Can't tell does this have wireless charging and NFC? Those would be the only show stoppers for me, otherwise this looks like my next phone.
I'm curious what your use case for NFC is.
Asus Zenfone 9
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Re: Asus Zenfone 9
#102No flip = no buy. Otherwise looks good.
There's gotta be a bunch of shills out there trying to drive up the "acceptance" of the new flip phones out there. There were lots of nearly identical comments made on a few Reddit threads about this phone.
I'm with the other guy in this thread - the whole bendable screen/flip concept is a total gimmick in its current state. Phones are already fragile enough with most phone makers providing hardly any warranty support for what they deem as "accidental damage", we don't need bendy screens to make them more failure prone.
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#103I'm right handed but I hold my phone with my left hand. Am I in the minority here?
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#104I've never had an Asus phone but i like their direction in nerd-ish niche (maybe not so niche after all?). Having an under 150mm phone with 120hz screen AND a 3.5mm audio jack? If I hadn't bought Xperia 5 iii not so long ago, I'd definetely consider Zenfone 9.
I have asus (rog) pc headphones and mouse and they're both well thought out and functional devices. Same with Asus Zypherus laptop I was looking at recently - 2k 120 hz screen, quite slim, sodimm ram slots, 180 degrees fold so you can use it with other monitor. Hopefully other dumbass vendors are going to compete with Asus
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has NFC but it doesn't seem to have wireless charging (Qi/PMA). https://www.asus.com/Mobile/Phones/ZenFone/Zenfone-9/techspe...
What's stopping everyone from adding wireless charging? Google and Moto had it and dropped it. Apple added it recently. Etc?
This is really bothering me too, as there's been a couple phones released lately that are as close to perfect for me as I'll get, but no wireless charging is basically a deal breaker for me.
I think maybe it's the resurgence of metal frames on lower priced phones, which maybe doesn't work as well as glass or plastic.
Which is also annoying because I despise glass as a back surface for phones. Makes them slide off every surface.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
For what it's worth, I use a Zenfone 8 and regularly get 2-3 days of battery life off it. I came from older, sanely-sized HTC phones, and am actually pretty happy with it - I was lucky to get a day off any of the prior three HTC phones (Sensation, M8, 10) that I had.
Won't be upgrading until a New removable battery phone is made.
PinePhone has a removable battery.
Re: Asus Zenfone 9
#107I'm surprised that Asus is still making phones after the market got so cutthroat and HTC and LG couldn't make it.
There's probably a niche where you sell so few devices, that manufacturing them is sort of a hobby.
You can't lose money selling something you never made.
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#108why is there no small android phone
yup this was like my main motivation to move Apple ecosystem 2020.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
> don't update them consistently enough i don't want to update. the persistent update notification in my note 10 is still here. i cannot dismiss it .
Update in this context also means android security updates. I hope you don't also ignore those...
Yes, I want to ignore them also. I know the people who want to snoop in can snoop in irrespective. Its just a matter of how easy it is.
Every update is just more trackers and ads.
Re: Asus Zenfone 9
#110I'm right handed but I hold my phone with my left hand. Am I in the minority here?
I'm the same, and I started using Niagara Launcher recently which made me ask the same question.