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amazon Asus ZenPad 8.0 reviews
Design
Asus ZenPad 8 is a large version of the Asus ZenPad 7 version with a 7-inch screen to say about design. The styling of a notebook on the back to the type of rounded edges and the placement buttons.
The screen has a relatively thick bezel, especially the upper and lower bezel, but Test Lab can still be held with one hand as the ZenPad 8 has a slim design with a plastic cover. The skin on the back skin makes the ZenPad 8 more secure to hold on to hands because of high friction.
The back of the unit is detachable to attach the SIM card and memory card. However, the integrated battery of the ZenPad 8 is fixed with a strong outer sheath, making it difficult to replace the battery.
All volume keys, the power button are located on the right side, while the micro-USB and 3.5 mm headphone ports are arranged on the top.
Screen
About the display, the machine supports a resolution of 800×1,280 pixels with a pixel density of about 189ppi for good display quality. Although the image is bright and supports high brightness, the detail is not great; a pixel is quite large and easily seen with the naked eye.
In return, the machine can support 10-touch touch and has relatively high contrast. Help the user to use the device more comfortably in the bright outdoors with the built-in auto-adjusting built-in brightness.
Besides, Asus also integrates color calibration for screen color mode to change the color temperature or quickly select the display mode to suit the purpose, Such as Balance, Bluelight Filter, Vivid or Customized. This function enhances the user experience on the screen of ZenPad 8 than in each situation and purpose.
Camera
The camera is not the advantage of the Asus tablet series before. However, the quality of the photos taken with an 8-megapixel main camera of ZenPad 8 insufficiently bright conditions makes Test Lab surprise.
Image quality in the default size of 6M – 3,264×1,836 pixels (maximum size 8M – 3,264×2,448 pixels) of the machine color saturation beautiful and quite honest. Besides, the sharpness of the image is also quite good compared to the photos from the previous Asus tablet that Test Lab had a chance to try.
Unfortunately, night shots from ZenPad 8 are not nice. Test Lab also found that, in some cases, the camera could not focus in normal night mode.
Like the ZenPad 7 tablet and the ZenFone line of phones, the ZenPad 8 photography interface features two groups of functions: group mode, capture, and video; Group tune, set up, and change camera.
The camera supports rapid shooting with various preset modes such as Auto, HDR, Beautification, Low Light, Night, Selfie, Camera, etc. The camera also supports white balance, ISO, exposure, anti-shake….to get the best picture.
Particularly for video recording, the ZenPad 8 also works quite well with recording at full HD 1080p resolution in bright enough conditions. Pictures are pretty nice, smoother with clear sound. However, the results are bad in night conditions because the camera does not have a built-in flash.
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Operating system and features
ZenPad 8 is no different from the ZenPad 7 series about the integrated operating system and built-in features. The Android 5.0.2 operating system features a customizable ZenUI interface, which users can change. And download more themes or customize the interface to suit your interests.
Performance
Unlike most previous Asus models, the Z830KL is equipped with a Qualcomm MSM8916 Snapdragon 410 SoC chip with a quad-core CPU and Adreno 306 graphics processor. Qualcomm’s is based on a 28nm architecture (similar to the Snapdragon 400) and supports LTE.
Can confirm that the actual performance of the ZenPad 8 test Lab has “sluggish” although the tester has upgraded to the latest update that Asus provided, the machine is sluggish in a series of tasks. Like loading web pages, launching games, processing images, even when opening the camera.
Even so, the machine is often stuck in browser status and automatically exits when surfing the web normally.
Experiment with games; the device is good enough to play lightweight games but is “tired” with heavy games like Asphalt 8 or Dead Trigger. However, these “points deducted” above are quite acceptable for a mid-range tablet.
Experimenting with benchmarking tools, the ZenPad 8 scores better than the ZenPad 7 but much lower than the Asus MeMO Pad 7.
For example, with a test of overall performance with PCMark, ZenPad 7 scored 2,382 points, while ZenPad 8 scored 3,039 points. With 3D graphics, ZenPad 7 scores 3.037, ZenPad 8 scores higher with 4,196 points, while MeMO Pad 7 scores many times higher with 17,602 points.
