Review : Asus Zenfone C

Asus Zenfone C Reviews

Asus Zenfone C Reviews - In January 2015 yesterday, Asus has released Zenfone C ZC 451CG simultaneously with Zenfone 2 and Zenfone Zoom. Zenfone C is above the specifications of Asus ZenFone 4. Then Zenfone C in terms of its design offers a bigger screen that is 4.5 inches with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels with a pixel density of 218 ppi.

But what about the overall performance of Zenfone C? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this Smartphone? Check out the full review.

Specifications

• 2G Network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 - SIM 1 and SIM 2
• 3G Network: HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100
• Screen: IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors 4.5 inches, 480 x 854 pixels (~ 218 ppi pixel density)
• Internal Memory: 8GB
• External Memory: Up to 64GB
• 1GB of RAM
• Android OS, v4.4.2 (KitKat)
• Intel Atom Z2520 CPU, dual-core 1.2 GHz
• GPU PowerVR SGX544MP2
• Sensors Accelerometer, proximity, compass
• Camera Primary 5 MP, 2592? 1944 pixels, autofocus PixelMaster, LED flash, Video
• VGA front camera
• Battery Li-Ion 2100 mAh

Design

Smartphone Asus ZenFone C is still using the design characteristic of Zenfone where the use Candybar models are thin and box, Zenfone C has dimensions of 136.5mm x 67mm with a thickness of 10.9 mm, this smartphone weighs 149 grams.

On the face Zenfone C has a screen measuring 4.5 inch IPS LCD 480 x 854 pixels with a pixel density of 218ppi besides the screen is protected by oleophobic coating that is not easily scratched screen, at the top of the screen there is the earpiece grille, vga camera, proximity sensor, and Asus logo. Then at the bottom of the screen there is a capacitive dock that serves as a back button, home, and multitasking.

For the laying of the physical buttons Zenfone C is focused on the side of the body, namely the power / lock and volume control, on the upper side there is an audio jack, then, the USB port located on the bottom.

On the back there is a back cover are made from plastic with finishing dove, then at the top of the middle there is a 5MP camera that comes with LED flash, for a SIM card slot and an external memory slot, you must first remove the back cover, once you open it you can look at that section there are two SIM card slots and an external memory slot, SIM cardnya Zenfone for this C-type Micro SIM, to use a MicroSD external memory supported up to 64GB.

Interface

Asus ZenFone C interface uses Zen UI as the default launcher, the launcher operation Zen UI running pretty smoothly, Zenfone C operating system is running Android 4.4.2 KitKat.

At the lockscreen displays camera shortcut icon, dial, and sms, along with information about the weather, time, date, and your daily agenda, by default Zenfone C using Swipe the screen to unlock the lock screen.

On Homescreen Page Asus ZenFone C offers three pages, you can add pages to 7 pages, you can also insert widgets and applications you need on the home page screen, besides you can change the scrolling effect with a variety of choices.

For drawernya App or the main menu, featuring applications with 4 horizontal icon, and 4 icons decreases totaling 16 icon on the page App drawer. Zenfone C offers new features in the app drawer section setting the Smart group that serves to categorize apps in one folder, so you do not have to bother to look for the app you want.

Display notification bar, there are two views, at first view only displays the System Notification only, then on the second display shown on the shortcut on the right upper corner is a quick setting, the display is showing some quick toogles, and brightness slider along toogles to activate brightness automatic mode.

For text input method uses the default keyboard from ASUS itself, other than that there is a method of Google using Google Voice Typing.

Performance

In terms of performance Zenfone C chipset Intel Atom Z2520 processor dual-core processor with 1.2 GHz speed, GPU Power VR SGX544MP2 and has 1GB of RAM, when the smartphone is trying to play the game Spider-Man Unlimited run smoothly and do not get the problem of lagging .

Camera

In terms of camera perhaps this is one of the drawbacks of this smartphone, because the front camera only uses a VGA camera, so the shots or photo for the front camera is only mediocre.

However, you do not worry because the main camera Zenfone C using a 5MP camera so you get the picture from the rear camera is pretty good, except that the rear camera can record video in Full HD quality.

Other Features

In the multimedia such as music and video player, Asus ZenFone C using the application of their own making, on view Gallery looks more simple or simple.

For there is not a music player that features so prominently, Asus only provides a Sleep Timer feature to turn off the music player up to 2 hours. The music application provides standard settings such as equalizer.

Asus ZenFone C does not provide for the application video player, then the video can be played through the Gallery, you could say to this video player only for the basic course. For Zenfone subtitle C has not been able to bring it up, but by the time the movie .mkv format with a resolution of 1080 went smoothly without any lagging or stuttering.

If you want to make browsing activity, Asus provides two browsers to Zenfone C is Google Chrome and made their own browser. Display Asus artificial Browser is similar to the Chrome browser.

Connectivity

• 2G Network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 - SIM 1 and SIM 2
• 3G Network: HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100
• HSPA 42.2 / 5.76 Mbps
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, hotspot
• A-GPS, GLONASS
• Bluetooth V4.0
• MicroUSB v 2.0

Benchmark Results

• Antutu: 18 501 pts
• GPUBench: 9436 Points
• Quadrant: 7252 points
• NenaMark 2: 58.7 fps

Battery life

Asus ZenFone has a capacity of 2100 mAh battery thats enough for a smartphone with berspesifkasi discussed above, at the time I used it for me review this Zenfone C, such as trying to front and main camera to take pictures and videos for approximately 1 hour reduces battery about 8% -10%, to download some applications and browsing for approximately 2 hours of battery mengurangin approximately 20% - 25%, then at the time tried to performance on the music player, video and gaming approximately less than 3 hours is reduced by approximately 40% - 50 %.

Excess

• An affordable price
• Already supported Intel Atom
• Dual SIM
• Already using Android KitKat

Shortage

• VGA Front Camera
• Low screen resolution

Conclusion

Asus ZenFone C presented at an affordable price, in my opinion is equivalent to what is offered by Asus for Zenfone C, to obtain chipset Intel Atom Z2520 processor Dual-core1.2 GHz, Power VR SGX544MP2 GPU, with a good performance in applications , gaming, and multimedia,