DanishbluntI mean, hey, at least we should be happy that Zf9 is using 8+ Gen 1 fabbed by TSMC, not the crappy 8 Gen 1 fabbed by Samsung anymore 🙃.After looking at the reviews it seems like a little solid device, what bothers me tho is the fact that its running the gen8.
The Gen7 is the perfect chip, its super efficient, has very good performance and would allow the phone not to overheat and have insane battery life.
It would also lower the price of the phone, starting price for 8GB / 128GB SSD for 799USD is steep.
I'm still concerned about durability, due to how the ZF8 went, but we will see on that one.
My two cents on the Zf9
Geekerwan released a video of his test results on the performance of 8+ Gen 1 a few weeks ago -- the closer the curve is to the top left, the more energy efficient the chip is. Based on the result, we can see that 8+ is more efficient than 8 in both the CPU and GPU departments.
The durability with 8+ Gen 1 also concerns me because Zf9 is a small phone and has limited space for its cooling system, that part I agree with you ☹️.
Lots and lots of reviews have said that heating on 8+ gen 1 is a lot better (i.e. the highest temp it reaches is much lower than the crap 8 Gen 1), but we'll still need to wait and see how it goes after a few months.
As for your suggestion on 7 Gen 1 -- If Zf9 uses 7 Gen 1, the phone will fall into the mid-range/budget phone category. In case you don't know about ASUS enough, the company restructured itself and the phone dev department back in 2018/2019 (quite a few hundred of ppl got laid off) and got rid of the low- and mid-range lineups so that it can focus on delivering ONLY high-end flagship phones. With that said, using 7 Gen 1 or any other mid-range chips will completely contradict the current positioning of the Zenfone line-up, so it's very unlikely with ASUS.
ktwI don't like what I'm seeing because it's the total power draw of the phones, not just the chip. It's misleading.https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/62417/my-two-cents-on-the-zf9
I mean, hey, at least we should be happy that Zf9 is using 8+ Gen 1 fabbed by TSMC, not the crappy 8 Gen 1 fabbed by Samsung anymore 🙃.
Geekerwan released a video of his test results on the performance of 8+ Gen 1 a few weeks ago -- the closer the curve is to the top left, the more energy efficient the chip is. Based on the result, we can see that 8+ is more efficient than 8 in both the CPU and GPU departments.
The durability with 8+ Gen 1 also concerns me because Zf9 is a small phone and has limited space for its cooling system, that part I agree with you ☹️.
Lots and lots of reviews have said that heating on 8+ gen 1 is a lot better (i.e. the highest temp it reaches is much lower than the crap 8 Gen 1), but we'll still need to wait and see how it goes after a few months.
As for your suggestion on 7 Gen 1 -- If Zf9 uses 7 Gen 1, the phone will fall into the mid-range/budget phone category. In case you don't know about ASUS enough, the company restructured itself and the phone dev department back in 2018/2019 (quite a few hundred of ppl got laid off) and got rid of the low- and mid-range lineups so that it can focus on delivering ONLY high-end phones. With that said, using 7 Gen 1 or any other mid-range chips will completely contradict the current positioning of the Zenfone line-up, so it's very unlikely with ASUS.
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I mean I can see that the phone department is failing hard given what we see with the latest phones thus far.
