This phone has everything that I am looking for in a <6" form factor. Its release date is June 29. Really looking forward to it!
Am comparing with the Samsung S23. Surprised to find they are same size, but main pros of Zenfone for me are the much larger battery and 3.5mm jack. Cons are sadly the software side which are the deal breaker for me and I’ll stick with samsung.
I was really hyped for the Zenfone 9 since it had all the features i wanted, and the 10 seems to be just as stunning. I wouldn’t even mind paying the higher price for some unique features in a small package, but two years of updates for a flagship is a big no for me.
Got a pixel 6a instead for half the price and five years of updates, directly from the source.
Same for me. Zenfone 9 is almost twice the price of Pixel 6a and is promised half the years of updates… Plus I get to try Graphene OS with the Pixel. But I would have preferred Zenfone 9’s more compact form for my baby sized hands.
See, that’s the thing for me the pixel 6a and 7a are missing several featues, most notably they have low storage space (only up to 128gb). This may be plenty for most, but it is not for me.
Why the so short software updates, whyyy?
No, for the same reason I haven’t been interested in a long time; no promises for software updates. My Zenphone 6 got 1 update.
Same here. Zenfones are expensive, but software updates are shit.
Awww fuck. This was an instant buy for me until I read that. Maaan. Why they gotta fuck shit up like that? It doesn’t even seem like it’d be terribly hard to implement. Fuck I was so excited for a few minutes. Finally a smaller and powerful phone. And coming at a time when I am looking at replacements. ‘No Updates.’ Fucking DOA. Dammit.
Honestly it looks pretty amazing.
The loss of microSD expansion is massively disappointing, but if they release a version with 1TB of storage I could probably go this direction. It has everything else that I want.
Honest question - why would you need such massive storage?
My perspective is that I have 64gb model. Prob 30-50% takes spotify offline sings and everything the rest for media (videos/photos). Everything is backed up and when I run out of space - I clean my local storage. I am wondering why would you need 512GB/1TB of storage?
Perhaps carrying a large collection of FLACs or PS2/Wii/Switch ROMs.
Absolutely. Tempted to sell my S23 for one. It all depends on how they handle various things, but it all sounds good so far. I’m happy with my S23 but I want to put my money where my mouth is and support a company like Asus for doing the compact flagship thing right.
I’m glad they decided to stick with the 5.9 in variant there was a rumor there and go up to 6.3 in. I really wish ASUS would give a longer commitment to security patches. Not even necessarily OS upgrades. I don’t really care if I have the latest version of Android so much as I just want a device where I don’t have to worry about security.
Promise me at least 3 or 4 years of security patches and that would probably make the ZenFone 10 my next phone.
Why have they removed the SD card slot?
I don’t know. Has Asus already officially confirmed that the Zenfone 10 won’t have an SD card slot? I hope it will still be present in the Zenfone 10.
It’s missing from all the recent Asus phones. We can still hope tho.
Fingers crossed!
I’ll wait for reviews. I thought the Zenphone 9 looked really cool but didn’t review too well.
Wasn’t it mostly battery life concerns related to their choice of SOC, and camera not being quite up to scratch? Seems like they’ve addressed both and upgraded the battery.
For me my current Asus Zenfone 8 was the very last Asus product I am touching, I am hating this phone whenever I just unlock it. The size and headphone jack originally motivated me for this phone, the camera lacks so much (compared to my old Huawei P20 Pro), the phone is not super fast and hangs quite often, battery is completely garbage and the phone gets really hot with a few simple tasks. My next phone will be Huawei again, with or without Google, I don’t even care anymore I just don’t wanna hate my phone anymore every single day lol
Has Asus’ build quality improved? I read that it tanked after Lenovo bought the company.
I think you’re mixing these up; Lenovo bought Motorola.
EDIT: Oh, you double posted. Lol
Yeah, I’ve been beta-testing a Lemmy app on my iPhone and it’s not perfect and it had an issue which caused me to accidentally double- and triple-post.
Does it support LineageOS?
Hopefully it will
Has Asus’ build quality improved? I read that it tanked after Lenovo bought the company.
Are you thinking of Motorola? Lenovo makes phones under the Motorola brand, not Asus
Yeah, I was.
I just looked it up and you’re right. I think I just got confused because I had read about Motorola and Asus both having quality control issues.
