Mobile phone ASUS ZENFONE 5 A501CG. The operating system is a system software, managing and coordinating hardware components in the device

Accelerometer (or G-SENSOR) - device position sensor in space. As the main function, the accelerometer is used to automatically change the image orientation on the display (vertical or horizontal). Also, G-Sensor is used as a pedometer, they can be controlled by various device functions by turning or shaking.
Gyroscope - Sensor measuring rotation angles with respect to the fixed coordinate system. Created to measure rotation angles in several planes at the same time. The gyroscope together with the accelerometer allows you to determine the position of the device in space with high accuracy. In devices using only accelerometers, measurement accuracy is lower, especially when rapid move. Also, the possibilities of the gyroscope can be used in modern games for mobile devices.
Light sensor - Sensor, thanks to which the optimal brightness and contrast values \u200b\u200bare set for this light level. The presence of the sensor allows you to increase the operating time of the device from the battery.
Proximity sensor - Sensor that determines when the device is close to the face during a conversation, turns off the backlight and blocks the screen, preventing accidental pressing. The presence of the sensor allows you to increase the operating time of the device from the battery.
Geomagnetic sensor - Sensor to determine the side of the light into which the device is directed. Tracks the orientation of the device in space relative to the magnetic poles of the Earth. Information obtained from the sensor is used in cartographic programs for locality orientation.
Sensor atmospheric pressure - Sensor for accurate measure atmospheric pressure. It is part of the GPS system, allows you to determine the height above sea level and speed up the location definition.
Touch ID - Identification sensor for fingerprint.

Accelerometer / Geomagnetic / Illumination / Approximation

Satellite navigation:

GPS. (Global Positioning System - Global Positioning System) - satellite navigation system, ensuring measurement of distance, time, speed and determining the location of objects anywhere in the Earth. The system is developed, implemented and operated by the US Department of Defense. The main principle of using the system is to determine the location by measuring distances to the object from points with known coordinates - satellites. The distance is calculated by the time of delaying the signal propagation from sending it to the satellite before receiving an antenna GPS receiver.
GLONASS (Global navigation satellite system) - Soviet and Russian satellite navigation system, developed by order of the USSR Ministry of Defense. The measurement principle is similar to the American system gPS navigation. GLONASS is designed for operational navigation and temporary support of users of ground, marine, air and space-based. The main difference from the GPS system is that GLONASS satellites in their orbital movement do not have resonance (synchronization) with the rotation of the Earth, which ensures greater stability.

This novelty from Asus was not in vain waited for so long - as a result, the released device acquitted all expectations and hopes. Today you will finally become owner asus Zenfone 5 A501CG 16GB is a functional, comfortable and very beautiful smartphone.

All impressive features of the device are imprisoned, stylish, weightless case, made in the branded spirit of ASUS, which means - in the traditions of outstanding quality. Only only the view or touching this device decide everything - it immediately becomes clear that the engineers of the Taiwanese brand have worked on fame, designing and embody these calm, spectacular lines. Each button is firmly adjacent to the case, each key is easily pressed: keep a smartphone in hand - one pleasure.

Do you want to buy ASUS Zenfone 5 16Gb black? It is not surprising, because under a solid plastic enclosure of the smartphone, real power and performance in action is hidden. Due to the 64-bit memory unique for this price niche, the smartphone shows the unprecedented results of the speed and performance of work even with a multitasking. The sensitive touch screen has become even thinner and clearer - the quality of images derived on it simply rolls.

With all this, the phone consumes less electricity, which means slower discharged and faster replenishes the charge. Support at once two SIM cards, high-speed mobile communications And the high-speed roaming on this background is looking only for additional bonuses. However, very pleasant. Well, and to top it, it is worth saying that the price of ASUS Zenfone 5 A501CG Dual SIM remains more than affordable among smartphones of such quality and class. You can right now start writing the purchase by ordering the phone with delivery to your office or straight home.

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Distribute option or for pensioners

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Cool smartphone, the price pleases. A bunch of settings of anyone and in the chamber are not enough. Everything works fast. Ability to use 2 microsis. Purchase was pleased with and do not regret. The battery is already a separate conversation, I personally adapt (volume so that not less than 2000 only).

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In general, a great phone with excellent characteristics for your money. Good, fast, functional android. Intel processor Atom. Internet speed does not give out the absence of 4G !!! loads quickly that it can not but rejoice!

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Purchased in the fall of 2014. The reliable apparatus, serious bugs is noticed, the connection is kept excellent, GPS works reliably, the main camera takes off to a hard four, it did not use the front, but it works, hardware has not been noticed, however, the system after one and a half years of use has become too much to eat memory. The phone is used as working horse - Communication, Internet, the camera is sometimes used in black - more than 1000 snapshots of the text at a time - the text readable. Games practically did not stand, those that were not used, because Phone - actually a working computer doubleler. Navigator did not let down. In general, it is very pleased with his duties, which was acquired by sacrificing the battery, executes it properly. Acquired initially under tough work with the requirement of permanent communication, stable Internet, good quality camera for shooting typewritten text in large quantities. According to the last parameter above all praise - stopped carrying a camera with him, for the quality of the pictures turned out to be equal, the speed on the phone is the tower. With the possibility of replacing the battery (A, ideally, and increase its capacity), the device will not be the price. Update from 07/16/2019: changed the battery. It would be better not changed. In April 2019, he began to lose touch. Without a book-book problem, the problem was solved, but, as a result, there is a negligence * of today's mistress, the screen was broken. But ICQ did not kill it, everything works.)) Compared to Samsungi at least the series A and J 2016-2018. The camera was fantastic.

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I still use this model, there are no complaints.

