- [David] ASUS just released their latest flagship devices,
the ASUS Zenfone 5 and the Zenfone 5z,
and were kind enough to give me a little bit of time
with each of the devices before they were released.
So, I figured I would try to do
one of my complete walkthroughs.
Now if you aren't familiar
with these complete walkthrough series of mine,
I basically go through every feature
on the device that I possibly can.
This way it gives you the most information possible,
should you maybe in the future want to go buy the device.
So with that said, let's get started.
First, we need to just say that the Zenfone 5 and the 5z
are basically identical in terms of features, looks, etc.
The only difference, apparently, is that the Z model
will come with a different Qualcom chip set,
and a higher RAM and storage option.
Now, for the design,
they are both made out of an aluminum body
and come in a midnight blue or a meteor silver.
One of the first things that you'll notice
about the device is, of course, the infamous notch.
ASUS explained that they went with the notch design
simply because it meant more real estate for the screen
in the two corners next to it
instead of just cutting it off.
Now, the front screen though
does have a pretty large 6.2 inch FHD plus IPS LCD display
and a 19:9 aspect ratio.
ASUS says they'll hit 500 nits
and from the short time that I had it,
I have to admit it's pretty darn right.
Above the screen,
in the notch we have an 83 degrees field of view
eight megapixel F2.0 aperture camera for selfies.
Now the top of the device, we have nothing.
On the left side we have
our dual sim microSD card slot combo,
on the right we have our volume rocker and power button,
and at the bottom, we have our USB Cport
that supports fast charging
and we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack.
Moving to the back,
we have our center positioned fingerprint scanner,
which by the way you can supplement
with a facial unlock feature as well,
and above that we have our dual cameras.
Now the main one is a 12 megapixel Sony dualpixel sensor
with an F1.8 aperture lens and an 83 degree field of view
with optical image stabilization.
And our other is 120 degree field of view wide angle
8 megapixel F2.2 aperture camera.
And diving into the camera software itself,
we have an AI auto scene detection built in
that will recognize 16 different scenes
and automatically adjusts the camera settings
to try and take the best shot of that particular scene.
We have some settings on the left that include
a flash control, a timer, portrait mode that blurs
out the background using the two different cameras
on the back to judge depth,
changing of the aspect ratio of the photo,
and a control to turn HDR off and on.
On the other side, we have access to our pro mode,
which lets you manually control all of the camera settings.
Tapping on the settings icon
in the camera will give us access to things
like the resolution, time stamp, an ASUS watermark,
not sure why you would ever want that,
Touch Shutter which allows you to tap the screen
to take a photo instead of the shutter button,
change the video resolution, turn on grids
to better line up shots, camera sound off and on,
again not sure why do we ever want that on,
location services to add or remove location data
from the photo, anti-flicker, setting the volume key
as a shortcut for various options, where you would want
to save the photos if you have a micro SD card installed,
and double tapping the power button to launch the camera,
which is my preferred method of launching a camera
on an Android device frankly.
Now moving on to audio,
the device has dual stereo speakers,
each with their own amp,
and they definitely get pretty loud.
(loud electronic music)
The Zenfone 5 and 5z also support high res audio
and DTS headphones 7.1 surround sound,
and the devices have bluetooth 5.0,
and I was told that they support Qualcom app text HD
which means that they'll be able to do high res audio
over Bluetooth as well to a supported headset.
The power in the device is either a
Qualcom Snapdragon 636 chip set paired
with up to 6 gigs of LP DDR 4x RAM on the 5,
or the Qualcom Snapdragon 845 chip set paired
with up to 8 gigs of LP DDR 4X RAM on the 5z.
You can get the 5 in 64 gigs of storage,
or the 5z in 64, 128, or 256 gigs.
But the storage sizes and RAM
are subject to change by market I was told.
Powering both of them is a 3300 miliamp battery
with fast charging support.
Now moving onto the software,
the phone is running Android Oreo
and the much more subdued, thankfully, Zenuine 5.0.
ASUS is also pretty good about pre-installed apps.
They basically told us that if Google or Android
already had an equivalent,
they weren't going to make their own which I appreciate.
So that means like Chrome,
they didn't make their own browser.
The keyboard, they're using Gboard, etc.
With that said though,
they do have their own skinned calculator,
clock, contacts, sound recorder, weather,
their version of Dropbox called WebStorage, a file manager,
their photo gallery, mobile manager,
which is their memory, data and storage assistant,
themes, which is their theme store, obviously,
and Selfie Master.
Now Selfie Master has a bunch of options
for adjusting your face on camera
including a video mode with realtime beautification,
if you're into that sort of thing,
a camera mode for the same thing, but for stills,
and a live mode, which can do the same,
but for various social media live services.
Now also in here is the ASUS ZeniMojis,
which weren't working at the time of the demo,
but basically use facial tracking
to put various characters over your face,
and that you can then record and send to friends
but also can use in video calls,
and use on live social media sites.
Now speaking of social media sites,
the only third party apps ASUS added to the device are
Facebook and Instagram, which I personally would,
put on myself, so not bad.
There you guys, as many features as I could possibly
go through in the short time that I had with the device.
Let me know what you guys think
of this complete walkthrough series
of this phone itself or these phones.
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