On the aesthetic side, a big fat camera on the back is still a big fat camera. Indeed, it could bulge out far more with a less impressive design. But if you re comparing it to smartphones that lack optical zoom and chances are that you are then the one thing you see when you look at the Zoom is the fact it looks a lot like a slim point-and-shoot camera upon first glance.
This is the tradeoff, of course. The redeeming detail is a metal band around the edge of the phone that makes the look and feel much better than it would be without it.Less critically, ASUS used a real-but-feels-faux-leather material for the rest of the removable back plate. I m no fan of the way this looks, and unlike Samsung s vaguely leathery ure from a couple product generations ago, the feel to the Zoom s back plate is more like plastic.
This is probably better than Samsung s implementation in the sense that you aren t forced into thinking about what a pale imitation of a nice leather it is every time you feel it in your hands. For what it's worth,Buy CSGO M4A1S Skins ASUS has lots to say about the leather on their ZenFone Zoom micro-site, but I had to be corrected by a reader to be able to tell that it wasn't fake.