Today, Asustek held a press conference at Sheraton Huzhou Hotel (Moon Hotel) to announce that the sales of Zenfone series mobile phones reached 20 million in 2015. In order to further expand the domestic market, it specially launched the latest Zenfone Pegasus 3 smart phone, with the intention of entering the hot 1000 yuan mobile phone market, How does Pegasus 3 actually perform?

Packaging and accessories

The packaging is relatively simple, and the popular small packaging is used. The design on the package and the font of "Pegasus 3" are specially designed to highlight the name and relevant characteristics of the model. Asus does a good job in some details.

On the back is the product information, including the IMEI number. What we got is the engineering machine. The core configuration is 1.25GHz MT6737+2G RAM+16G ROM. The price of the mass production model should be 1299. Asustek also provides the 3G+32G version of 1499. Other relevant hardware configurations are 5.2 inch 720P screen, 5 million front and 13 million rear cameras, 4100mAh large battery and fingerprint recognition support.

Relevant prompts are also printed on the factory protective film at the front and rear of the machine, which is convenient for users to use. From the figure, you can see that the appearance of Pegasus 3 removes the features of the original Zenfone series, and the obvious three-stage design has a sense of deja vu.

There are only a few accessories attached, such as data cable, charger, stylus and manual warranty card. It is worth mentioning that the output of the charger is only 5V/2A. This kind of power is not enough for a 4100mAh machine. The last similar machine was Hongmi 3.

Hands on experience

The popular 2.5D glass+metal body design is adopted, with a layer of plastic gasket at the edge for transition, which has a good feel. All the sensors are placed on the left side of the earpiece, using a virtual key design. There is only ASUS logo below. When the screen is turned off, the score of the front face is quite high. However, after the screen is turned on, can you accept the black edge of the design similar to "ID without border"?

These three sections of the back design can be said to be a combination of hundreds of strengths. The segmentation similar to Meizu makes the transition between metal and plastic materials better than expected. The speed of post fingerprint recognition is at an average level. When using fingerprint to unlock, the machine will vibrate and remind at the same time.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the three entity keys on the right have all been processed in detail, similar to the key processing on one plus X, and the actual effect is not as good as that on one plus X, but at least it has improved a lot of texture.

In terms of the system, a new version of 3.0 has been upgraded, In terms of UI, there are still many similarities with the previous Zenfone series. The left slide of the home page is an integrated service card. The "earn+" tag in the upper right corner of the home page can be used to enter ASUS's unique "big earner" activities with one click. By completing the list or application tasks, sharing microblogs, circles of friends, etc., you can obtain a certain amount of Zen coins, which can be directly used to exchange physical prizes, The most recent activity is to activate the account in June August to exchange 1 Zen coin for 1 gigabyte of traffic.

Android 6.0 is directly pre installed. The multi task menu adds functions such as checking running tasks and one click cleaning. However, the common Launcher (Pegasus 3 does not have a secondary menu) is not in the middle of the fixed bar on the home page. Instead, it will directly start a convenient program for management applications, which causes the author to open it accidentally. It is not clear whether it is due to the engineering machine. The Pegasus 3 system occasionally gets stuck during operation, which is relatively smooth on the whole.

summary

Just from the perspective of the Pegasus 3 machine, it basically meets all the needs of ordinary consumers for the 1000 yuan machine. There are all the things that should be, and the details are handled well, although the appearance is not distinctive and too popular. But at the price of 1299/1499, even though Meilan and Hongmi machines may need to be purchased at a higher price, the cost performance of Pegasus 3 is relatively less prominent compared with the starting price of 699. How does ASUS plan to solve this problem?

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