Asus ZenFone 6: Swivel Camera Magic! 

Agreed, I don't use panorama often, but I would with this feature. Best part about this phone is the clean software. For $500 it's a winner for sure.

TRUTH

In search of incredible!!

@@miket9396 i dont even take selfies. Better phone for introverts and also for extroverts to make vlog.

Yeah, I very rarely take panoramas purely because of how inconvenient and annoying it is to do on a normal phone. But this swiveling camera not only makes it a lot easier, but it also guarantees a _perfect_ panorama every time. That's so cool. I'm sold.

Always-on displays are a thing if you forgot

@@joelrolo1915 My S9 has both and the notification led is much more useful and power efficient

I had always on with my note 3 and the battery drain was bad. It got worse as the cell degraded and I had to disable it to keep a charge going all day.

Back during the iphone notification light. People think im secretly taking a photo of them with flash open.

@@tang9538 Plus the AOD leads to screen burn.

Asus is truly good at what they do.

yep. and this is a flagship product. super excited

Redmi K20 Pro - Hold my beer!

Apple(proudly): A $999 Mac stand. 😁😁

Honestly, people are buying apple for the brand, because (and this is unarguable) there are much much better cellphones out there (price is also a factor). Its just like cars, BMW can literally put their badge in a sick plate and it would still sell like water

Will be my first flagship *YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH*

totally right it's a flagship

It's a flagship in a price tag of budget

I would not call 500$ a budget price tag , but yes indeed , the Zenfone 6 is a budget flagship , with real flagship specs!

@Alexander Mason That's true , that's true , to bad that here in other countries $500 is still a lot , around 90% buys phones around $200-$300

... not all companies,- Apple do not trying to avoid the notch!

*REVIEW NUBIA RED MAGIC 3 PLEASE !* 😂

@Abdul Karim it's temporary until under display cameras are invented, well true under display

A good idea No front camera

Abdul Karim they’ll only break if you keep popping them up for selfies, fortunately i’m not a social media narcissist

The ASUS is also nearly twice as thick as the OnePlus. I don't care though, I'm getting the ASUS

OnePlus: am I a joke to you?

Now if ASUS would only update their software like OnePlus.

Check Mate. ✌🏽

@@Fly_by_Night I don't think a headphone jack would get in the way of software updates... They just got greedy like Apple and wanted to cash in on selling dongles and wireless earphones...

500 USD

@@leonardemraj2184 in india its 500$ and if you pay by credit/debit card you are getting 10% off

Well this is the new era coz.. Xiaomi is also making a camera phone like this .... ASUS Rocked

@@leonardemraj2184 I always thought phones are cheaper in US and Europe. I was wrong then. Its priced at 32000 INR roughly 465 USD or 410 Euros

@@leonardemraj2184 Bruhhhh.If this phone 500£ then its 500$

just upgrade my phone from zenfone 2 to max pro m2 last month....used the zenfone 2 for 5 years lol

finally, another asus fan. asus deserves a bigger fanbase with how good their technology is but still so affordable

just upgraded from max pro m2 to zenfone 6... just cant resist lol

Happy birthday for your laptop

My asus laptop turn 5 years old this year. Never have any problem. I love asus as a laptop. But on phone company i choose samsung for the one ui.

Definitely agree

It is the real battleground, now that finally Samsung and Google started to take it more seriously. The competition is fierce and for us the consumers, that's what we want. Not iphone-clone no 1 and no2 and some other phone, as how it is in the flagship range.

Review The Cheapest $500 should be flagship for phones smh

Well I wouldn't fully say that because flagships still have better displays, oled, water resistance and better cameras etc but can't deny this phone offers a lot for the money which is great to see.

Yeah, I'm done spending all that money with flagship phones. Got the 512GB S10+ day 1 and that's the last one. Will use it to the limits and then it's all mid range.

@xOr huh

???? it sounds like it is gonna break, looks super flimsy and it looks awful. I cant imagine a worse implementation

the camera can maks great b roll

@@ttj4531 no idiot.. its a dedicated slot

Probably he did not get paid well from Asus.. lol

That things like standard now

Why would you need 2 SIM cards?

