The phone comes with a dual-camera setup on the back

Jan 5, 2017 07:59 GMT  ·  By

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas enjoys massive media coverage, which is why many smartphone makers choose to present their latest products there. One of them is Asus, which made some exciting announcements recently.

Asus officially announced the new ZenFone 3 Zoom smartphone with powerful camera features and a massive battery to keep its lights on. The device is presented as a smartphone “built for photography,” considering that it has a dual-camera setup on the back with a main 12MP Sony IMX362 sensor and 1.4µm pixel size.

The second camera on the back is named “Zoom Camera” and is a 12MP unit with 12x total zoom and 2.3x optical zoom. Asus claims that the SuperPixel technology in the main camera has 2.5 times more light sensitivity compared to the iPhone 7 Plus.

Back and front view of ZenFone 3 Zoom
Back and front view of ZenFone 3 Zoom

In fact, the dual camera setup on the back can be compared to that on the latest Apple smartphone, considering that it employs roughly the same principles of zooming in a practical and efficient way.

The secondary camera has a 13MP Sony IMX214 sensor

The dual-camera setup also comes with laser assisted autofocus, phase detection autofocus and a Portrait Mode which adds “natural depth of field,” but this will be available at a later date following a software update.

The front camera on the smartphone is a 13MP Sony IMX214 sensor with f/2.0 aperture and has a screen flash.

Other specs on the smartphone include a 5.5-inch AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 on top, a massive 5,000mAh battery, a fingerprint scanner on the back and 4GB of RAM with 128GB of internal storage. The smartphone runs an octa-core Snapdragon 625 SoC coupled with Adreno 506 GPU and is powered by Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Asus Zen 3.0 UI on top.

Asus ZenFone 3 Zoom will be made available in three colors, including Black, Rose Gold and Silver. The phone will launch in February 2017, but pricing and availability have yet to be disclosed.

Asus ZenFone 3 Zoom (7 Images)

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