ASUS ZENFONE 2 LASER REVIEW

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Asus launched its  smartphone in India namely Zenfone 2 Laser (Dual Sim) sold via Flipkart @ 9,999/-(Snapdragon 410 SOC+2GB RAM variant), 13,999/-(Snapdragon 615 SOC+3GB RAM variant) & 17,999/-(Snapdragon 616 SOC+3GB Ram Variant). It is available in Black, Silver, White, Red and Gold shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is good. It has corning glass 4 on front and a plastic on the back and feels pretty good in hands. It is slim at 10.8mm and weighs 170gms. it has a 5.5 inch HD IPS LCD display resolution of resolution 720X1280 with 267ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is very good. It runs on Zen User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is Very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has 16GB(2GB RAM Variant) & 32GB(3GB RAM Variant) of internal storage which is further expandable upto 128GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like google play music for songs and a stock gallery and a video player which are good. FM radio comes pre-installed too. Conductivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & upto 50mbps upload, Wifi b/g/n, Wifi hotspot as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy) also has USB OTG too.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 13MP rear camera with laser autofocus & LED flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is very good overall. Daytime the images are very good and has fine details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become more visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is pretty fine. It does Full HD 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 16-18 mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is very good overall. Daytime the video clarity is pretty good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is Pretty fine. It has a 5MP front facing camera for selfe's which does 720p video recording and clarity is pretty good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 5.0 Lollipop out of the box. It has Snapdragon 410(MSM8916) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running a Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.2 GHZ (ARM Cortex A53 architecture) with 2GB RAM and Adreno 306 (550MHZ Single-Core) GPU. The performance is very good which provides most number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run well enough and there is no major lag at most cases.
The overall performance in the snapdragon 615 and the snapdragon 616 variants is excellent overall. 
QUADRANT : 9891.
ANTUTU : 21430.
NENAMARK 2 : 57.5fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Removable Li-Po 3000 mah battery. The battery life is very good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 8H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 9H.
TALKTIME : upto 20H(2G) / upto 18H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 550H(2G) / upto 530H(3G).

PROS
*Very Good build quality.
*Very Good display and viewing angle.
*Very good Performance.
*Pretty good camera and video recording clarity with laser autofocus system.
*USB OTG Support.
*Very good battery life.
*Very good pricing.

CONS
*Loudspeaker could have been slightly better.
*Power button placement could have been better.
*No Dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9/10.

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