@@your_average_cultured_dude to not carry with you a slot opener and turn off ur phone everytime you go into another country and u can even activate dual 4G.

not stock... zenui.. but made it light .

yeah asus been pretty listened to the consumers lately

Gotta wait till the first ownership reviews come up. The motorized camera however can't have reliability assurance till it has been used few weeks.

red magic 3, thats listening to consumer

Laughs in custom rom

i agree

I love "gimmicky" innovative gadgets. Which ASUS laptop would you say is particularly innovative?

@@Soletar77 The one with 2 screens. Its essentially Apples touchbar but actually really useful for content creation. Besides ASUS build quality is on par with apple. Both chassis feel very similar, the ASUS keyboards tend to be better, the apple touch pad and screen are better.

Asus Zenbook Duo and their new 300hz laptop

@@Soletar77 the dual screen one

@@Soletar77 plenty you got the mothership as example

No notch 😩

Let's see how many people actually spend their money on it

@@Artix902 You sad about that?

@@Artix902 lol its better

other reviews show it does not last much longer than the OP7 Pro so that tells yoiu something. The gimmicky adjustment of tha cam is truly gimmicky, not needed. hope i am not disappointed waiting to buy over op 7 pro

That's harsh bro

there is a newer model at that time known as oppo n3 , one of the best selfie phones that i did buy ,good for spy shots too by swiveling the camera with out pointing the phone at them.

I honestly thought this would also be a manual swivel before I watched the review.

Cave man had more advanced technology dude hasnt seen ancient alient there phones were cutting thru rock and space time

Yes, but on paper amoled may seem better, but in practice, at least in This case, LCD is much better.

@@syedmisbah7165 how so?

@@ryuu3489 Cost cutting is the main reason. Also Asus 6z has a pretty good colour reproduction. So that's not a problem Also some amoleds (cheap) can get issues such as burn ins. Considering this phone has a 5000 mah battery, that can be a concern. Also, there is no actual need of amoled coz again the quality of lcd provided is pretty good. Sometimes better than some amoleds. Also again, cost cutting.

@@syedmisbah7165 thank you

Well this is the new era coz.. Xiaomi is also making a camera phone like this .... ASUS Rocked

I am gonna buy this phone but oneplus 7pro is very very premium to comparison

Looks trash with that cam and ui

@@arminreimoser honestly are looks the only thing that matters to you

@@sohamghosh8906 Nah, but I'll go with the OnePlus 7pro literally better in almost every way..

@@arminreimoser not really, Asus has more battery life, headphone jack. one plus does have 90hz panel but I don't see any difference between 60 and 90 Hz but it does have oled . also this is cheaper

@@sohamghosh8906 yeh, but I got the money to buy the Oneplus and I also got airpods so asus my ass😂 And you don't see any difference on cam, but the 90hz scrolling.. dayum also the oneplus is MUUUCH faster

$499

In order to be considered "flagship" in 2019 you typically need a 1440p (or sometimes more) AMOLED display, wireless charging, high quality camera, stereo speaker, IP rating etc. For a lot of people 1080p LCD alone instantly pushes a phone to "midrange" status.

@@Kyle_116 yeah so Oneplus made midrange phones all those years, because none of them has wireless charging.. but still oneplus is the flagship killer and this one is mid-range... It's a joke honestly.. I love mkbhd but he always tended to have this company bias.. like this phone has better specs than the oneplus 6T some months ago and MKBHD gave that phone the smartphone of the year award... Some months later a phone comes out with a better processor, better camera and micro sd slot and he calls it midrange 🤦 Just hold all the phones to the same standard, regardless of the price and company behind it

@@ChannelNo19 the standard has changed. Now that the benchmark is raised, companies have to include more to create flagship phones. That's why any old phone model still produced and sold as new today would never be flagship according to new standards.

meandmycroco Mid range is price dummy, if you pay for top end your going to get even better specs now. For its price this phone is amazing value though yes but he never denied that.

guess not many fresh prince fans here

😂 😂 😂 Yeaah

because its asus not apple, if this was a 1599$ phone with a apple logo on it's back, they'd all be like this is revolutionary, technological break through bla bla bla.