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Bought in 2014 for money from the birthday. Cost about 4,000 rubles. I bought just shortly before the notorious raising of prices, which still has not changed, and jumps back to grow. For your money, this is a fully suitable device, even today is quite working. I was surprised when I later learned that in the processor not 2, but as many as 4 streams. Quale, of course, overtook, but in the price category at the time, it seems like, no. But the video chip led. PowerVR, unfortunately, is quite poorly supported by the developers, because of which we have not the best results in games. But even while the "Beach Smartphone" at the level of modern Xiaomi was not considered. In general, not counting the video chip, almost a complete analogue of budget average Meizu and Xiaomi. Yes, less nuclei, fewer streams, but not the nucleus and frequency here the most important thing, but the joint work of the operational and processor. And then with medium models of the Zenfone series, it seems to me better. Having pleased sociability with the use of the translator. :-D, but in English normally communicate. :-) And as a bonus: in the SC I will be more than 2 years later. :-) But Meizu M5 is less than six months warranty (well, at least put the guarantee).

Tro_LO_LO S. a year ago

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In general, the phone is not bad with excellent characteristics and design, but I have lived only 2 months. One day, I rebooted straight in your hands- lost the network and both. Asus's service that I am fighting in the city and say Zap parts No type ..... I wait when I get to Moscow ... and by the way the people percentage of marriage from this model is huge smoke search ..... I just found it already postfactum. ... with the same problem as I found another 20 people No one knows what to do

Yuri Tarasov a year ago

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I took one of the first parties, even before the start of official sales in Russia for 6990. This price is interesting for this price, there is no longer no phone for Over 10,000, taking into account the emergence of Zenfone 2, the more no longer and not. Of the advantages - good screen, the speed of work, the beautiful software, the support of the manufacturer - something saws, change, but the fact that everything works out of the box - the fact works well - the fact, the thickness does not feel especially. Updates come, put and brain are not strained. Cons there. The bottom insert as the framework along the entire front part can be done and less (seeZenfone 2), nothing bothered to do so immediately, you can also say about the thickness as a whole - you can thin. The lateral edge along the edge of the sidewall of the phone is too hipging - it is too long and the traces remain. The glass itself does not suffer - it looks all strange. Fallen and more than once - intact. Insert carries a footprint from concrete, but Czek. It once bent him by chance, coming to him in the center - they arched back and all the business. But the strength is not his horse. The battery could be more, but no different from all phones. Suit P.S. 2 times the screen itself was changed with the front panel, it is very easy to do it. 1 times cleaned everything from oxidation. Changed the microphone. Changed the buttons on the sidewall. Changed all rear cover Collected. Updates are stopped after upgrading to Android 5.0. Built-in programs are updated constantly, but they are already marked with newer versions of Android and new chips absolutely do not work.

The diagonal of the screen is 5 inches, the type of matrix - S-IPS (the type of IPS matrices), resolution - 1280 × 720 points, the display is covered protective glass Corning Fit (Analog Gorilla Glass), there is a oleophobic coating.

First of all, we note that the presence of oleophobic coverage in such a budget smartphone is a big plus. You will not have any problems using gestures (on the devices without a oleophobic finger, the finger is constantly strooping and use the same swype is very uncomfortable) and with the screen cleaning from contamination.

The screen itself boasts support for work in gloves and two special modes for thin setting Color gamma. In the display parameters, you can make a color gamut warmer or colder, as well as enable "read mode", softening white, thanks to which it becomes more convenient to read from the smartphone. As for work in gloves, we tested this feature: the responsiveness in gloves is not so high, but it is quite enough to take a call or scroll through the list of new letters.

HD-resolution and S-IPS matrix have a positive effect on the picture, the image is smooth and clear, the color rendition is close to natural. The same viewing angles are typical for budget smartphonemight be better. The display in the sun is almost completely blind, also he has problems reading in the dark, the minimum brightness wants to do even less. This speaks about a small brightness range.

In general, for a five-year-old device for 7000 rubles, the display used here is very good.

Camera

At the presentation of the Zenfone line in Russia, we told a lot of good about the filming technologies and the quality of the camera, the more interesting it was to test them on their own.

The smartphone is equipped with two cameras: Main on 8 megapixel and frontal per 1.3 Mp. The main chamber has good snapshots in sunny weather. With a worsening of lighting in the photo, graininess appears. There is a separate device in the device. night modewhich reduces the resolution of the final image, but increasing its brightness. We tested it and we can note that the snapshot really looks lighter, but the final quality is still bad.

The smartphone is able to shoot with the bokeh effect, when the entire background besides the shooting object is closed. For a budget device, snapshots are obtained quite worthy.

The video is recorded in the maximum resolution of Full HD with a frequency of 30 frames per second.

Working with text - 5.0

A branded keyboard is pre-installed in the smartphone, it is convenient for a simple set of text. Keys are large, erroneous pressing are minimal, there is a separate row for quickly enter numbers. The keyboard supports the input gestures (SWYPE), as well as a set of additional keys to hold the key.

In comparison with the last versions of the keyboard, the updated has become more convenient.

Internet - 4.0.

The ASUS ZenFone 5 phone uses a standard Android browser with multiple modifications from the manufacturer, it is perfect for viewing any web pages. The browser has automatic scaling with increasing text and a built-in translator. Separate reading mode is also present.

According to the results of our tests, it is one of the most convenient built-in browsers, it is perfect for both undemanding and experienced users.

Interfaces

The smartphone contains the following interfaces: Wi-Fi (B / G / N) (Support for two-band Wi-Fi is absent), Bluetooth, GPS, but here nFC support And LTE is missing. The whole line of Zenfone is able to work by SIM cards at the same time. However, it is worth noting that in the device only one radio module, so when talking from one SIM card, the second becomes unavailable.

Also in our tests, the device could not re-find the network signal if at some point it was lost (for example, in elevator or subway), had to restart it or turn on / off the "airplane" mode.

Multimedia - 3.0

We tried to play on ASUS Zenfone 5 different video files: smartphone only supports common formats and codecs, player loses video in high quality, Up to 1080p. Among the support of rare formats, we all select only MKV, but I could not play AVI built-in audio player. The choice of subtitles and audio tracks is also absent. The audio player in the smartphone loses only popular MP3 formats, AAC, WAV.

