ASUS ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro Review: Dual Selfie Cam
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ASUS ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro
RM 1799
Pros
- Great build quality
- Good and fast fingerprint scanner
- Excellent 5.5-inch AMOLED 1080p display
- Good camera app
- Takes good looking selfie (primary camera)
- Great performance
- Excellent battery life
Cons
- Micro USB
- Fingerprint scanner logic need improvement
- No IP-rated water and dust resistance
- No OIS
- Slow charging
- Underwhelming ultra wide angle camera sensor
Performance & Battery Life
Snapdragon 625, 4 GB RAM & 64 GB storage
In terms of the guts, the ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro is equipped with the trialled and tested Snapdragon 625. Here in MyEverydayTech, we have tested numerous smartphones and our favourite chipset is no other than the power efficient Snapdragon 625. Indeed the Snapdragon 800 series chipset has all the raw power we need, but when it comes to the general usability, power efficiency and battery life, the Snapdragon 625 with 14nm FinFET fabrication process is the clear winner.
Running everyday tasks is not an issue with this phone. The 4 GB RAM allows you to multitask without worrying about system killing background processes. Besides, for the internal storage, 64 GB is very reasonable with the support of expansion via MicroSD.
Battery
Battery life is excellent as we could easily achieve a full day 20 hours of usage with 5 hours+ of screen-on-time. Usage includes social media browsing, casual photo shooting, web browsing and casual gaming. Sure it would be better if the screen-on-time would hit 6 hours+, but that leaves up to ASUS for better optimizing of their system and apps.
Slow Charging
When it’s time to juice up the battery, expect a long wait as the phone does not support any sort of quick charge technology. In the box is the regular 5V2A charger. Sure it charges faster than the pathetic 5V1A chargers, but taking at least 2 hours to charge from 10% to 90% is not something I would say as efficient. Don’t even get me started with how Snapdragon 625 actually supports Quick Charge 3.0.
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