To be frank, these tech youtubers, who missed the review unit, actually missed NOTHING.
I hate unnecessarily flashy / flashing things. Some say its good for informing the notifications. But the Asus implementation in 8z is (tiny notification LED near USB TypeC port) much better, imho. The phone reminds the Private City buses with too many flashy lights or the good old Glowing Toy Phones.
Transparent back will look great (as seen in JerryRig videos). But this phone back looks more like translucent, since it hides all the interesting things in an uninteresting way. Further this is not the first phone to do this, to be praised as innovation. I think some xiaomi phone has done this earlier (explorer or whatever name).
For a new comer, especially for the asking price, they should have included all important accessories like case, earphones, charger, pre-applied screen guard, etc. But they have the audacity to remove the charger in the box. They should have at the very least included a super slim GaN fast charger (with foldable point) in that slim box to troll the biggies (to prove fast charger can be included in slim packages as well), instead they joined those anti-consumer gang, during their first phone launch itself. Seeing this company, flipkart also wants to join the party with Rs29 extra packaging charges for this 35k phone delivery.
Major OS update of 3 years and 4 years of security updates is great. But the fine-print says the security updates come once every two months. Well over-hyping and conditions apply style false claiming are bhai-bhai. This applies to their claim of the soo many service centers as well.
Looks like the HDFC CB is for EMI transactions only (I may be wrong, but those offer is full of marketing words that makes it hard to understand).
Regarding the good things, it supports NavIC, Wifi 6e, 4x4 MiMo (lets hope its true), Hybrid Slot, uniform bordered display, metal frame body, clean ad free software, etc.
I am NOT saying it is a bad phone. My point is, over hyping is always NOT good for end consumers, but it is a really really easy way to build a brand and sadly this world is full of su(kers who buy the hype.
Mr Carl thinks that he is the true competition to Apple. But one thing is for sure, the sales will reach the sky, once his legs touch the earth.
