The Asus Zenfone 9 is a top smartphone. It convinces with a display that has enough brightness even in sunlight. The camera delivers solid photos, but has quality problems with zoom shots. On the other hand, the comfort is good: the Asus feels very good even in small hands, and its rough back is flattering...

With the Zenfone 9, Asus brings an unusually compact yet powerful smartphone to the market. In our test, the impressive graphics performance and the long battery life, as well as the beautiful OLED display, were convincing. The camera is good, but cannot quite compete with the high-end competition...

Price tip once upon a time: While Asus offered 599 euros for the Zenfone 8 at market launch, and later 669 euros, the ninth edition is considerably more expensive. In the smallest memory configuration (8/128 GB), the Zenfone 9 costs 799 euros. Since the flash memory cannot be expanded, the extra 50 euros for the doubling to 256 GBytes is well spent...