Battery - 2.5

In the smartphone installed a fixed lithium-polymer battery with a capacity of 2110 mAh. These are standard figures for many modern smartphones. The results of our tests are as follows: when viewing the HD video on the maximum brightness, the device is discharged in 5 hours, while listening to music - for 32 hours.

Performance - 1.8.

ASUS Zenfone A501CG is used platform Intel Atom. Z2560 with a dual-core processor of a frequency of 1.6 GHz, the graphic subsystem - PowerVR SGX544 MP, the volume of RAM - 2 GB.

We tested the performance of a smartphone in several simple tests. First, they checked how long the working tables and pages in the browser are, there are no complaints about this parameter to the smartphone. We also tested it with modern games and we can note that most of them Zenfone 5 perfectly supports, brazering can only be observed in the most productive (Asphalt 8, Modern Combat 5).

Memory - 4.0.

The amount of integrated memory in the ASUS ZenFone 5 phone can be 8 GB or 16 GB, from the 16 GB version of 12 GB. The smartphone has a memory card slot with a volume of up to 64 GB, a "hot replacement" is supported.

Features

The device is running under the Zenui shell, this is a new ASUS interface with a large number of settings. The manufacturer has improved the dialer (Russian letters appeared), added his own keyboard, installed several additional features in own browserIn general, he did a great job on the adaptation of the shell for the needs of the user. In our opinion, Zenui may well be equal to competing with the more named Samsung Touchwiz and HTC Sense.

Competitors

For the spring of 2015, the price of the ASUS Zenfone 5 smartphone (A501CG) is approx. 12000 rubles. For this money, you get a smartphone with high-quality screen, good performance, high-quality case materials and a good chamber.

Nearest competitance competitance - Huawei Honor 3C, he has a better display and dimensions, but it costs a model for 2000 rubles more expensive.

We believe that for your money Asus Zenfone 5 is an excellent offer for users looking for an inexpensive, but high-quality smartphone from a well-known brand.

Perhaps the most interesting representative of the budget line of the Taiwanese company smartphones

About preparing for the release of smartphones Asus Zenfone The world community has already found out enough of a long time - a new lineup of the Taiwanese company at the very beginning of the year, during cES exhibitions 2014 in Las Vegas. In the Asian region, sales of these devices have already started, but to our market, smartphones were reached only now. It was today that the Russian premiere will be held in Moscow, during which the head of Johnny Shi (Jonney Shih) will personally prevent his new smartphones in Russia for this purpose.

We, thanks to the distillation of the Russian office asus, already, directly on the day of the premiere, we have the opportunity to tell about, perhaps, the most interesting representative of the new series - the "central" smartphone in the lineup, a five-fashioned ASUS Zenfone 5. This smartphone is even before you exit Sale liked many - about Tom testify numerous responses on the Internet, people are discussing the model with interest, waiting for the start of sales. In principle, it is not surprising that it is the "five" in this series causes the greatest interest of users: perhaps, this is the most balanced apparatus in all senses from the whole of the Trinity.

Zenfone 5 does not apply to the category of top smartphones, as, however, and his entire line, but the device has several qualities attracting buyers. First of all, this is a ratio of good declared hardware characteristics with a low cost for such characteristics. And, of course, the popularity of the brand makes itself felt. At this place it is worth noting that the model "number five" itself is represented by the whole series of smartphones, because in nature there are simultaneously several completely different modifications of the apparatus with the name of ASUS Zenfone 5. In particular, the developers have repeatedly mentioned that the model can Not only one, but also two gigabytes of RAM, and this is a completely tangible difference. Not to mention that the hardware platform itself can be different: while in most official presentations appears SOC Intel Atom Z2580, the smartphone that visited us on testing works on another model SOC Intel - Atom Z2560, with a lower frequency Processor cores (1.6 GHz against 2.0 GHz at Atom Z2580). However, this is not all. It is also reported that the ASUS Zenfone 5 modification will be made with support for LTE networks, and that device will not be built at all on intel Platform Atom, and on Soc Qualcomm, since the Intel systems so far and did not make friends with 4G networks. However, this modification of ASUS ZenFone 5 is still known, and it was presented much later - during the Computex 2014 exhibition in Taiwan.

Be that as it may, one of basic versions The Asus Zenfone 5 smartphone has arrived at the editor's editorial office and has already passed proper testing in our laboratory. So today, readers will be able to appreciate themselves, is it interesting to be interested, so loudly sneaking with Taiwanese, or the hopes were in vain - we present to your attention one of the first in Russia detailed smartphone test reviews called ASUS Zenfone 5.

The main characteristics of ASUS Zenfone 5 (model T00J)

	ASUS ZENFONE 5.	ASUS Padfone E.	Fly ENERGY 4	Lenovo S660.
Screen	5 ", IPS	4.7 ", IPS	5 ", TN	4.7 ", IPS
Resolution	1280 × 720, 294 PPI	1280 × 720, 312 ppi	854 × 480, 196 ppi	960 × 540, 234 ppi
SOC.	Intel Atom Z2560 (2 kernels) @ 1.6 GHz	Qualcomm Snapdragon. 400 (4 kernel ARM Cortex-A7) @ 1.4 GHz		MediaTek MT6582 (4 Arm Cortex-A7 kernels) @ 1.3 GHz
GPU.	PowerVR SGX 544mpmp	Adreno 305.	MALI 400 MP.	MALI 400 MP.
Oz	1 GB *	1 GB	1 GB	1 GB
Flash Memory	16 GB	16 GB	4 GB	8 GB
Memory card support	microSD.	microSD.	microSD.	microSD.
Operating system	Google Android 4.3	Google Android 4.3.	Google Android 4.2.	Google Android 4.2.
Battery	non-removable, 2110 mA · h	non-removable, 1820 mA · h	removable, 4200 mA · h	removable, 3000 mA · h
Cameras		rear (13 megacles; video 1080p), frontal (1.2 Mp)	relean (8 mp; video 1080p), frontal (2 MP)	relean (8 MP; video 1080p), frontal (0.3 mp)
Gabarits.	148 × 73 × 10.3 mm, 145 g	140 × 70 × 9.1 mm, 126 g	144 × 72 × 10.5 mm, 197 g	137 × 69 × 9.9 mm, 151 g
average price	T-10663656.	T-10686990.	T-10818364.	T-10725079.
ASUS Zenfone 5 offers	L-10663656-10

