As it should be. Flagship device should have all the necessary features. Great job Asus! I hope the other Android phone manufacturers would come to their senses and follow this trend.

but no microSD slot.

Sony's xperia 1 phones have it

@@AsheEnt23bro it has 256/512/1tb why you need sd card slot

@@bryantwilson4731Long term use

They are still selling the 10. 11 is probably their competitor for the price range.

Nobody uses that.

@@AmericanBusinessman422 I do. I have a bunch of high end headphones still using 3.5mm jack. It's atrocious that phone makers all got together and decided that their customers must buy new headphones just to use with their phone. The "nobody uses 3.5mm anymore" is a marketing ploy for planned obsolescence. Stop regurgitating that crap.

@@AmericanBusinessman422 Thank you for the info.

​@@AmericanBusinessman422I do, I have a pair of budget IEMs and they're amazing to use with my Poco F5's Hi-res headphone jack.

@@AmericanBusinessman422 You're "nobody" ?

better than some phones

@@Will.iam-67 Is there any company giving 1 year update? I don't think so. Asus is below chinese brands like xiaomi, realme, vivo. They all do 3 years. Asus is in the bottom of Android updates support.

@@Foukez Transsion. (Tecno, Itel, Infinix.)

A lot more than just Asus. Don't ask what cuz idk and idgaf.

​@@Will.iam-67those brand didn't produced flagship phone bruh

Yeah, and how to have 65w of charging if asus doesn't even provide own charging brick ?

​@@hillsongbest3818 ikr enjoy spending 50$ on overpricer propertiary asus OFFICIAL charger

@@hillsongbest3818 external charger? it's not rocket science

@@ToriZealot but to have to have the same wattage of such to charge fast, rjhht

But a big thumbs up to the environment. Just grab an Anker GaN charger and be done with it.

i don't get his accent. what's that all about. all his videos seem dubbed

A bit?... Maybe that's how many seconds of thought they put before making it(a bit)

the zenfone department shut down late summer. they just gave their name up to the sole surviving phone department, the rog, to keep the name alive or whatever

Well, you guys complain about a flagship phone without a headphone jack. Now that it has a headphone jack, you complain why it looks like an old phone🤔

😂😂😂😂 bro

@BTG07 same thoughts exactly 😂

I wouldn't mind the look if it has one of the most important feature. But the design has nothing to do with the headphone jack. Manufacturers just got greedy 😂😂

@@Jisooee There are slick designs that still have 3.5mm jacks. Asus dropped the ball on the overall design of this phone, it's a big step back from previous gen.

Nobody uses that.

​@@AmericanBusinessman422Greetings Mr. Nobody !

@@AmericanBusinessman422 Where do you store pics, your contacts and other personal info? What do you do when your phone won't boot to transfer your stuff? Do you use the cloud for this? Only a total fool uses the cloud for personal info

rog lite

Apparently, they dont sell much so thats why they stopped producing them. Same with apple mini that dont sell. If apple cant do it, others cant

If they just made the same phone as last year but updated the chipset and camera slightly, and offered 3/5 year software updates, it'd sell like hot cakes. I don't get their design team, they had a winner and instead of improving on it they joined the herd of ugly generic phones.

@@zxbc1 totally, perhaps they could have had a slightly larger screen, if that was an issue. But last year's phone was great in all aspects...

I think you still need to read the rumours. The ASUS Zenfone sales have tanked, and last year, there was a rumour they would pull it from the market due to terrible sales. Clearly, the decline of the compact phone was one issue; instead, they made a ROG Phone without the flare and called it the Zenfone 11U. That will save money and be a last-ditch attempt to save the phone. So it was this or nothing. When Apple sells 10X more iPhone minis than the Zenfone 9 and discontinues it, it does not take much to understand why ASUS ditched the compact version.

@@andyH_England like I said they could have increased the screen size to mid like 6.3-6.5 and still retained the better looking aesthetics of the previous gen phone. This looks old and bland.

Yeah hate the design looks cheap.

Yes

That's right man

Well, if they made the same as ROG Phone 8, then why not combine them together into a product that has all ROG and Zenfone's features? In that way, they can cut their production cost while providing the best of the gaming and photography worlds. Idk man, I've used Zenfone lineups (Zenfone 2 laser, Zenfone 5z, and Zenfone 9) and I can say that this year, they really disappoint me. It's like they don't have a special thing that distinguishes them from others. If you guys know Zenfone 6 and 7, no other manufacturers did the same as ASUS at that time. Now Zenfone 8, 9, and 10, no other manufacturers made a powerful compact phone. And then this year? If they are not doing compact phones anymore, then I really expect them to do something different this year. Then here comes this phone, just a rebrand of ROG 8 with some AI. I am really, really disappointed...

​@@patrickthelysander4533🤝🏽

Are you serious? The cameras are like from a mid ranger. Even realme 12 Pro+ has better. This phone is terribly priced, especially since it costs pretty much the same as OnePlus 12.

It's no more 😅

They come up with the coolest ideas (they're the LG of smartphones nowadays) and then just ditch them.. 2 examples: flip camera and form factor. Everyone loved the flip camera and they ditched it. They could've made 2 phones: zenfone 11 (small form factor) and zenfone 11 ultra (flip cam). They really are dropping the ball....

A1 is completely useless.

good point

It'll be snappier outside of sustained loads. Few people play games on their phones.

i like mediatek more

It is version 3 of 4nm. V.1 is the jump, V2 is optimisation, and V3 is overclocking. That generally means V3 is going to throttle. Once we get 3nm N3E next year, then there should be some efficiency in the performance. I always recommend V2 if you can, the SD8G2 was a beast and is well optimised.

No one buying that

I thought they were zenfone 4, 5, 6, and jump to zenfone 2

My ROG Phone 5 started dying within half a year since I bought it. Apparently it was quite common - dying motherboard.

What about headphone jack .

Pumping that iron 😂

The rog one far more better

Nahh why would you boycott a Chinese product

Almost everything is made in China end up buying nothing.

I prefer 7 years of OS support to a jack. All OEMs have to make compromises, and ASUS got this wrong as people are now demanding longer update support, but fewer and fewer people care for a jack, though still a niche market for that feature.

They are using the same chassis as the ROG Phone to save money, so there is no point then changing the camera hump, as that would undo the savings.

Honestly unacceptable

Bury your hope for compact phone

How ?