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hey what's up guys this is lawn from Andrew Authority and I'm here at MWC 2018 takes a look at a couple new phones that were announced here by a soos this is the zenfone 5 and zenfone 5 light but before we get to the light model let's just start with the regular zenfone 5 so I know what you're thinking this looks like an iPhone 10 and you wouldn't be wrong because it totally does it has a notch at the top just like the iPhone 10 the cameras on the back are in vertical orientation and shape just like the iPhone 10 and the phone even feels like an iPhone 10 with the same metal and glass design now to a Seuss's credit it isn't a 100% blatant ripoff of the iPhone 10 because it does have a headphone jack and there's a dedicated fingerprint sensor on the back the notch at the top of the display is a little smaller than the iPhone because it's not really housing anything other than the usual sensors and earpiece and a front-facing camera you won't find any fancy face ID technology but they did add face unlock as an alternative method for unlocking your phone otherwise it's more of an aesthetic decision than anything else and as far as I could tell apps don't actually wrap around or go underneath the notch and instead the notification bar just color matches itself just sort of make it appear like it does despite the iPhone 10 resemblances I still came away kind of impressed it felt really nice and comfortable to hold and the screen is pretty large at 6.2 inches with an aspect ratio of 19 by 9 and a 90% screen to body ratio the panel itself is IPS but the colors and contrast were surprisingly good it's not going to be quite as sharp as other panels on the market with a screen resolution of 1080p but it still looked perfectly fine to my eyes a soos made a pretty big deal about the AI on this phone and I say AI with air quotes because there's technically no real AI or machine learning involved a soos calls the display in AI display because it can stay on when you're looking at it and turn off when you're not and the color temperature of the screen will also automatically adjust based on the lighting conditions to make it easier to read if any of it sounds familiar it's because we've seen other factures do this already another feature that ESU's calls AI is the scene detection in the camera it can detect up to 16 different scenes and subjects to give you the best possible photo it does seem to work pretty well with detecting the subject but again this feature isn't exactly new these are just a couple of examples of what a soos calls AI but there were plenty of other features such as how you can boost the phone's performance for a faster and smoother experience or the way the phone can intelligently charge your phone based off your charging habits in terms of specs see zenfone 5 has a snap during 636 inside and comes with either 4 or 6 gigabytes of RAM depending on the storage there's also a pretty large 3300 milliamp hour battery which would hopefully be enough to get you through the day the zenfone 5 will ship with Android Oreo and Zen UI 5.0 which is still a very heavy skin but as sue said this is the cleanest version of their UI yet it has significantly less bloatware and they've gotten rid of all their first party apps that duplicated what Google was already doing a Seuss's other smartphone the zenfone 5 Lite will offer a pretty similar experience with identical software and a metal and glass design but there are some notable differences it doesn't have thin bezels like the zenfone 5 and it comes with dual cameras on both the front and rear there's a 20 megapixel shooter on the front that's paired with an 8 megapixel wide-angle lens and the rear is a 16 megapixel camera that's paired with the same eight megapixel wide-angle sensor no word on pricing and availability just yet but a sous says they will be priced very competitively for more on zenfone 5 and zenfone 5 Lite make sure to head on over to Android thorny calm and keep it tuned here for the rest of our MWC 2018 coverage