The
Zenfone series is a set of mobile phones developed and distributed by giant
company Asus.
According
to a report published on DigiTimes, the third generation and latest unit of the
Zenfone series will arrive in May 2016. It will come with a fingerprint
processor, which, if true, will make the Asus Zenfone 3 the first non-high-end
device to have such feature.
The first
two installments of the Zenfone series have been released late 2014 and early
2015. Instead of the expected January debut, Zenfone 3 will be released in May
or even the first week of June. In addition to that, the report also contained
a part where it is basically said that there's a huge chance Asus' development
team will use the fingerprint technology to expand the list of its device's
better qualities.
Digitimes
cites Taiwanese supply-chain sources saying that the next generation of the
Asus ZenFone will most likely sport fingerprint scanners. The technology is to
be developed by Elan Microelectronics, a tech company in Taiwan, and Goodix, a
Chinese supplier.
Aside
from fingerprint scanners, it is also known that the ZenFone 3 will have a USB
Type-C port. Asus chairman Jonney Shih confirmed by saying in an interview with
Trusted Reviews, "I think Type C is the way to go, frankly speaking."
In
2015, Asustek reached 20 million in smartphone shipments and the company aims
to ship 30 million handsets next year. However, the challenge of fierce
competition continues to increase as Chinese OEM players like Huawei, Xiaomi,
Lenovo, Oppo, Meizu and many more are also slated to release some promising
smartphones next year.
The
report, published on DigiTimes has also revealed that the giant company is
planning to expand its Zenfone mobile series and distribute it to previously
unreached markets such as Cambodia, Bangladesh, Egypt, Nigeria and Myanmar.
Asus, on the other hand, received great success not only in Southeast Asia but
their Zenfone devices have also reached Russia and Brazil.
This year
Asus unveiled the Zenfone 2 at CES in January, but DigiTimes claims that one
will have to wait much longer for the Zenfone 3. In fact the earliest we could
see the next-generation Zenfone will be in May or June.
Asus
ZenFone 2 Specification and Features :
The Asus
ZenFone 2 was released in March 2015 and sports a 5.5-inch IPS capacitive
touchscreen with a 1080 x 1920 pixel resolution. There are two variants of the
phone having different chipsets. The 4 GB RAM variant is powered by a Intel
Atom Z3580 chipset, and the 2 GB RAM variant is powered by a Intel Atom Z3560
processor.
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