Asus Zenfone 11 Ultra: A Big, Powerful Transformation

The Asus Zenfone 11 Ultra redesigns the phone line to feature a big 6.78-inch display.

This review unit comes in Misty Grey, but the phone is also available in Skyline Blue, Eternal Black and Desert Sand.

The Asus Zenfone 11 Ultra shares a lot of specs with the company's gaming-focused ROG Phone 8 Pro.

The Asus Zenfone 11 Ultra's camera includes a 50-megapixel main lens, a 13-megapixel wide lens and a 32-megapixel telephoto lens.

The phones feature the same camera, size size screen and a headphone jack.

The Zenfone's $900 starting price is $100 cheaper than the base ROG Phone 8, which costs $1,000.

The ROG phone also includes a second USB-C port, LEDs on the back and gaming-specific AI features.

The Game Genie overlay does make its way to the Zenfone.

The Zenfone has dual speakers along with equalizer settings for enhancing audio.

The Zenfone also has passthrough charging, which if enabled, lets the phone run directly from a charger in order to preserve battery capacity.

If you don't want to see the front-facing camera on the screen, you can opt for a bar that hides it.

You can enable the phone to light up when you pick it up.

The Zenfone's screen can run at an adaptive refresh rate from 1 to 120Hz or a consistent 120Hz. You can also bump it up to 144Hz within games.

With its 6.78-inch display, the Zenfone 11 Ultra is much bigger than last year's Zenfone 10, which has a 5.9-inch screen.

The camera modules on the Zenfone 11 and 10.

Asus says the Zenfone 10 is remaining on sale but has not yet announced if a new, smaller Zenfone is in the works.

For further comparison, here is the Zenfone 10 stacked on top of the Zenfone 11.