A $400 Smartphone for Creepers - ASUS Zenfone Zoom - CES 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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ASUS Suite they looked on in horror as I
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lifted the display cases up and put my grubby Paws all over their precious
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demos this year well they've apparently
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completely given up because in front of me I have not one not two not three not
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four I'm not even G to try and pick up the fifth one but five of the upcoming
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Zen phone Zoom to show off to you guys
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because they've realized they can't stop me anyway so they might as well just let
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me get my grubby pause on it this is looking like a pretty impressive
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followup to the Zen phone 2 that I reviewed earlier this year with the
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specs being well about what you'd expect so you've got a z3500 series Intel quad
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core processor four gigs of this is interesting dual Channel DDR3 memory 64
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gigs of storage micro SD expansion you've got their usual Zen UI uh you've
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got um I don't know I guess what else am I really going to say about it like it's
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pretty responsive this is cool though uh the bloatware apps that I complained
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about on the Zen phone 2 they now have a tool yes my friends you're are going to
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download an ASUS tool for once to just remove all of it poof but the real
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killer for this one oh yeah 5 and 1/2 inch LCD display
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1080p okay I'll get on with it the real killer for this one is in the zoom name
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yes my friends it has a 3X optical zoom
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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
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like oh yeah so you pinch and drag I'm like no no no no no no no no optical
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zoom means with glass with Optics they've got a 10 element camera lens
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construction doad thing that they've got blown up here next to me that allows you
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not only to zoom in with glass but it
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also has Optical image stabilization so you can see in these test shots that I'm
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doing even at a reasonable distance it's holding it pretty darn still and I am
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getting impressive detail I mean low light performance was already a strength
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of the Zen phone line and it looks like we're seeing nothing but Improvement
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here now the thing is that it's not going to come in you know cheap as chips
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like a traditional Zen phone might you're not going to be buying one for 99
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in fact the 64 gig storage skew is going to be $3.99 but that is an un locked
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non-carrier restricted phone it does have swappable back plates so you can
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customize the look of it you know if you're into orange say for example like
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uh lonus then you can do that kind of thing and this is looking pretty darn
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impressive definitely steps in the right direction because isn't that the ASUS
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way do it then do it pretty well then do
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it for real and I think we're finally getting to that last stage so thanks for
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checking out our video on the Zen phone Zoom here at ces2 16 I want to take a
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