[Zenfone 2 Laser General] floridaman:
I'm actually in an area where it is being shut down now., AT&T has stated by the end of 2016 it will be completely shut down. So for me and many others I've spoken to having only 2G on the second sim has made this phone in essence a single sim phone negating the whole purpose of this the phone for me. My alarm company had to replace to my radio as well because we were getting a no communication error and they've told me the same thing as well, where I live the tower has already been upgraded and 2G is now gone.

Yes actually I do fault them for not keeping up with updates in part to make a product I paid for not given to for free., I do expect some reasonable updates. Moving from 5.0 to 5.1 is not an unreasonable expectation. Plus it makes the dual sim capability work natively. Even other phone reviewers on many sites are questioning why they are still releasing phones with 5.0, it's just unacceptable at this point. They roll out many firmware updates, which usually are to fix all the mistakes in the last update. Which the last update broke many things on many phones, mine included.

Having both sims run LTE or 4G does very little to the battery, which is also why having an updated OS is important as well. Many not all of the battery bugs in 5.0 were fixed in the 5.1 rollout. I did have a phone with LTE on both sims and running 5.1, battery life was better. To say the least it wasn't loaded to the gills with bloatware either. However I had a problem with the amount of free space available and the bands since I need a phone equipped with bands not only for the U.S but also for Europe. I have very limited options.

They should be looking ahead to VoLTE, TMobile is the only one I know requiring certification. AT&T which is what I use doesn't require anything, if it is available on your phone, just turn it on. You don't have to call AT&T to activate it unlike with TMobile. What was being discussed 5 years ago is now upon us and Asus is still rolling out equipment using hardware from 10 years ago.

I don't care about benchmarks, I care about what it actually does. Maybe an intel processor would be great and better than the others with another company who can maintain it properly. Upgrading some of the features on this phone would have done very very little to the price point. Even paying an additional $30, $50 or even $75 would still be miles below other flagship or niche phones and still keep in the low end market. I purchased the 64G ZF2 which was $300, yes there are less expensive models but I wanted the storage and was willing to pay for it.

This could be a great phone and other than a few things that make the phone outdated and not usable for someone like me, it is nice. However they need to maintain their product better or else people will leave and not come back. That's business. The thing that attracted me most was the amount of bands on this phone. Sadly, the company and the phone as disappointed me.

You don't have to agree with me and that's fine. This is my real world experience with this phone.

As I said, I'm waiting to see what they offer in the ZF3 aside of usb charging, hopefully it's something more updated.