Hello everyone and welcome to a Gamereactor Quick Look.
As you are watching this, the full review, my written review of the Asus Zenfone 11 Ultra
will have gone live.
So what you're actually witnessing is me unpackaging it, well I've just done that,
taking it out of the box for the first time and look at the spec list.
I was also a part of a media pre-briefing not too long ago where I learned some of the
first details about Asus' overall sort of design plan for the Zenfone 11 Ultra.
Now the Zenfone 11 Ultra is exactly as it sounds, whereas a lot of people thought that
due to what reportedly low Zenfone sales, Asus was actually quitting sort of the mainstream
smartphone business and leaving it all on the table for their more popular ROG phones.
They really haven't done that, they have doubled down and given us a larger, which
seems to be, could be a point of contention because people seem to like that Asus mainly
made smaller phones, one of the few manufacturers left on the market that made flagship smaller
phones.
They've chosen to make a larger phone, which takes some design cues as you can probably
tell from their ROG phones, but just mainly throws everything at the wall and gives you
a Zenfone with all the bells and whistles.
So what are the bells and whistles?
So let's go through them.
As I said, there are soft design cues here from the ROG phone.
This camera module right here is not directly lifted off a ROG phone, but seems reminiscent
of the camera island that you've gotten on those gamer phones for the past couple of
years.
There is also this angular cut through design, which is the only thing that breaks this blue
nebula soft finish here on the back.
These lines here are very nice and it's sort of embedded in the metal finish and they reflect
the light in such a way, I'm pretty sure that it's doing it right now, and it looks,
I think it looks great.
I love a little flourish here and there as long as it doesn't become gaudy, and I think
this is a phone which both scream quality, but also it's just a regular step up.
The only thing that I will say is that that Alcantara like finish that they've had on
the regular Zen phones for the past couple of years, I love that.
I know some people say that there is some color maligning over months and maybe years, or
whatever.
But I just, I found it to be soft and I'm just, I'm so ready for a future where we can
get these vegan leather back plates, or just other like back cover material than regular
old glass.
I just, I'm ready for that, but apart from that, I think it looks very, very good.
It also sports all of the things that you would expect out of a phone for this particular
price point.
So we're talking dual SIM, IP68 dust and water assistance.
There is a headphone jack here, which a lot of people are looking for, particularly on
larger flagships where it seems to be missing a 5,500 milliamp hour battery, 65 watt charging.
There's no charging in charger or in the box by the way, or 15 watt Qi wireless charging.
So all of that is here.
Great stuff.
The screen in the front is an AMOLED LTPO display at 144 Hertz with HDR 10 capability.
It is again, might be a point of contention.
A 6.78 inch 1080 by 2,400 resolution display, meaning that this is not a 4K panel like you
would see on some Sony phones.
It doesn't even go higher than, you know, regular old 1080P as an iPhone does or a Samsung
does, which is regular 1440P.
So, but the thing is, while this is an ultra phone, it does not sport an ultra price point,
which we'll get to at the very end.
Need my words.
This is not as expensive as you think it's going to be.
So Qi wireless charging done, an LTPO 144 Hertz display done.
This also uses a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, so brand spanking new, highest of the bunch, which
also is equipped with an Adreno 750 GPU unit, which is great.
And it goes up to 512 gigs of UFS 4.0 storage alongside 16 gigs of RAM.
Very, very nice.
So you can have a pretty expensive phone.
It's a very, very, very, very cheap one to be equipped version of this particular model.
Around back here, in terms of camera, you do get a 50 megapixel 24 millimeter main shooter,
which is fine.
It has Gimbal optical image stabilization, which is also good.
It has a 32 megapixel telephoto.
It's only 3x optical unit, which some people is probably going to say that you need 5x
or higher in order to compete with the main players in the business.
I also agree, but then again, this will be cheaper than at least some of those, and then
you have a 13 megapixel 120 degree ultra wide that enables 8k shooting at up to 24 fps which is
very like industry standard for flagships and you also get stereo speakers which is great
and under display fingerprint reader all of that stuff it's all here and it all feels absolutely
great in this little package but the thing is while I'm lacking proper Danish pricing at the
time of recording it seems to land at around 620 ish dollars which is very cheap I mean an iPhone
14 pro just a regular pro and not even just going pro max is going to set you back much more than
that and a Samsung Galaxy S24 ultra well that's going to be around a thousand euros or a thousand
dollars I think actually retails for around like twelve hundred dollars there thereabouts that
would make this around half of that now that is
that is not final pricing so we might end up cutting this out of the video if it ends up
being wrong but the point is it's really impressive and I really hope that Asus continues to make
smartphones and particularly flagship smartphones because they just they have an identity they have
a space so hopefully people will back them up and not only buy the ROG phones but the Zen phones as
well thank you so much for watching see you on the next one