From a Note 2 to a Zenfone 2 – First Week

Pro. Responsive is 50% the score. When a phone is not responsive its pretty useless 90% of the time. Of course many things like features matter but there is so many of them. Phone designs and planning is best made with a MESO 

  • Not different from the Note 2 in size and weight. So I’m used to it. 
  • Very Responsive! My Note 2 has problems with anything more than 10GB more than its base memory of 16GB. It slows down a lot by then so it needs a lot of house keeping. The Zenfone 64GB is built more responsive despite having a 20GB filled sd card. 
  • Dual Sim. In the Philippines where there is a duopoly and its 0.25usd to make a call or 0.05 to text another Telco it adds up. I have about 20usd phone plan that baloons to 30usd because of calls I need to make to other providers. 
  • Cheaper by HALF and double the stats. 
  • Easy to change themes.
  • Doesnt like Facebook lolz. Dr. Safety and Clean Master had a little argument with Facebook app. Basically the facebook app is more invasive that I thought and it gave me good reason to uninstall it. G+ is not invasive and i have to take a step more to use it. Which makes it the less Productivity Sucking Social App IMO.
  • new 6/11/15 – the slide screen when turned on allows me to view a lot more things than in the Note 2. In fact it allows a lot of apps not just the 3 apps I can customize to be accessed.
    • I can control VLC and Audible from the slide screen. 

Cons.
to summarize a learning and modifying curve. Probably a couple of months before I get the major hurdles over. The Software is appearing unpolished and rushed.

  • I miss the menu button from the note 2
  • Now Asus and Samsung have my information
  • Bloatware.
    • Trends Micro’s Dr. Safety it has ADS!!
      • while it seems a credible tool whats wrong with a simple task manager? Its one of the hotbuttons anway? 
    • Clean Master 🙁 🙁 it has ADS!!!
    • Asus Apps that do the same as the Google Apps
      • email client (Gmail)
      • browser (Chrome)
      • calendar (gCaendar Equivalent)
      • Do it later, What’s Next, Super Note (Keep equivalent)
      • Web Storage, (gdrive, Dropbox)
  • The Voice Recording of Samsung Note 2 is better
  • No Lock Screen Controls. In the Note 2 there are controls that allow me to stop or play ongoing apps like VLC and Audible from just the lock screen
  • Quick Draw Camera is holding the volume up instead of a lock screen app. What happens is if I have earplugs on it does not work. It works half the time. 
  • It has a lot of sub-apps like for the theme and various other quirks. it needs to be learned and cannot be avoided – the cost of having these options.
  • Nike Run doesnt seem to detect the Playlist. I’m trying to figure it all out 🙁
  • Quirks -in Settings > Personal > Lock Screen I cannot have the skip slide page and Quick Access on at the same time because the Slide Page is where the Quick Access is at. 
  • Quirks – the Quick Access (in Settings > Personal > Lock Screen ) is not really as it seems. In the Note 2 series one can access the apps on the quick access regardless of going through the Pin – like the Camera. 

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