Pros
Beautifully designed-Good battery life-Latest OS-Can handle high end games
Cons
Lags after installing 10-12 apps-Decent cameras but not as good as rivals, produces dull pictures
Asus Zenfone 2 Laser has a beautiful design and will certainly please many. One has an option of choosing attractive red, black and white colours. Of which I will recommend the red model which is really gorgeous. The concentric circle design of rear and front key panels gives it beautiful and tactile effect.sus while designing the phone has also given due attention to its ergonomics. The handset has a curved back panel with the bulk of the weight in the middle, thus giving great grip and is comfortable to hold. The back panel has also matte finish for a firmer grip. A highlight of the phone is that its volume rocker is placed in the back panel just under the rear camera while the power key is at the top. Hence while holding it you don’t need to worry about accidentally pressing any key.
In the rear panel, the 13-megapixel rear camera is surrounded by a laser auto focus sensor on the right, flash lights on the left and the volume rocker below it. A big speaker grill is at the bottom of the back panel.
The front panel has a neat look with Asus name written just above the display alongside the front camera. Below the display there are three off-screen touch keys - Return, Home, Recent.
All in all, the Asus Zenfone 2 Laser is both a beautiful and ergonomically well-designed handset. Hence despite its heavy body(170 grams) and thicker profile(152.5 x 77.2 x 3.9~ 10.8 mm), I have no qualms in rating it above some "slim" handsets.
The Asus Zenfone 2 Laser has a 5.5 inch IPS display offering good viewing angles and ample space to play games and write those lengthy emails.
Notably, the display of Zenfone 2 Laser has the Corning Gorilla Glass 4 coating that is said to be much better than Gorilla Glass 3 and thus creates the impression of its invulnerability against scratches, due to the day to day usage. However, after three weeks of usage, we saw several faint scratches on the screen and would thus advise you to use a screen protector, a tempered glass specifically.
This was highlighted as the USP(unique selling proposition) of Zenfone 2 Laser by Asus. And why it should not be. The phone comes with a 13 megapixel rear auto focus camera with dual LED flash lights and it has a 5 megapixel front camera as well. Most importantly it has the Laser Auto Focus feature which once introduced by LG on its flagship G3 smartphone.when I compared it with the Lenovo K3 Note, one of the popular phones in the sub-Rs 10, 000 category, I found that the the Zenfone 2 Laser produces a bit dull pictures.
With 2 GB RAM, Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system and Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor, the Asus Zenfone 2 Laser isn’t the best phone in the price segment but it definitely in the top league. Initially, it performed without any hiccup or lag and managed to play very heavy games like Batman Arkham Origins with ease.But as soon as I loaded 10-12 apps which were eating some portions of RAM, the phone started showing lag.But which phone in this range isn’t affected by this issue?
In terms of battery backup also, the Zenfone 2 Laser is one of the best devices if not the best. Users with light and medium usage can get about 10-12 hours of back up easily while even heavy users will be able to extract 6-7 hours of backup for sure from the 3000 mAh Li-Po battery of the Zenfone 2 Laser.