Asus ZenFone 3 Zoom launch delayed until Q2 2017, will improve its specs

After revealing the pricing of smartphone earlier this month, Asus has now delayed the smartphone release to Q2 2017 in order to upgrade its specifications.

The Asus ZenFone 3 Zoom was due become available starting February, while US was due to receive the smartphone sometime in Q1 price at $399 (roughly Rs. 26,600). In response to a customer's query on Facebook, Asus North America said that the ZenFone 3 Zoom has been delayed until Q2 [2017], as pointed out in a report by PhoneArena. "We're reworking it with better specs so you and many others can have an awesome smartphone to use," Asus said.

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It's unclear whether the delay applies to all regions, but with just a few days left in the month - it appears regions apart from the US will see a delay as well, apart from reworked specifications. Earlier this month, Asus announced that the Asus ZenFone 3 Zoom has been priced at CNY 3,699 (roughly Rs. 36,400) - specifically, for the top-end 128GB inbuilt storage variant with 4GB of RAM. The China price details of cheaper SKUs were not revealed by the company.

Asus has called ZenFone 3 Zoom as the "thinnest and lightest" smartphone that features a 5000mAh battery. The smartphone is 7.9mm thick, and weighs 170 grams. 

Asus ZenFone 3 specifications and features

As far as the rest of the specifications are concerned, the ZenFone 3 Zoom flaunts a 5.5-inch full HD (1080p) display protected by Corning’s Gorilla Glass 5. Under the hood is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 625 processor.

The cameras are accompanied by two Sony IMX362 sensors with 1.4-micron pixels for good photography in low light. There is also support for f/1.7 aperture, and 4K video recording capabilities. There is also support for three-axis EIS, four-axis OIS, and three auto-focus modes — Dual Pixel, continuous AF and laser. Not surprisingly, there is an iPhone 7 Plus-like Portrait Mode, which will click photos with blurred out background. There is also support for RAW photo format, which will be added via a software update later.

On the software front, it runs on Android Marshmallow out-of-the-box, but it will soon be updated to Android Nougat.

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