Asus Zenfone 3 is now $260 International version Unlocked. >5.2

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>>56781395

>snapdragon 625
>$260

No thanks. One must be fucking retarded to pay that much for a phone with only A53 cores.

The hardware is non-free

>>56781979
yet half of this board shills moto g4 /plus with its 617 at $200

>>56782152
Jesus fucking Christ it looks like gaymur trash.

>>56781395
i wont be buying another asus phone no matter how good it is after the shit show that was the zenfone 2

>>56782196
the zenfone and zenfone 2 were a botched experiment.

>>56781395
>Tell me why you wouldn't bite the bullet on one of these beauties.
well, I got a xiaomi, mainly.

>>56781395
because the redmi note 3 pro is a thing

>>56781395
Cuz I can get the ZE552KL for 287USD

Does it have a Micro SD card slot? Also, any ideas on battery life?

>>56781395
My Nexus 6P is too amazing.

I thought /g/ didn't like Asus. Most of their products have shit build quality or something. Which I believe, I had a motherboard from them die after less than a month.

>>56781395
I owned a Zenfone 2. It was a defective piece of shit.

>>56782430
https://www.asus.com/Phone/ZenFone-3-ZE520KL/

They also have the ultra cheap Zenfone 3 Laser line rolling out.
https://www.asus.com/Phone/ZenFone-3-Laser-ZC551KL/

$206 for the Laser

>lack of iMessage, Apple Pay, FaceTime, etc.
owning an Android phone is asking to be ostracized

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>>56781395

>>56782446
Well it says that the Laser has a 3000mAh battery but doesn't mention it for the regular ZenFone.

Overall I think the phone looks very good, won't be getting it though because I have a Note 5.

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>>56782471

I have a Zenfone 2 Laser with CM13. Not too bad, but could be better.

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>>56782541

>Zen UI
Nope.jpg

>>56781395
>Tell me why you wouldn't bite the bullet on one of these beauties.
Because it's not released, and I want the Zenfone 3 Deluxe.

>>56781395
>Tell me why you wouldn't bite the bullet on one of these beauties
runs Android
no keyboard
FullHD display
display's not AMOLED
USB C
assuming the battery can't last at least 3 days

>>56782620
AMOLED is shit

>>56782566
to remove ZenUI trash, either
>install a launcher
>root and customize with shit like Xposed
>root and install a custom ROM (such as CM)
>deal with it

>>56781395
Asus isn't really known for being great

>>56782652
Nah, it's great. Maybe you should try it instead of forming baseless opinions.

Can someone please explain all snapdragon 600 series and what is the SoC is the best.

>>56782681
652 is the current best of the 600 series

>>56782681
The best SOC is the Snapdragon 650/652. It's a great balance of power and battery life and even beat the Snapdragon 801 in benchmarks. But for some reason companies don't want to release many phones with this SOC.

>>56782671
Unnatural and oversaturated colors is not great, and enjoy pentile, samsung fanboy

>>56782681
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Qualcomm_Snapdragon_devices#Snapdragon_600_series
650

>>56782728
652 is a 650 with 2 more A72 cores

>>56782726
The blacks are amazing, when I'm in a dark
>Samsung fanboy
The fuck are you on about? Plenty of non-Samsung phones use AMOLED, mine included.

>>56782800
*when I'm in a dark room and watching a video with borders I can't tell where the screen ends and bezel begins

>>56781873
considering how few gays I know, this isn't a problem

Senpai isn't the 625 an unoptimized housefire? Why is asus using it instead of the more better 650

>>56782196
I like my Zenfone 2, except for the camara

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>>56782800
>The blacks are amazing
>when I'm in a dark
And this is one cause for buy AMOLED intead Super IPS?

>>56782196
this. My zenfone 2 is a fucking joke, I only bought it because my lg g2 got broken when I was in a car accident and I wanted something with a microSD card.