@- king- Compare Pixel Camera to iphone and get back to me.

@- king- well android now is almost as fast as ios.... Android has a ton of features... Latest technology... Whereas apple still uses outdated tech like the huge ass ugly notch.... They still don't have features like in display fingerprint scanners or any features that the Samsung flagship has... Even asus is better at tech than apple.... 😂 😂 Google asistant, Bixby, etc are very much advanced than siri.... Bixby team even made a personalized realistic AI for a little girl in her mother's voice who is suffering from mnd...

Because it's not got OIS. OIS is what makes the photo look sharp because it automatically keeps the lens stable as you take the photo. Any movements by your hands cause blur and OIS stops the movement. If you've got a phone that doesn't have OIS you'll know just how unreliable the camera is. It might take a good photo but usually it's blurry, missing detail and looks like a photo from an old old phone from 2009.

It this point op has turned into what it swore to kill

1+ might copy this design for next year. They never innovate, just copying others. Apple introduced notch and 1+ just copied that. Vivo introduced Pop-up camera then 1+ copied that again.

@@eternalwings7 oneplus is owned by vivo so it is not copying. edit: correction oneplus, vivo and oppo are actually owned by BBK electronics so they can use each other technologies.

1+is overrated.

Bima Adi Nugroho Sylirian Apple didn’t introduce the notch? It was essentials phone who had the first notch.

NGL I thought it said *crotch*

Hold my notch, I see what you did there

Lol I dunno why but the "hold my notch" just cracks me up 😂

That's a good one

pop up camera is. much better in my opinion

Redmi K20 Pro joins the chat

Exactly , I think he wasn’t happy too much with this phone

I agree, this phone really is fantastic and he treated it like he used to treat Huawei back in the day. Like I read up there, if this phone was made by 1+ every tech RU-vidr would have been crazy for it. Shame.

Agree

What? He literally borderline praised it???

Amen

Transformers: Revenge of Asus

true

Well this is the new era coz.. Xiaomi is also making a camera phone like this .... ASUS Rocked

Mid range price. Not water resistant. No wireless charging. Camera is slightly above average.

@@zector4583 Mid range price wtf, if it got a snapdragon 855 even at 100$, it's considered flagship; this is how it is in the smartphone world. On the other side, if a 800$ phone has a snapdragon 670 or less it's a midrange at best. Other specs don't matter.

@@othmaneaouioued8768 The price is mid-range. It has a flagship, cpu, at a midrange price. It's a great deal. Flagship phone at a midrange price. It's not hard to understand.

Flies**

@@lynn.chaaaa thanks.

Where's your Edit to correct the Eddit?

Kinda ironic that in trying to correct a typo you made another one (eddit instead of edit)

Nah on mobile I use Reddit allot. No eddit to my Reddit.

Where do you get this phone for 500$ ? When in europe costs 558 euros about 631 US dollars

@@leonardemraj2184 yeah i don't know either why... It's a little more expensive here in Romania , it hasn't even been launched yet here

@@vnsuresh3348 fu*k 130$ less that's a pretty good deal than

@@FXV56 so it is almost 600 euro in Romania ?! Pfff I think One plus 7 regular one is still unbeatable yet for the price and performance it has the same price as z6 ok 1 euro more haha 559€ 6gb 128

@@leonardemraj2184 i can't find OnePlus 7 or the 7 Pro in Romania , and i don't think Oneplus 7 is better then the Zenfone 6 , they are equal. , It's not 100$ more expensive tho , it's like 20$ more... What ever , it's a good deal

Erica 😂🤣😂🤣👌

And even a dedicated one!

😂😂 "hey mkhbd" . Beauty of Hin-glish.

@@CortexMatrix 😂😂 Looking forward for the world cup

It doesn't matter to the majority of users. That's why he didn't mention it.

