The Asus Zenfone 8 is an inconspicuous companion - in a positive sense. It simply did not have any significant weaknesses during the test and can do a lot of things well, but also did not show any outstanding performance. It is a good, handy overall package that should be on the mini-friend's radar.

With its combination of powerful hardware in a small space, the Zenfone 8 is almost unrivalled. An alternative is the Google Pixel 5, which offers a slightly better camera, software updates directly from Google and exclusive feature drops, but comes with the weaker Snapdragon 765G, no headphone jack and a maximum of 128 GB of flash...