Zenfone 2 fucking sucks. Anytime someone ask me what phone they should buy I tell them anything motorola.

>>56782660
with the Zen 2 you HAVE to install CM, or remain outdated forever

>>56782897
They're amazing no matter the lighting. The point is that in the dark you can't see the bezels so you can't see where the screen ends. Of course that's not true when there's lighting because you can see the fucking bezels, you moron.

>>56782470
>please Apple, fuck my sweet ass harder!

>>56782723
Beats the 810 too, aside from vidya

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>>56782915
AMOLED has no real advantages over Super IPS, difference small, and those that are completely leveled pentile matrix

>>56782900
Should have gotten the snapdragon ZF2 Lasers

>>56783080
You can talk shit about AMOLED till you're blue in the face, I'm still sticking with it. Besides, that was just one of my many reasons I wouldn't buy the Zenfone 3.

>>56783080
I've flip flopped between AMOLED and IPS for the past 6 years in terms of phones, AMOLED is always better looking, better blacks, more color accurate, much better sunlight viewability, etc.

>>56782152
>software doesn't matter

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>>56782471

>Getting the date wrong
>Writing the date in the wrong format

Have fun living in your third world hell hole

>>56782196
>>56782900
Could you elaborate please? What's bad about the Zenfone 2? Honest question.
(I don't have one, wouldn't buy because no stock Android, just curious...)

>>56783174
0/10, date's accurate and format's correct.

>>56783186
>battery life sucks
I'm lucky to get 3 hours, i usually get 2.5 hours

>Screen sucks
can't see shit outdoors be it cloudy or direct sunlight

>updates
Phone was on 5.0 until last month when asus released a buggy as 6.0 for the device.

Then you have bloatware and the camera is poor. I'm not photofag but it's bad

>>56783126
Ok, who cares about you? Zenfone 3 has pretty Super IPS matrix, witch 420 ppi, and some people will not buy it probably due to the fact that has not heard that ASUS make not only laptops and motherboards but also a smartphones, well, or because they have already bought Chinese shit Meizu or Xiaomi and enjoy lags in Android shell with stolen from the Apple interface design.

Redmi 4 will have the sd625 and cost like $120.

$260 is sd652 territory.

>>56783272
>Ok, who cares about you?
OP, he asked why I wouldn't buy it. You can throw as big of a hissy as you want, I was just answering OP's question.

>>56783218

>Writing the day first
>Saying it's the 26th and not the 25th

Why are people from the eastern hemisphere such shit?

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>>56783174
Thanks!

>>56783304
I'm in the west, I'm just pointing out that DD/MM/YYYY is the proper way to go about things and that where he is it is the 26th.

>>56783304
>Saying it's the 26th and not the 25th
>not knowing what timezonew are
why are americans so dumb?

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Space time format is fine to?

>>56783323
I prefer YYYY/MM/DD

>>56782152
The new Lenovo/Motorola phones are basically overpriced chink shit.

>>56782152
Nobody is pushing the Moto G4.

Everyone is pushing Xiaomi/redmi shit instead.

>>56783262
That's what happens when they put an x86 turd in a phone.

>>56782358
>chinkshit
Anon pls

>>56785210
>Taiwanese shit
Anon pls

>>56782152
moto G4 is recommended because it's the best phones some anons can get, since they're not willing to chinkshit and want something their carrier has
Anyways, any chinkshit rapes the Zenfone bloat, and the Lenovo Zuk Z2 rapes everything about the Zenfone 3
>>56782433
ASUS shills do their rounds everytime a new Zenfone launches
>>56782541
>less than 5 hours SoT
Not even the Nexus 5 was this awful >>56783080
>AMOLED has no real advantages over Super IPS
heh
Enjoy your backlight bleed and blue "blacks"

>>56785210
>chink shit that has stable third party ROMs and easy bootloader unlock while zf3 doesn't.

It's the #3 most looked at phone on gsmarena, only beaten by a iphone7 and Samsung galaxy j7