Starting from equally depression equally $199 (if you lot pre-order together with if it is nonetheless inwards stock), the ZenFone 5 is best seen equally taking the middle lay down betwixt the Xiaomi Redmi ($169) together with its higher-end cousin, the Mi3 ($419).
You tin club direct from Asus on its website (www.asus.com/sg) from today, making it the latest mass-market telephone to striking Singapore. These phones are bully for users on a budget who practise non desire to live tied to a two-year contract.
The ZenFone 5 should also conduct maintain to a greater extent than units available at launch than the China Xiaomi phones, which "sold out" minutes after they went on sale.
There are iii models of the ZenFone - the ZenFone 4, the ZenFone 5 together with the ZenFone vi - amongst each issue referring to the size of the screen. The ZenFone 5 volition launch hither first.
Like the Redmi, the ZenFone 5 has a dual-SIM feature. Unlike the Redmi, inwards which alone ane SIM slot volition back upward 3G, both the ZenFone 5's SIM slots are 3G-capable.
This makes it useful for people who conduct maintain 2 local lines together with desire to conduct maintain sum payoff of the information access bundled amongst them.
In damage of specs, the ZenFone 5 is slightly ahead of the Redmi. The ZenFone 5 has a 5-inch Corning Gorilla Glass 3 screen, an internal storage of 8GB together with weighs 145g.
The Redmi has a 4.7-inch Corning Gorilla Glass 2 screen, 4GB of internal storage together with weighs 158g.
Despite beingness larger together with longer, the ZenFone 5 feels significantly lighter, perchance because its weight is ameliorate distributed across the chassis.
Asus has worked difficult to tout the low-light functioning of the bring upward camera. At the press briefing, Asus said the ZenFone 5 performed ameliorate inwards depression lite than the Apple iPhone 5s together with the Samsung Milky Way S4.
From my early on tests, this was indeed impressive, although the photos turned out to live rather grainy.
I switched off all the lights inwards my hotel room except for a tabular array light together with drew the curtains to block out external light. Even nether this low-light condition, the photographic telly camera was able to discern objects inwards the room.
Other useful features
The ZenFone 5 has several other interesting features.In selfie mode, you lot tin shoot equally many equally 5 people inwards a grouping using the higher-resolution bring upward camera.
All you lot conduct maintain to practise is dot the issue of people inwards the photo, aim the bring upward photographic telly camera at the subjects together with hold off for a serial of beeps to alarm you lot that the photographic telly camera has locked on to them together with is inwards the procedure of shooting the photo.
Smart Remove deletes images of people who walk unexpectedly into your frame, spell All Smiles agency takes a outburst of 5 images of a grouping together with individually selects each person's best expressions, to create the best grouping picture.
The ZenFone makes role of Asus' ZenUI, which has a construct clean appear amongst a striking icon design.
Of its several unique apps, the ane I similar nigh is PC Link. It lets you lot link your telephone together with laptop, together with then mirrors the phone's covert on the laptop.
This allows you lot to role your mouse together with keyboard to command your telephone - from navigating the phone's carte to sending text messages on WhatsApp. With PC Link, you lot also practise non conduct maintain to instruct out on switching betwixt telephone together with PC spell you lot are seated at your desk.
The ZenFone is the showtime smartphone available hither to role the novel Intel Atom Clover Trail Plus processor.
While Intel Atom processors pack enough of punch, the inquiry is whether it has improved its ability efficiency hence that the telephone tin last a sum solar daytime of use.
The ZenFone 5 is available inwards 5 colours, but alone the red, dark together with white volition live available hither at launch.
TECH SPECS
Price: $249 (pre-order cost of $199 from today to Apr 30)
Processor: Intel Atom Z2560 1.6GHz
Operating system: Android Jelly Bean 4.3 (upgradable to 4.4 Kit Kat later)
Network: Quad-band HSPA+ (3G)
Display: 5-inch 1,280 x 720 IPS+screen
Storage: 8GB (internal), upward to 64GB microSD card (external)
SIM: Dual SIM, both slots back upward 3G
Cameras: 2 megapixels (front), 8 megapixels (rear)
Battery: Built-in 2,110mAh lithium polymer
Weight: 145g
This article was published on Apr 23 inwards Digital Life, The Straits Times.
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