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Taiwanese ASUS promoted a major structural change with the Zenfone 3, leaving the plastic housing of the Zenfone 2 aside and betting on u with the combination of metal and glass, entering the high-end intermediate market once and for all.
With zenfone 4, the company raises the bar a little more and increases the fashion resource, the two camera system which, on the Zenfone 4, is on the back, but on other models of the family, it is on the front, as in the Zenfone 4 Selfie e Zenfone 4 Selfie Pro.
This new family consists of 6 models. In addition to Zenfone 4, Zenfone 4 Selfie and Zenfone 4 Selfie Pro, there is the Zenfone 4 Pro, and two versions of Zenfone 4 Max, one with 5,2 inch screen and the other with 5.5. We still don't know if they will all arrive in Brazil. This doubt, as well as the long-awaited price, will be resolved next Tuesday (03) at the event "We Love Photo, which will be held in São Paulo, with coverage of the showmetech.
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the leap of Zenfone 2 for the 3 was very significant and remarkable for the direction of the ASUS in the smartphone market. In Zenfone 4, the company focuses more on improving and including the feature of the moment, the dual-camera system, which can be applied in several ways. in the case of ASUS she bet on the wide-angle lens, which allows more elements to fit in the image.
No Zenfone 4 the main camera, commanded by the excellent sensor Sony IMX362, is 12 MP; while the secondary, which has a 120º viewing angle, is 8 MP. It is managed by the same sensor as the front camera of the device (which also has 8 MP), the omnivision 8856.
As with other models that apply two cameras, the secondary one is much lower than the main one, what really counts is the aspect of being able to put more elements in the photo. But for a good record the main camera is indispensable. On the right side of the cameras is the color correction sensor and LED flash.
If in this aspect the ASUS fits what is trending in the market, in of screen it is still far from its competitors, such as LG (G6), which are heading towards fewer and fewer edges. The use of the screen in relation to the body of the Zenfone 3 protocols for 4 remains virtually unchanged: 70,6% e 71,4%respectively.
As we are talking about an intermediate device, the question of leaving this screen with fewer edges on the side may even be justified, but it would have been very interesting if in the Zenfone 4 Pro, which is the high-end version, the ASUS walk to implement this function.
In this first , the 5,5-inch screen, although not AMOLED, like its more powerful brother, proved to be much brighter and more reliable in relation to the ZenFone 3.
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If, on the one hand, the double metal + glass Gorilla Glass 2,5D of Zenfone 3 was maintained, there were some positioning changes of some elements. At the Zenfone 3 the fingerprint reader is on the back, below the camera.
Now at Zenfone 4 it moved to the front, in the traditional application on the Home button. The 2mm P3,5 connector (for the headphone), which on the previous device was at the top, now moves to the top.
As with the Zenfone 3, the use of glass Gorilla Glass 2,5D on the Zenfone 4 on the screen and on the back guarantees the devices two things: resistance and a lot of fingerprints.
The main change, which is very welcome, is the drastic reduction of the rear camera bulge. At the Zenfone 3 was well jumped, in the ZenFone 4 (quite ing the Honor 8 da Huawei), it is smooth, following the rest of the housing, leaving the device much flatter.
A ZenUI is again present, this time in its 4.0 version, which runs under the Android 7.1.1 (Nougat). The interface is much better clean and there are fewer pre-installed apps, which certainly impacts less on performance. Although in performance the Zenfone 4 It should handle the bump without any problems.
This version that we received has the octa-core Snapdragon 660, 6 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage. There is also a “simpler” version, with the Snapdragon 630, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage.
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- Model: ASUS Zenfone 4 (ZE554KL)
- Screen: 5,5 inch SuperIPS+ with Full HD resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels) and Gorilla Glass 2.5D protection
- Processor: Snapdragon 660
- RAM memory: 6 GB
- GPU: Adreno 512
- Internal Storage: 64GB (expandable up to 256GB
- Connectivity: 4G LTE, Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, GPS
- Back camera: dual (12 MP and 8 MP)
- Frontal camera: 8 SM
- Battery: 3300 mAh
- Extras: fingerprint reader on the front
- System: Android 7.0 (Nougat) with ZenUI 4.0 interface
- Dimensions: 155.4 x 75.2 x 7.7 mm
- Weight: 165 g
Soon we will publish the complete Zenfone 4 review, with all our detailed impressions.
