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Last year there was a boom in smartphones with cutouts in their screens. “Bangs” and “unibrow” different shapes and sizes
- What is it?
- What is interesting ASUS ZenFone 6?
- What is included?
- What does ASUS ZenFone 6 look like?
- How good is the screen?
- What about performance, battery and wireless interfaces?
- What about the interface?
- How good are the cameras?
- In the dry residue
What is it?
ASUS ZenFone 6 - Android-smartphone with a largeIPS-screen 6.4 inches without cutouts, the flagship processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, 6/8 GB of RAM, dual PTZ camera and a capacious battery.
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The most interesting feature of the smartphone wasPTZ camera. Thanks to this, there are no cutouts in the screen, selfies can be taken with the main camera, and there are also interesting features with tracking autofocus and automatic panorama shooting without the need to turn with the smartphone. The main module is the flagship 48-megapixel Sony IMX586, size 1/2.0″, pixel size – 0.8 microns. A quad Bayer filter is used (combining four pixels into one). Aperture - f/1.79, EGF - 26 mm. There is phase detection autofocus and a laser rangefinder. Additional camera - ultra-wide-angle with a viewing angle of 125° by 13 MP. But the camera is not the only strong point of the smartphone. The smartphone has a 6.4-inch NanoEdge display without cutouts. It occupies 92% of the front panel surface area. An IPS matrix with a resolution of 2340x1080 and an aspect ratio of 19.5:9 is used. They promise 100% coverage of the DCI-P3 color space. Inside is the flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor, 6 or 8 GB of RAM and 128 or 256 GB of internal memory. The smartphone is powered by a 5000 mAh battery and supports fast charging. ASUS ZenFone 6 runs on Android 9 with its own shell. But, despite all these “flagship” chips, the smartphone has a number of features that are more common for models in the mid-price segment: IPS matrix (after all, flagships now have OLED), no under-screen fingerprint scanner, no wireless charging and no protection from dust and water.
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ASUS ZenFone 6 comes in beautiful blackbox with a schematic image and the name of the smartphone. Inside there is a smartphone, an 18 W power supply, a USB Type-C cable, a wired in-ear headset with replaceable ear pads, a simple transparent bumper, a paper clip for removing the tray and documentation:
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What does ASUS ZenFone 6 look like?
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At first glance it may seem that in front of us- a familiar modern smartphone with a screen that covers almost the entire front panel. This is partly true: the screen occupies 92% of the front panel. The frame on the sides and top is very thin, only the “chin” a little wider. I suspect that the screen cable is hidden there. Above the screen is a very thin slot for a speaker, which also serves as an additional speaker for stereo sound. A little to the right, the company managed to squeeze in an LED indicator and sensors were located somewhere nearby. There is no front camera because there is no need for it: its functions are performed by the rotating main camera. There are no logos or inscriptions on the front, the smartphone looks stylish and strict.
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The frame of the smartphone is metal, all functionalelements are conveniently and habitually. On the right - the standard power and volume buttons, and above - an additional programmable button with four points. The software allows you to assign anything to it:
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Bottom - Type-C connector, microphone, speaker and 3.5-mm headphone jack. The presence and location of the latter will definitely please fans to listen to music from a smartphone:
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On the upper side - an additional microphone and hinge of the PTZ camera:
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The tray is located on the left side of the smartphone:
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It is not a hybrid, you can install both 2 SIM cards and a memory card:
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The back panel is made of glass with curvedsidewalls. It has the ASUS logo and a fingerprint scanner slightly higher. Subconsciously, I expected an in-display scanner, but the company decided to use a more traditional option that has been proven over the years. Whether this is good or bad is up to potential owners to decide. The scanner itself works quickly and accurately, the location is convenient:
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And in the upper part there is that same rotary doublecamera with flash and laser rangefinder. The entire rotary module is made of metal. The material used is what the company calls an “amorphous alloy,” which is 80% lighter and 4 times stronger than stainless steel (as the manufacturer claims). To be precise, this is a development by Liquidmetal Technologies. The camera is driven by a stepper motor. It is claimed that the mechanism can withstand 100 thousand openings/closings. Plus, protective measures are provided: the camera automatically hides if the smartphone detects the process of falling (using an accelerometer) and you can safely close the camera with your hand, nothing will happen to it. This design has some controversial issues. The module rattles slightly and can partially open when shaken, and sometimes the fingers on the back panel prevent the camera from opening normally:
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The smartphone turned out to be not the thinnest and quiteweighty, due to the impressive battery. But this does not cause any discomfort. It feels very comfortable and expensive in the hand, and it looks nice. The black color is already a little boring and there is also a silver option. I hope that the prints on it will be less noticeable. The only thing that ASUS ZenFone 6 does not have compared to modern flagships is dust and moisture protection. But it also costs less than the flagships of Samsung, Huawei or Apple. Plus, you need to take into account the design features: the rotating mechanism of the camera would be difficult to make completely protected.
