After twelvemonth of bringing you the horror / glory that is the PadFone and FonePad , Asus is branching out on its speech sound fone offering and inaugurate not one , not two , but three flavors of “ ZenFone , ” Android handsetswith ultrabook blood line .
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The three Modern flavors of phone number in 4- , 5- , and 6 - inch sizes , rather unsurprisingly , and rep Android with a layer of Asus ’s new “ Zen UI ” slather on top . You know , an Android skin . But this one comes complete with a Google Now ripoff called “ What ’s Next , ” an open messaging client , and it ’s own set of ( bloody pretty ) design monetary standard . It expect pretty expert , but Android skins are always good in theory than in practice . All of these bugger are colored , and the 4 business line almost recalls some sort of pastel Nokia . Kind of . These are pretty prissy phones !
But perhaps the most notable characteristic is on the interior : these are all Intel phones . The 4s run a 1.2GHz Intel Atom z2520 , and the 5s and 6s tamp a 2GHz Atom Z2580 . That might matter to a lot of users , it ’s one more foothold where intel is pushing — hard — into Android land . And according to Asus , those Intel brains give a lot of bonus office
Of course that does n’t mean an final stage to Asus ’s PadFone aspiration . No no no no . Not at all ! Asus has also announce the PadFone Mini , which pushes the tried and true crazy word form - gene to its cognitive limits . It ’s a 4 - inch smartphone that shoot into a 7 - inch tablet alternatively of a 10 - incher like the bizarrePadFone X. Better or worse ? It ’s tough to distinguish .
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The ZenFones 4 , 5 , and 6 will all be available in the US at price of $ 100 , $ 150 , and $ 200 severally . The PadFone Mini will be uncommitted for $ 250 . Presumably on - contract . Nope , off - contract ! ! ! Intel must be subsidise these sucker pretty heftily , to facilitate propagate its spread as an Android CPU . But holy shit that ’s cheap . Now the only question is whether it can curb the lead againststock Androidin this subspecies to the bottom .
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