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Sony Xperia C5 Ultra vs Asus Zenfone 2 Comparison: Camera, Benchmark, Speaker

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The Clash of the flagships continue

The Xperia C5 Ultra (priced at P18,700 for the dual SIM variant) takes on the Zenfone 2 (priced at P14,500 for the ZE551ML variant) on this comparison review. What phone will suit you better?

Design

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The Xperia C5 Ultra has very thin bezel which resulted to 75.9% screen-to-body ratio, while, the Zenfone 2 has 70.8% screen-to-body ratio. The Xperia C5 has glass-coating on its back, while the Zenfone 2 has a metal finish and polycarbonate back cover.

The Xperia C5 Ultra also has physical buttons that are not present to the Zenfone 2. The C5 Ultra is also 2.7mm thinner, but, 17g heavier than the Zenfone 2. The Zenfone 2 has removable back covers, in comparison to the C5 Ultra’s flap for easy access to SIM tray and microSD.

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Overall exterior tells us that Xperia C5 ultra is much more premium-like and sophisticated, in comparison to the Zenfone 2.

The Winner: C5 Ultra for its overall exterior advantages

Display

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Xperia C5 Ultra’s display is brighter and more clear in comparison to the Zenfone 2, however, Zenfone 2 has higher resolution since it is much more smaller compared to the Xperia C5 Ultra. Colors on the Zenfone 2’s display is much more natural, despite of this, Xperia C5 Ultra trumps the Zenfone 2, in terms of clarity and brightness.

Sunlight readability and viewing angles is better on the Xperia C5 Ultra.

Despite both phones being excellent, display-wise. There are clear differences that can be spotted, which brought the C5 Ultra to the top.

The Winner: C5 Ultra for its superior brightness and clear display

Camera

Night shots on the Xperia C5 Ultra are much more brighter and well-exposed, in comparison to the Zenfone 2. Although, daylight shots on the Zenfone 2 shows more detailed preservation capability compared to the C5 Ultra. Angle is wider, in terms of focal view on Xperia C5.

Overall, both phones are good, in terms of still image quality and auto focus capability, there major difference was more on their camera’s ability to provide perfectly color saturated images and balancing the brightness and clearness of their shots.

The Winner: Tie for still images

For video performance, colors on Zenfone 2 is more natural compared to the C5 Ultra. The C5 Ultra’s video is a little bit overexposed, thus, it loses the right color blending.

Color blending on the Zenfone 2 was perfectly mixed, which helped the phone in providing a detail preserved video. The C5 Ultra’s intense high-end camera capability got the clips overexposed, thus, color synchronicity was not achieved. This is a problem that is also present to the C5 Ultra’s still image camera function.

The Winner: Zenfone 2 for video performance

Performance and benchmarks

The Xperia C5 Ultra is powered by Mediatek MT6752, while the Zenfone 2 is powered by Intel Atom 3560/3580 in 2GB or 4GB RAM. The Zenfone is protected by Corning’s Gorilla Glass 3. Both phone possess an Android 5.0 Lollipop. The Xperia C5 Ultra has a Sony Bravia Mobile engine, for the UI system, while the Zenfone 2 has Asus Zen UI.

For the boot up test conducted, both the Xperia C5 Ultra and Zenfone 2 showed excellent boot up speed and was able to both boot up at the same time.

On the benchmark test, the C5 Ultra dominated the Zenfone 5, by beating the Zenfone 2 in both AnTuTu and Geekbench 3 benchmarks tests.

AnTuTu ratings:

  • Xperia C5- 46296
  • Zenfone 2- 40125

Geekbench 3 ratings:

  • Xperia C5- single-core score: 792, multi-core score: 3960
  • Zenfone 2- single-core score: 738, multi-core score: 2063

For the application loading tests conducted (game speed test and browser speed test), both phones showed favorable loading speed. In the game speed test, the Zenfone 2 showed prowess in terms of loading time, while on the browser test, The C5 Ultra was more superior.

Speaker

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Bass on the Zenfone 2 is much more stronger than of the C5 Ultra, the Xperia C5 ultra has balanced high and low, but sound quality is a bit tinny, a possible reason for this is the speaker’s positioning. Overall, speaker-wise, both had their ups and their downs, but both were excellent overall.

The Winner: Tie for strengths in both audio quality and sound quality

Price and Conclusion

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The Xperia C5 Ultra and the Zenfone 2 are both excellently strong phones, yet, there are clear differences between them, in terms of camera and video performance, system performance and sound quality.

The phone’s are truly dependent on their users, for the maximization of its use.

The Xperia C5 Ultra and Zenfone 2 are available through online stores, with the Xperia C5 Ultra priced at P18,700, while the Zenfone 2 is priced at P14,500.

Also, Check out the video version of this comparison review

Asus Zenfone 2 551ML

Sony Xperia C5 Ultra specs

5.5-inch 1080p FHD IPS, 401ppi 6-inch FHD IPS display
Gorilla Glass 3 8.2mm thickness and 187g
Intel 3560/3580, quadcore Scratch-resistant glass
2/4GB RAM, 16/32/64GB ROM Mediatek 6752 octacore chip, 1.7GHz Cortex A53 CPU
microSD up to 64GB 2GB RAM
13-megapixel, HDR, dual tone LED flash 16GB internal, microSD card up to 128GB
1080p video 13MP camera, HDR, 1080p video, LED flash
5-megapixel selfie 13MP selfie camera, 1080p video, LED flash
Dual 4G LTE, WiFi ac, Bt 4.0, GPS,NFC,FM Dual nano SIM, 4G LTE, WiFi a, Bt 4.1, NFC, FM Radio, GPS, ANT+
3000mAh battery 2930mAh battery
Android 5.0 Lollipop Android 5.0 Lollipop
P14,500 for the 64GB variant price as of September 3 Price is at P18,700 fo dual SIM, as of September 3

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4 COMMENTS

  1. what’s ur recomendation ? choose zenfone 2 which have similarity, performance, camera as C5 with low price or stay grab xperia C5 ?

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