Asus Zenfone 5 A500CG

Overview Asus Zenfone 5 A500CG

Important update: this model is updated to Android version 5 Lollipop.
Check the availability of the update version in your region on the manufacturer’s website.

Android version and market relevance

Announcement! We need more new products from Asus. This time these guys announced Asus Zenfone 5 A500CG. This is a smartphone on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean in 2014.

More detailed characteristics of this smartphone you can see below on the page, and in short we will describe the most important of them. So, firstly, this model receives an update to the version Android 5. And, secondly, Asus Zenfone 5 A500CG has a slot for two SIM cards and supports their mutual work (all smartphones with 2 sim cards). Next about the screen, the camera and the processor with memory.

Screen, body and battery

The most important thing you need to know about the case and form factor Asus Zenfone 5 A500CG. On the front side of the case is located big enough IPS LCD screen with diagonal 5″. At the same time, a battery with a capacity of 2 110 mAh.

Main camera and selfie camera

In front of the screen there is a selfie-camera on the 2 MP. Among all the cameras, this we attributed to the segment weak cameras. The main camera got 8 MP, located on the back of the body. We defined it in the segment very weak cameras at the moment. If you have a little more money, then we suggest adding and buying one of the camera phones, which we sorted separately in our catalog.

Processor and Internal Memory

After a lot of leaks, we now know all characteristics of the Asus Zenfone 5 A500CG. The smartphone received 2-core processor on the chipset Intel Atom Z2580. RAM is built-in 2 GB.

But the most interesting is the built-in memory of 8 GB and plus another option for 16 or 32 GB. Looking for memory cards? There is a special slot for card format microSD up to 64 GB.

Price for Asus Zenfone 5 A500CG: buy or not to buy?

In April 2014 begin sales of a new smartphone Asus Zenfone 5 A500CG. The manufacturer said the price of $130 without taxes and fees. And what we get for this money, let′s summarize all the main characteristics. The smartphone has a large touch screen, a normal main camera, a weak front camera, a regular battery and a cherry on the cake is not a very powerful processor.

As a result, in 2014 this was a good smartphone in terms of price-performance ratio, and now we advise you to see other smartphones from the same price segment “Affordable smartphones from $100 to $200” or go to DROID smartphones page, where we always keep the current (Android OS) models of smartphones on sale. And before buying, we always advise you to go to an offline electronics store to hold the smartphone in your hands and be sure that you like it. Why do we advise so? Because creating this catalog of smartphones and filling it with photos of models, we are very well aware of the differences between beautiful selling photos from real smartphones, which then the buyers hold in their hands.