Asus zenfone c
Asus was one of the players responsible for upending the Indian smartphone market in năm trước. After years of missteps entering the smartphone space, the Taiwanese PC component giant finally hit it big with its ZenFone lineup - the ZenFone 4, ZenFone 5, and ZenFone 6. Each of the three served a different market, giving customers plenty of choice under Rs. trăng tròn,000.
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Now, following plenty of positive Đánh Giá và regular appearances in our smartphone buyers" guides, Asus has released a new model to refresh the bottom over of its lineup: the Hãng Asus ZenFone C. Given the number of new competitors in the market, it"s good to see the company keeping things fresh.
Look & feelThe ZenFone C is pretty similar to its siblings. The most noticeable part of its thiết kế is the shiny chin, with Asus" trademark concentric ring pattern that catches the light no matter which way you hold this phone. It"s available in blaông xã, Trắng & red. Our blaông xã Review unit looked pretty staid, which should work well for most people.
The capacitive sầu buttons below the screen are printed on in bright silver, which makes them fairly easy lớn locate even though there"s no backlighting. A matching Hãng Asus hình ảnh above sầu the screen stands out just as prominently. There"s nothing else to lớn see on the front other than a camera to lớn one side of the earpiece. Unlượt thích most modern high-over phones, the screen is not bonded to the front glass, so it feels a bit sunken. You might also find the plastic borders around the screen a bit thiông xã by today"s standards.
The ZenFone C is pretty chunky & heavy at 150g, but the baông chồng is curved nicely and has a matte texture that makes it very easy lớn grip. It"s easy enough to reach all four corners of the 4.5-inch screen with a thumb when using this phone in one h&.
The Micro-USB port is on the bottom, and headphối socket is on top. The power and volume buttons are on the right side. The camera lens, flash & speaker grille are all in a line down the centre of the rear, with another Asus biểu tượng logo thrown in for good measure.
Specifications and softwareAs we expected, the insides of this budget phone aren"t exactly cutting-edge. At the heart of it all is a dual-core Hãng Intel Atom Z2520 running at 1.2GHz. This is from Intel"s previous-generation Cloverview platsize and is incidentally the same processor that powered the Asus ZenFone 4. There"s 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage space.
The screen has a very low resolution of 480x854 pixels, & its graininess is instantly noticeable. The rest of the basics are covered: Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, tư vấn for 64GB microSD cards, & FM radio. The rear camera has a 5-megapixel sensor while the one in front has a barely-there 640x480-pixel card đồ họa resolution. There"s an accelerometer, ambient light sensor & proximity sensor, but nothing else. While more than enough for most purposes, these are definitely not pathbreaking specifications for a phone at this price level.
Asus" offerings stand out most because of the company"s ZenUI Android skin. It"s one of the more imaginative takes on Android customisation, with useful features all around. The lockscreen has shortcuts lớn the camera, dialler và messaging apps, & also shows the weather, alarm status & a neat timeline of upcoming calendar events. You can choose different views within the tiện ích drawer, and even reform size the grid and hide unwanted icons.
There are quite a few preloaded apps. Share Link and Party Link give sầu you different ways of sharing nội dung such as photos & contacts between users. Remote Link and PC Link also offer somewhat overlapping features, letting you control a PC from your điện thoại thông minh. Omlet Chat is a popular messaging application, Zinio lets you read digital magazines, và Superlưu ý lets you create notes with pictures và other annotations. AudioWizard and Splendid let you tweak the ZenFone C"s audio và screen respectively. Power nguồn Saver automatically changes the screen brightness for certain apps and tasks, và Clean Master lets you clear out junk files và scan for malware. There"s even more, & it verges on unnecessary clutter.
PerformanceWe were satisfied with the performance of the ZenFone C, keeping in mind its low-budget positioning. We didn"t face any slowdowns in day-to-day usage, but the low amount of available internal storage space, likely due khổng lồ Asus" software bloat, became apparent fairly quickly. We also found that some of the popup hints, which were meant to be helpful, were in fact confusing because of poor translations from Chinese to English.
The screen is not very good, in terms of resolution & overall chất lượng. Colours are dull & viewing angles aren"t all that great. Reflections are harsh, especially under sunlight.
Benchmark results were in line with what we"ve sầu seen from other recently launched phones at this price cấp độ. The ZenFone C gave us scores of 19,088 in AnTuTu & 5,477 overall in Quadrant. Intel"s điện thoại thông minh SoCs have sầu had a slight advantage in terms of graphics processing, & we saw pretty good scores of 15fps in GFXbench và 5,197 points in 3DMark"s Ice Storm kiểm tra. These could also be attributed to lớn the low-res screen which doesn"t take much effort to lớn fill up.
The scores were slightly lower than those we recorded with the ZenFone 4 (Review | Photos) và also trailed this market segment"s leader, the Xiaongươi Redmày 1S (review | Photos). We also felt the device"s rear getting a bit warm after heavy tests were run.
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The ZenFone C"s camera was perhaps the biggest letdown we encountered. Photos were just dull, grainy và unrealistic. Some phones manage to lớn mask low image chất lượng because high-res photos look better when scaled down, but this device doesn"t have even that leeway. Colours are pretty okay in sunlight but compression is way too high and details are missing, so textures are just lost. Only objects that are right in the foreground are captured with any degree of accuracy. You can completely forget about using this camera after dark, unless you"re a fan of extreme blur effects. Shots taken even on well-lit roads came out without any definition whatsoever, and the less said about indoor shots, the better.
Video clips taken at 1080p did not look like they had been shot in high-definition at all. Colours were dull & everything was unclear. At least it didn"t stutter, though. The front camera is no good for any photos you might want khổng lồ share or preserve - use it only for video clip chatting if an urgent need arises.
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Interestingly, the ZenFone C managed all our video demo clips without any hiccups, including 1080p samples in multiple formats and compression levels. On the other h&, the speaker on the rear is loud & clear even when the phone is lying on a table. Everything from EDM to classical music came out sounding really good. Sadly, Asus doesn"t include a headset in the box.
điện thoại tư vấn unique was pretty good, và we had no complaints. The battery lasted just 6 hours, 5 minutes in our đoạn phim loop test, which is the bare minimum we would consider acceptable these days. Don"t expect to get any more than one day of even moderate usage with each charge.
VerdictThe ZenFone C is somewhat of an update lớn the ZenFone 4, but isn"t very different from it in many ways. The larger screen is nice to lớn have, but even so, Hãng Asus will have sầu khổng lồ vì a lot more to lớn be competitive as others release newer và more capable products. The Xiaomi Redmi 1S is still the class leader, though its highly restricted availability leaves a lot of room for companies such as Asus to be successful. If you think the ZenUI might be too confusing, there are also plenty of stoông xã Android One devices in the market at this price màn chơi.
We"re expecting other major companies khổng lồ refresh their sub-Rs. 6,000 offerings before too long, but until then, Hãng Asus continues lớn offer a sản phẩm worth considering. As long as your expectations are in kiểm tra và you don"t plan on any serious camera usage, this is a good phone khổng lồ buy.
