The recently-released Asus ZenFone 2 may be a mid-range handset in terms of its $299 price tag but it has features that cannot be found on some flagship smartphones that are worth $600 or more. The good thing for cost-conscious buyers is that the Asus ZenFone 2 has variants that even costs lower than $299.
And that is basically what makes the ZenFone 2 and its predecessor tick among the smart and economical buyers of current generation handsets. Why spend so much money on a branded flagship smartphone when you can get its features plus some more with Asus ZenFone 2?
Liliputing describes the Asus ZenFone 2 as a good smartphone with some features that make it borderline great. It has an extremely remarkable processor that can handle almost anything a user desires it to do plus a big screen to handle web surfing, gaming, or watching videos along with wireless features including dual-SIM capability.
Depending on its variant, the ZenFone 2 can have as much as 64GB built-in storage which almost guarantees that user that he will never run out of storage in his smartphones amid loading it with a lot of software and game apps. And if it is still not enough, the handset also has a micro-SD card to throw in music, videos and other app data.
It’s also a fast-processing smartphone given its 4GB of RAM which is the first for any of the 2015 flagship smartphones that are already out in the markets today.
The latest flagship smartphone of Asus may not have the best camera or battery life among its contemporaries in the market today but for its cheap price, users can hardly complain about it as they are surely getting a bargain vis-à-vis the phone’s other worthy features.
Some drawbacks
But the Asus ZenFone 2, just like the other flagship smartphones out in the market today, also comes with some quirks and drawbacks.
It also comes out of the box with the Android 5.0 Lollipop which everyone knows to be a problematic mobile operating system despite all the hype from Google before and during its official release on November 12 last year.
With Google’s announcement that it will be unveiling its latest mobile operating system the Android M in the third quarter of the this, the American multinational technology company is now rolling out the Android 5.1 and Android 5.1.1 to Android phones with almost reckless abandon. That puts the ZenFone 2 in a disadvantage over other smartphones, system-wise, although it is likely that updates will also be made available.
As the smartphone also comes with the Asus ZenUI in addition to the Android OS, the ZenFone 2 actually has more bloatware than any other flagship smartphones in the market today.
Despite its drawbacks, the great features of the Asus ZenFone 2 still outnumber its quirks making it still a great buy.
Ambitious shipping target
It may be an ambitious target for the Taiwanese tech company for its ZenFone 2 but Asus is eyeing to ship 25 million of its latest smartphone before the end of the year.
The company is left with a little over six months to work on its target and it is relying heavily on the successful performance of its ZenFone launched last year, which generated a good following particularly in European markets.