He has nothing bad to say about the phone and it’s the same price as last year, plus a 512gb of storage option.
Zenfone 10 for anyone wondering
I apologize, I should have posted the name of the phone in the text body.
If you’d like, you can edit the title :) that’s one of lemmy’s cool features.
Haven’t watched the video yet. Headphone jack? Edit: yes headphone jack!
Also, is ASUS’s update policy still 2 years? That’s a hard sell.
Don’t expect their warranty to actually fix your phone. I went through 8 months and they charged me $300 for a broken screen repair (ROG Phone) and when it was finally returned to me, the NFC and RGB are broken and the screen has a dark orange splotch in the upper right corner.
And then the ROG 2 not even 2 years in was dropped from AT&T’s network because ASUS didn’t include the bands (: how stellar.
I’d go on about my other ASUS horror stories, but I’ll keep it relevant with my phones. I’d… Avoid them. It’s too bad cause I really wanted them to be a viable alternative but they haven’t been making good moves recently and these customer service and warranty stories are years in the making
The 2 years of updates is a rather big deal though, otherwise this would be my next phone.
That’s awesome for that very important feeling of security, but man it sucks when you get to two years and realise your phone won’t be getting any better. I guess some folks don’t mind that, and of course there’s also ROMs as a solution, but still.
Ok so apparently this happened and root is out of the option now
PSA: don’t buy it if you need root. Their unlock servers are shut down and moderators proactively delete topics with questions about it. -u/rngesius
Price is quite high, 800€
It always feels difficult to justify spending so much on other brands when a Samsung phone from 2 years ago will have reduced to a quarter of its retail price simply due to their oversaturation of the used market
What’s the status of rooting the Zenfone 10?
Last I saw it was some abomination where you need to wait a month and need Asus’s windows tool?
So it seems like root isn’t even possible on the Zenfone 9 anymore. But I havet confirmed it yet.
PSA: don’t buy it if you need root. Their unlock servers are shut down and moderators proactively delete topics with questions about it. -u/rngesius
I actually ended up sending mine back when I found out I couldn’t root it. Such a shame.
I didn’t even know you could root Asus phones. The only ones I knew that you could without any hassle was Google and Sony.
If you need to ask their permission, which they can cut off at any time, and you need their custom software, which they could break at any time, then I might argue that they don’t generally have bootloader unlocking.