@@busTedOaS @busTedOaS No,I think it matters what do you think that the notification led matters more than having a slot for inserting memory card that to a dedicated one in a flagship,I think that its worth mentioning. where some of the flagships like Oneplus doesn't even support expendable storage Asus is giving much more. Its ok,I think he must have forgotten to mention it

@@SaN-my2xu It's not about what you or I think matters. Every user will notice the led and have their opinion about it. Few people use more than one SIM.

Hey cool comment

@John Chaser lmfaooo

Oneplus 7 is almost $200 (US) more than the Asus! Oneplus stopped being a midrange "affordable" phone starting with the 6 or 6T i think.

@@juanvalencia9378 OnePlus is more about value, aka bang for buck, than it is about being affordable

@@yerriff8115 It used to be about value AND affordability though! It was giant killer, now it's just another giant. It would be unfair to compare it to the much more affordable phones the OP suggested.

@@juanvalencia9378 true

ikr

It got a best performance than galaxy s10+ in benchmarks, better battery and it's in the first position at dxomark in selfies, but for MKBHD it's a midrange.

Having flagship processor does not make a phone flagship

He has been spoiled by the flagships. What's the obsession with the chin and bezels !

MKBHD is not a source that you or anyone can trust...he get pay to say what he say about phones ...is kinda obvious

Me too😂

No led screen and usb 3.1

That was almost coherent. Nice try though.

300th like.

Nonsense

That's really true, hahaha..

It's "budget" when compared to $800+ phones that seem the norm now.

It's a budget phone with flagship specs *DOUBLE KILL*

yeah he missed that big time.

The Rog phone is not a 2019 phone from asus its a 2018 phone. The Zenfone 6 is a 2019 Zenfone and its the flagship of Asus

And can i just say that my number one favourite phone from asus is the Asus Zenfone AR. It maybe a 2017 phone but i love it specswise and everythingwise. And i will love it forever

Flagships do less, but they do it better. Budget do more, but they last wayyy shorter

cause they're less durable. And mostly mobiles from Chinese brands and others like Asus are a lot less reliable. Should prefer Apple or Samsung or maybe Google Pixel for reliability and durability.

@@sebastianstan9655 Not really. All of them are only supported and designed to last about two years.

Son37Lumiere My art teacher still has an iPhone SE and it works perfectly fine, and one of my friends has an iPhone 6s, he says he doesn’t upgrade because there is no point since it works perfectly fine, and its not broken

Master Jar And there's plenty of instances of iPhones failing as well. Your anecdotal evidence doesn't mean much.

sonys phone are not amazing, they are shiet, it doesnt sell for good reasons

Get a life bro 😂 sony .. srsly ?

Sony phones are trash

replying to everyone who says Sony phones are terrible - Say what you want, Sony phones may not have the best feature set, but they stand out from the crowd and are built like a tank. My 7 year old Xperia Z1 Compact still functioning in its pristine condition after all these years.

@@gabrielleung7136 a 7 yr old phone would... But not now

Thanks to you alot. I was finding this comment.

Thanks

Seconded

Aniket Bhanderi Yeah!! Mentioning the 5 pillars of a smartphone.

👍👍

Also interested in a full review! Seriously considering buying this...

@@karshvashi8660 You gotta definitely get this one !!!!😍

if it only had an OLED then this is the best buy for 2019

@@jadeborromeo3752 if you don't mind miui ..wait for redmi k20 pro !!

I just said this before I saw your comment 😂 damn

@@jadeborromeo3752 if it OLED it would raise the price

@@jadeborromeo3752 that LCD is actually quite good

Where are these specs posted?

B6 please check user reviews of the old zenfones I owned one and it was terrible the phone stopped reading the SIM card after a couple months, then stopped reading the sd card and then the phone refused to charge

my zenfone 2 charging port died after a year. and then i got a repaired it with replacement from oem parts. lost the ability for usb file transfer. broke again after like a year, replaced it again and still cant transfer files with usb. but the phone itself still works until today (but needing a 2nd battery change)

@@razrafz using ZENFONE Max pro m1 ..not a single issue.

