Friday, December 25, 2015

Asus Zenfone 3 with fingerprint scanner could launch in May 2016



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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