Soc Intel Atom Z2560, 1.6 GHz, 2 kernels
GPU PowerVR SGX 544MP
Operational android system 4.3
Touchscreen IPS, 5 ", 1280 × 720, 294 ppi
RAM (RAM) 1 GB *, internal memory 16 GB
MICROSD memory card support up to 64 GB
Communication GSM GPRS / EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz
Communication 3G WCDMA 850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz
HSPA + data transfer rate up to 42 Mbps
Support two Micro-SIM SIM cards
Bluetooth 4.0.
Wi-Fi 802.11b / g / n, Wi-Fi Direct, point access Wi-Fi
GPS / GLONASS
Camera 8 MP, Autofocus, LED-Flash
Camera 2 MP (Frontal)
Battery 2110 mA · h
Dimensions 148.2 × 72.8 × 10.3 mm
Weight of 145 g

* It should be noted that the retail version of ASUS ZenFone 5 is presented with the same T00J model number, but with 2 GB of RAM.

Contents of delivery

Asus Zenfone 5 goes on sale in a small packaging of classical dimensions sufficient to accommodate the smartphone alone and a small set of necessary accessories. A box of solid smooth cardboard is performed, the packaging is neat and high-quality. The role of the lid protrudes the case of a thin cardboard that is stretching over the box, in which several holes coincide with the pictures on the box itself are cut. It looks all together enough fresh and stylish.

In the interior branches, there are many three pieces here, there is a poor accessories set: large charger (Output current 1.35 A), headset headset with a thin round wire and gel enclosures of a vacuum type, as well as a connecting USB cable and a user manual made in the form of a thin paperbook.

Appearance and ease of use

The design and shape of the Asus Zenfone 5 smartphone amazingly resembles the smartphones of Taiwanese HTC - the exception that the manufacturer's materials here are simply used here. If the smartphone body would be made of aluminum, it would be difficult to distinguish it from smartphones HTC One., moreover, both in front and rear. At the same time, the creators themselves believe that they attached their new smartphones with fresh and increhensible design, and even gave him his own name: Zen Design. Although if you look objectively, then in the appearance of smartphones of the new Zenphone series, common parallels with previous products of the company are not traced, including those belonging to the Zen family. True, the developers have added a small metal strip to the front panel with concentric "zen-circles", but that's all. It's amazing that for this secondary in the general design, in which there is nothing special, Zenfone ruler managed to get one of the most prestigious design awards - Reddot Award 2014.

All housing except front glass, fully covered with a solid plastic casing fitting not only rear panelBut all the side faces. The lid has a sliding back and rounded corners and the face - it has been streamlined from all sides and very simple in shape. The lid is traditionally attached on plastic latches and removed with great difficulty - it has to make a lot of effort, and sometimes - even use additional tools. All side buttons are mounted directly on the lid, so when the casing is removed, it is impossible to control the smartphone.

On the matte surface of the plastic almost the fingerprints are almost no fingerprint, so that the body of Asus Zenfone 5 due to the absence of a gloss turned out to be non-commercial and non-slip. The smartphone has quite large sizes, and with this nothing can be done - in the pocket pocket or in the breast pocket of the shirt, such a device is placed with difficulty. In general, the issue of saving space, apparently, did not care about the developers in this case, because with such a large screen with a diagonal of five inches of the frame around it was done very thick. On the sides, the thickness of the frames is at least 5 mm, but in fact it looks worse. And this is at a time when all manufacturers are easy to minimize the number of numbers as possible. Everything is not at all like this, and Asus Zenfone 5 can not boast of subtle frames - and the elegant dimensions in general.

On the back of the smartphone, all elements are set up in their usual. Here you can find a round window of the chamber without any framing, the peephole of a single LED flash, as well as the pickup dynamics grid, made in the form of an array of small round holes. The dynamics grille partially falls on the back surface, so the sound is not too much muted by the surface of the table. A flash running pre-installed software is able to function as a flashlight, including in an alarm mode with a flashing.

Under the lid, you can find three slots for cards: two for SIM cards and one for microSD memory card. Both SIM cards here are used by the "Micro" format; All cards are easily inserted and extracted from their slots due to spring-loaded capture mechanisms. SIM slots are equivalent in their capabilities, it is only necessary to remember that at the same time two cards will not work in 3G mode - one of them will have to be switched in 2G.

SIM card slots are unusually located, stretching into one line along the vertical, and the battery under them is tightly closed with an additional protective cover and is not available for user manipulations. The memory card slot is embedded in the side end on the right face of the device.

Not the entire front panel is covered with a protective glass Gorilla Glass 3 - there is enough enough free space under it, and it is not busy. This sector is covered with a metal thin plate with concentric circles "Zen" traditional for mobile products. Why is it left here additional space, It is not entirely clear: there are no elements on it - the sensory buttons are set up higher, and they also occupy a decent place on the front panel. It is very sad that these buttons do not have no backlight and in the twilight already become completely not visible.

But in the top above the screen, in addition to the usual eye of the sensors and frontal chamber, as well as a swallowed dynamics lattice, you can observe such useful elementas a LED event indicator. This is a fairly large and noticeable round point, which is constantly luminous with a non-light light at the time of charging the smartphone.

Mechanical hardware keys on the sides of the device are only two, and both are located next to each other on one, right face. It is not very convenient that the blocking key is located above the volume keys: it is pressed much more often, and it is not so convenient to reach it. For most manufacturers, with such an arrangement, the lock key is in the middle, and the volume key is raised above.

