That image seemed to want was broken into by Asus with the launch of the latest generation of ZenFone 3 which officially entered the Indonesian market in September.
ZenFone 3 consists of five variants. Tag of arguably the most luxurious models are no longer cheap in numbers tens of millions of rupiah. But Asus still offers a number of models that have been more friendly bag.
One is ZenFone 3 series ZE520KL sitting in the middle of the board. Although it comes with a tag in the range of $ 4 million, this product is of high quality construction carries the following row is full of features.
Like what to see and the ability ZenFone 3 ZE520KL, the smartphone slogan "Built for Photography?" Follow the following BojezCreative review.
Asus implement major design changes on 3 ZenFone ZE520KL. Gone was the battery cover on the back of a plastic with a texture similar to that of metal, replaced the glass layer of Gorilla Glass 3 and a unibody design.
Anti-scratch glass is also coated side of the face that have a rounded periphery "2.5D" who met frames made of metal. Behind the glass at the back there are radial texture dark blue with a sparkle that is centered on the fingerprint scanner so that it looks attractive.
Logo Asus participate moved from the front to the back, along with a 16 megapixel camera module, dual-LED flash, autofocus and laser sensors.
ZenFone 3 ZE520KL front side is dominated by the 5.2 inch screen that has a resolution of full-HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels). The display screen with Super IPS + LCD panel looks brilliant with bright colors, too sharp and clearly visible even under the midday sun.
Below the screen there is a row of capacitive buttons softbutton to perform the function of navigation "home", "back", and "recent apps". The third button label permanently affixed white. Unfortunately, there is no light the lamp so that they are somewhat hard visible while in dark conditions.
The front camera with a resolution of 8 megapixels perched at the top, just adjacent to the grill speaker phone. As usual, two power and volume control buttons are placed on the right side in a parallel position.
ZenFone 3 ZE520KL have LTE 4G network capabilities and supports the use of two SIM cards at once. However, like many other phones, SIM slot card both use the same place with a micro-SD card.
Users must choose between using two SIM card or micro-SD card, can not be both at once. However, this may not be a problem for most users.
Additional updates are applied Asus is the type of connector for charging and data transfer are now using a USB Type-C.
In the clutch, ZenFone 3 ZE520KL feels quite comfortable. Although a bit slippery for the front and back are made of glass, edges rounded metal frame help keep this device does not feel "stab" at hand.
Unibody design makes ZenFone 3 ZE520KL impressed solid, sturdy and not fragile like its predecessors many wearing plastic material.
Overall, unibody design, a layer of glass on two sides, as well as metal frames earlier, the display ZenFone 3 ZE520KL looks more elegant than models from the series ZenFone 2. Of note, users should be diligent clean the phone because the phone glass surface so that fingerprints very easy marks.
Operating System
ZenFone 3 ZE520KL running the operating system Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow coated ZEN latest UI interface. By default, there are app drawer and three home screen icons that contain a number of built-in applications, such as ZenFone Care and ZenTalk.
There are also a number of other applications that are not directly related to Asus, ranging from news readers, social media, on traveling, browser, games, to e-commerce applications, in addition to Google's suite of applications that are always present in Android phones.
Fortunately, from a capacity of 32 GB internal storage capacity that is available, there is still empty space is quite large, about 22 GB. Users can remove applications "bloatware" that is unused to free up storage space.
Asus also includes several phones resource management applications. Auto-start Manager is accessible from the pull-down notification menu and can be used determine which applications are allowed to run when booting the phone.
Mobile Application Manager provides a number of tools such as cleaners memory, monitor the use of mobile data, as well as the power saver in which users can shut down a number of large power consuming features, such as Wi-Fi and Location Services, from one location.
ZenFone 3 ZE520KL has a fingerprint scanner that is placed on the back of the device, just below the main camera module. This is where the index finger of the right hand / left-users will be when holding the phone.
How to use quite easily. Mobile phones can instantly activate the screen and unlock lockscreen within which claimed only 0.2 seconds when the user pressed a finger that has been registered previously. More practical and faster than taking a PIN, although the device will still require a PIN when making a restart.
