Asus launched its midrange android smartphone namely Zenfone C (dual sim) in India which is priced @ 5,999/- 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 scratch resistant glass with oleophobic on front and a matte plastic on the back and feels great in hands. It is slim at 10.9mm and weighs 150gms. It has 4.5 inch IPS LCD display of FWVGA resolution 480 x 854 with 218ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is quite 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 5MP rear camera with autofocus & LED flash which features Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is above average 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 average. 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 above average overall. Daytime the video clarity is pretty good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is average. 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 1GB RAM and PowerVR SGX544MP2 (dual core) GPU. The performance is Pretty Good which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run well enough and there is no lag at all.
QUADRANT : 7690.
ANTUTU : 16910.
NENAMARK 2 : 58fps.
BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Removable 2100 mah battery. The battery life is Quite good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 6H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 6H.
TALKTIME : upto 15H(2G) / upto 13H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 410H(2G) / upto 390H(3G).
PROS
*Very Good build quality.
*Good display and viewing angle.
*Pretty Good Performance.
*Quite good camera and video recording clarity.
*Pretty good loudspeaker.
*Pretty good loudspeaker.
*USB OTG support.
*Removable battery.
*Removable battery.
CONS
*Display could have had higher resolution.
*Camera & cideo clarity could have been more better.
*Phone tends to get bit warm pretty soon.
*Camera & cideo clarity could have been more better.
*Phone tends to get bit warm pretty soon.
*No Dedicated camera key.
OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 7.9/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.
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