![]() Synthetic benchmarks aside, the ZenFone 3 ran Warhammer 40,000: FreeBlade at maximum settings, with silky smooth frame rates and plenty of explosions on-screen while the game Asphalt 8: Airborne ran like a dream. GeekBench yielded an 830 single core score and 4012 multicore score. When put through benchmarks, the ZenFone 3 served up an average of 50fps at 1080p with high quality graphics on Epic Citadel.ģD Mark’s Slingshot ES 3.1 test yielded a score of 465 while Antutu yielded a respectable score of 61910. If the colours don’t quite appeal, you can tweak them yourself via the built-in display tweaker that lets you modify hue, saturation and colour temperature on demand though the phone has a preset Balanced and Vivid setting as well as a Bluelight filter mode for easier reading. Other videos were similarly delightful with Blade Runner’s dark tech noir imagery looking suitably moody with sufficiently deep blacks and relatively natural hues seeing the subject matter. The Fifth Element in Full HD was a delight with Leeloo’s fluorescent locks and vibrant scenery looking delightful on-screen. Viewing angles on the ZenFone 3 are excellent with luscious colours and pin-sharp text onscreen, though they are understandably not as vibrant as what you’d see on an AMOLED display. A smaller variant of the ZenFone 3 exists with a 5.2-inch Full HD display for those with smaller sized hands but is otherwise similar in terms of hardware. ![]() The front 5.5-inch Full HD LCD display is a thing of beauty with a crisp 401ppi and 600 nit brightness with super thin 2.1mm bezels on the edges. At this price range, the ZenFone 3 is one of the few phones that offer this large an amount of storage and RAM for under RM1700. The phone also comes with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of expandable storage via a hybrid SIM card that either lets you pack a SIM card and a microSD card or two SIM cards. It comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 2.0GHz processor of recent vintage made with the new 14nM FinFet manufacturing process that offers more efficiency in terms of power expenditure and performance paired with an Adreno 506 GPU. In terms of hardware, the ZenFone 3 aka the ZE552KL is somewhere at the upper end of the mid-range market. Aesthetically speaking, it’s easily the match of any flagship in the market. ![]() Chrome lines the beveled edges, the fingerprint reader and the edges of the camera housing, further adding to the classy look. The sides are metal, sandwiched between thin layers of 2.5D Corning Gorilla glass on the front and back. It is also one of the first ZenFones in their line-up to sport Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors and incidentally the first phone to come with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 625 SoC rather than the Intel processors of yore.Įxternally, the casing is lustrously smooth to the touch with excellent tactility and an even heft and weight that makes it a delight to hold. Rather than the plasticky designs of its predecessors, the ZenFone 3 sports a flagship-class, bespoke glass and metal build which looks and feels exceptionally classy. The phone supporting both wired and wireless charging is a bonus.ASUS’s latest successor to their ZenFone line is a significant step up for them in many ways. Overall performance with the Zenfone 10 is great: battery life is respectable for a device this small-it isn't going to last me all day on weekends when I am out 12-14 hours continuously, but on weekdays when I am at a desk for most of the afternoon, the phone can make it to end of day with juice left. Extreme customization can be overwhelming, but for power users such as myself, I love it. If you find these gestures gimmicky, you can turn them off and not be bothered. You can even shake the phone to turn on flashlight. There is an overwhelming number of shortcut gestures to trigger an action, from swiping on the power button to bring down the notification shade, to tapping the back of the phone to launch an app. It looks clean and minimal on the surface, but dig deeper and you'll notice it's the one of the two two most customizable Android skins right now, alongside ZTE's. It's running Android 13, but with Asus' ZenUI on top, and it's one of the best Android skins around. ![]() If we continue this grading theme, the Zenfone 10's software gets an A+. ![]()
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