Nowadays, one uses the smartphone not only for calling or receiving the calls, but also for watching content, web browsing and for social networking. The smartphone whether in mid range or higher end defeats the purpose if its screen cannot reproduce natural colors and does not have good viewing angles. In this respet, the ZenFone 5 display has almost all the ingredients to qualify for a thumbs up.
The Zenfone 5 features a 5 inch HD 1280 x 720-pixel IPS display with a pixel density of 294 ppi (pixels per inch). The screen has Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, which eliminates the chances of scratches occurring on the screen. The screen offers good viewing angles and colors look quite vibrant on the screen. Moreover, the web browsing on this phone is enjoyable as the text appears sharp and clear, thanks to its pixels density, and which is a major drawback in the mid-segment of many handsets. The other plus point of the display of Zenfone is that it can be used in outdoors also in sunlight and with the help of auto-brightness, it performs well.
Thanks to the IPS panel, the viewing angles are impressive and the screen is bright and crisp. Moreover, with the help of Splendid app, one can adjust the display to one’s liking. With this app, you can play with the setting of the display for making it look bright. Courtesy its 5 inch screen, which is ideal to carry and operate with one hand, and its HD resolution, it is enjoyable to play games of your choice and watch HD videos.
Since the display is of excellent quality, you can enjoy movies and videos in good quality, which is not normally available on smartphones of this range. To enable you to enjoy movies, web browsing and sharing your images on social networking sites, the Zenfone 5 is packed with a dual core 1.6 GHz Intel Atom Z2560 processor with Hyper-Threading technology, which means that it can work as a quad-core CPU when too many processes are running. It has 2 GB RAM and 16 GB internal storage, which can be expanded up-to 64 GB via microSD card support.
The Asus Zenfone 5 is a good budget smartphone which fulfills all your requirements of a good display and is a very good value for money.