The buttons are metallized, large enough, but they are not too noticeably discharged outside the housing so that they can be comfortably fascinated. In addition, they have, perhaps, too hard move, but these may be the problems of a specific test sample. In any case, such things need to be checked individually at the time of purchase - someone may not give any meaning at all.

Micro-USB connector here has a standard location in the lower end, but why ASUS engineers are fighting adding support for the connection mode external devices to uSB port (OTG), remains a mystery - in all smartphones of the Padfone series, for example, such support is. The headphone jack (3.5 mm) is located on the contrary - on the upper end, next to the second, an additional microphone.

There are no plugs and additional lids on the connectors of the device, as the Asus Zenfone 5 smartphone is not provided with moisture and dust protection. Do not find on its housing and fastening for the strap.

It comes on sale immediately in several color versions, and this is one of the most noticeable moments when positioning a new line. The color palette of the ASUS Zenfone series makes a variety, and here everyone can choose a color to her soul. Only Zenfone 5 has been released entire five options: in the interpretation of the creators themselves, this is black coal, pearl-white, cherry-red, dusk-purple, and cream-gold.

Screen

The ASUS Zenfone 5 smartphone is equipped with an IPS sensory matrix. The physical dimensions of the display are 62 × 110 mm, diagonal - 5 inches. The screen resolution at points is 1280 × 720, the density indicator of the inches points reaches the value of 294 PPI.

The brightness of the display has both manual and automatic adjustment, the latter is based on the operation of the lighting sensor. There is a smartphone and an approximation sensor that blocks the screen when making a smartphone to the ear. Multitouch technology allows you to handle 10 simultaneous touches.

The smartphone screen is covered with a protective glass of Corning Gorilla Glass 3, resistant to the appearance of scratches. In the Special Settings section, you can enable the screen mode in gloves (glovetouch), then the display becomes more sensitive to touch and does react to fingers in gloves. However, on the touch of other items, such as the tip of the stylist pencil, the screen, contrary to expectations, does not react.

The results of the detailed examination of the ASUS Zenfone 5 display using the measuring instruments, we will imagine a little later, when our specialist Alexey Kudryavtsev will return from vacation.

Detailed examination with the use of measuring instruments was conducted by the editor of the "Monitors" and "Projectors and TV" sections of Alexey Kudryavtsev. We present his expert opinion on the screen of the sample under study.

The front surface of the screen is made in the form of a glass plate with a mirror-smooth surface resistant to the appearance of scratches. Judging by the reflection of objects, the anti-glare properties of the screen is not worse than the Google Nexus 7 (2013) screen (hereinafter simply Nexus 7). For clarity, we give a photo on which the white surface is reflected in the screens (left - Nexus 7, on the right - ASUS Zenfone 5, then they can be distinguished by size):

The screen at ASUS Zenfone 5 is even slightly darker (brightness of photographs 106 against 108 in Nexus 7). Two reflected objects in the Asus Zenfone 5 screen is very weak, it suggests that there is no air gap between the screen layers (more specifically between the outer glass and the surface of the LCD matrix) (OGS-One Glass Solution). Due to the smaller number of boundaries (type of glass-air) with highly different refractive ratios, such screens look better in conditions of strong external illumination, but their repairs in the case of cracked exterior glass costs much more expensive, since it accounts for a whole screen. On the outer surface of the screen there is a special oleophobic (fat-repellent) coating (very effective, even better than Nexus 7), so traces from fingers are removed significantly easier, and appear at a lower rate than in the case of conventional glass.

When manually controlled brightness and when displaying a white field, the maximum brightness value was about 320 kD / m², minimum - 19 cd / m². The maximum brightness is not very high, but, given the excellent anti-reflective properties, readability even on a sunny day outside the room will be quite good. In this case with third-party utilities The maximum brightness can be enhanced up to 395 kD / m², which somewhat improves the situation. In complete dark, brightness can be reduced to a comfortable value. In the presence of automatic brightness adjustment over the illumination sensor (it is located on the left of the slot of the front loudspeaker). IN automatic mode When the external lighting conditions change, the screen brightness both rises and decreases. The operation of this function depends on the position of the brightness adjustment slider. If it is 100%, then in complete darkness, the automatic brightness adjustment function reduces the brightness of up to 25 cd / m² (normally), in conditions lit by artificial offices (about 400 LC) sets 120 cd / m² (just time), in very Bright environment (corresponds to the lighting clear outside of the room, but without direct sunlight - 20,000 LCs or a little more) increases to the maximum 395 cd / m² (which is required). The brightness slider by 50% is the following: 19, 50 and 340 kD / m², by 0% - 19, 26 and 215 kD / m². It turns out that the automatic brightness adjustment function works adequately. At any level of brightness, the backlight modulation is practically absent, so there is no screen flicker.

IN this smartphone Used IPS type matrix. Micrographs demonstrate a typical structure of subpixels for IPS:

For comparison, you can familiarize yourself with the micrographic gallery of the screens used in mobile technology.

The screen has good viewing angles without a significant shift of colors, even with large deviations of the view from the perpendicular to the screen and without inverting (except the most darker, with the rejection of the left) shades. To compare, we give the photos on which the same images are displayed on the ASUS ZenFone 5 and Nexus 7 screens, while the brightness of the screens is initially installed by about 200 kD / m² (on the white field in full screen), and the color balance on the camera is forcibly switched to 6500 to the camera. . Perpendictively to the screens White field:

Note good uniformity of brightness and color tone of the white field. And test picture:

The color rendition is good and color saturated from both screens, but the color balance is somewhat different. Now at an angle of about 45 degrees to the plane and to the side of the screen:

It can be seen that the colors did not change much from both screens, but ASUS Zenfone 5 contrast decreased to a greater extent due to the strong flames of black, and the blue was somewhat added (on the other diagonal, the color shift is slightly less). And white field:

The brightness at an angle of the screens has decreased (at least 5 times, based on the difference in exposure), and decreased approximately the same. The black field during the diagonal deviation is highlighted strongly and acquires a purple or red-violet shade. Photos below are shown (the brightness of white areas in the perpendicular plane of the directions of the direction is approximately the same!):

And at a different angle:

With perpendicular view, the uniformity of the black field is very good:

Contrast (approximately in the center of the screen) is high enough - about 870: 1. The response time when switching a black-white-black is 25 ms (15 ms incl. + 10 ms off.). The transition between halftons of gray 25% and 75% (for the numerical color value) and back in sum occupies 38 ms. Constructed by 32 points with an equal interval in the numerical value of the shade of a gray gamma curve did not reveal in neither lights or in the shadows. The indicator of the approximating power function is 2.86, which is noticeably higher than the standard value of 2.2. At the same time, the real gamma curve is greatly deviated from the power dependence:

Due to the aggressive dynamic adjustment of the brightness of the backlight in accordance with the character of the displayed image (more than the detected clear pattern) the resulting brightness dependence on the shade (gamma curve) does not correspond to the gamma-curve of the static image, since the measurements were carried out with a consistent output of shades of gray almost All screen. For this reason, a series of tests - the determination of contrast and response time, comparing the illumination of black at angles - we were performed when withdrawing special templates with consistently medium brightness, and not one-photo fields in full screen. In general, such and the inappropriate brightness correction is nothing but harm, since the constant shift of the brightness of the screen at least may cause some discomfort. However, the manufacturer in the person of ASUS continues to implement this feature in its mobile devices with the screen (exception - Google Nexus. 7 2013).

Color coverage from a practical point of view is SRGB:

The spectra show that the matrix light filters to moderately mix the components to each other:

As a result, visually colors have natural saturation. The balance of shades on the gray scale is good, since the color temperature is not much higher than the standard 6500 K, and the deviation from the spectrum of absolutely black body (ΔE) is less than 10, which is considered a good indicator for the consumer device. In this case, the color temperature and Δe change little from the shade to the shade - this has a positive effect on the visual assessment of the color balance. (The darkest areas of the gray scale can not be considered, since there the balance of colors does not matter, and the measurement error of the color characteristics on the low brightness is large.)

In this device, the default is a special utility that allows manually to adjust the color balance by adjustments of color temperature, saturation and shade (and on the mode Vivid Mode.).

The graphs above presents the result (data signed as Ts. \u003d + 7), received after our attempt to adjust the flower temperature, for which I had to resort to several iterations, as a result we stopped at the meaning +7 (which corresponded approximately 6500 K on the white field). And visual representation:

It cannot be said that in such a correction there is a special need, besides, as a result, ΔE has grown a bit. That is, considering and so good balance, there is no point in use this utility. Note that the correction does not work in the case of hardware playback of the video. But what happens if you turn on the mode Vivid Mode.:

The saturation (color contrast) is zout to the limit, from the naturalness of the image there is no trace - another useless function.

Let's summarize. The screen has a sufficiently high maximum brightness and has good anti-glare properties, so the device is most likely, without any problems, it will be possible to use outdoors even a summer sunny day. In complete darkness, brightness can be reduced to a comfortable level. It is permissible to use the mode with an automatic adjustment of the brightness that works adequately. The advantages of the screen should include an effective oleophobic coating, no air gap in the layers of the screen and flicker, excellent uniform of the black field, as well as the color coverage of SRGB and a good color balance. To significant disadvantages - the low stability of black to reject the view from the perpendicular to the screen plane and the aggressive non-disconnected dynamic adjustment of the illumination brightness. However, taking into account the importance of the characteristics for this class of devices, the screen quality can be considered high.

Sound

In terms of sound, ASUS Zenfone 5 stars are missing. The sound remains clean throughout the frequency spectrum, but compared with real top smartphones, this sound is still enough faded, and the maximum volume does not reach. When telephone conversation, the voice of a familiar interlocutor, the timbre and intonation remain recognizable, the conversation is quite comfortable.

The device uses SonicMaster's branded technology - a set of hardware and software To improve sound quality. You can perform independent settings and select modes using the preset AudiowIZard utility.

The smartphone is pre-installed a voice recorder that serves to create sound notes. Also here is the opportunity to record regular means. telephone conversations from line. To do this, it is enough to press the special "REC" button in the lower right corner of the phone application screen, and the conversation is automatically recorded in the device's memory. FM radio in the smartphone is also available, it does not have the ability to record the ether.

The main, rear camera is equipped with an 8-megapixel module, the developers are also mentioned by the ASUS Pixelmaster branded technology, which is currently implemented in new smartphones Zenfone.as well as Padfone. Judging by the description, the technology can automatically increase the pixel size of up to 400% and includes a set of features and modes as low light mode (LOW-Light Mode), the possibility of serial shooting up to 20 frames / s, intelligent definition of smiles, the ability to remove unwanted Objects from frame and much more.

The camera can shoot video with a maximum resolution of 1080p (30 fps), an example of a test roller is presented below.

Roller №1 (60 MB, 1920 × 1080)

The main chamber removes with a maximum resolution of 3264 × 2448. When controlling shooting in the activated camera state, the volume key can be used as a shutter button. Next, we present test snapshots made on the ASUS Zenfone 5 chamber, with our comments in quality.

	Sharpness is not bad, foliage merges only on distant plans. But with the color of the chamber problem.
	Significant Peresvet and strange colors speak of a weak firmware.
	Macro is sharp enough, and throughout the field frame.
	Good sharpness in the focus area. However, the program somehow strange handles small details.
	Text camera can be fine.

Camera snapshots cause confusion. The efforts of good optics negates either the sensor, whether the software processing. Perhaps the camera driver itself incorrectly interprets the signal from the matrix, but something is clearly not so. With close-ups, the camera copes well, but something difficult for general plans is happening. Most likely, this problem is solved by updating the firmware, and since the hardware component at the camera is quite good, there is hope that it will be able to shoot quite well. For the large plans, the camera will fit in the current state.

