Asus of Taiwan has launched yet another budget smartphone in India, ZenFone Live at an event in New Delhi. The USP of this phone is its BeautyLive app which integrates seamlessly with Facebook, Instagram and YouTube for real-time beautification. This is claimed to be the world’s first smartphoneequipped with real-time beautification technology enabling users to share glamorous versions of themselves live with BeautyLive app. The BeautyLive feature works with both front and rear camera.
This phone is mounted with 5MP front-facing camera with f/2.2 aperture and its sensor has extra-large, 1.4 um pixels that improve sensitivity to light by up to 200 percent compared to smartphones with standard smaller pixels. It has a soft-light LED flash that illuminates true skin tones, and it’s equipped with a wide-angle lens with an 82° field of view for capturing details in wide angle. It has 13MP rear camera with LED Flash, f/2.0 aperture, 5P lens and comprises of 12 different camera modes, including real-time Beautification, Low Light and Super Resolution modes, to captures beautiful, high-resolution photos.
To enable users to enjoy live-streamed social-media fun in total clarity, this phone has been provided with highly sensitive Dual MEMS microphones to reduce background noise and enhance voice pickup, five-magnet speaker and a smart amplifier that increases audio resolution and loudness.
The ZenFone Live sports a 5-inch High Definition (1280×720) 2.5D Curved IPS display with
75% Screen-to-Body ratio having Bluelight filter for eye protection. This phone is powered by 1.4 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor with Adreno 305 GPU. It comes with 2GB RAM and 16GB of internal memory which can be extended upto 128GB via micro SD card plus100GB of Google Drive space for 2 years.
Running on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with Zen UI 3.0, this phone supports Hybrid Dual SIM (nano + nano/microSD). This phone is packed with 2650mAh battery. For connectivity, this phone offers options of 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi-Direct, Miracast, hotspot, Bluetooth V 4.0, GPS/AGPS/GLONASS.
The ZenFone Live has sandblasted metallic finish and is available in three colors — Navy Black, Rose Pink, and Shimmer Gold. It is priced Rs. 9,999 and available on Flipkart, Amazon and offline retailers in India.
