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Re: Asus Zenfone 9

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Post by darkwater »

fomine3 wrote: post #124
imglorp wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's stopping everyone from adding wireless charging? Google and Moto had it and dropped it. Apple added it recently. Etc?

Qi adds weight for coil and shield, and limits what material can be used for back surface that's also tend to add weight. For example, iPhone 8 added Qi and switched back surface material from aluminum to glass. 7 Plus is 188g then 8 Plus is 202g. It's not easy decision to have Qi for lightweight oriented device.

> iPhone 8 added Qi

Are you sure? My wife has an iPhone 8 and it doesn't charge in our car which has wireless charging in the phone tray.

Re: Asus Zenfone 9

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Post by curiousgal »

cercatrova wrote: post #73

The only problem with Asus phones in general, which is also apparent in their ROG phones, is the lack of updates. Their hardware is top-notch, literally; I've never seen faster phones. But, they don't update them consistently enough, unlike Google and Samsung which have pledged multiple years of software support through Android releases.

Android 12 has me swearing off updating my phone honestly. It's backwards in every single way. I don't use my phone for anything critical so I am more than willing to trade security for usability.

Re: Asus Zenfone 9

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Post by MiddleEndian »

51Cards wrote: post #17
ur-whale wrote: post #10

Looks like a decent android phone, but ... what makes this special and HN front-page worthy?

There is another thread on the iPhone SE where a lot of people are commenting on how they miss compact phones. I suspect that is why this was submitted / upvoted. I'm glad it was, didn't know this device existed.

As a user of the Palm Phone, I can't believe they call a phone with a 6" screen "compact" lol

Re: Asus Zenfone 9

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

sk0g wrote: post #198
Gigachad wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That phone came out a year ago, it hasn’t even had time to prove it’s supported. Check back with us in 5 years.

What Android phone gets OS updates for 6 years? Even 2-3 is quite good by Android standards.

Pixel phones beginning with the Pixel 6 are guaranteed five years of updates at a minimum.

Re: Asus Zenfone 9

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

curiousgal wrote: post #202
cercatrova wrote: post #73

The only problem with Asus phones in general, which is also apparent in their ROG phones, is the lack of updates. Their hardware is top-notch, literally; I've never seen faster phones. But, they don't update them consistently enough, unlike Google and Samsung which have pledged multiple years of software support through Android releases.

Android 12 has me swearing off updating my phone honestly. It's backwards in every single way. I don't use my phone for anything critical so I am more than willing to trade security for usability.

Do you check your email on that phone? If so, and I pop your phone, I'll have your email credentials, and with that I can probably reset the password of any other account you have.

Email is critical.

Re: Asus Zenfone 9

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Post by column »

muxator wrote: post #3

A product marketing page that feels detailed and _honest_: this is something rarely seen in advertising material from big corporations. Kudos to Asus, not only for the phone, which, by the way, seems interesting. If only the various hardware subsystems were supported natively in mainline kernel (and open source apps), we'd live in a hacker's dream world.

Detailed and honest? How is this different from all the flashy usual marketing bullshit on a active scroll (or whatever that's called) webpage? Do they mention on that page that SD card support has been removed this year or is it something you have to deduce because CTRL+F 'sd' returns 0 results?

Detailed and honest would be spec sheet, camera samples, couple of standardized benchmarks, basically a Kimovil.com description page.

Re: Asus Zenfone 9

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Post by MiddleEndian »

graderjs wrote: post #52
donkarma wrote: post #5

why is there no small android phone

Yeah, I want like a 4 inch 'playing-card' sized smartphone (maybe a flip-phone with double touch screens). Just would love the small "palm sized" format. I'm tired of my fingers muscles and nerves getting strained from holding and using massive phones for hours.

Also consider the Palm Phone. 3.3" screen, less bezel than the unihertz. Basically the size of a credit card.

Re: Asus Zenfone 9

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Post by curiousgal »

vxNsr wrote: post #181
patchtopic wrote: post #74

I have an ASUS zenfone "max pro m2" I got for my wife. The stock android it came with had some annoying rough edges compared to a google pixel. This is in terms of the audio levels for apps and notifications, basic user level experience stuff, not advanced nerd stuff. She moved to a google pixel and was much happier. I installed LineageOS on the ASUS and it's been great with this "upgrade" I'm hoping they put more ef…

The fact that google so blatantly creates a better version of android that’s reserved for pixel kinda shows how bad the android ecosystem is. It used to be that people really wanted stock android, now because google spends so many resources (i.e. UI/UX devs) on The Pixel Experience(tm) stock android has slowly become less user friendly and requires significant changes from the OEM partners to get it to a usable state…

> better version of Android

I'm sorry but have you used Android 12 on a Pixel 6? It's awful! Even basic things like navigation (gestures or 3-buttons) doesn't work properly!

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