Asus Zenfone 6 hands-on review

Source: Asus Zenfone 6 hands-on review

introduction

Asus just announced the Zenfone 6 – the latest in a line that was hugely successful a couple of years ago (the Zenfone 2 was one of the highlights of 2015) but somehow failed to maintain that mainstream appeal long-term. But if any phone will help reignite that flame, this is it.

We had to spend a few days with the Zenfone 6 (ZS630KL for those who like Asus’ naming nomenclature) before the announcement, and we’ve already managed to gather some fascinating details about it to share here.

We’ve started with the most obvious in the clip above – the Zenfone 6 has a dual camera that sits on a motorized platform that rotates 180 degrees and flips the main camera to take selfies. Of course, there is more to it than that, and we will go into more detail on the following pages.

Asus says the swivel mechanism wasn’t meant to be the star of the show but was ultimately a consequence of their quest to simply make a good phone for power users. That meant a frameless display that’s as large as possible, the latest internals for smooth performance, plenty of battery and good cameras. During the development of the Zenfone 6, it just turned out that this was the only right way.

Speaking of internals, before we continue, take a quick look at the sheet below.

Asus Zenfone 6 specifications

• Body: Aluminum frame, Gorilla Glass back, 159.1 x 75.4 x 9.2mm, 190g; Midnight Black and Twilight Silver color schemes.
• Advertisement: 6.4″ IPS LCD, 1080 x 2340 pixels, aspect ratio 19.5:9, 403 ppi, Gorilla Glass 6.
• Camera: Motorized rotating dual camera unit. Main Module: 48MP, 1/2.0″ SONY IMX586 Quad Bayer Sensor, f/1.79 aperture, 79 degree field of view (26mm equivalent focal length), Laser/PDAF. Ultra Wide Module: 13MP, f/2 .4 aperture, 125 degree FOV (11mm equiv. focal length), fixed focus, dual LED flash.
• Video recording: Up to 4K 2160p@60fps with EIS on the main camera, up to 4K@30fps with EIS on the Ultra Wide, slow motion up to 1080p@240fps or 720p@480fps (on the main camera only).
• Operating system/software: Android 9.0 Pie, ZenUI 6.
• chipset: Snapdragon 855 (7 nm): Octa-Core CPU (1 x 2.8 GHz & 3 x 2.4 GHz Kryo Gold & 4 x 1.7 GHz Kryo 485 Silver); Adreno 640 GPU.
• Storage: Up to 8GB RAM, up to 256GB UFS 2.1 storage, dedicated microSD card slot.
• Battery: 5,000mAh capacity, 18W QuickCharge 4.0 fast charge, 10W reverse charge.
• connectivity: Dual SIM; LTE-A, 6-band carrier aggregation, Cat.18 (1.2 Gbit/s/150 Mbit/s); WLAN a/b/g/n/ac/ax MU-MIMO; GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo; NFC; Bluetooth 5.0; FM radio. USB Type-C 3.5mm jack.
• Various: Rear-mounted capacitive fingerprint sensor, stereo speakers.

It’s also a remarkable array of features that go beyond the essentials – the Zenfone 6 has a headphone jack, dedicated microSD slot, FM radio receiver and stereo speakers. If there was only one IR emitter, we hear you sigh – well, it’s missing.

Moving on to the hands-on section, we’ll see how the Zenfone 6 performs off the paper and in the real world.

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