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The smartphone has a large 6.4-inch IPS screen with a resolution of 2340x1080 (pixel density is about 403 ppi) and an aspect ratio of 19.5:9. It supports HDR10 content, promises 100% coverage of the DCI-P3 color space and a peak brightness of 600 cd/m2 (when viewing HDR content). It is protected by 6th generation Gorilla glass with a very good oleophobic coating. The brightness reserve is decent, it is enough for the summer sun: the information does not fade to an unreadable state. The picture is nice, although after prolonged use of smartphones with OLED it looks unusual. In the settings you can adjust the scale of interface elements, font, enable night mode and choose between a light and dark design theme:
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There are three display modes: “wide color gamut”, standard and custom:
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In standard mode, maximum brightnesswas 438.327 cd/m2, black field brightness was 0.443 cd/m2, and static contrast was 989:1. At the same time, the color gamut is close to sRGB, and the picture goes a little into cool shades:
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In wide color gamut mode, the brightness, contrast and calibration in general are very close to the normal mode, but the color gamut is much wider than sRGB:
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Comparison with other models:
Device name
White field brightness,
cd / m2
The brightness of the black field,
cd / m2
Contrast
ASUS ZenFone 6
444.896
0.446
998:1
Xiaomi Redmi Note 7
415.638
0.562
740:1
Sony Xperia 10 Plus
509.3
0.513
993:1
Samsung Galaxy M20
375.216
0.369
1017:1
Huawei P20
348.752
0.263
1326:1
What about performance, battery and wireless interfaces?
The smartphone currently has the top one installedQualcomm processor is an eight-core 7-nanometer Snapdragon 855, which includes a 1×2.84 GHz Kryo 485 core, 3×2.41 GHz Kryo 485 and 4×1.78 GHz Kryo 485, and the Adreno 640 accelerator is responsible for graphics RAM can be 6/8 GB (there is also a Limited version for the 30th anniversary of the company with 12/512 GB, but I’m not sure that it will reach us). Built-in memory is 128 or 256 GB, fast UFS 2.1 is used. As expected, performance is more than excellent. It will be enough for another couple of years; all the most demanding modern games run at maximum settings. Any, even the most difficult applications also work fine, in any quantity.
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ASUS also has its own game utility Game Genie. It contains all the installed games, and from the interesting - there is a built-in streaming function in Twitch or YouTube:
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The benchmark results confirm that the platform is one of the most powerful (if not the most) to date:
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Throttling Test delivers maximum performancelasts for the first couple of minutes, then throttling is observed and performance drops to approximately 80%. Although there are no problems when using it:
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Wireless interfaces include dual-bandWi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac 2×2 MIMO, Bluetooth 5.0 (EDR + A2DP) with aptX and aptX HD support, NFC. The following global positioning systems are supported: GPS (dual bands, L1+L5), GLONASS (G1), BDS (B1), GALILEO (dual bands, E1+E5a), QZSS (dual bands, L1+L5). Works quickly and accurately.
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The sound in the speakers is loud and of high quality. The smartphone produces stereo using the main and conversational speakers. The 3.5-mm headphone jack is still there and it is in a convenient place. The sound in the headphones is not bad, there are additional settings:
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The smartphone has an impressive batteryat 5000 mAh. With very active use, the smartphone operates on a single charge day. When the average use, not denying yourself the games YouTube, soc. networks and using the camera, getting 2 days is no problem at all. The smartphone supports fast charging Qualcomm QuickCharge 4.0, but because of the large capacity to full charge you have to wait about 2 hours. Unfortunately, wireless charging was not delivered. To save battery, both standard Android 9 Pribluda Adaptive Battery and Digital Wellbeing, and its own power manager are provided:
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What about the interface?
