"Asustek's quality is as solid as a rock". With the familiar advertising words, people will first think of Asustek's computer hardware and laptops. The computer I assembled for my own use is ASUS motherboard. It has been used for nearly five years and has not broken down. It is very reliable and its quality is really rock solid.

Recently, a new member, ASUS Mobile, came to my home. My little brother lives in a small county town. I told my friends around me that they had never heard of it. They were surprised that ASUS also has a mobile phone. It can only be said that ASUS is too low-key and does not know how to promote. In today's mobile phone industry, the competition is so fierce that if it still relies on the reputation marketing of PC, it will be too backward.

Asus mobile phones are unfamiliar to everyone. Today's protagonist, Asus selfie, knows fewer people. In this case, let me introduce it to you.

☆ Impression of unpacking

When I first got the phone package, I wondered if it was a 5.5 inch phone. The package was very small, at least the smallest smart phone package I had ever seen.

The packaging adopts the front and back pull design, and there is a corner cut opening at the bottom, which can easily take out the inner box. In addition, there is a small handle marked with an arrow symbol, which can be dragged out directly. In order to facilitate the unpacking, these two designs are also quite different.

There are several circular holes on the side, which can show the main parameters of the logo on the inner package, but the holes are smaller, and the text part can not be shown.

The packaging design at the bottom seems a bit unusual, with dense small characters and bar codes. At this time, it will be remembered that this is a Taiwan brand mobile phone, and this design is not surprising.

Open the package, and you can see why the package is so small. The mobile phone occupies the whole position straightly. Fortunately, the package is very tight and there is no gap. When it was delivered, it was wrapped with bubble pads.

Below the phone are accessories, including power plug, data cable, manual, warranty card and bar code sticker.

Mainland mobile phone brands and new phones have a layer of film on the screen, while ASUS has shown a difference by covering a layer of plastic film on the new phone.

☆ A familiar face

The front of ASUS selfie is equipped with a 5.5 inch 1080P screen and the latest fourth generation glass from gorilla. The hardness is very high, so we can say goodbye to the tempered film. In addition, there is an anti fingerprint coating on the surface, so the operation touch is very natural and has a round feeling.

The frame still doesn't feel good when the screen is turned off. When the screen is turned on, I can't stand it. In fact, compared with the 5.5 inch nut mobile phone, the width is almost the same, but visually it is not as narrow as the nut frame.

The Chinese name of ASUS selfie is Shenpai machine. As the name implies, taking pictures is the biggest feature of this mobile phone, especially taking selfies is a highlight.

This feature is also reflected in the design of this mobile phone. Since it dares to be called the "magic camera", a large wide-angle camera with 13 million pixels in front is necessary, which also makes the front appearance highly recognizable. A big eye in the middle of the top of the mobile phone is particularly conspicuous.  

On both sides of the front camera are dual color temperature flashlights and earphones. In order to match the large eye camera, the flashlights and earphones have to be designed vertically, which is practical without being particularly abrupt and does not damage the overall appearance of the phone.

The earpiece is flat with the mobile phone screen without worrying about dust accumulation.

At the bottom of the front, there is quite a bit of double chin characteristics of Taiwan brands, and the concentric circle design of ASUS notebook series is also inherited. The jaw design of ASUS mobile phone is much more beautiful than that of HTC. With the concentric circles of metal color, it gives a particularly masculine feeling. If the mobile phone also has gender, it is like a "tough guy".

Asus selfie uses touch keys, including return, home page, and multi task keys. However, it is not equipped with LED lights, and can only be identified by light reflection. The lights are good, but when the lights are off, it has to rely on inertia.

The top of the phone is the power on button, which is designed in the middle. There is a noise reduction microphone on the right. In addition, because the back of the phone is curved and too thin near the edge, the 3.5mm headphone connector cannot be placed symmetrically with the noise reduction microphone.

The bottom is a micro USB interface, and there is also a noise reduction microphone beside it. The call effect is very good, and the people opposite can also hear clearly. It is usually used for recording, and the effect is also very good.

The back of the phone is curved, high in the middle and thin around, especially on both sides, so there is no button on both sides. The visual effect is very beautiful, but there is a groove on one side to open the back cover.

The volume key originally located on the side can only be designed on the back of the phone. The volume key is also designed as a concentric circle, but the key is hard and slender, affecting the feel. In addition, the power on key is designed in the middle of the bottom. When you screen capture with the volume key, you can't do it with one hand.

Above the volume key is a 13 megapixel camera, with laser focus and dual color temperature flash on both sides, which is the same layout as the front.

There are four rows of thin and long holes at the bottom of the back, which are the speakers of the mobile phone.

This time, we got the ASUS selfie blue version and the diamond version, but the back cover is different, and other configurations are the same. The back cover can be opened, and the battery is also of a detachable design, which is really rare in today's aircraft market. It would be more conscientious if another battery was equipped as a standard.

