Just a heads-up for anybody considering picking this up soon after it's released:
Early batches of Zenfone 8 started dying after around six months of usage. Even though there were a lot of users complaining on the official forum [1], there was no official statement from Asus except "send your phone in for service.".
Also, recent updates seem to break random funcionality like Face ID [2], the notification pulldown menu [3] and screen casting [4]. Most of those problems are fixed, but in every instance the fix was only issued after a few weeks or a month.
One more problem present from the beginning (IIRC) is a malfunctioning proximity sensor [5] that activates the screen during conversation.
It's a good phone (in my opinion), but I feel that Asus started kinda ignoring it after the A12 release. And of course, I really don't like that they didn't officially comment on the bricking issue, so now I travel with a backup phone just in case.
I guess I've been lucky because I had nothing but a great time with my Zenfone 8. I don't remember smoother sailing for so long with a phone and that includes some iPhones I used to own. I dread the day I will have to replace it because not sure I'll find something that fits my needs so well for a long time.
Same. There is only two things I don't like with mine, and it is the battery life and that swiping left to go back is interfering with dragging left to go to the next panel. Everything else is stellar.
That's Asus for you, horrible software combined with faulty hardware, but hey it has great specs and gets nice reviews since reviewers test it only for couple of days and no need to deal with quality issues after few months...
Early batches of Zenfone 8 started dying after around six months of usage. Even though there were a lot of users complaining on the official forum [1], there was no official statement from Asus except "send your phone in for service.".
Also, recent updates seem to break random funcionality like Face ID [2], the notification pulldown menu [3] and screen casting [4]. Most of those problems are fixed, but in every instance the fix was only issued after a few weeks or a month.
One more problem present from the beginning (IIRC) is a malfunctioning proximity sensor [5] that activates the screen during conversation.
It's a good phone (in my opinion), but I feel that Asus started kinda ignoring it after the A12 release. And of course, I really don't like that they didn't officially comment on the bricking issue, so now I travel with a backup phone just in case.
1 - https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/52713/zenfone8-stuck-...
2 - https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/60547/zenfone-8-face-...
3 - https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/60709/notification-pa...
4 - https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/62156/screen-cast-iss...
5 - https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/60831/proximity-senso...