The year 2015 saw Asus position itself as a serious of the Smartphone market actor, with a slew of Zenfone 2. The Taiwanese manufacturer is also split a few tablets, including the Asus ZenPad 10 features. This last is not to upset the hierarchy by Apple and Samsung on the high end. She, on the other hand, care overall virgin land for tender, one of the slates of 10 inches below the €200, a variation adding even akeyboard for less than €250.
PRESENTATION
The Asus ZenPad 10 features do not have a record technical to make heads turn and put on a good quality/price ratio. It embeds a 10.1-inch screen slab IPS showing 1280 x 800 pixels and is powered by a SoC Intel Atom x 3-C3200 to 4 cores clocked at 1.2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, and a Mali 450 MP4 iGPU. 16 GB internal memory is expandable by adding a microSD card and a 4 890 mAh battery to provide the energy necessary for all. Capture shots are left in the care of a modest rear sensor 2 Mpx and a second of 0.3 Mpx facade. Android, in its version 5.0 Lollipop, is in charge, on top of which Asus has added his overcoat ZenUI. In the register of the connectivity, we find the Wi – Fi and Bluetooth, but NFC or SIM card slot.
The only Tablet (Z300C) was launched at €199 but lies in around €160 currently online shops. There is also (ZD300C), a version with the keyboard available for a price dropped below €250.
ERGONOMICS
At this price, the ZenPad done 10 share beautiful plastic. On the back, the major part of the surface in consists, in a slightly textured finish that is not unpleasant to the touch and provides especially good grip in hand. The slices are covered with a plastic mat and a band imitating a shiny metal. If the Visual effect is clearly not one produced by a metal shell, present plastics do not suffer any reproach and assembling them is flawless.
The release of the screen button is located on the top – in landscape mode – and the volume keys are located on the left. These are readily available both in landscape and portrait. Micro-USB and mini-Jack plugs are however placed much less intelligently. Indeed, when is the ZenPad with both hands horizontally, the connectors fall under the Palm. If you plug something, we meet to put his left hand a little too high and usability takes a hit.
With 510 grams on the scale, the Asus ZenPad 10 features don’t position itself not as the lightest of the slates of this dimension, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4, for example, display 487 g. Asus tablet is positioned but well below the 610 g of a Nexus-10, but still, fast enough you tire with a one-handed grip.
The Asus ZenPad 10 features ZD300C declination has a detachable keyboard. It connects Bluetooth to the Tablet, that comes to just stay in a loving home. The physical link between the two elements is reliable and you won’t see the Tablet choir of his dock, unfortunately. Once the slate and its keyboard are assembled, we are left with the equivalent, in terms of proportions, to be an ultraportable of 10 inches. It is possible to use it on your knees without the problem.
The plastic used for the dock/keyboard is the same as that of the rear face of the ZenPad and there again, finishing of sulfur from any blame. The keyboard incorporates a battery which is devolved as well as a pair of speakers.
The Asus ZenPad 10 features are equipped with a slab IPS of 10.1 inches with only 1280 x 800 pixels. Thus, the resolution does reach that 149 app, problem therefore that taking the tablet to about 30 centimetres of our eyes or less. The texts do not appear very well chiselled and long readings are not pleasant. This was the only real problem of this screen and almost the only one.
Indeed, the rest of our measures place the Asus ZenPad 10 features among the best in the field. We thus found a good contrast ratio to 1 290:1 and a maximum brightness of 345 cd/m² which maintain a legible display, even outdoors. Colorimetry proved it as satisfactory, with a Delta E 3.6 and a temperature of 7 050 K.
COLORIMETRY
The reactivity is correct, without Excel, with a touch late to 98 ms and remanence measured at 17 ms. you can find more details in the article that we have dedicated to this screen.
The Asus ZenPad 10 features are powered by Android 5.0 Lollipop, but Google’s OS happens not only because it is hidden behind the overcoat of Asus, ZenUI. This last makes a few aesthetic changes, but not of big functional upheaval.
There is few more or less the same functionality on smartphones of the Taiwanese. Namely, the gestures shortcut to draw the finger on the screen for quick access to an application or even the double-tap on the screen to enter or exit standby. The number of preinstalled applications is always too high and we still cannot uninstall them completely.
The SoC Intel x 3-C3200 is not the faster that has ever us seen on a tablet. Launches of applications require a little time if they are a bit greedy. Despite the 2 GB of RAM, the management of multitasking is not more powerful and it will sometimes take a few seconds to switch from one game to another. On the most basic uses, the ZenPad 10 offers, however, an honest service.
MULTIMEDIA
Video playback is comfortable on a 10.1-inch screen, but then again, a higher definition would have brought a real gain. The player integrated ASUS does not decode all formats of video and it will go through a third party application to do so.
The headphone output of the Asus ZenPad 10 features offers a relatively limited power, limiting its use to the efficient helmets. On the other hand, this allows him to maintain a low level of distortion. Rendered dynamic range is in the average and pretty good crosstalk.
Asus has had a good idea to place the speakers on the front, which allows them to not be blocked using the landscape. They also offer a good spatialization of sound but are limited to the midrange. They have at least the merit of not be distorted. The two speakers of the keyboard-saving significant power, but does not enlarge the spectrum compared to the tablet. It is still on speakers perform better than on the vast majority of the tablets.
VIDEO GAMES
The Asus ZenPad 10 feature swill not be an essential ally of players. His chip Mali 450 MP4 allows to run all games from the Store, but the most demanding require sacrifices on the level of detail to stay perfectly fluid. A game like Real Racing, for example, is not at his best but does not suffer from any slowdown.
With a sensor rear 2 Mpx, we were not expecting miracles. The ZenPad 10 does not create the surprise and is positioned as a mediocre Tablet picture. Too few details are present in the shots, even when light conditions are ideal. The front sensor 0.3 Mpx does not raise the level and shows everything just OK for video conferencing. Clearly, the photo did not appear a priority for Asus on this slate.
The Asus ZenPad 10 features have 4 890 mAh battery capacity seems a bit tight for atablet review of this format. Indeed, even with a configuration if little requesting energy, the ZenPad 10 only held 9 h 45 on our test Protocol target. It is more than 2 hours less than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4, which has a similar configuration, but a 6 800 mAh battery. In practice, a basic use overcomes this ZenPad in one day. It is regrettable that the keyboard does not the backup battery for the Taiwanese slate.
The virtual keyboard of the Asus ZenPad 10 features is pretty good overall. Typing is fluid and spacing of the keys is correct to not make too many errors. The only downside is the presence of the parameter here button where access to special characters. A relative defect which disappears as you get used to.
The declination of the ZenPad 10 ZD300C offers a keyboard dock, which greatly improves the seizure of texts. There are touches of type chiclet, to the image of that offer laptops. If the keys are a bit of resistance for optimal comfort, the feeling of being on a notebook is there. We can without too many problems to do for Office Automation. There is a range of multimedia shortcuts and direct access to the settings, which is useful.
CONCLUSION
The Asus ZenPad 10 features are not the most powerful tablet to the market and some points would have deserved a bit more attention on the part of Asus. It is placed on a segment on which she is alone, tablets 10-inch affordable is. If you want a big screen for basic uses without breaking the Bank, this ZenPad 10 is a very good choice.
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