A total of five fingerprints can be stored in the phone memory. Fingerprint scanner belonging ZE520KL ZenFone 3 can also be used as a shutter button when the user snaps selfie.
PERFORMANCE AND BATTERY
ZenFone 3 ZE520KL powered octa-core processors that are embedded in the chipset Snapdragon 625, with eight Cortex-A53 CPU core speed of 2 GHz and Adreno 506 GPU chips are paired with a capacity of 3 GB RAM.
By the mid-end specifications, performance in application benchmark score was at the middle of the board by a margin far enough away from high-end devices that typically produce scores up to twice as high.
Nevertheless, the performance of ZenFone 3 ZE520KL still perfectly adequate for everyday use, at least for the time being and the foreseeable future.
ZenFone 3 ZE520KL capable of running many applications at once and move between the applications smoothly.
What about the battery? Although it has a battery capacity of 2600 mAh which is quite average for mobile class, ZenFone 3 ZE520KL it can survive long enough.
This phone can last for 12 hours or more in a scenario involving casual use push e-mail, various notifications from social media, instant messaging, browsing, watch streaming video, to run the hotspot function.
Durability is indeed faster decline when used to play games or take pictures / video recording. However, as long as not too lingering engage in activities that drain power, the ZenFone 3 ZE520KL still able to accompany the activity from the early morning until the late afternoon.
Charging the battery ZenFone 3 ZE520KL not as fast as other phones that support fast charging. However, 2 amperes 5 volt charger supplied is still capable of charging the battery in a relatively short time, which is about 2 hours from empty to 100 percent.
CAMERA
Bojez Creative has first to review ZenFone 3 ZE520KL camera capabilities in a snap photos and record videos. More can be found in the following article.
CONCLUSION
With ZenFone 3, Asus presents a number of major changes to its flagship smartphone line. Not only switch from the Intel Atom processor to Qualcomm Snapdragon, physical appearance was overhauled completely.
Gone was the impression of cheap plastic material and construction for the frail impressed. The combination of metal and glass in the new unibody design ZenFone 3 ZE520KL leave a solid impression once more unsightly.
From the aspect of the look of it, you could say ZenFone 3 ZE520KL own "class" than its predecessor.
Features of this phone was fairly comprehensive for the device size is priced at Rp 4.1 million, mainly for camera functions, according to the slogan, "Built for Photography".
Indeed, there are some shortcomings such as the lack of NFC and the amount of bloatware installed. However, for most users, it seems there are weaknesses that are not too fatal and does not undermine the attractiveness of ZenFone 3 ZE520KL.
Asus Zenfone 3 ZE520KL
Advantages:
+ The new design is more stylish than its predecessor
+ Full-featured, especially for the camera
+ Small batteries but can last all day
Deficiency:
- Lots of bloatware installed on internal memory
- No NFC
- Long battery charging time
| Form factor | Full-touchscreen |
| Size and type screen | 5.2-inch, 1920 x 1080 pixels (424 ppi), Super IPS + LCD |
| Physical Dimensions | 146.9 x 74 x 7.7 mm |
| weight | 144 g |
| Processor | Qualcomm Snapdragon 625, 8-core 2.0 GHz Cortex-A53, GPU Adreno 506 |
| RAM | 3 GB |
| Internal Medi | 32 GB |
| Slot micro-SD | Up to 256 GB (using the SIM slot 2) |
| Main Camera | 16 Megapixel f / 2.0 with LED flash |
| Camera Home | 8 megapixel f / 2.0 |
| Capacity Battery | 2,600 mAh |
| Mobile Network | GSM / 3G HSPA / 4G LTE |
| The USB connector | USB Type-C |
| GPS | Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth 4.2, 3.5 mm audio jack |
| Also | Accelerometer, gyroscope, proximity sensor, compass, fingerprint reader, FM radio |
| Operating System | Android 6:01 Marshmallow, Zen interface UI 3.0 |
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