ASUS ZENFONE 5 LITE REVIEW



Asus launched its midrange android smartphone namely Zenfone 5 Lite (dual sim) in India which is priced @ 6,999/- sold via Flipkart. It is available is Black, White & Red shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is pretty good. It has corning glass 3 on front and a matte plastic on the back and feels great in hands. It is slim at 10.8mm and weighs 160gms. It has 5 inch IPS LCD display of  qHD resolution 540 x 960 with 220 ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is pretty good. It runs on Zen User Interface. The display supports 5 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is pretty good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS
It has 8GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 64GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like google play music for songs and a stock gallery and a video player which are good. FM radio comes pre-installed too. Conductivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, Wifi b/g/n, Wifi hotspot as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy) also has USB OTG too.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 8MP rear camera with autofocus & LED flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is pretty good overall. Daytime the images are pretty good and has fine details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become more visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is pretty fine. It does Full HD 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 16-18 mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is very good overall. Daytime the video clarity is pretty good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is Pretty fine. It has a VGA front facing camera.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 4.4.2 kitkat of the box. It has an Intel Atom (Z2520) with hyper threading enabled SOC (System On Chip) running a Dual-Core processor clocked at 1.2 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A7 architecture) with 1 GB RAM and PowerVR SGX544MP2 (dual core) GPU. The performance is Good which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run well enough and there is no lag at all.
QUADRANT : 8490.
ANTUTU : 17410.
NENAMARK 2 : 59fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a non removable 2500 mah battery. The battery life is very good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 7H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 6:30H.
TALKTIME : upto 17H(2G) / upto 15H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 430 H(2G) / upto 410 H(3G).

PROS
*Very Good build quality.
*Good display and viewing angle.
*Good Performance.
*Pretty good camera and video recording clarity.
*USB OTG.
*Pretty good. 
*Very good pricing.

CONS
*Non-Removable Battery.
*Display clarity & gaming performance could have been bit better overall.
*No Dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.7/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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