Telephone part and communication

Smartphone standard works in modern 2G GSM and 3G WCDMA networks; Support for fourth generation networks (LTE) No. The data transfer rate is limited by the HSPA + mode to 42 Mbps. The communication capabilities of the device are implemented without excesses: no Wi-Fi range of 5 GHz is not supported here, nor NFC technology. Unlike the smartphones of the Padfone series, no external devices are supported here and the USB port (USB Host, OTG) port. You can standardly organize a wireless access point through Wi-Fi or Bluetooth channels. The navigation module can work both with GPS and with the domestic GLONASS system.

Spontaneous reboots / shutdowns during testing were not observed, as well as slow-moving or system hangs. Drawing letters and numbers of virtual keyboards are quite comfortable for control. Layout and location of the keys Standard: Language switching here is carried out by pressing a special button, also in the presence of a selected row with numbers - very convenient, there is no need to switch the layout each time. The telephone application supports Smart Dial, that is, during the dialing of the phone number immediately, the search first letters in contacts are immediately performed. There is also the possibility of entering text with a blindfold slip of the finger from the button to the button (SWYPE).

The smartphone supports working with two SIM cards, and in general, working with them in the menu is organized by a familiar principle: you can assign a major for organizing voice calls, data transmission or sending SMS messages to any of the SIM cards; When the number is dialing, you can also select the desired card in the context submenu. With 3G networks, a SIM card can work in any slot, but at the same time in this mode only one of the cards can work (the second will only work in 2G). To change the settings of the slots of the card, you do not need to change places - it can be done directly from the phone menu. Working with two SIM-cards is organized by the usual Dual SIM Dual Standby standard when both maps can be in active standby mode, but simultaneously it cannot work - a radio module here is only one.

OS and Software

ASUS ZenFone 5 works in this moment On the Google Android software platform is no longer the latest version 4.3, but the developers firmly promise upgrade to 4.4. The standard system interface was replaced by the corporate identity, and he even gave him its own name - of course, Zenui.

Serious changes have affected the notification panels: it is completely redrawn outwardly, added the quick access menu, here you can quickly change the brightness of the screen, turn on the flashlight, etc. The program menu is complemented by sorting capabilities, in the settings menu added separate section By controlling two SIM cards, added Miracast support, the programming interface of the camera and sound effects have been modified. In addition, a special section called " Individual settings ASUS. " It contains additional settings that were not in the original Android OS.

Performance

The ASUS Zenfone 5 hardware platform is based on a dual-core CPU Intel Atom Z2560 with a frequency of 1.6 GHz. Random access memory In the device 1 GB, and the repository accessible to the user to download its own files is about 10 GB from nominally indicated 16 GB - the rest went to the system itself and applications. Memory can be increasing at the expense of MicroSD cards, but to connect the flash drive through the OTG adapter will not work - the device This mode does not support.

To get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe performance of the test smartphone platform, spend standard set tests.

All the results obtained by us when testing the smartphone in the most recent versions of popular benchmarks, we are conveniently reduced to the table. The table usually adds several other devices from various segments, also tested on similar recent versions of benchmarks (this is done only for a visual assessment of the resulting dry numbers). Unfortunately, within the framework of one comparison, it is impossible to submit results from different versions of the benchmarks, so many decent and actual models remain "behind the scenes" - due to the fact that they at one time passed their "obstacles" on previous versions test programs.

Test results have shown that the two Intel Atom Z2560 kernels of the ASUS Zenfone 5 apparatus were able to withstand the four ARM Cortex-A7 cores with a frequency of 1.4 GHz in Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 (ASUS Padfone E configuration). The results turned out to be similar, and in general, in the question of hardware performance, the novelty looks quite worthy. We would say - unexpectedly worthy for the price where the smartphone is offered on sale.

In general, according to the results of all tests, the ASUS Zenfone 5 smartphone can be safely attributed to the category of devices with an average (even slightly above average) performance. At the moment, the hardware performance of this smartphone should be enough to perform most tasks that can deliver any games or other applications from the Google Play Store.

Test results in MobileXPRT, as well as the latest versions of Antutu 4.x and Geekbench 3:

When testing the graphics subsystem in the 3DMark cross-platform test for the most productive smartphones now it is possible to run 3DMark in Unlimited mode, where the resolution of the rendering is fixed to 720p and is disabled VSYNC (due to which the speed can rise above 60 FPS).

The results of the testing of the graphics subsystem in the Epic Citadel game test, as well as Basemark X and Bonsai Benchmark:

	ASUS ZENFONE 5. (Intel atom z2560, 2 coders @ 1.6 GHz)	ASUS Padfone E. (Qualcomm Snapdragon 400, 4 Arm Cortex-A7 @ 1.4 GHz)	Fly ENERGY 4	Lenovo S660. (MediaTek MT6582, 4 kernel ARM Cortex-A7 @ 1.3 GHz)
Epic Citadel, High Quality	59 FPS.	57 FPS.	53 FPS.	59 FPS.
EPIC CITADEL, ULTRA HIGH QUALITY	50 FPS.	33 fps	no support	no support
Bonsai Benchmark.	47 FPS / 3321	25 fps / 1779	27fps / 1923.	24fps / 1681.
Basemark X, Medium Quality	3189	4579	4830	4790

Video playback

To test "omnivities" when playing video (including support for various codecs, containers and special capabilities, such as subtitles), we used the most common formats that constitute the bulk of the content available on the content network. Note that for mobile devices it is important to have support for hardware decoding of videos at the chip level, since to process modern options Due to the same processor nuclei, it is most often impossible. Also, it is not necessary to wait from the mobile device of decoding everything, since the leadership in flexibility belongs to PC, and no one is going to challenge it. All results are reduced to a single table.

