ASUS ZENFONE SELFIE REVIEW


Asus launched its  smartphone in India namely Zenfone Selfie (Dual Sim) sold via Flipkart @ 15,999/-(16GB variant) & 17,999/-(32GB variant). It is available in Aqua Blue, Pure White and Chic Pink shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is good. It has corning glass 4 on front and a plastic on the back and feels pretty good in hands. It is slim at 10.8mm and weighs 170gms. It has 5.5 inch Full HD IPS LCD display resolution of resolution 1920X1280 with 401ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is very good. It runs on Zen User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is Very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has 16GB(2GB RAM Variant) & 32GB(3GB RAM Variant) of internal storage which is further expandable upto 128GB. 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. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & upto 50mbps upload, Wifi b/g/n, Wifi hotspot as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy) also has NFC & USB OTG support too. 

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 13MP rear camera with laser autofocus & dual LED (dual tone) flashwhich features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is very good overall. Daytime the images are very 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 good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is Pretty fine. It also has a 13MP autofocus & dual LED (dual tone) front facing camera for selfe's which does 1080p video recording and clarity is quite very good .

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 5.0 Lollipop out of the box. It has a Qualcomm snapdragon 615 (MSM8939) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running an Octa-Core processor which is a combination of a Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.7 GHZ (ARM Cortex A53 architecture) and a Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.0 GHZ (ARM Cortex A53 architecture) with 2GB/3GB RAM and Adreno 405 (500MHZ Single-Core) GPU. The performance is Great which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run well enough and there is no lag at all.
QUADRANT : 24651.
ANTUTU : 37130.
NENAMARK 2 : 58.6fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Removable Li-Po 3000 mah battery. The battery life is very good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 8H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 11H.
TALKTIME : upto 22H(2G) / upto 20(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 500H(2G) / upto 480H(3G).

PROS
*Very Good build quality.
*Very Good display and viewing angle.
*Great Performance.
*Very good camera and video recording clarity.
*Pretty good loudspeaker.
*USB OTG & NFC Support.
*Very good battey life.

CONS
*Power button placement could have been better.
*No Dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.8/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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