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00:00We're talking about the ASUS Zenfone 8 Flip.
00:09Good day, you beautiful people. Welcome to Issa Does Tech, where we do tech in your life, in style.
00:14Around two years ago, I posted the second video ever on this channel, and that was on the ASUS
00:20Zenfone 6. It had the same flipping camera we're seeing right now on the ASUS Zenfone 8 Flip,
00:25but this phone was released at a time when moving camera modules like those in the Oppo Reno 2
00:30and the Samsung A80 were big things. Fast forward to two years later, it seems like those two other
00:35brands have dropped the moving parts, but ASUS is still flipping out, literally, with the ASUS
00:41Zenfone 8 Flip. Although there's one that doesn't flip now, that's the ASUS Zenfone 8 Sans Flip,
00:47which ASUS is calling their flagship, but that's not what this video is about.
00:52I've been very excited about this video because when I tried out the ASUS Zenfone 6 in Japan and
00:57vlogged with it, I was super impressed. So I'm curious, fast forward to eight, if this phone
01:02still has what it takes to excite me, and well, after all the excitement, if this phone has what
01:06it takes to compete in the phone arena now. In this video, we're checking out what this phone
01:11can do, what that flip is actually for, what features it has, and what the deal is really
01:16with ASUS Zenfone 8 Flip. I usually start with the unboxings, but as you can see, I got excited
01:21and went ahead and did that already. The phone comes in a nice gray box with the Type-C charging
01:26cord and power brick. Then you have this hard shell case for this phone and a special feature.
01:32There's this tiny latch that locks in the camera module, which ASUS claims is designed to keep
01:38that module free from vibration, for instances like when your phone is on a bike mount or stuff
01:44like that. There are even settings for this specific case, and when you try to activate the
01:49camera with that case and those settings on, the phone warns you. There are also other cases for
01:55this very unique phone form factor, specifically from RhinoShield, and that gets a special feature
02:01on the phone as well. And also, those cases are cute. The Zenfone 8 Flip comes in two colors. I
02:09have the black version and I am waiting on the silver version, which I'm pretty excited about
02:14because I feel like that is the prettier color. So this isn't exactly a tiny phone. That is Gorilla
02:20Glass front and back. We have a nice smooth finish that looks good but can get smudgy. Now, those
02:31edges are tapered off for better grip because it is, after all, a huge phone. That is, of course,
02:37your flip camera and that is a mic. On the right side, you have a volume rocker and that power
02:44button in a nice touch of blue. I actually like how that looks, a touch of color that adds excitement
02:50to this phone. And yes, you can customize what that button does for pressing twice and pressing
02:55and holding. At the bottom, we have speakers, USB-C port, no headphone jack as you can see.
03:02And on the other side of the phone, we have the SIM tray and this houses two SIM cards and that
03:08was my SIM card that just fell and a micro SD port. Now, before we move on, a quick montage with the specs.
03:38What you need to know from that quick bit is that even without the exciting flippy camera,
03:54those are flagship specs on this phone. Okay, off to the flippy part. Right off the bat, I can say
03:59that this is an amazing way to go for selfie lovers or content creators. In the time of IG
04:04stories and TikToks, I'll say it once and I'll say it all over again, selfie cameras are underrated.
04:09We usually get the support cameras up front but this whole design solves that whole thing. The
04:14rear camera is basically the front camera. That means a 64-megapixel main camera, a 12-megapixel
04:20wide, and an 8-megapixel telephoto camera with three times optical zoom. Camera module stays on
04:27the back of the phone until it's time to selfie. Tapping here instantly gives you that selfie
04:32camera but you can also drag the same button to adjust the angles. The volume buttons also work
04:39the same way and then there's this quick camera menu. From here, you can program certain angles
04:44so that the next time you need that specific angle, you can get it at the tap of a button.
04:50And so this menu also pops up when you go to different apps. So like for example, this is
04:55Instagram stories. I have this teeny thing and it gives you those same settings and control to move
05:01around your camera while you're using it via the app. I mean the same works with TikTok as well.
05:08I know because I've posted quite a few sample posts on my TikTok using the Zenfone 8 Flip.
05:16Phone is literally lying down but look at the shot it got.
05:19Phone is literally lying down but look at the shot it got.
05:25This also means you can now shoot with an 8K and this is actual 8K footage shot with a Zenfone 8
05:31Flip. You can even shoot in 4K now which is what you're seeing right now and do wide selfie video.
05:37There are also some features for content creators like this object focus mode which allows you to
05:42shoot video, hold objects up to the camera as you can see it immediately focused on the box and then
05:47look at this, back to my face. More on these features later on in another video where I do
05:53my camera vlog test and social media test. But aside from all that camera goodness, there's
05:58another part of this phone that that whole moving camera module thing affects. By the Zenfone 8 Flip's
06:05design, that means you have an uninterrupted screen. No notches, no punch holes. And so because there
06:14are moving parts on this phone, everyone always asks me about durability. So according to Asus,
06:20the Asus Zenfone 8 Flip can do 300,000 flips or about 150 flips every day for five years.
06:28They also claim that the camera module is made out of liquid metal so it shouldn't break easily.
06:33And this phone also detects if and when the phone is falling and retracts the camera so that doesn't
06:38get damaged. And for science, you know I drop these phones. But of course I only did it on a soft
06:44surface because I'm only trying to test them and not break them or push them to their limits.
06:49And yes, most of the time the cameras did retract on time, thank god. And nothing happened, the phone
06:56is unscathed. Although I will have to say that when you drop it, it sort of needs time to retract.
