Asus ZenFone 3 Zoom: At Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas is also Asus, which officially announced its new smartphone ZenFone 3 Zoom with powerful features in the camera and a huge battery. The device was presented as a smartphone that was “made for photography.”
The device features a dual camera at the back with a main 12MP Sony IMX362 sensor and 1.4 μm pixel size.
The second camera on the back is called by Zoom Camera and 12MP with 12x total and 2.3x and optical zoom.
Asus claims that SuperPixel technology on the main camera adds 2,5 times more light sensitivity than the iPhone 7 Plus.
In fact, the dual camera on the back can be compared to the one with Apple's latest smartphone, assuming it has approximately the same zoom principles.
The dual camera setup also comes with laser assisted autofocus, autofocus detections phase and portrait mode (Portrait Mode) which adds “natural depth of field.” The latter feature according to the company will be available at a later date date after some update of it software.
The front camera of the smartphone has a Sony IMX13 214MP f / 2.0 diaphragm and has a display flash.
The device also features an 5,5-inch AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass 5, a huge battery on 5,000mAh, a fingerprint scanner on the back and 4GB RAM with 128 GB storage. The smartphone runs with an octa-core Snapdragon 625 SoC along with the Adreno 506 GPU. Its operating system is Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Asus Zen 3.0 UI.
The Asus ZenFone 3 Zoom will be available in three colors, black, rose gold and silver from February 2017. The device values have not been announced.