Damn 512gb you can use It as pornhub's main server ahajah

Rayven Carino durability?

what about the lack of a amoled dislay

@@chrys_rex Displays don't make me think twice tbh, resolution and pixel density sure but not the type of screen it has, I can live with IPS LCD

@@swas7083 That is if you keep dropping your phone I never have dropped my phone

Well this is the new era coz.. Xiaomi is also making a camera phone like this .... ASUS Rocked

I'm flabbergasted that we now think $500 is mid-range. It still is an obscene amount of money, just less so that other brands flagships.

Remember when a midrange flipphone was 50$? Pepperridge farmer remembers.

Lol midrange $500,this guy is high on meth

All phones are pretty much the same besides small gimmicks.

Get what you need.. do you care for big battery and headphone jack with top-tier cpu? Then go with this Zenfone. Write the features you mostly use and compare phones based on that.

Software's fed up.

Trusted asus built quality lol, nice try asus

in 2-3 years this phone will land in trash due to the lack of updates

@@kwiat126p3 They have promised two major android Updates from Oreo to Q for an under 200 dollar device ( Asus Zenfone Max pro m1 ). So yeah They Do provide timely updates. So why not research or shut up before checking out facts !!!

@@prateembiswas2794 I have Asus tablet that can't get any updates because of lack of memory. SD cards don't help at all. This brand for me is just trash. I'd rather invest more money in a better phone, for example OP 6T/7/7 Pro.

Apple is apple

And what’s wrong with that iPod isn’t meant to be a phone idiot. It’s meant for a kid and its durable, no shut up dipshit.

@@FBI-yd6co apple fanboy don't you think

@@FBI-yd6co calm your apples bro

Hope it’s a good audio player.

@rabitman3000 You'll have to wait for next year for a better processor than 855

Oled had it's cons that lots of people don't like it

ali zomorodi There's already an LCD version 😉

Oh yes that's right 😁

Ghanashyam S if they released it with OLED and wireless charging, it’d be the perfect 2019 smartphone.

Ikr

Just downloaded it😁😁

yes I got excited for a bit

lol..!

I noticed that, too

Yeah and it's looks cute

That one's a more boring phone though. Just really good value.

Samee!!! Not everyone has money for flagships!

@@Nemanjaftn Well the k20 is actually a flagship for 300$ 😂

@@vision4073 yes i know,thats why i am excited! Its like poco phone all over again,and here i am typing on my samsung galaxy core,waiting to snatch the next big flagship killer 😍

@@jamespower5165 lol boring? Where can you find a phone with a Snapdragon 855 and flagship specs at that price point? And you contradicted your statement the fact that you said it has great value makes it exciting lol.

There has been an update, they are both under "KREEPYUNCLE" now

*skirtskirt*

Every phone is a budget phone. It just depends on your budget. He never said low-budget phone.

He says it's mid-ranged right at the beginning of the video (0:29)

Its upper mid range

😅

Marketing

Bringin it back! audiophiles rejoice

Smartphones quaking in fear worldwide

apple left the chat

Lmao

Sounds for the likes of Skrillex, Flume and Daft Punk 🤔🤙🏼

I'm joining that debate Like, I on one hand dread the whole miui and chinese feel of the phone, just feels strange and cheap to me knowing its a chinese phone on some level- but that external design is so hot Where this is not water and dust resistent and has a kind of quirky camera that looks a little dorky and clunky to me and doesn't do grace to the otherwise fantastic design of the phone... I might just end up getting the galaxy S10e...but I prefer not

@Jaswanth Padala how's the call quality and any heating problems while playing games... Battery backup and stereo speakers output and outdoor visibility...????

10 years from now and they will introduce the world with 3.5 jack as a new feature

@Jaswanth Padala how about the software update or are there any problem on zf6 after using for months ? Im planning take this phone on early november (waiting for it launched in my country officially).

@@satriapujiwibowo3145 just bought the phone about a month ago. Got one update in between. And Asus has promised to give update till android R. I am really happy with the phone especially the camera performance. I don't think there's any phone which can beat it at selfie quality. No Major issues till now.