Asus has consistently thrown a few impressive announcements over the years, mostly along the affordable angle. The Zenfone 2's starting price of US$199 and the above average hardware that comes with it are head-turning, but as with all affordable smartphones, the caveat won't be known till we've...

Asus ZenFone 2 has 5.5 inch IPS display screen having 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) resolution at 403ppi. It is running on latest Lollipop OS. It is powered by Intel Atom Quad Core Processor running at 1.8/2.3GHz. It has front 5MP and rear 13MP camera.

Powerful processor; Good battery support; Good display resolution; Good camera configuration

Not user replaceable battery

Launched last year, the ZenFone 5 was intended to be a smartphone with great cost/benefit ratio. In that, it was successful. Now, ASUS launches this new device, the ZenFone 2, which is very superior to its predecessor, not even being a replacement or a competitor in market.

Great cost/benefit ratio; Big screen with Full HD resolution; Sturdy; Great design; Excellent performance; 5 MP front camera; 13 Mp rear camera; Supports microSD memory card; Support for two SIM cards; Supports 4G LTE; Supports NFC; Fast battery charge

Could be thinner; Does not record movies at 60 fps or at 4K

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Excellent price to performance ratio; Good screen quality; Dual-SIM useful for travellers; Lots of camera settings; including a good manual mode; Fast and stable; Good battery life; Exhaustive North American LTE network support

An absurd amount of bloatware pre-installed; Camera quality is inconsistent and often poor; Large and heavy frame

Asus launched its Zenfone 2 (ZE551ML) series with 4GB of RAM in India in April starting at Rs. 19999. The Zenfone 2 is the successor of last year's Zenfone 5 and Zenfone 6 smartphones, which were a huge success for the company.

4GB of RAM and powerful 64-bit SoC offers good performance; Good gaming performance; 32GB of internal storage with expansion slot; Dual Active SIM support

Average camera; Battery life could be better; No data support in SIM 2

It has decent benchmark scores, it ticks most performance boxes, and well, the Asus ZenFone 2 (the 32 GB, 4 GB RAM version, 2.3 GHz processor version) does all this at a price that is only slightly above that of the 16 GB fixed memory avatars of the likes of the Xiaomi Mi 4 and the OnePlus One – Rs...

Asus ZenFone was among one of the best sellers in the year 2014 and is still selling like hot cakes. It was ZenFone 5 which created a lot of buzz in the town. Cutthroat pricing and amazing specs was the main reason behind the success of ZenFone series.

Asus Zenfone 2 is one of the few squad members from the house of Taiwanese Tech Giant. This one from Asus is strong and agile enough to make its presence felt in the battleground against the likes of Xiaomi Mi4, HTC Desire 820Q and the stunning OnePlus One .

Snappy Performance; Featured Packed; 4G LTE enabled; Crisp and Vivid Screen; Fast Charging Technology; Decent Camera

No IR Blaster; Mediocre Battery Performance; Heats Up Quickly

There was much noise made over the past couple of months over ASUS' latest smartphone device, the ASUS Zenfone 2. It is the Taiwanese tech company's latest foray into the smartphone business, and boasts a variety of features that are great to have.

Performance; Features; Camera

Battery

Asus is a name that nearly everyone knows, although very few know for sure how to pronounce it . For years they have made laptops that have been popular with the general population.

Minimal skin; small deviation from stock AOSP; Good looking device; Additions see to be decoupled from the ROM and are updated through the Play Store; Amazing value for money; Fast charging

Can slow/lag at times; Average battery life; Inclusion of third party software