hello good people I'm tweeting from Harware Canucks and I've been using the
zenfone 6 for the last ten weeks and man who knew that Asus would come out with
such a killer smartphone beautiful design excellent camera this thing is a
battery champ but good people there are a few things we have to talk about that
make this not such a perfect smartphone
I cannot believe this thing has gone under the radar for so long and the
space where features are removed from pixel for devices from oneplus devices I
have not personally used such a complete Android package until the zenfone 6 I
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later so let's get the basics out of the way for the zenfone 6 there is a
headphone jack with good quality output type C port for charging with an 18 watt
power adapter included the fingerprint sensor is fast and easy to find
there's a notification LED in the top right fantastic clicky buttons on the
right side and since I have the anniversary edition my power button is
blue nice touch there's also a smart key that activates Google assistant or can
be remapped to a few other functionalities my
favorite include did not disturb with a single click double clicking for
flashlight and long press to take a screenshot there wallpaper game puts
even iPhones to shame fantastic options in there and I have never seen such a
large SIM card trade for dual Sims and the microSD compartment this will
satisfy many for sure and for the base price of $4.99 with these specifications
the zenfone 6 feels like an almost good to be true product but is it so my three
least favorite things about the zenfone 6 include the speaker the volume here is
not loud enough I can never position the phone in the
comfortable position beside my ear to hear what's coming through the vibration
motor on here is pretty weak I can never feel it inside my pocket and also the
back is so slippery it's beautiful but it's also slippery in your hands
even if you have a little bit of sweat and also if you have if you make phone
calls like me like this this is a dangerous game my friend this thing has
dropped many times luckily on the carpet never on like concrete but making phone
calls for the slippery phone like this not a good experience and next I want to
find all my favorite features like this gorgeous notch let's display and the
unique camera system that makes it all possible the forehead is almost
non-existent yeah that still has a speaker tag that pixel for Excel that
looks to be the same size as the sides of the phone there
is no camera cut out no hole punch no knotch is just beautiful the chin
however is slightly taller but at least the rounded corners are consistent from
top to bottom it is a big phone at 6.4 inch with a full HD plus IPS screen with
600 minutes of brightness HDR 10 support for media consumption this thing is
incredible gaming is also enjoyable and this massive screen to body ratio is
possible because of the camera module that can flip the Steven you the same
quality selfies when needed while staying out of sight when retracted the
mechanism is part mechanical not really a pleasant sound and it's part magnetic
when it goes back into the body right there so there's a chance for the camera
to flip out if you flick the phone like that but it does retract back into
position when the camera app is not open and so far it has not been in
inconvenience the selfie flip is quick enough plus you
get full minion control of that flip rotation I call this the creep mode and
if you ever want to create an uncomfortably tall panorama that is also
possible and so is the creation of a 48 megapixel
selfie it is quite impressive but you probably don't need that much detail in
your face the consistency of photos is unfortunately kind of poor for example
48 megapixel photos have higher saturation but lowering resolution to 12
megapixels usually gives me better dynamic range and more consistent
exposure and the wide-angle lens delivers a very cool perspective but
detail and color information is vastly different versus the main lens I feel
like the new iPhone 11 ultra wide-angle has set a new standard of camera
calibration so they match each other in terms of color and detail and only the
field of view changes and that's not the case with zenfone 6 but regardless the
quality for the price point is totally possible I'm fine with it and if there's
one thing that I would categorize to be perfect on the zenfone 6 that would be
battery life the five thousand milliamp hour cell in here has been insanely
impressive with heavy usage such as gaming and watching videos at full
brightness give me more than 6 hours of screen on time while with lighter usage
I got to about 4 hours of screen time and dropped only to 53% this thing is
for power users with 2 day battery guarantee
with additional power savings and super saving battery modes available for crazy
long standby times the software experience is also perfect that there's
very much stock androids with the usual customization of the home screen layout
your eye contacts you can even enable multi window mode so watching YouTube
while scrolling through social media for example there's a grayscale mode that I
like for reading and if you want there's also FM radio and since the beginning
I've really enjoyed the zenfone 6 with this brilliant flip camera setup that
complements this whole notch list and really nice display it's a two day
battery phone for sure and performance wise it is one plus level smooth the
main competitor right now at 5:30 9 the most expensive zenfone 6 would be the
one plus 70 with a 90 Hertz display and that is totally worth it but there's a
notch no headphone jack wars battery life and people don't seem to like the
camera bump so that's kind of where the most expensive zenfone 6 really moves
ahead however at the base price of $4.99 this
thing is hard not to recommend you know what else might be a good recommendation
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