Mckay JonsonASUS announced the Zenfone 3 alongside the Zenfone 3 Deluxe and Zenfone 3 Ultra sometime in May this year. However, not until August before the smartphone started shipping to certain countries including India. However, seems the Zenfone 3 would hit the Chinese market soon as two variants of the sleek device has been certified by the Chinese Telecommunications Regulatory agency TENAA.
One of the variants is listed as packing a 3GB RAM along with 32GB of internal storage while the second variant sported a 4GB RAM as well as a higher 64GB of built-in storage. Both versions of the Zenfone 3 were listed as having a 55-inch Super IPS display and powered by a Snapdragon 625 chipset clocked at 2.0GHz with Adreno 506 GPU.
Further more, bith Zenfone 3 variants rock a 16-megapixel rear camera with laser focus, Phase Detection AutoFocus (PDAF), and 4-axis optical image stabilization. There is also an ample 8-megapixel selfie sensor on the front camera.
Other features the Chinese versions of the ASUS Zenfone 3 would feature include dual SIM slots with one doubling as a SD card slot, a fingerprint scanner, USB Type-C, 3.5 mm audio jack, dual Wi-Fi bands, Bluetooth 4.2, Cat 6 LTE, and a 3000mAh battery.
The Zenfone 3 also launched rocking a new design different entirely from the Zenfone 2 and the TENAA image reflects this new design which sees the volume button moving from the back of the phone to the right side, just below the power button. The power button also leaves the top edge to the right side of the device.
The Zenfone 3 presently starts at $300 for the 3GB version, that is around Rs. 21,999 in India where it was launched last month. The device is expected to be priced around that region whenever it is launched in China.
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