In addition, it also supports dual cards and dual standby, and supports sd card expansion (up to 128G expansion). The sim card slot and the sd card slot adopt the upper and lower layer design, without affecting each other.

☆ The age of looking at faces

In this era, whether looking for a job or dating, people have a high face value, which always makes people more accessible; Even when sending friends' circles, they are all self portraits of beautiful and handsome friends. Although they will scold the sand and water in their hearts, they will still make beautiful comments on their hands.

The camera is a mobile phone that knows this era best. It is equipped with a 13 million pixel, f2.2 aperture, 88 degree super wide angle camera and a dual color temperature flash light, so that you can shoot yourself in any environment without fear.

The selfie interface has many modulation functions, and those who have used beauty cameras will be familiar with it. Skin beauty, blush, and eye size can be adjusted and displayed in real time; Slide the photographing button upward to achieve a countdown shooting of up to 5 seconds. It is very convenient to take a selfie.

Next, Yi Xun's lightning Xiake will pose as a small model to show you the macro shooting ability of the front camera. From the sample, we can see that the texture of the clothes is very clear, the main body is prominent, and the back is slightly blurred.

I was lucky to invite my little niece and girlfriend, who were more than one year old, to show up. She was a little feverish on the day of taking the photo, and she was very happy when she took the photo. Especially the voice of the countdown of the self timer, "Ding, Ding, Ding", she also shouted out. The children's skin is very white and tender. At last, I can't tell which of the following pictures has been beautified. The following samples are taken indoors in the daytime ↓

This is the proof of no beauty shooting under the indoor light at night, and the hair is clearly visible ↓

The rear camera is also a 13 million pixel camera, with a large aperture of f2.0, and laser focusing. The advertising can focus for 0.03 seconds, but in practical applications, it is fast when the light is sufficient, and it is slow when the light is dim. It takes several times to focus successfully.

There are still many shooting modes, which can meet a variety of shooting requirements and have high playability.

I wanted to use a nut mobile phone to shoot a comparison, but the price difference is too much. Just as the author has a 32G touch5, the price is almost the same. It's OK to compare them.

The shooting environment of the day was cloudy and foggy. In the panorama mode, ASUS well reflected the environmental state of the day. Touch5 filtered the foggy environment, and the samples were brighter. The close-up plants in the lower left corner were restored accurately. The ASUS samples were obviously darker ↓

The close-up shooting effect is almost the same, but this time the ASUS sample became bright, which is closest to the shooting state at that time, but the details are lost. The tree pole in the upper left corner is no longer clearly visible, while touch5 has reduced the brightness, but the details are well preserved. Both have gains and losses, and the trade-offs are different.

It's too cold outside. Go to the supermarket and take a look at the fruits and vegetables under the light. Asustek is colorful and attractive. Touch is brighter and more realistic than others.

The following group of samples is obviously different. In fact, ASUS is biased, touch 5 is bright, and the real sample should take the middle value between the two.

The first picture is taken normally in macro mode, with a slight depth of field effect. The second picture is a sample picture after the depth of field effect function is turned on. The effect is more obvious, the main body is more prominent, and the picture is brighter.

Enable sample comparison in HDR mode ↓

Enjoy the samples taken in automatic mode ↓

Night view samples ↓

☆ System experience

At present, almost all the hardware configurations of mobile phones are sufficient. ASUS Selfie can also stand out in appearance. The key point of each competition is still user experience. The importance of user experience is also reflected in UI. Good UI design makes people look more pleasing. Asus selfie is equipped with the Zen UI system developed based on Android 5.0.2. Some prefer the native Android system style. It uses a secondary desktop, and can also be set as a single desktop according to personal preferences.

The icons are mainly rounded rectangles, and the theme can also be changed. However, compared with the theme library of miui and flyme, zen ui is a little poor. There are some APPs in the new machine. Fortunately, they can all be deleted.

The drop-down notice bar uses a pure white background. Compared with the current ground glass special effect, it is more fresh and elegant with cyan decoration. You can also customize the options of the notice bar.

The multi task interface is presented in the form of cards, and with 3G running memory, the switching application is smooth and smooth. Power on occupies more than half of the memory, which is related to the memory operation mechanism of the latest Android system. This is very normal, and is to enable applications more quickly.

It is very convenient to search directly and quickly on the dial interface; The call interface and short message interface are fresh and natural, mainly simple and practical.

The most important thing to guard against in daily use of mobile phones is the attack of bear children, which can bankrupt you in minutes and make your mobile phones disorderly.

Asus selfie has a built-in child mode. After it is turned on, it becomes a child's mobile phone with a cute interface. You can set your own applications for children to play with and how long you can play. The most important thing is that you need a password to exit the child mode; In order to prevent children from calling you to hang up while playing games, passwords are also required. I want to say that ASUS has done a thorough research on bear children.

A good mobile phone is suitable for both young and old people. There is a child mode, and naturally there is an elderly mode. But ASUS calls it a "simple mode", which really understands the heart of the elderly.

