Apple iPhone SE (2nd generation, 64 GB) vs Asus Zenfone 8

In bright lighting conditions. It's kind of lovely. Photos are well detailed, they're color, accurate and they're sharp. In good light

It just feels wiry and not at all consistent with the bright material design of the rest of the operating system. And two is the front camera. And thi...

For Wi-Fi it supports Wi-Fi 6, which also comes in the iPhone 11 series. Wi-Fi 6 doesn't make a difference for most people right now, because relatively few people have Wi-Fi 6 routers, but it will improve Wi-Fi performance in crowded situations like public hotspots in future years. I didn't find any real difference in Wi-Fi performance between the SE and the iPhone 11, and that's a good thing.

Benchmark scores match our experience. On Geekbench 5, a synthetic benchmark that evaluates raw computing power, the Zenfone 8 scored 1,121 single-core (SC) and 3,712 multi-core (MC). That edges ahead of the Galaxy S21’s 1,001 SC score, and flies past its 3,046 MC score. The iPhone 12 mini surprises with 1,551 SC and 3,831 MC scores on the same test

It arrived with an excessively scratched screen. The return process was easy, but I wasted a bit of time.

In addition, the zenfone 8 has full quad hd plus resolution. That's 2400 by 1080, pixels and 120hz display, which can be dialed back to 90hz or 60hz t...

Keeping that design is likely a big reason for the low cost. There’s no need for Apple to retool its factories to build it.

It feels really good in the hand and the curve. The curve back here is just kind of perfect for sitting in your hand, like that.

A few minutes later a QR code appeared on the screen of my computer that I scanned with the iPhone SE, and a few seconds later I had 4G/LTE and everything ready to go. eSIM is the way to go. It is, just trust me on that. After about a week of using the phone, on some days like I normally do and on other day literally trying to cause it run dry of battery or trying to get it to malfunction, this little phone is holding up way better than I could have anticipated

I even left Strava running for 20 hours by accident, and the battery still had some life in it the next morning. The ZenFone 8 supports 30W wired charging with the included power adapter, which takes an empty battery to 100 percent in a bit more than an hour. Wireless charging isn’t supported, which makes the ZenFone 8 a bit of an outlier in the flagship class.

So now I am having the same issue with this phone that I had with my old 6S, and I guess I’m going to have to put more money into having the battery replaced. I could have done that with my 6s. One other note. The phone was delivered without signature requirement and left by the carrier outside my door

That being said, with the displays refresh set to auto, I was fairly satisfied with between five and a half to six and a half hours of screen on time ...