The Asus Zenfone 2 fills an interesting niche as an Android phone full of deep customizations, yet one that sells for half the price of similarly sized phablets. Typically, Android tinkerers who want to invest a lot of time into customizing their phone also have to pay full price for a flagship.

-Installed Android 6.0.1, it wiped out most, if not all of the bloatware. This also improved the auto rotate issue, wasn't a complete fix but I hardly notice if it fails anymore. -Look up rotation control under the app store, there are some good apps that give you complete control of the rotation,...

-Size, I like the big screen, and a clear picture; -The camera is great! I have read bad reviews on it, I'm guessing they didn't try to use the HDR functions; -Expandable, I currently have a 200gb microSD in mine.

-Auto rotate doesn't work all the time; this is a known problem with this phone

I had this model Asus Zenfone 2 4/64 since Nov/2015, it's been working great since a few weeks ago started dropping signals and showing a message for not net/data availability.

I bought this phone "Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML" on 1st August, From Day 1 I experienced lot of issues with this phone, boot up problem started from Day 1 itself. This phone is becoming unusable day by day :( Currently Camera is not working, On and off button not working, Touch screen not responding,...

i dont know if issues is limited to this particular one i received...my issues are (1) phone dont have side volume buttons (2) when place a call phone black out, so you dont have options of pressing any buttons..

World domination was surely on the mind of at least one top exec over at Asus headquarters, when the crew gathered to outline the Zenfone 2 game plan. The smartphone will be sold globally, and the stores in a few lucky countries already have their shelves well stocked.

5.5-inch IPS capacity touchscreen with 1080p resolution and 403ppi density; Gorilla Glass 3 protection; Intel Atom Z3560 chipset with a 1.8GHz quad-core processor; PowerVR G6430 GPU; 2GB of RAM; 16GB of storage and a microSD slot for further expansion; Dual-SIM; Dual Call capability; LTE Cat.4; NFC,...

No 2160p video recording; Non-removable battery despite the removable back cover; Rather large and hefty; Zenfone 2 has a confusing naming convention - not only are there several of them; but ZE551ML comes in two hardware versions

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

"The next billion people." Google used that term several times during its recent developer conference, and maintains that Android's future is the future of computing, connecting the poor and disenfranchised….

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 has unveiled the ZenFone 2, a brushed-metal successor to the first ZenFone that debuted at last year's CES. We've spent a few minutes with the 5.5-inch device and can confirm it looks and feels great.

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...