Smartphone Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG: reviews of the owners

Due to its line of ZenFone, Asus was able to attract a large number of customers. After all, before producing such high-quality, functional and affordable models, Asus positioned itself as a developer of laptops and tablet computers.

However, the experience, put by them in 2014, was a success - the released line really turned out to be successful. At the same time, it consisted of different devices belonging to the budget or middle class. Among ZenFone there was also a "flagship", but in this case it is not the object of our review. Today we are talking about the most affordable in its "family" - Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG. Reviews, specifications and other useful information about this smartphone - all this will be presented in our article.

Position of the apparatus

The initial look at the phone in question can hardly allow for something interesting. Many reviews suggest that the budget of the device is already visible at first - these are modest parameters, nothing attracting attention to design, inexpensive assembly materials.

However, you should not rush to write off the model from the accounts of quality devices from Asus. As the device is being used, as many buyers claim, the real potential of the smartphone is becoming noticeable. And he, frankly speaking, impressed even the specialists.

After reading our review, you may also realize that the Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG (which we are also going to mention in this article) is not so simple as it seems at first glance.

Design

Any description of the smartphone, we begin with a description of its appearance. This is a tradition, since the buyer faces the design of the device first of all immediately after taking the phone in his hands. And, as already noted, nothing special about the appearance of the Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG (reviews it will confirm) does not represent itself.

The front of the smartphone is covered with glass completely, except for the bottom panel. It is intentionally separated from the rest of the screen, and visually this trick is fully justified.

The back cover of the device is made like a smartphone Lumia: it has a bright color and at the expense of its shape completely covers the sides of the phone. This solution is budgetary, but entirely justifies itself due to the possibility to change the covers and thereby individualize the appearance of the device to your taste. Moreover, the manufacturer promises 5 color variations - black, white, red, yellow and blue phones.

Smartphone Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG has a classic location of navigation elements. Three physical keys are presented just below the screen (above the decorative panel mentioned above). They are responsible for switching to the home panel, returning to the previous window, and opening the "Properties" tab. In addition to them, on the side faces (and in fact - on the sides of the removable cover) are the buttons for adjusting the sound and locking.

Screen

Regarding the display, the situation arose two-digit. On the one hand, the technical specifications here are not the most enviable: the resolution is 800 x 480 pixels, the diagonal is 4 inches, density is 233 pixels. The screen operates on the basis of TFT technology, which in itself can not provide such a color rendition as the IPS-matrix.

On the other hand, we see that the dedicated Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG reviews indicate a tolerable picture quality displayed on the display. This can be seen from the fact that its illumination changes insignificantly when the device is tilted.

Another plus of the screen installed on the model described by us is the presence of a special layer of oleophobic coating. Due to it, firstly, the speed of sliding of the finger on the display surface increases, and secondly, the degree of the screen's susceptibility to fingerprints decreases. Due to this, they are seen much less than on phones without such a layer.

Separately note the ability to work with color reproduction and the degree of quality of the image on the screen due to the application Splendid. It is installed by default on all Asus-devices, in it the user can change the color temperature, hue, saturation of the display.

operating system

By tradition, again, on all ZenFone-devices (and described by us - not an exception), the ZenUI graphical shell is installed. It looks somewhat similar to the fifth generation of Android (at least, this idea is being pushed by gradients and visual design of windows). In fact, as a smartphone Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG installed Android 4.4.4. In occasion of, whether under the device of updating to the latest version of assembly, the information is not present.

Performance

The platform on which the device is built does not have a high response rate and, therefore, can not provide enough high performance to work with "bulky" applications. However, for most of those games that are presented with normal and minimum requirements (in terms of performance), the Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG smartphone (reviews confirm this) will do.

Speaking from a technical point of view, we are talking about the processor Intel Atom Z2520, built on two cores with a clock speed of 1.2 GHz. RAM here has a volume of only 1 GB, from which in a constant mode will be available no more than 300 MB.

The internal memory is on Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG 8 GB. Reviews note the possibility of connecting a memory card, due to which it is possible to expand the volume to 32 GB.

