Not only expensive but Asus' quality control, customer service and aftersales are also lacking
It's trash because Asus has bad quality control, customer service and aftersales.
Asus Zenfone have been pretty trash for me. So far i have had it repaired for 6 times. And Asus was denying that the phone was faulty and they even refused to give me back my money when i wanted to return it.