Not as good as previous deals, but still a discount.
Sale also on silver variant: https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/asus-zenfone-8-5g-256gb-h…
5.9" compact, pocket size design for ultimate portability and effortless one-hand operation
5nm Qualcomm® SDM888 5G Mobile Platform with 8GB RAM
120Hz Samsung AMOLED display for ultra-smooth image scrolling and blur-free videos
4000mAh battery. Probably the CPU but what price do you put on power (joke)
I think you're right. I've got a Pixel 5 with a 4000mAh battery and I think the battery life is pretty solid, full day easy which probably due to the mid range 765g and only 90hz display.
Can you define what you mean by bad?
Needing to charge at 8PM ish using the phone moderately mainly for typical phone tasks, no gaming, and have had to lock the screens refresh rate to 60hz from 120hz as its even worse at 120hz. Dark mode was used too to help battery. This was around 5-6 months ago now and the battery experience may have improved in an update but it’s highly unlikely. The iPhone 13 I’m now using easily gets over 2 days of the same sort of usage for reference.
Cheapest was 749? 799??
$824 for the 256gb, based on OZbargain post history
I have this phone and it's pretty sweet. The battery lasts me up to two days if I don't do any hotspots or location services tasks.
What screen on time over 2 days?
no idea mate, I don't use the phone all the time, during the day mainly for checking e-mails for work, spotify and OzB of course :) It never died on me during the day even when I was using it more. Having said that, I have no facebook, messenger or Insta installed as these apps eat your power. It's a phone for me not a toy so don't spend heaps of time looking at it.
I'm sooooo tempted, it looks like a great phone and I like the good ole' fashioned "small" phones (5.9" is average anyway 😂).
I read changing the display refresh from the full speed to "adapative" can make a huge improvement to battery, but it maxes out at 100Hz (maybe 90?) instead of dynamically adjusting up to 120Hz.
Feels overpriced to me.
Cons:
• SD 888 cpu is innefficient, overheats and throttles.
• reported ramdump issues that brick your phone (likely linked to the above, some report only older batches have it).
• tiny 4000mah battery with a powerhungry SD 888, so don't expect stellar battery life, though some people are happy with it (can mitigate it lowering refresh rate, for instance)
• 2 years of security updates left, not ideal for such an expensive phone.
• slow under display fingerprint scanner
• average haptics
• screen-to-body ratio not great (thick bezels)
Pros:
• compact phone
• headphone jack
• dual sim
• jack of all trades (one of the few phones with dual-band gps)
• good AMOLED screen
• premium metal+glass build
• good camera
• clean Android
• good, loud speakers.
For this price, I'm not sure if I would just get a Pixel or a Samsung with much longer software support, maybe even the inminent and cheaper Pixel6a if you don't care about dual-band gps and a 120hz screen (which you are not going to use most of the time anyways due to battery)..
For similar compromises (bar size), I also don't see a lot of reasons not to get the Motorola Edge 20 Pro instead for 250 aud less. Same short software support problem (1 year less, though), more efficient cpu (870), same clean android, telephoto camera, even faster screen (144hz), also dual band gps, better battery life, faster fingerprint scanner… A lot bigger, no headphone jack (though you get included usbc headphones).
Good phone for the size but bad battery life