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Asus Zenfone 5 hands-on

2018-02-27
hey I'm Blackwell verge and this is the iPhone sales knotch so this right here is the zenfone 5 the brand new flagship smartphone that asustor just announced and as I say it has the iPhones and is not a solution will tell you that it's 26 percent smaller but it is the iPhone not like the iPhone if you swipe down from the left edge you get one set of notifications and functions if you swipe down from the right you get the full set of quick quick settings but otherwise this doesn't have anything comparable to face ID on the iPhone all you really have here is a front facing camera a few sensors as usual that usually get in a bezel and you do get facing lock but it's not a sophisticated based idea on the iPhone aside from not to the top you do also get a bit of a bezel at the bottom unlike the iPhone but that being said this is - a phone with a very minimal bezel wherever you look it's got a 90 percent screen to body ratio it doesn't really have an LCD display rather than OLED which is the more popular and high quality display at the moment but I do like it you know as LCDs go it's a very good one but if you take a look at the back of it it comes in blue and silver options and it is a fingerprint magnet like most one of smartphones nowadays this is why you will need is an essential accessory a cuff as I always keep with myself you can tidy it up nice and thing and then I can show you the new q camera on the back now a she's doing something with this where they bond with a whole bunch of so called AI features I don't know how much it really lives up to the quoted AI and being intelligent but the highlight with this camera for me is that it has one point 4 micron pixels on the inside a 12 megapixel sensor also has a wide-angle camera which uses for depth detection for portrait mode you get one point for micro pixels in the ACU 11 which takes awesome photos slightly large on the Google pixel which again takes awesome photos so this is promising just in terms of pure image quality and then the AI stuff I guess you can take it or leave it it's worth pointing out in terms of the display upgrade that asus has made this is the zenfone 4 which is a 5.5 inch screen and the new zenfone 5 is a 6.2 inch screen and a smaller footprint so just in terms of issues devices this is a massive upgrade this is a full HD Plus display it's got a 19 behind ratio which means it's 2,000 something x 1080 pixels in terms of resolution so in terms of the basic specs what you get here is 4.com snapdragon 636 so it's not the flagship tier processor but that being said there's also zenfone 5 Z which has a snapdragon 845 and I was going to price it for $99 which is quite affordable and going back to the iPhone comparison it's half the price of an iPhone 10 that does mean that this amplifier will be more affordable and a soos is also introducing a zenfone 5 lights as well which is going to be even cheaper although that is almost entirely the doors from the zenfone 5 it has an entirely different design still within bezels though it has dual cameras front and back final highlight something that I've tested for myself here at MWC is the speaker on this thing it has a really loud speaker it doesn't have that much in the way of face or high end so it isn't like any sort of audiophile quality for the phone speakers you're really looking for volume rather than anything else and clarity at high volumes and that's what this phone achieves also worth mentioning it does you have a headphone jack so congratulations for that reason phone five and it's iPhone aping notch will be available from April but it hasn't yet specified a price break as I say though the 5z the high-grade model which would be available quite a bit later in june is priced at $4.99 u.s. dollars so you can expect the five to be a little bit cheaper and five lights got a little bit cheaper more get a bigger bezel in the bottom to the iPhone so please stay thank you very much
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