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ASUS ZenFone 6 runs on Android 9 Pie OS withproprietary ZenUI 6 shell. Although, in fact, it does not transform the “pure” Android and doesn’t overload it at all. Everything is familiar, convenient, and works quickly. To work with large screens, some interface elements are shifted to the bottom of the screen. There are desktops and a separate application menu. As mentioned above, there is also a dark theme:
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There are three navigation options, with the classic three buttons, two buttons and gestures. Plus there are additional features in the form of a gesture on the scanner and gestures for launching applications:
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An additional physical button will also be useful. Three actions can be assigned to it. For a single, double and long press:
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The application manager is made as usual, in the form of a horizontal carousel of cards, under the thumbnails there is a button for quick transition to the two-window mode:
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To unlock the smartphone, you can usefingerprint scanner or face recognition. Last - it looks spectacular (the camera turns to recognize the owner), but there is a suspicion that it is not too safe.
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Plus there is something useful from proprietary applications. Weather, file manager, data transfer utility, mobile dispatcher and OptiFlex to speed up application launch:
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How good are the cameras?
The camera of the smartphone consists of two modules: 48-megapixel Sony IMX586 with f / 1.79 aperture, 1 / 2.0 ″ matrix. A Bayer quadruple filter is used (combining four pixels into one), so the resulting picture will have a resolution of 12 MP, but with higher detail. There is a phase autofocus and a laser range finder. There is no optical stabilizer, only electronic. Extra 13-megapixel extra wide-angle module with 125 ° viewing angle and f / 2.4 aperture, without stabilization. Of the interesting chips that were realized thanks to the PTZ camera, there is an automatic shooting of panoramas and tracking autofocus when shooting a video. The application is simple and intuitive: camera switching, zoom, HDR mode selection are placed on the main screen. Modes of shooting are switched by habitual svaypami. There is a night mode, with the software update I started working with an ultra-wide-angle camera:
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On the smartphone regularly arrive software updates andThe improvements mostly concern the work of the cameras. And the quality of the shooting objectively became better compared to what it was as soon as we got the ZenFone 6 to review. I think there will be more updates, but already now the main camera shoots very sensibly, including in the evening. Although the quality still a little does not reach the flagships of Samsung, Huawei, Apple. But the price of the smartphone below. By the way, there is already a working Google camera port, which is still slightly buggy, but works adequately with the main 48-megapixel camera. Photo examples:
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The wide-angle camera copes well during the day too, but in the evening it becomes much more difficult due to the lack of any stabilization and less high-aperture optics:
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In the dry residue
When creating ASUS ZenFone 6, the company largelyI made very unusual decisions: according to some parameters it is a typical flagship, but according to others it is a mid-level smartphone. But the result turned out to be more than interesting and worthy of attention. On the one hand, ASUS ZenFone 6 has top-end hardware, a very unusual and interesting design with a rotating camera, very good image quality, nice body materials, almost pure current Android 9 and an impressive battery (which is not often seen in flagships). On the other hand, “under the knife” We got such typical features for modern flagships as dust and moisture protection, an under-screen fingerprint scanner, an OLED screen and wireless charging. How critical they are is a subjective matter, but the result is a price tag18,000 UAH,which is significantly cheaper than current flagships from Samsung, Huawei or Apple. So the only serious competitors left are Xiaomi Mi9 or OnePlus 7.
6 reasons to buy ASUS ZenFone 6:
- top performance;
- high-quality IPS-display without cutouts;
- interesting design and quality materials;
- impressive battery life;
- decent camera;
- Separate trays for 2xSIM and MicroSD.
3 reasons not to buy ASUS ZenFone 6:
- somewhat flimsy and rattling design;
- you prefer OLED screens;
- you need dust and moisture protection.
ASUS ZenFone 6
Android smartphone with a large IPS-screen 6.4 inches without a cut, the flagship processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, 6/8 GB of RAM, dual PTZ camera and a capacious battery.
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Specifications ASUS ZenFone 6
Display
IPS, 6.4 inches, 2340×1080 (19.5:9 aspect ratio), 403 ppi, Gorilla Glass 6
Housing
dimensions: 159.1×75.4×9.2 mm, weight: 190 g
CPU
64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, 1×2.84 GHz Kryo 485 core, 3×2.41 GHz Kryo 485 and 4×1.78 GHz Kryo 485, Adreno 640 graphics
RAM
6/8 GB
Flash memory
128/256 GB, MicroSD
Camera
Dual rotating: 48 MP, f/1.79, 26 mm, 1/2″, 0.8µm, Laser/PDAF, ultra-wide angle 13 MP, f/2.4, 11 mm, 125°
Wireless technology
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (dual band, 2.4 and 5 GHz), Bluetooth 5.0 LE, aptX, aptX HD, NFC
GPS
GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO
Battery
5000 mAh, non-removable, fast charging
operating system
Android 9 Pie + ZenUI 6
Sim card
2xNanoSIM
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