07:00So that whole feature works when you drop it from a distance. It is possible that when you drop this
07:06phone, it lands on the module. During my testing, that did happen. I did drop it on the module and
07:12it didn't close in time. But as you can see we're still good. At the end of the day, I feel like a
07:16phone breaking with a certain drop really depends on how you drop it. I guess the bottom line is
07:22flippy dippy camera module or no flippy dippy camera module, don't drop your phones. I also
07:28tried to see what would happen if I tried to open the camera but there's something in the way and
07:33basically the answer is that it will not open. The camera will know that there's something in the way
07:39and warn you via a prompt. And then when you take that thing out of the way, the camera opens.
07:44Alright, let's do a quick camera tour and we are under photo. We have wide, 1x, 2, no 3x. This is optical zoom and we can do up until 12x.
08:02There is a beauty mode over here so it's just a toggle from 0 to 10. And also on this phone, you
08:08can just pull up the shutter to get the timer and it's as easy as that. That's a very quick mirror selfie.
08:21Up here, we have different settings and there's AI scene detection, auto detect night mode, and even
08:29volume key setting. So as you saw, it controls the flip camera but you can switch it to zoom or your
08:34shutter. There is also tracking autofocus on here. Then up here, HDR settings, size settings. You have
08:41different flash settings. Oh, what's this? Okay, that is a torch. Oh, I just realized something.
08:48Since the flash is on the camera module, if I do a selfie and then turn on the flashlight, you have a
08:56fill light on on your front facing camera. Pretty cool. And then we already looked at this earlier.
09:01On the side, you have the flippy cam settings. On the right, you have a portrait mode. You have
09:08adjustable bokeh from 0.95, which is the blurriest of blurs, an aperture of 22, or you can just turn
09:15it off. You have settings, you have size settings, and then on the right side, you also have panel
09:22settings. You have a wide angle panel settings, and then you have a 1x panel setting. And what happens
09:29here, and this is pretty cool because of the flippy camera, is that it's the flip out cam that moves
09:36while it takes that photo. So as you can see there, I didn't do anything. And your final pick is this.
09:43And then you can do manual settings for your panel mode. So that just means when you take a photo,
09:50you're the one moving your device. I like the automatic more. There is a pro mode on here. So as
09:56you can see, all the different settings are there. And then you can do wide, 1x, and then that telephoto
10:04lens. And then under night mode, you can do wide, you can do 1x, can you do a zoom? Yes, you can,
10:12up until 8x. And out here, you have your settings for night shooting. So this is set at four seconds
10:19or six seconds. Next up, you have the document mode, which is always useful. So it detects if
10:25there's a document on here and takes a photo of that. And then under more, well, no more because
10:31what I actually did was I turned every single setting on. So yes, you can edit your camera app
10:38to suit however and whatever you use it for. On to the other side. On video, you have wide, 1x,
10:473x, up until 12x. Also, it's pretty cool audio settings. So you have what they call mic focus,
10:54and wind noise reduction. You still have your flip out cam settings up here. And then up top,
11:00you have different settings. So your video quality up until 8k. Okay, that's the same thing, 8k and
11:084k 60fps. You have a steady mode and hyper steady is what they call it. And you can also use wide,
11:181x and up until 3x. No more zoom for this. You also have a time lapse mode,
11:25recommended to use a tripod, you can use wide, 1x, 3x, and up until 12x on this. Cool. And then
11:33what's this? Auto zoom. So there's a zoom in, zoom out. And then you have recording speed up until
11:39300x and your video length. So up until, well, infinity. You can also do your time lapse in full
11:47HD or HD. And then you have a slow mo mode, which does 4k at 120fps or full HD up until 240fps or
11:56HD and 480fps. You can do wide as well. And then we saw pro mode earlier. There's also a pro video
12:04mode, all the different settings. There is the hyper steady mode on here. And also you can use
12:10wide up until 12x. Finally, we have motion tracking mode, which follows an object around. Pretty cool.
12:20You can shoot in 4k in this mode. Now on to the exciting part, which is the selfie portion. Now,
12:27as you saw, it just literally flipped out. And again, we're using the same camera. So more or less,
12:34we have the same modes, except there is an object focus mode with a front facing camera. And you saw
12:41me try this earlier. If you've ever seen those makeup creators hold up a product and then like
12:46sort of do this in front of the camera to make sure that it's focusing on the product and not
12:51their face, that's basically what this is for. And you can do wide on this mode as well. Pretty cool.
12:58And also audio settings from here. You can also shoot up until 4k on this mode. Yeah. So like I
13:05mentioned, all other stuff, pretty much the same because again, same cameras, except as you can see
13:12now, instead of like an object on here, you're given like a group of people or just some people,
13:19you know? And yes, when you do transition the flip, the picture does adjust. So as you can see,
13:26there you go. And when I try to go back, there you go. Let's do that again slowly.
13:34So flip and the picture flips and then flip
13:43and the picture flips. And that was our quick camera tour.
13:48And that was our first look at the Asus Zenfone 8 Flip. Definitely a very interesting device.
13:53And as you guys know, I'm always super excited about these different form factors,
13:57especially form factors that suit my needs. Selfie taking. I'm going to be testing out
14:02this phone more. So I'm going to be doing a camera vlog test and a social media test.
14:06Let me know in the comment section down below what you'd want to see. All details on pricing
14:09and availability on this device that I have, I'll link in the description box below as well.
14:14If you want to see how I use my tech on a daily basis, find me online. That's
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