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ASUS Suite they looked on in horror as I
lifted the display cases up and put my grubby Paws all over their precious
demos this year well they've apparently
completely given up because in front of me I have not one not two not three not
four I'm not even G to try and pick up the fifth one but five of the upcoming
Zen phone Zoom to show off to you guys
because they've realized they can't stop me anyway so they might as well just let
me get my grubby pause on it this is looking like a pretty impressive
followup to the Zen phone 2 that I reviewed earlier this year with the
specs being well about what you'd expect so you've got a z3500 series Intel quad
core processor four gigs of this is interesting dual Channel DDR3 memory 64
gigs of storage micro SD expansion you've got their usual Zen UI uh you've
got um I don't know I guess what else am I really going to say about it like it's
pretty responsive this is cool though uh the bloatware apps that I complained
about on the Zen phone 2 they now have a tool yes my friends you're are going to
download an ASUS tool for once to just remove all of it poof but the real
killer for this one oh yeah 5 and 1/2 inch LCD display
1080p okay I'll get on with it the real killer for this one is in the zoom name
yes my friends it has a 3X optical zoom
so it's funny because if I'm talking to someone like my sister and I say okay you can zoom on your phone she'll be
like oh yeah so you pinch and drag I'm like no no no no no no no no optical
zoom means with glass with Optics they've got a 10 element camera lens
construction doad thing that they've got blown up here next to me that allows you
not only to zoom in with glass but it
also has Optical image stabilization so you can see in these test shots that I'm
doing even at a reasonable distance it's holding it pretty darn still and I am
getting impressive detail I mean low light performance was already a strength
of the Zen phone line and it looks like we're seeing nothing but Improvement
here now the thing is that it's not going to come in you know cheap as chips
like a traditional Zen phone might you're not going to be buying one for 99
in fact the 64 gig storage skew is going to be $3.99 but that is an un locked
non-carrier restricted phone it does have swappable back plates so you can
customize the look of it you know if you're into orange say for example like
uh lonus then you can do that kind of thing and this is looking pretty darn
impressive definitely steps in the right direction because isn't that the ASUS
way do it then do it pretty well then do
it for real and I think we're finally getting to that last stage so thanks for
checking out our video on the Zen phone Zoom here at ces2 16 I want to take a
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