Brushed metal is nice, but you need more than that to pass off a phone as premium-looking. The Asus ZenFone 2 is a solid, study smartphone, but compared to comparably-priced devices from the likes of Huawei and Xiaomi, it’s so…PC looking. It’s like Asus took some of the materials its used for its cheaper laptops and pasted it onto an Android device. what I like about the ZenFone 2. Its 5.5-inch screen reminds me of why I prefer bigger phones. The 1080p display has great viewing angles for watching videos and reading ebooks, though you can tell that it has its quirks. The colors may not be as saturated as Samsung’s Super AMOLED displays, for example, and the blacks are simply not black enough—you can tell where the display ends and the bezel begins. If you decide you want more vibrant colors, however, you can use the ZenFone 2’s built-in color calibrator to play around with the display’s color settings. At the very least, the ZenFone 2’s display doesn’t look cheap.
