone 8. alright guys last but not least let's talk a little bit about the battery in this guy now the asus zenfone 8 here only comes with 4 000 milliamp hours of battery and in my testing so far this is one of the main downsides here although 4000 mah sounds a bit big but i'm not getting the best battery life here i'm going to be straight up honest with you so i've played like based on my usage when i play about three games of mobile legends uh i take about like 20 minutes of photos i watch a bit of youtube and instagram here and there the screen on time for this guy is only four hours and it is quite poor if you ask me so that's definitely one of the downsides of the asus zenfone 8 and i'm quite disappointed here but the battery life is definitely not the best of course if you don't game a lot and you don't take a lot of photos i mean if you only use your phone to browse the internet or search on social media and all that you could probably get through a day perfectly fine but if you do some gaming occasionally here and there take some photos here and then like what everyone does you can expect to you know maybe one full day on one single charge might be a slight stretch so apart from that another thing that i didn't really like here was the charging speeds now the 30 watt charger that came in the box is definitely good for us because you hear 30 watts you think it will be fast and this device here like i said also supports up to 30 watt of fast charge but again unfortunately for asus their fast charging isn't fast enough and what i mean by that is that it goes from zero to 100 in in more than an hour guys it's one hour and 20 minutes as advertised and that's the kind of speeds i'm actually getting here so it's quite a slow charger uh kind of device right here and if you compare it to like xiaomi or oppo or maybe even oneplus they go from zero to 100 in like what 40 minutes so this takes 80 minutes guys so it's double the time that you take to charge up your device and again if you're like me you're used to fast charging like proper fast charging you will find the charging on the asus zenfone 8 very slow so my only downside is the battery and the charging speeds for this guy right here all right guys i think i've covered pretty much everything that you might want to know or need to know about the asus zenfone 8 again if you're considering to buy this device i hope this video has helped you out so everything is still very good with the asus zenfone 8 we have a great display great build quality awesome sounding speakers very strong processing power and all that the only downside is the battery life and as well as the charging speeds which i think is a bit short uh a shortfall for this device right here all right guys i think that's it for this video i hope you've learned something from this video as well uh if you do support the channel don't forget to give a like a sub to the channel if you want to see content like this and i'll see you guys in the next one bye

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Length: 13min 35sec (815 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 12 2021