Family Zenfone is phenomenal, which provides a choice of three sizes of mobile phones. The most affordable of the three is Zenfone 4, spesifikasinyapun highest when compared to other Android smartphones in its class. But one thing that sucks from Zenfone 4 is the battery life is very minimal, and moreover the camera is not equipped with a LED flash. ASUS hear the complaint, and ready to launch Zenfone 4S which is a version of a complement. With improved specs like a 4.5-inch screen becomes, LED flash, and a 1750mAh battery capacity becomes, of course dibanderolpun prices rose to 160$. Is worth Zenofne 4S comes in the market as a complement version is slightly more expensive? Or better ride to Zenfone 5?
Main Specifications
GSM 850/900/1800/1900 SIM 1 and SIM 2
HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100
4.5 inch IPS screen is 480 x 854 pixels (~ 218 ppi)
Android 4.4.2 Kitkat
Dual-core processor 1.2 GHz Intel Atom Z2520
PowerVR SGX544MP2 GPU
1GB RAM
Internal memory of 8 GB
The rear camera 8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels with autofocus, LED flash
Battery 1750 mAh
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Asus ZenFone 4S
charger
Data cable
Design and Body
No significant changes in terms of design between Zenfone 4 and 4S only now the back of the uniform layout with Zenfone 5 and 6, which is definitely different between the 4 and 4S 4S dimension where larger and heavier 136.8 x 67.9 x 11.3 mm and weighs 134 grams. The material used is also still the same made of plastic with metal accents at the bottom of the functions of Android capacitive buttons. Although the back cover can be opened, but now the battery is non-removable Zenfone 4S, precision as two older brother.
The front is filled with LED notification, earpiece, front camera, proximity sensor (no light sensor), 4.5-inch screen and three capacitive Android buttons (still) without a backlight. The back is filled with the primary camera, LED flash, and speaker. Two microSIM and microSD slot is located behind the back cover.
The left side of the phone is loaded with the lock / power and volume, a microUSB port on the bottom along with the mic. While the 3.5mm headset port is on the top.
Affairs of the screen is now a series of 4 of these Zenfone IPS so better zoom both in terms of coloration to the viewpoint. Although the size of up to 4.5-inches, but the ASUS only gives rise slightly from the previous WVGA resolution becomes FWVGA. Perhaps this was done to keep the Zenfone 5 which has been carrying the 720p HD screen. Layers screen still uses Corning Gorilla Glass 3, which is a pity there is enough gap between the screen and glass in it. There Splendid application, which gives users access to your profile settings screen if you want more contrast, natural, or other preferences manually. The light sensor is absent here, so you can not adjust the screen brightness automatically.
interface
Fortunately Zenfone direct 4S runs on Android 4.4.2 Kitkat without having to wait for an update that is still unclear time. ASUS also always provide updates to ZenUI which now feels more complete and more stable. The interface is still the same as the shape of the moon and colorful. Page lockscreen clock and date information is available, the schedule as well as three major shortcuts, ie camera, dial and SMS.
Go to the home screen, up to a maximum of 7 pages can be determined which of the main page can also be filled with various items such as widgets, folders and shortcuts. Drawer apps, zoom concept stock Android but with a transparent black background. Where icons can be categorized into all, downloaded, and also frequent. Here you can lock an application so that your personal safety application can not be opened.
There are two different windows when doing gesture swipe down from the top of the screen. If in the right area will bring up a quick toggle for multiple setting options, whereas if on the left will bring up the notification window.
camera
Zenfone 4S has two cameras, one in front with 0.3 MP resolution (640x360 pixels) and a rear camera that is now 8MP resolution (2592 x 1944) with LED flash autofocus. Excellent features Pixel Master held his brothers are now downgraded, there are also modes that use processing software (Time Rewind, Smart Remove, Turbo Burst, Depth of Field, HDR, All Smile, Snowball Effect, Miniature Mode, beautification, selfie) , given setting are complete.