According to the results of testing ASUS Zenfone 5, it turned out to be equipped with all the necessary decoders, in this case the sound, which are necessary for the full play of the majority of the most common files. To successfully play their playback, you will have to resort to the help of a third-party player - for example, MX Player. True, and it will have to first change the settings by switching from hardware decoding to software or in a new mode called Hardware +. (not supported by all smartphones) - only then sound will appear. All results are reduced to a single table.

Format	Container, video, sound	MX Video Player.	Full video player
DVDRip.	AVI, XVID 720 × 400 2200 Kbps, MP3 + AC3	reproduces normal	reproduces normal
Web-DL SD	AVI, XVID 720 × 400 1400 Kbps, MP3 + AC3	reproduces normal	reproduces normal
Web-DL HD	MKV, H.264 1280 × 720 3000 Kbps, AC3	Hardware +.
BDRip 720p.	MKV, H.264 1280 × 720 4000 Kbps, AC3	reproduced normally with decoder Hardware +.	video is reproduced normally, no sound
BDRip 1080p.	MKV, H.264 1920 × 1080 8000 Kbps, AC3	reproduced normally with decoder Hardware +.	video is reproduced normally, no sound

¹ Sound in MX Video Player was played only after switching to software decoding or new mode Hardware +.; the regular player does not have such a setup

The MHL interface, like the Mobility DisplayPort, we did not find in this smartphone, so I had to restrict ourselves to testing the display of the video files on the device itself. To do this, we used a set of test files with one division by the frame with an arrow and a rectangle (see "Methods for testing the playback devices and displaying the video signal. Version 1 (for mobile devices)"). Screenshots with shutter speed in 1 C helped to determine the nature of the output of video files with various parameters: resolution ranged (1280 per 720 (720p), 1920 at 1080 (1080p) and 3840 at 2160 (4K) pixels) and frame rate (24, 25, 30, 50 and 60 frames / s). In tests, we used the MX Player video player in the "hardware" mode. Test results are reduced to the table:

oK not excellent not oK not excellent not

Note: If in both columns Uniformity and Pass Green estimates are exhibited, it means that, most likely, when viewing the films of artifacts caused by uneven alternation and passage of frames, or will not be seen at all, or their number and notice will not affect the preservation of viewing. Red markers point to possible problemsrelated to playback of relevant files.

In general, on the output criterion, the quality of video files on the screen of the smartphone itself is very high, since frames (or frames) can be output with more or less uniform intervals of intervals and without frames. When playing video files with a resolution of 1280 to 720 pixels (720p), the image of the video file is displayed one-in-one, exactly along the border of the screen. The clarity (during hardware playback) in the vertical direction (of course, during landscape orientation) is equal to the original, but in the horizontal direction the clarity decreases to such an extent that the world with vertical strips through the pixel merges in the gray field. However, in real images such a decrease in clarity is difficult to notice. The brightness range displayed on the screen corresponds to the standard range of 16-235 - in the shadows and in the lights are displayed all gradations of shades - which is required to correctly play typical video files.

Battery life

The capacity of the lithium-ion battery installed in ASUS Zenfone 5 is small for a modern smartphone 2110 mAh. According to the test results, the subject demonstrated very weak indicators in terms of autonomous work, to boast here a new smartphone ASUS, unfortunately, completely nothing.

	Battery capacity	Reading mode	Video mode	3D game mode
ASUS ZENFONE 5.	2110 mA · h	8 h. 20 m.	5 h. 10 m.	3 h. 10 m.
ASUS Padfone E.	1820 mA · h	15 h. 20 m.	7 h. 10 m.	3 h 50 m.
Samsung S4 mini.	1900 mA · h	16 h. 40 m.	10 h. 30 m.	4 h. 40 m.
LG L90.	2540 mA · h	15 h. 20 m.	10 h. 00 m.	4 h 50 m.
Motorola Moto G.	2070 MA · h	15 h. 20 m.	8 h. 00 m.	4 h. 20 m.
ZTE Nubia Z5 Mini	2300 mA · h	11 h. 05 m.	8 h. 00 m.	3 h 50 m.
Alcatel Ot Idol X	2000 mA · h	10 h. 00 m.	6 h. 40 m.	4 h. 00 m.
Fly Luminor IQ453	2000 mA · h	10 h. 00 m.	7 h. 00 m.	4 h. 10 m.

Uninterrupted reading in the FBReader program (with a standard, bright theme) with a minimum comfortable level of brightness (the brightness was set per 100 cd / m²) lasted until the battery rank is 8.5 hours. With continuous viewing video from YouTube in high quality (HQ) with the same brightness level through home network Wi-Fi devices lasted about 5 hours, and in 3D-games mode - almost 3 hours.

Outcome

As for the cost of ASUS Zenfone 5, then it is about 7 thousand rubles in our market now or even a little less. Money, in general, not so big, but also obvious advantages at the smartphone, as it turned out, little. The hardware platform, built on the basis of Soc Intel Atom, was really very much to the place, showed himself from the best side, and as a result, there are no complaints about ASUS Zenfone 5 - especially with regard to the price of this smartphone (of course, it is necessary to understand that this far from the flagship indicators). In addition, we have a simplified version of the device on testing - a configuration is possible with a more powerful Intel Atom Z2580, which has the frequency of processor cores above, as well as more of the amount of RAM.

However, it is almost all. The design of the device is secondary (although it can be configured without any stretching), the case materials are premium in any way, the screen and the camera are far from the top level, the battery life is not at the height. Such negative little things as wide frames around the display and a harsh block of mechanical controls are also not related to the number of pluses of the device. In addition, it does not have to talk about support for LTE, NFC, USB OTG, Wi-Fi (5 GHz). The smartphone is very simple, and its only really strong trump card, besides a successful hardware platform, this is a good view of the manufacturer, which has developed recently not only in the Asian market, but also from us. Perhaps this factor will help sales, but still a little sorry that the as many souls and effort did not invested in his new line of smartphones as it was invested in the Padfone series, which at one time really liked.

In conclusion, we suggest you to see our ASUS Zenfone 5 smartphone review.