Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Zenfone 6 Has A Crazy Camera Trick”.
It’S uh, it’s called the zenfone 6. I know nothing about it. To be honest, I mean, will he do just? He just showed up whether he said it’s interesting and exciting, and it’s a bit different, something that it does is a bit different. So I’m kind of pumped to check it out, in fact, all right so interesting phone here today, zenfone 6 got my hands on it. It’S apparently pretty interesting. A little bit different has a feature that I feel like I saw before a really long time ago. A feature that I think some people might be a fan of.
It’S got a Snapdragon, 855 8 gigs of ram it’s a case or oh, it is okay, basic kind of case this is the device. So you can start to see some of the specs here, as I mentioned, Snapdragon 820 5 latest flagship from Qualcomm. It’S got a six point. Four inch all screen a lot of people using that terminology.
These days nano edge display with Corning Gorilla Glass 6. So it should be pretty durable. You see a little diamond there and the flip camera, which is the interesting part of this particular device front and rear 48 megapixel Sony I MX 586 and then a 13 megapixel ultra light. Now, why would I want some crazy, flip II camera there? It is by the way – oh that’s cool and, of course, the reason is because you get your best camera to always be your camera.
Your best camera is always on the rear side of your device. For obvious reasons now on this one, I guess that’s not the case. Somehow. This thing is gon na flip around and you’re gon na get access to a dual and setup. You have your basic big sensor lens and then you’ve also got your wide-angle you’re gon na get that wide field of view that I’m such a fan of and also actually happens to be quite useful on a front-facing camera. So when the thing flips around, you can imagine that one being a popular choice, there’s still a fingerprint scanner in the rear uh.
You know what I’m not such a that’s, not such a problem. For me, I like these fingerprint scanners. I find them fast and reliable. Usb type-c down on the bottom here and also a headphone jack, there’s also a textured.
What is this some sort of a shortcut button? I’M guessing wills, telling me this button. It can trigger Google assistant, so it’s an assistant style button, Oh or you can customize it to do something else. So that’s kind, nice, nice little switch and it doesn’t have a texture. It has a tiny little texture to it.
Now. I should also mention, while I’m showcasing the outside of this device, it’s got a huge battery in it. That’S another differentiating factor and they really have a couple of differentiating factors. In this phone we’ve got type-c cable, there’s a semi-decent, pretty decent, looking headset included as well.
Interchangeable ear tips to go with that headset and then a quick charge power brick here, let’s boot this up, see if it has any power here. Oh it definitely does okay cool. Yes, it’s an all screen design, there’s a bit of a bezel around the sides and a chin as well, but no knotch. So the display is IPS and it’s six point.
Four inches fhd plus. So another cool thing about this device is it’s expandable. It’S actually got a triple slot. Look at the size of this SIM card tray.
It’S got a triple slot setup, so you can have two SIM cards: two nano sims and a micro SD card up to two terabytes. Of course, who’s buying two terabyte s; DS Micro has these. But that said on an earlier episode of Lew later downstairs: we showcased the one terabyte micro SD card, so that is a thing you can get right now. So if you’re, a big fan of local storage, not necessarily storing things in the cloud you can put a large micro SD card in here expand your storage from the available 256 gigs that comes on the phone alright, so this is pretty cool. This is the smart key that I was mentioning earlier, which can wake up Google assistant, and it actually is multifunctional one press will call up Google assistant press twice, it calls of Google assistant and then runs your personal updates press and hold and keep talking to.
Google assistant and then when you release assistant, will respond immediately, that’s kind of cool. You can also customize this Marquis function to fit your personal need all right. I like that this is set up.
Let’S get the brightness cranked up. Okay, so obviously not an OLED display. It’S not all bad, it does one thing: it helps to bring the cost of this thing into.
You know we’re kind of an attractive range retail price $ 4.99 kind of diving into the territory that oneplus just left. Honestly, I’m having one plus vibes just on a home screen here, the bezel – it’s a bit bigger here then on the oneplus device around the edges, but not so much so that it’s gon na be offensive. It looks like the experience here is pretty stock very stock. In fact, they’re calling it Zen UI, but it’s a very similar experience to stock Android. Okay, now, I’m not even gon na try to snap a rear camera yet because I’m just too curious, I got to hit this button here. We go. Oh it flips out it flips up. Did you witness this Jack? Why has no one thought of that? Look at this ready. It looks to me like we are fully in the era of motors on smartphones.
2019 is the motor year for smartphones. That is crazy. Why? You me you’ve got this amazing camera on the back of the device. Why not utilize it twice? Now, of course, it’s not all rosy. This means you’ve got this mechanism in place that motor you’re gon na have to trust it. I’M gon na switch between the portrait.
The the kind of typical focal length and wide so this switches over to the wide-angle, a 48 megapixel Sony, IMX 586 flagship sensor and then the secondary camera is a 13 megapixel, 125 ultra wide 125 degree field of view ultra wide. It’S got some sort of an HDR process going on right away, I’m definitely beautified. I got a toggle that back jack. That’S not me! What what is this? Am I not beautiful enough to you already so without HDR on? You can immediately pick up a little. More contrast in the old beard there that’s the wide one to give you an idea of focal range, and then we have the slightly closer one. It’S a nice selfie, it’s a good selfie.
