Asus Zenfone Live review, specifications and price in India

Asus is already very famous for their Zenfone series, a series of the mid-range phones which especially attracts the Indian mobile phone market. Today, the Taiwanese leader in mobile technology, unveiled ZenFone Live, the world’s first smartphone with hardware-optimized, real-time beautification technology, in an event in New Delhi.

The new Asus Zenfone Live is a power packed device specifically aimed at all the selfie-freaks. Apart from that too it has many other great features. Let’s have a quick look at the specifications for the same.

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Specifications:

Design		Premium-crafted metallic finish with 2.5D arc glass Slim bezel: 2.36mm Light weight: 120g
Display, Resolution		5-inch High Definition (1280×720) IPS display 75% Screen-to-Body ratio Bluelight filter for eye protection
PixelMaster Camera	Front Camera	World’s 1^st Live streaming, real-time beautification technology 5MP with large 1.4µm Pixel Sensor for 2x light sensitivity Soft-light LED front flash for natural skin tones 82? wide view angle, ƒ/2.2 aperture Real Time Beautification / HDR / Lowlight Selfie modes
	Rear Camera	13 Megapixel PixelMaster camera ƒ/2.0 aperture, 5P lens Single LED flash for natural skin tones
	Camera features*	7 camera modes for the Front Camera: Real Time Beautification, Night, HDR Pro, Effect, Low-light, Time Lapse, Auto 12 camera modes for the Main Camera: Real Time Beautification, Low light, Selfie, HDR Pro, Super Resolution Night, Effect, Panorama, Time lapse, Children, QR code, Auto
Audio		Dual MEMS microphones for clearer voice quality & less noise ICEpower enhanced 5-Masgnet Speaker for louder sound and less distortion Smart Amplifier technology for up to 4X sound volume Audio Wizard for enhanced audio experience
Performance		Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ Quad-Core Processor Adreno 305 GPU
Memory	RAM / ROM*	2GB RAM, 16GB ROM (MicroSD support up to 128GB SDXC) 100GB of Google Drive space for 2 years
Wireless		Dual SIM Dual standby (2G/3G/4G) Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi-Direct, Miracast, hotspot, Bluetooth V 4.0 LTE Cat. 4 GPS/AGPS/GLONASS
Battery		2650mAh Li-ion battery (non-removable)
OS		Android 6.0 with ZenUI 3.0

Here’s our detailed video review of the Asus Zenfone Live.

But the most exciting feature of the Zenfone Live is undoubtedly its BeautyLive app.

BeautyLive App:

ZenFone Live’s all-new BeautyLive app introduces the world to real-time beautification, allowing users to create and maintain the perfect look when going live on their favorite social-networking sites.

BeautyLive combines smart software algorithms and hardware acceleration to automatically smooth skin and removes blemishes, and it integrates seamlessly with Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. The result is the ability to craft and broadcast instant glamor that keeps the user looking as beautiful as they want to be throughout every live-streaming session. The BeautyLive feature works with both front and rear camera.

ZenFone Live’s front-facing camera is made for snapping sharper, clearer selfies. The sensor has extra-large, 1.4?m pixels that improve sensitivity to light by up to 200 percent compared to smartphones with standard smaller pixels. ZenFone Live also has a soft-light LED flash that illuminates true skin tones, and it’s equipped with a wide-angle lens with an 82° field of view — so users are able to frame, capture details in wide angle and broadcast it to the world.

ZenFone Live also has a 13MP rear camera with f/2.0-aperture, five-prism rear lens, and benefits from ASUS PixelMaster’s industry-leading low-light technology to increase light sensitivity by up to 400 percent. It also enhances noise reduction and boosts color contrast by up to 400 percent. It supports up to 12 different camera modes, including real-time Beautification, Low Light, and Super Resolution modes, to captures beautiful high-resolution photos.

Here are some stills from the same.

As you can see, the camera here is seriously good and give excellent results in all light conditions.

Speakers:

Another improved feature here is the sound quality in the new Zenfone Live. ZenFone Live features a powerful speaker with a five-magnet design and metal voice coil to produce loud and clear audio with supreme quality in every scenario. This speaker is powered by a smart amplifier that increases audio resolution and loudness while ensuring that the speaker is not damaged. ZenFone Live also features DTS Headphone:X™, a revolutionary surround-sound technology that synthesizes a full 7.1-channel virtual surround-sound experience, making all content sound better over headphones and with this unique combination, ZenFone Live produces and delivers audio that’s up to 67 percent louder than the previous generation, while also extending low-frequency reproduction by up to 17 percent and reducing distortion by up to 15 percent.

Verdict:

At a price of INR 9,999, this isn’t exactly a device that will mesmerize you. At the same price, Xiaomi offers a lot more like more RAM and internal storage, Asus could have increased the RAM at least to 3 GB here which is the standard these days. Also, the processor is not up to the mark. Asus Zenfone Live do have a great camera, no doubt on that, but overall this could have been a better device.