Asus Zenfone Live Review: specs and features, camera quality test, gaming benchmark, user opinions and photos

Asus Zenfone Live - a stillborn smartphone?

The Asus company over the past couple of years was able to become one of the largest manufacturers of smartphones, giving the market a significant amount of pleasant inside and outside products. However, over time, its devices have risen in price, and sometimes they don't fit their price segment in terms of functionality. The hero of today's review, unfortunately, applies to this category.

The appearance of the novelty is beautiful, attractive, but it's very difficult to call it ideal. Thick enough bezels of the display and the lack of a fingerprint scanner rush into the eyes. In positive moments, it is worth attributing a small thickness of the body, the back panel of which has a nice "metallic" texture, and curved glass of the screen. The 5-inches IPS-display is characterized by a HD-resolution, created using a OGS-technology. The sharpness of the image is inferior to a number of opponents with FullHD-panels, but high brightness and contrast settings partially compensate this disadvantage.

But the real criticism can be subjected to technical specifications. The performance of the obsolete Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor, combined in one bundle with 2GB of RAM and the Adreno 306 video chip, is unlikely to surprise the user. Particularly gamers will be upset, because most demanding games will be launched only on the minimum graphics settings. At least there are place for storing films and music! For these needs, 16/32GB of ROM and a slot for microSD-cards up to 256GB are allocated.

However, the quality of built-in 13 and 5-megapixel cameras will satisfy lovers of high-quality photos. Even the front module has autofocus, which will have a great impact on the details of images. A gadget looks good in terms of autonomy. Thanks to the battery in 2650mAh, the modified Android 6.0 OS and the economical hardware, 6-7 hours of active screen time are real. But even with the support for 4G and OTG, excellent ergonomics, we can not recommend a device to everyone. He loses too much to his classmates on some indicators.