I still feel like in the skin tones. It’S a bit softer a little more forgiving yeah, it’s pretty impressive man. I mean, if you’re into taking pictures of yourself. I mean you’re just getting way more resolution than you would typically get on a on a selfie image. Whoo, I feel like portrait mode, has done even better. Now the beard is even more distinguished, of course. It’S also capable 4k video you’re out like this, and you got the full resolution that Kirk’s right so another advantage here. You now have a flash on the front of your device and that’s the wide aspect ratio right there and then slightly more zoomed in on the standard focal range lots of resolution.
Very vibrant. Of course I’ve got to evaluate the speakers. First, let’s check out some dialogue on unbox therapy. Here, oh wow, okay, so they’ve included something called audio wizard, including DTS, surround sound, it’s currently in normal mode with volume maxed.
So, let’s head back to the video here, okay, my usual test here, where I check to see exactly where the sound is coming from vast majority is out of the bottom of the unit benefit. There is gon na give you a little bit more detail coming straight at you, but all your low-end, most of your frequency range is gon na come out of the bottom and you can block that. Unfortunately, it is possible. Let’S say I go to vocal on the DTS: it really works as well.
That’S a cool feature see that’s one of my my problems with a lot of these devices. Is that, like out of the box, they can be muffled in exchange for some extending the the base piece of your sound profile. This one gives you the option to select I’m curious when I play some music. So let’s go ahead and do that Wow.
Okay, now keep in mind it’s currently. This is loud okay, so it’s currently in voice enhanced mode. Oh, I don’t know, let’s try pop mode, it really changes the performance of it. I’M just gon na play it on the iPhone here.
Just for comparison, I’m putting a flagship territory, that’s that’s the iPhone. It’S a thousand dollar phone. I think I have to say a 499 I’m impressed regardless. That’S the way I’m gon na put it it’s up to your it’s gon na be a subjective choice.
There I’d say I was a bit concerned at first. It felt a bit muffled before I went into the audio wizard, that’s installed by default when you hit the settings on the volume meter again. Is this something you could achieve on a lot of smart phones? If you install some sort of third-party equalizer, maybe but they’ve done it right out of the box and some of their preset sound great, so at 499, I’m pretty impressed with that package right there sound wise this device is not OLED. So, to give you a breakdown of how that kind of a fit might affect you, there’s a quick one.
They’Re just gon na show you I’m out. If you need to click on a picture to show you what you’re giving up when you go away from all that, you might get slightly better battery consumption out of the LCD app will try to convince you of this with the iPhone 10 R. I think the main thing here is you’re getting a lower price point just way more contrast over here, especially when you see the white. Now, if I click on an actual pizza here I mean this is still like a pretty nice display from a detailed perspective.
It’S not gon na pop, like this one like the red over here. It’S not a bad looking display it’s just. Let’S not, let’s not pretend that it’s OLED cuz, it isn’t alright. So what can I say about this device? I think it’s kind of promising at this price I mean well, I’m constantly bringing a price, because that’s really what it comes down to. Of course, if you had unlimited money, you know why are you picking this phone over some other one unless you’re just really attracted to the motorized camera component, maybe they’re like a professional snapchatter or a Instagram user or something then this is really the only way to Get 48 megapixels big size sensor facing you with a monitor to view it and a Snapdragon e55. That’S the chip that you want right. That’S the horsepower you’re looking for and it’s becoming a little bit more difficult to find that chip at an accessible price, especially when it’s paired with a half-decent camera and a five thousand milliamp hour battery.
So I think it’s a pretty competitive price point at $ 4.99. I think the big question here is gon na be, if you just absolutely want to have OLED, but if you’re, like hey man, I only really care about the oullette thing. When I see them side by side, then that just exposes the fact that they look different and you might be right in this environment. This display. It looks good to me and I’m counting my extra dollars saved, while I’m flipping around my fancy camera.
So there’s a case to be made for it and then the other angle is the giant battery 5,000 milliamp hour battery. That’S no joke! I think, on this hardware. That’S gon na give you some serious battery life. You’Re.
Definitely gon na be charging this less than a lot of other competitors at this price point and other price points for that matter, and, of course, how could I forget? No, not as a consequence you’re just looking at all display. So when you pop open that YouTube video, it’s no distraction and I think that’s worth something. I think that’s actually a pretty pretty valuable thing and it’s increasingly the case. We have we’d, have more options, notch list options or a real thing in 2019, and that’s a good thing, but there’s also gon na be those of you that are apprehensive in the know. Motor camp you’re the same people that were commenting into one plus seven pro video was saying.
That’S just not for me, I’m not ready for a motor in my smartphone and that’s a valid point as well. Now I’m sure in this case the testing has been done as well. Just like three hundred thousand times.
I know one plus side, but you just can’t change the fact that it’s a moving part moving component and there’s a motor in your smartphone and up until now that just even wasn’t it wasn’t even a thing now you have options for which phone you want and Which motor this one has a cool factor can’t take that away, you’re, probably using some boring slab right now. That’S a party trick. You pull that baby out for the group. Selfie and people are like this.
Man is onto something you’re doing something. I’M not so we got to add a little value there as well. I think it’s an interesting package and I think it probably deserves some is the zenfone 6, but maybe the coolest craziest camera contraption. I’Ve seen definitely in a long time.
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