Huawei is without a doubt the greatest performer of the Android landscape so far this year, and we have no reason to believe the Nexus 6P manufacturers’ impressive growth will stop in Q4. Xiaomi also surged from the OEMs’ second tier to the global top five, LG phones seem to be
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Just how many ZenFone 2 options does ASUS have right now? Don’t worry; we can come back to you in a few minutes to give you time to count. From screen sizes, to RAM, to battery capacity, to storage, there are a ton of variables to consider when shopping for the handset, and ASUS only seems ready to deliver even more options. Back right before IFA got started we first heard about the ZenFone 2 Deluxe Special Edition – ...
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Taiwan’s most valuable global brand continues its invasion of the uber-competitive US unlocked smartphone landscape with yet another incredibly affordable ZenFone 2 configuration. This one carries the confusing ZE551KL model number, starts at $200, and offers among others Full HD screen resolution and 3GB RAM.First things first, let us stress the American ZenFone 2 Laser isn’t the same as the international variant, and it’s not identical to the ZD551KL, aka
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A top five PC manufacturer in the yearly sales rank for half a decade now, and a protagonist of the low-cost Android tablets’ rise against iPads starting with the 2012 Nexus 7, Asus has only raised its previously modest smartphone aspirations earlier in 2015.The relatively inexpensive 4GB RAM-packing ZenFone 2 essentially put the ...
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To put it one way, the ASUS ZenFone 2 offers users a lot of options; while most smartphones only go so far to give shoppers a choice between storage capacities, the ZenFone 2 mixes things up with varying amount of RAM, screen sizes, resolutions, processors, and batteries. There’s so much variety, that to put it another way, ASUS is a little crazy to be selling this all as just the “ZenFone 2,” when by most logic we should be looking at half-a-dozen distinct smartphones. Since first seeing the ...
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The ASUS ZenFone 2 is available is so many options that it is sometimes hard to keep track, but it’s definitely a good thing, as the company is able to offer something for everyone. And, given the cutthroat competition in the mid-range smartphone market (especially around the $300 price tag), OEMs are constantly striving to differentiate, bring something new or different to the table.The diamond/crystal inspired pattern on the ASUS ZenFone 2 above might not be your thing, but the carbon-fiber look of the same phone below might be. And, even if both aren’t, you should still ...
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Back when Motorola released the first Moto G in 2013, we were taken aback by how nice a smartphone could really be for under $200. Since then, it seems like nearly every OEM has tried its hand at the “premium midranger” business model, cramming the best specs and most compelling software into as inexpensive of a smartphone as possible. We’ve seen some great budget smartphones hit the market in early 2015, one of which is the
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ASUS already offers smartphone shoppers a lot of wildly different options under the same ZenFone 2 name. Just the other day we were talking about the sheer number of different phones being sold as ZenFone 2 models, varying in everything from screen size, to SoC choice, to RAM amount. And as if the two new ZenFone 2 models we learned about earlier this week weren’t enough, not it looks like we’ve got yet another one incoming, a model that pushes the technical specs of the series to the ...
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2015 has been a great year so far for the budget handset market. Phones like the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 and the ASUS Zenfone 2 have set a very high bar for the rest of the low-cost smartphone industry, and they give even some of the best phones a run for their money. But while $300 can buy you either of these phones right now, it can also buy you a used
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The ASUS ZenFone 2 is the best smartphone in the company’s lineup right now and, arguably, one of the boldest smartphones in the mid-range market. Or, you could say the ASUS ZenFone 2 is a mediocre device that’s trying too hard to be the best in the lower end market. Or, the ASUS ZenFone 2 sounds kinda like the other phones I talked about just now, but somewhere in between.Well, I can say that the ASUS ZenFone 2 is actually all of the above. Our Editorial Director Michael Fisher
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Last month, thanks to impressive sales of its latest smartphones, ASUS’s smartphone division turned a profit. The company sold over 1.5 million smartphone units in the time period, and is only forecasting that number heading in the upward direction moving towards the future.It’s likely that a good reason for this sales number increasing is thanks to the ASUS ZenFone 2 arriving in North America. We reviewed the phone fairly optimistically, given the great value it gives (it’s a wonderful ...
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I like a flagship phones just as much as the next guy, but you know what I like even more? Not having to fork over a fistfull of cash! Who’s with me? Yeah, I thought so. Nonetheless, I still picked up a Nexus 6 just as soon as Google would take my money. I love my Nexus 6, but other than a bigger screen and a battery that charges fast, it’s not much different than my Nexus 5, and my Nexus 5 cost a few hundred bucks less! Score one for the Nexus 5, right? WRONG! Even the Nexus 5, with it’s very decent specs, is still way overpriced! That’s not what we thought back ...
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Of all the manufacturers who might give us the first commercial Android smartphone with 4GB of RAM, who did you think it might be? LG has a history of being a spec leader. Or maybe Sony? Heck, why not Samsung? But of all the names you might have offered, did you ever think ASUS would be among them? Nevertheless, ASUS came to CES ready to impress, and in addition to its optical-zooming ZenFone Zoom, the company introduced the ZenFone 2 ...
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ASUS has been doing its best to tease its CES 2015 launches, and sure had us ready to expect the arrival of some new ZenFone models. With its press event now underway, that’s just what we’re getting, as ASUS reveals the ZenFone 2.The ZenFone 2 will have a 5.5-inch 1080p display with a minimal bezel, leaving the screen to take up 72 percent of the phone’s footprint. The handset is powered by a 64-bit Intel Atom Z3580 SoC, and it will be one of the first smartphones (and as far as ...
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