In simple mode, the icon text is very large and easy to understand; A contact interface can be set separately, which is convenient to dial at any time; The setting interface only gives simple and most commonly used options, making it easier for the elderly to operate.

The large screen has many advantages, but sometimes it is really inconvenient to operate. Fortunately, ASUS has prepared a one handed mode for everyone, which can be accessed by double clicking the home key. You can customize the size of the screen, and it also has a virtual key, which makes the operation easier. All applications can run perfectly in the small screen.

In addition, you can also display the customized host information on the screen, which is similar to the startup greeting in the era of function machines. Asus selfie adopts the fourth generation gorilla glass, and good horses are equipped with saddles, so it supports the glove mode. For our northern partners, it is really necessary.

ASUS selfie is highly customized, and almost every function can be adjusted. Here we take sound effect and screen color temperature as examples.

The sound effect can be set to four kinds of scene special effects. Each scene can adjust the relevant audio parameters to your favorite music style, which is very good for music enthusiasts. It's almost meaningless to talk about the cold and warm screens on mobile phones now. They can adjust the color temperature. Asustek goes further and adds the blue light filtering eye protection function. After this function is turned on, it is effective for all applications. Personally, I feel it has turned yellow, which is still good in dark environments.

It is necessary to have a security center on the mobile phone. It is called an intelligent butler on ASUS. It can perform power saving management, self starting management, traffic management, and notification management. The interface parameters are few, but they are very practical.

These management functions are system level, and the system's own applications can be set.

The camera has laser focus, and a laser ruler is used to measure the size of objects with the camera. The actual use effect is not ideal, and my nut phone has been measured to a length of 36cm...

The flashlight application, with the sos signal light mode, can also change the mobile phone screen to the full white state and the brightness to the highest.

The most distinctive applications are ASUS Three Swordsmen share link, PC link and Smart Gesture. These three applications are all compatible with computers. After the phone is connected to the computer, it will be automatically installed. It can also be installed without the network. To the extent, it is built-in and stored in the phone.

Shark link has the same function as eggplant fast transfer. Data can be transferred to each other through wifi, and folders are also available. It is very fast and practical.

The PC link application is my favorite. It can generate an image of the phone on the computer and perform a series of operations on the computer, including screen capture and recording, with almost no delay.

The most interesting thing is to use this function to chat. You can directly use the keyboard and mouse to operate, which is very good.

Smart Gesture is to turn a mobile phone into a remote control to control the computer. The software says that it can be connected through wifi, but my actual measurement failed. The computer does not have Bluetooth, so I did not try.

The ASUS battery is very durable. It can last for one and a half days in medium use. It can also switch different modes according to the power to obtain greater performance or endurance. You can also set intelligent switching, automatically switch to the power saving mode at night, turn off the network and other functions. It will consume about 2% of the power when you stand by for 10 hours, which is very good.

The charging speed is too slow. The nut cell phone used now takes about three and a half hours to fill up, while Asus takes about four hours to fill up, which makes people speechless.

☆ Mobile phone performance

ASUS selfie uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor, eight cores, maximum frequency of 1.5Ghz, 3G running memory, 16G storage, no pressure on daily applications, very smooth.

Everyone likes the score run of Anthare, which is actually useless. Just look at the data, and only look at the score run. In the words of Huang Zhang, it is the lifting wire. I also don't recommend that you always run points. When you run points, your mobile phone is running at full load, which is not good for mobile phones. In addition, in daily use, there are few applications that run at full load.

Personally, I prefer to use the GPU linear graph to test the fluency of the mobile phone. When using this to test, you should consider the network speed and the storage speed of the mobile phone. If you do not open the linear graph itself, you will feel that the mobile phone is very smooth. After you open the linear graph, you will find that the linear graph is too high. This phenomenon basically occurs when the mobile phone reads data, so you should also see it.

The switching between desktops is very smooth with the naked eye. After opening, it will be found that the data is too high between the animation switching effects. Asustek still needs to continue to optimize the UI.

Youku APP is a data hungry application. When it was first opened, the data loaded into the bar graph was the highest, and it began to calm down after data buffering. In fact, the daily experience was completely unaffected.

The following are examples of Weibo, Taobao and Tieba. The best way to test mobile phones is whether these three applications are smooth. From the bar graph, it is rare to exceed the green line, and 3G memory is still great.

☆ Conclusion

The competition in the mobile phone market is so fierce that it is really hard to see the mainstream hardware configuration and powerful self timer performance in today's mobile phone market. The Zen UI has a complete range of functions. Although it is not so gorgeous, it is very practical. The only problem is that the functions are complex and not integrated. It is difficult to find when using it, and there is still much room for improvement.

Asus selfie's tough appearance, coupled with the cute big eye camera, has injected a sense of tenderness, which can be used by both men and women. If you also like the rock solid quality of Asus, it is really worth trying.