The photo quality of the camera we conclude Zenfone 4S better when compared to Zenfone 4, when we try out the room look bright, natural coloring, is quite sharp. The same was brought into the room, the result looks bright minimal noise, and fairly sharp, just coloring are less contrast. But for the macro mode, the camera has not been able to grab objects with melee.
The interface integrates camera and video recording, so there are two buttons to take a photo or video. When you are recording at the same time you can take pictures with a resolution according to the resolution of video. 8MP primary camera capable of recording up to 1080p FullHD resolution saved in the MP4 format.
multimedia
Photo and video content can be viewed via the Gallery application to display the interface in line with the Zen. The functions are given the standard Android only, with the integration of online services such as Asus WebStorage album, Drive, Dropbook, Facebook, Flickr, Google+ and One Drive. You can see the photos by category all photos, wall events, albums, and people.
As we mentioned above, in order to play the video content can only be done via the Gallery (the default). Zenfone still looks the same as another, without subtitle support and minimal setting options. Less extensive video format support, but is able to play up to 1080p resolution with quite smoothly.
Still the same, there are two default when the music player application, first made by Google Play Music and both artificial ASUS itself. For applications made in the ASUS Music, a collection of songs that are able to be displayed by Albums, Artists, Songs, Genres, Composer and Folders. This time the sound output equalizer settings are available, so you can adjust the preferences. To output the sound via speakers are still available Sonic Master technology.
The FM radio comes with a choice loyal listening via headset or speakers. Of course, with the headset plugged in because it serves as an antenna.
browser
In addition to the Chrome browser are required, there is also a browser application ASUS itself. Browser ASUS has a similar appearance to ZenUI. You can do multitab up to 16 tabs at once, with the condition the more tabs you open it decreases performance. Available standard features such as Incognito, Share, Find, and arrangements of standards such as privacy, accessibility, content.
Quadrant Standard: 6732 points
AnTuTu: 18 184 points
NenaMark2: 58.8 fps
Multitouch Tester: up to 10 touch
Camspeed: 498 points (no flash), 358 points (flash)
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connectivity
Zenfone 4S runs on quadband GSM network 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA quadband 850/900/1900/2100 SIM 1 & 2. For local connectivity there is WiFi 802. 11 b / g / n, Bluetooth v4.0, A- GPS GLONASS, v2.0 microUSB, and microSD up to 64GB. Because dual SIM, there is a second function of the SIM card settings.
Battery Life
This time ASUS fix the major drawbacks of Zenfone 4. Zenfone 4 is only equipped with a Lithium Ion battery with a capacity of 1200mAh only thin and this time increased to 1750mAh but the non-removable. Plus ASUS gives battery manager application to monitor power usage to be more efficient. We tested watch 720p MKV video format for one hour with the condition without the cellular network just connected to WiFi and a brightness level of 50%. The result is the battery dropped from 100% to 82%, no different from the test results Zenfone 4. But this figure will drop if you insert two SIM cards at once.
conclusion
With the addition of the letter '' S '', Zenfone 4S right if spelled version falsifies its predecessor. Many deficiencies in Zenfone 4 which closed here as the camera, flash, display, Android KitKat out-of-the-box, except that after we test the battery only gives about the same durability. This occurs because the increased battery capacity but the specification also rose. In terms of design Zenfone 4S now uniform with Zenfone 5 and 6 material is still the same-the majority is made of plastic.
Considering the price Zenfone 4 priced initially wanted 999 thousand and is now up to around 1.3 million dollars, Zenfone 4S is priced 1.6 million is quite reasonable. But on the other hand, Zenfone 5 1GB RAM version is now priced at a price not far adrift of about 1.8 million. So we think Zenfone 4S is a more humane option if you are looking for a compact Android smartphone entry-level specs and features but with a capable class.
excess
Filling the gap in Zenfone 4
Body size is still compact
Now equipped with LED flash
shortage
The addition of battery capacity was less significant
The light sensor is still absent
parameters Assessment
Design: 8.1
Quality: 8.0
Features: 8.5
Performance: 8.8
Battery: 7.2
Price: 9.0
Overall Value: 8.3