Battery

On the device, which we describe in this review, a 1200 mAh battery is installed. Of course, for a device with this functionality it's not enough, so even in read mode with the screen brightness set at 25-35 percent, the device will be able to work no more than 8-9 hours. If we talk about games, this figure can be safely divided by 3. Not surprisingly, many users complain in their responses to the low level of autonomy of the smartphone.

There are several ways to combat this. The first is to significantly reduce energy consumption, try to install on the smartphone some applications that control it, optimizing background processes and the like. The second is to simply use portable charging stations (such as PowerBank) and carry them when you need to increase the duration of the device.

And so, given the small thickness of the case, it's no wonder that the developers chose such a small battery - an element with a larger capacity would simply not fit into the device.

Camera

On the Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG White (reviews on the device we give after our review) installed 2 cameras - with matrices with a resolution of 5 and 0.3 megapixels. The phone's camera capabilities are quite wide: you can shoot video in FullHD-quality, different settings are available for more stable shooting and so on.

In fact, as reported on the Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG White reviews, you can see that the cameras have significantly saved. Settings that can be skillfully operated on a more functional generation of ZenFone 5, here simply do not save the situation.

With this you need to accept, given the cost of the phone and its position in the product line of Asus.

Connectivity

The phone supports work with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB; There is, of course, an adapter for receiving GSM-signal in all formats, including 3G-connection (high-speed Internet). In addition, it should be noted the possibility of working with two SIM cards, which will make the mobile device more profitable to use. However, as the Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG 1A356RUS reviews describe, due to the fact that there is only one radio module here, the second SIM card is turned off during the conversation on the first one.

Sound

In the technical description of the smartphone, posted on the official website, it is stated about a special technology for improving the sound quality of the device, which is called SonicMaster. Allegedly, it by default increases the purity of sound with the use of hardware and software filters.

In practice, again, the situation is somewhat different. As noted, including describing the phone Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG reviews, the phone sounds lousy before the firmware update. After it, apparently, some new software audio handlers are installed on the device, due to which the sound quality significantly increases. But again, given the class of the smartphone, it is not worth hoping for something supernatural.

Reviews

We gave a number of technical descriptions of the device, based on the experience of interaction with it. Now, for greater objectivity of the review, it is necessary to mention reviews described by Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG 1B360RUS reviews left by other buyers. At the very least, this will help to identify those advantages and disadvantages that we could not disclose.

However, the hidden advantages of the smartphone can not be found, since all of its "strengths" and so are visible due to the technical description.

As for the shortcomings, it, for example, periodic disruptions in the software, which are expressed in the independent disconnection of the smartphone or the reproduction of some extraneous noise of unknown origin. This will not be written in any review, but it is possible to detect such a malfunction only in practice after long-term use.

Also describing Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG 1B360RUS White reviews note that after flashing the device to Android 5.0, some flaws have disappeared, and others, on the contrary, have appeared. For example, the device began to seriously brake during operation even on an everyday level. You can get rid of this by resetting the phone to the factory settings and removing the less used applications.

In addition to the described, users also complain about too fast discharge of the battery device, the bad pictures obtained with the camera, the visibility of the screen in the sun. There are also descriptions of the smartphone Asus ZenFone 4 A400CG 1B360RUS reviews, which are about the low quality of materials from which the device is assembled (in particular, it is plastic instead of glass on the display).

Another common problem is the loss of SIM-card communication or the lack of 3G support (despite the fact that there is an option for selecting this format in the settings).

conclusions

What can I say about the smartphone, which is devoted to today's review? The fact is that according to a general description, for some basic characteristics about the Asus ZenFone 4 can be judged as a pleasant work, functional and affordable model, endowed with broad capabilities.

On the other hand, you can see a lot of negative comments left by buyers, where the work of the smartphone is criticized in every way, its main shortcomings are revealed. This leads to serious problems that make the interaction with the model less comfortable.

For this reason, recommend to buy this model for someone who is looking for an affordable and reliable smartphone, will be unfair. Maximum, the device can be used as a temporary replacement for the main phone. But again, you need to be prepared for disruptions in work and other troubles. Or just take ZenFone higher-end price class.