We pit the Asus Zenfone 2 against the HTC One M8 to see which smartphone is worth the purchase.
According to the Fuse Joplin, the Asus Zenfone 2 has chassis made up of plastic with brushed metal finish just like the LG G3, with a similar rear-facing control buttons placed below the camera. The Asus device has 5.5 inch IPS display that can render a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels at 403 ppi pixel density. The phone weighs around 170 grams, with dimensions of 152.5 x 77.2 x 10.9 mm, and its protected by the Corning Gorilla Glass 3.
The HTC One M8 on the other hand, is made up of aluminum metal with two thin strips from the back, and two loud speakers on the front panel. It screen is a Super LCD3 at 5 inches, and can render the same resolution as its rival, but its pixel density is bigger at 441 ppi. Its physical dimensions are 146.4 x 70.6 x 9.4 mm, weighs 10 grams lighter than Asus device, and its protected by the Corning Gorilla Glass 3.
For the hardware and OS, the Fuse Joplin stated that the Asus device has two sets of chipset processors. The first being an Intel Atom Z3580 which features Quad-core at 2.3 GHz being backed by a 2GB of RAM. The second one is a Intel Atom Z3560 being paired up by a Quad-core at 1.8 GHz at 4 GB of RAM. They both have PowerVR G6430 GPUs, and has three variants of internal memories at 16,32,and 64GB with an microSD card. Its software is the Android OS, v5.0 (Lollipop).
Meanwhile, the HTC handset has a 32bit Qualcomm MSM8974AB Snapdragon 801 chipset with a quad-core Krait 400 processor clocked at 2.3GHz, and its GPU is a Adreno 330. It has 2GB of RAM with two variants of internal memories at 16 and 32GB, which can expand up to 128GB with a microSD card. It runs on the Android OS, v4.4.2 (KitKat), upgradable to the v5.0 (Lollipop).
GSMArena stated that both smartphones have 5MP front cameras, but the Asus handset has 13MP rear camera, while the HTC handset has a 4MP dual camera. The Zenfone 2 has a better battry capacity at 3000 mAh, while the HTC One M8 is at 2600 mAh that last 20 hours of talktime.
The HTC Zenfone 2 is worth $200 in the Indian market, while the HTC One M8 16GB version is at $470 on Amazon.com.
