Asus Zenfone 5 - The Cheap Smartphone

Hello guys, okay today I would like to review another nice thing to be talked about. So what is it actually? Ya, you see the title right? It is Asus Zenfone 5 the cheap smartphone. For your information, I'm one of the owner of this phone too. So it is my pleasure to talk about my phone.

Okay, lets move on. 

What is the Asus Zenfone 5

The Asus Zenfone 5 is one of Asus’s first phones headed for true mainstream distribution. it is one of the cheap smartphone sold at about RM 500 - RM 600. Not so expensive right? but the specs are quite awesome.  before that, give me a chance to review this phone by category.

Asus Zenfone 5 Design

Okay, about its design, this phone come with slightly curvy plastic backs that come in a few different colours, and a little metal lip below the screen that has a slightly shiny finish textured with concentric circles. This design has been an Asus staple for years, and can be seen on the lids of its Zenbook laptops.

For Asus Zenfone 5, it comes with 5 different colors of the back cover. They are red, gold, white, purple, and black.

The Software

The special about asus is that it provides its own launcher called ZenUI, which gives the Zenfone 5 a full re-skin, but it’s one that feels fairly familiar. There’s still the standard Android layout of home screens and the apps menu. Asus has given the phone a different look, not too much of a functional change.

ZenUI does add some slightly fiddly elements, though. There are two very obvious ones. First, the Zenfone 5 has two drop-down menu bars rather than one. Flick down from the left side of the screen and you get your notifications, flick from the right and you get your features toggles.

Zenfone 5 Camera

The Asus Zenfone 5 has an 8-megapixel main camera, and it has a flash to help out in low-light conditions too. 

The camera is one of the areas where the ZenUI software really sticks its oar in too. A custom camera app gives you loads of extra features and a slightly different interface to the standard Android one.

The Asus Zenfone 5 mitigates by offering a Turbo mode that holds focus and shoots up to 100 shots at about 5fps, at 2MP. It’s dead easy to access having its own button right by the shutter, and is perfect for shooting fast action. While not quite a full replacement for slightly faster shooting, it’s nice to have.

So how about the quality of the pictures? Well actually not bad for the phone that comes with cheap price. 

Battery

About the battery of this phone, from my own usage, I can say that the battery is quite consumable. What i mean is that from my own experience, the battery is not something to be proud. Since it is 2 sim card phone, and I always on the mobile data, the longest time the battery can last long is only about 12 hours. So basically, before i go to the class, I have this phone fully charged, and then when I got back I had to charge it back since about battery power is about 5% left. But is understandable as this phone actually use 2 sim cards. Just buy power bank guys, for sure, your problem will be solved.

So should you buy this phone?

As what I can say is that you should buy this if you don't want to waste your money to buy another super branded phone just to show off. Actually, to think it back, students nowadays love to buy such expensive phone, but has zero knowledge about its feature. Not to criticize you guys, but just to remind you, we as students, sometimes should not burden our parents. 


Here is the trailer video for this asus zenfone 5 smartphone. Enjoy it guys.

Well, that's all guys from me. See you soon fellas.