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amazon Asus ZenFone 5 reviews
Design
Appearance and design features of the three machines ZenFone line is generally the same, the only difference in size. ZenFone 5 with a 5-inch screen size and moderate weight, so a slight dorsal impression thinner actual machine, to hold without causing discomfort. However longish body should be slightly difficult to use with one hand.
ZenFone 5 using good materials to manufacture, so the machine does not cause a phone feels cheap. The screen is protected by Gorilla Glass toughened glass, aluminum edging below the concentric circles on the laptop like Asus. Material on the back bezel is smooth plastic layer, vulnerable to fingerprints, especially for black machine.
It’s physical buttons are located on the right side, easy to press and also work more style circular pattern. It with three touch buttons located below the screen. The machine’s back cover is removable to reveal two MicroSIM slot and MicroSD memory card slot, but the battery is attached.
Overall, ZenFone 5 looks quite nice, the design details such as the edges of the screen or hardware buttons cable. The design of the machine also feels quite comfortable handling. Besides, the touch buttons below the screen without lights and camera body makes the use longish sometimes have inconvenience.
Screen and speakers
ZenFone 5 has a 5-inch screen, 1280 x 720 pixel, pixel density of 294 ppi. The resolution of the current machine is the highest in the phone about 4 million, so the screen is crisp strengths when compared to the same price range.
However screen ZenFone 5 also has the weakness of the maximum brightness is not high: when we use the device to measure the maximum brightness of the ZenFone 5 is 291 cd / m2, only the average level. Thus when using the sun, the screen looked a bit difficult ZenFone 5.
ZenFone 5’s speaker is on the back, with the volume level is not great, so just meet in the environment is not too noisy. During the evaluation process, we found that many users have complained of computer speaker with little volume, hard of hearing. When using multiple machines ZenFone 5, both genuine and portable, we do not notice this phenomenon, but the quality of the hardware can be of ZenFone 5 uneven.
Camera
The camera’s features are emphasized when introducing Asus ZenFone line, with the highlight is the ability to capture good night and many interesting imaging features. On ZenFone 5 main camera has a resolution of 8 megapixels, Full HD video recording capability, and the front camera has a resolution of 2MP. Compared with ZenFone 4 stroke machine with a higher resolution, flash and supplements.
ZenFone 5 supports multiple camera mode, the majority has also appeared on many other phones (HDR, deleted fonts, choose the best one, beauty …). A rather unique mode of Asus’s take a selfie Picture mode (selfie). This mode uses the camera on the back, when directed at the people shooting the machine will recognize faces, countdown and took a picture of themselves.
Photo taken outdoors of ZenFone 5 fast, but image processing and saving a bit slow, good sharpness in the center of the image, slightly fuzzy image edge areas. The color of the image slightly to blue tones, sometimes being too bright compared to the actual. Image brightness light breeds true, but poor light strips show up when shooting backlit will be difficult to show all the objects in the photo. This can be partially overcome by HDR mode, but this mode captures the colors are not true.
Photographs of ZenFone 5 evening bright enough, in very poor lighting conditions can also be used in low light mode. When shooting at night, usually automatic mode for better results night mode if using automatic mode and hold hands, the high-definition picture pretty, light balance, low noise; but when using the night mode, the image noise and vibration more vulnerable. As a result, overall imaging capabilities of ZenFone 5 fairly compared to the price range, but it does not really stand out.
Maximum resolution when filming on ZenFone 5 is Full HD. In fact the film turned from the high definition is not reached, even when shooting in daylight.
Performance
ZenFone 5 A501 show good performance, faster processing of common tasks such as using open applications, surf the web, switch between applications, photographed movie … For the game Dead Trigger heavy, ZenFone 5 A501 still meet, but if set to the highest graphics mode, it will be slightly jerky. When using the computer to play games in a long time, ZenFone 5 also not hot.
Despite difference of 25% in processor speed, the actual use of the performance of two A500 and A501 versions ZenFone not much different. For normal operations, the two machines are handled quickly, even with the heavy game then if not playing smooth A501, A500 was no better. If only using a computer, the user will hardly find any difference, but when placed side by side, the A500 had time to open the game, opening play faster. The difference is also apparent with the performance evaluation software.
Battery capacity is 2110 mAh of ZenFone 5, is not high with a 5-inch phone screen. In fact when using the machine to open the Twitter app, chat on Facebook or surfing on Chrome, the machine drops the battery pretty fast: after nearly 10 hours to withdraw charging more than 30 minutes of actual use, the machine takes 30% battery. With people who do not use too much phone’s battery enough ZenFone 5 per day. When using applications such as photography, gaming, the faster the battery drops.
Software
ZenFone 5 is installed operating system Android 4.3, and Asus says it will soon have Android 4.4 KitKat update. All these phones are used ZenUI ZenFone, a combination of the user interface and some smart software.
Among the applications developed by Asus on ZenUI, Do It Later app is much improved compared to the original’s Android software. The menus will appear in applications calling, messaging, web browser or email, so you can perform the following memo added. Inside the Do It Later app is a list of tasks you need to perform, the job can be created from the work phone or synchronized from your Google account.
Group sharing applications including Share Link, PC Link, Remote Link and Link Party is also quite interesting. Share Link application directly file sharing between machines based on creating Hotspot WiFi connection; PC Link is an application that allows displaying the phone screen on a PC via the USB connection; Remote Link allows you to use your phone to control PowerPoint or Windows Media Player on your computer via a Bluetooth connection; and Party Camera will help share the pictures just taken in the same group.
The lack of compatibility may also cause some games when playing on the ZenFone jerky, while the phone is not the same price range this. Sometimes the normal application run as FotMob, Outlook.com also abruptly closed.
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Asus
Android 4.3
CPU: Intel Atom Z2560, dual-core 1.6GHz
Display: 5-inch IPS LCD
Resolution: 1280 x 720, 294 ppi
Camera: 8MP
Camera: 2MP
Archives: 8 GB MicroSD memory card
RAM: 2GB
Connectivity: 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS
Battery: 2110 mAh
Dimensions: 148.2 x 72.8 x 10.3
Weight: 145 g
