ASUS ZenFone 2 Vs. OnePlus 2 Specs Summary, Comparison: Battle of the Mid-Range Phones
Two Chinese-made smartphones, the ASUS ZenFone 2 and the OnePlus Two, are currently competing in terms of mid-range specs and performance.
Computer and electronics manufacturer, ASUSTek Computer, Inc. and smartphone company, OnePlus have both released budget mid-range mobile phones in the last few months that are battling it out in the market today.
The ASUS ZenFone 2, initially announced at the Las Vegas 2015 CES, launched in its home country of Taiwan in March this year, with an exclusive prepaid release for AT&T GoPhone last month.
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The ASUS flagship model comes with a 5.5-inch Full HD 1020 x 1080 IPS touchscreen display powered by an Intel Atom Moorefield chipset and supported by 4 GB of RAM, 32 GB of expandable internal storage, and dual microSIM card slots under the hood.
With a 13.5MP rear camera with flash and a 5MP front-facing camera, the ZenFone 2 features a ZenUI skin, and runs Android 5.0 out of the box.
With GSM, 3G, and 4G/LTE support, it measures 152.5mm x 77.2mm X10.9mm and weighs 170g.
In contrast the OnePlus Two, which was unveiled via the world's first virtual reality smartphone launch last month, was released in China in July, selling 30,000 units within 64 seconds of its initial product launch.
Featuring a 5.5-inch LCD with 1920 x 1080 full HD resolution touchscreen underneath Corning Gorilla Glass, the OnePlus One's successor has a fingerprint sensor on its capacitive home button.
Carrying the 64-bit octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 V2.1 chipset and an Adreno 430 GPU, it is supported by 64GB of internal storage, 4GB of RAM and a dual SIM card slot. It is also the first smartphone in the world to feature a USB Type-C port.
The OnePlus Two has an OmniVision 13MP rear camera with laser autofocus, dual-tone LED flash, and optical image stabilization, as well as a wide angle 5MP camera.
Powered by a pre-loaded Android 5.1 Lollipop and OnePlus' in-house OxygenOS 2.0, and running on a 3,300mAh battery, the smartphone is packed in an aluminum-magnesium alloy body, and comes in customizable Kevlar, rosewood, black apricot, and bamboo back cover variants.
