Quite a decent mobile at a still acceptable price, however, as with my previous asus, there are again bugs in the firmware and updates that are better blocked.
After updating to Android 12 (which, by the way, is very ugly and a design step in the wrong direction) the proximity sensor completely stopped working, so when you make a call you press your ear on the display, this can be solved with an application from google play (without root) so be it, but for God' s sake why Asus why? This is a pretty important thing. But what I really like is the really solid performance, finally nothing gets cut, over the last 4 years the HW demands of applications and Android itself have increased so much that the previous Zenfone Zoom S phone was simply unusable.
I like that it has slightly smaller dimensions than is customary today, approximately like old 5“ mobile phones, which is an ideal compromise between a still reasonably large keyboard and compactness in the pocket, mostly when you break the display, because the mobile phone is too big and it' s difficult to it holds, this mobile holds very well and the fact that it is a little thicker helps, the trend of thinnest mobile phones is probably over.
The battery life when the display is on and when working on the mobile is quite weak, you can literally see how the battery percentages drop, but when the mobile is locked, the consumption is quite small, so if you don' t keep looking at it, it could last the 2 days in standby mode. If you tweak the battery modes, you will probably get a better endurance, but this is a tax for high performance, I would just expect that in 2022 the mobile phones will scale better and that it won' t eat up so much if you just fiddle with the icons on the desktop.
In my opinion, the rounded corners of the display look rather unaesthetic, especially in combination with some applications where it doesn' t really fit, but that' s the time, you can' t find a mobile phone with a square display anymore, and the display probably couldn' t be that big. The mobile also does not contain any ballast and bloatware, which is definitely a positive development.