Asus has announced its new smartphone and opened pre-orders for the Asus Zenfone 10. Take the maximum feature of last year’s Zenfone 9. . . its small size. Combine that with the flagship-level specs and you get everything many seasoned users have asked for. . . A small but compact smartphone with strength and functionality comparable to larger high-end smartphones from other manufacturers.
I spent some time with the phone before launching it to find out if Asus was successful.
Concessions will have to be made with the phone due to the reduced internal volume. Given the concentration on images, the camera occupies a larger percentage of this volume than larger smartphones. Keep it running as fast as possible, and there’s not much you can do with chip size.
This leaves the battery as a domain where you can measure physical size. At 4300mAh, the battery is one of the smallest batteries discovered in a high-end smartphone. Still, Asus offers several battery-saving features that you can turn on, as well as possible features that restrict battery usage (like restricting refresh rates on the screen). In the very unscientific “Do I make my average day?”, the answer is yes, but unlike larger phones, there isn’t enough for the next day. Asus notes that this is “13% more than the Zenhone 9”.
In fact, it’s a smartphone that rates each and every night. It’s also worth noting that the Zenfone 10 doesn’t score quickly; Wireless charging was added and is rated at 15W, while stressed charging is rated at 30W. That’s enough to go from vacuum to 50% in about 30 minutes. The thrill of having a slower speed with a smaller battery.
Asus Zenfone 10
There was a time when a 5. 9-inch screen was considered an extravagant luxury, but as generation and expectations grew, so did smartphones. Now that same 5. 9-inch diagonal is considered small but desirable.
This is an FHD AMOLED demo that has a variable refresh rate, with the phone automatically switching between 120Hz, 90Hz, and 60Hz (though you can lock it at a constant rate if you want). There’s a 144Hz mode, but it’s only available when the Game Genie tool sets up the Zenfone 10 while playing game titles. This was borrowed from Asus RoG gaming phones, and while the Zenfone is rarely a very natural gaming device, the software only allows for a little more functionality of those titles thanks to the tweaks it can make.
The demo has a bump for the selfie camera on the top left, but the fingerprint sensor is on the strong button on the right side rather than below the demo. The reader is forgiving because he can read a giant domain on his finger. However, with any side-mounted fingerprint reader, it’s less accurate and less usable when the phone is on a desk; I found myself using outdated PIN access much more on this phone than on most.
Asus has also included a headphone jack on the phone, which will be celebrated, but in a world that has leaned towards wireless buttons as the default, how many owners will use it in anger?
Asus Zenfone 10
The Zenfone 10 comes with two lenses on the main camera, with a 50-megapixel main lens and a 13-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens. Asus has opted not to include a telephoto lens, hoping its virtual zoom will suffice. it may not offer the same effects as an optical zoom, but it formats other people who see the Zenfone 10 as a small phone to use; He is not a business breaker.
In low-light photography, the resulting photographs have slightly more noise than normal. When zooming in on those ultimate photographs, you can see a slight hardness. This is more noticeable on the ultra-wide-angle lens than on the main lens.
Asus has added a 6-axis gimbal stabilizer, which is based on the same old optical symbol stabilization strategies. This stabilizes any movement you may have while taking photos. It’s a great addition, but along with intermediate specs on lenses and image sensors, it looks like the investment would be higher in dot processing software, which is still low compared to that introduced by Samsung and Google.
Asus Zenfone 10
These possible hardware and design options are useless if the Zenfone 10 doesn’t work in your hand. Asus has beautiful design touches that make the Znefone 10 enjoy smart ergonomics. The phone is rarely a box; There’s a slight chamfer on the more sensitive edges, the corners of the chassis curve intelligently but not sharply, and the comfortable back of the phone is slightly back to hide the sharp edge and also creates a small lip that allows you to hold the phone. firmly.
It’s hard to avoid putting a finger on the back of the camera lens, so you’ll want to clean the lens from time to time to make everything clear. This is inevitable, considering the small length of the phone and the lens of a background camera.
Asus looks at fashion and design with “trendy colors,” adding green, red, blue, white, and black tones. Along with the textured back, the Zenfone 10 has an eye-catching length and look. In a sea of phones that feel cookie-cutter, Asus has controlled to tame an identity for its phone.
Its sophisticated uploads to Android contribute to this. Asus’ ZenUI doesn’t carry a lot of bells and whistles: Zenfone’s experience is very similar to Android’s, but the changes it brings are welcome; a number of possible UI functions can be disabled or reset to defaults on Android. Customization is welcome, but it leads to many more features in the phone’s settings.
I will highlight the one-handed mode; With a simple flick of your thumb, you can shrink the top edge of the screen towards the back of the phone to make the small one-handed phone even more comfortable to use. The moment is the force button. Not content with having the fingerprint sensor, it also acts as a smart key, allowing you to double-tap the button to temporarily open an app or setting.
Both were borrowed from the Zenfone 9, which in turn took over much of the Zenfone 8. Asus has repeated the taste of the small phone for many years and has probably discovered an area in the market that allows diversity to continue to be sold to an enthusiastic fan base.
Asus Zenfone 10
The Zenfone 10 only works. There’s nothing flashy that makes you want to show off this phone, and that’s okay. He’s a phone addicted to painting. It comes out of his pocket, work is going down and it’s going backwards. He doesn’t break records, and he probably wouldn’t win any Top Trumps phone spec games, but he’s more than capable.
If you’re looking for a sophisticated smartphone with a smart balance of features that can take care of some of the maximum responsibilities that aren’t easy in the smartphone world, you want the Zenfone 10.
Now read my review of the phone at the other end of the Asus spectrum, the game-focused ROG 7 Ultimate.
Disclaimer: Asus has a Zenfone 10 for review.