Asus announces the ZenFone 7, ZenFone 7 Pro: Big batteries, flip cameras, and a lot of power
After the rumor mill produced some intriguing news about Asus’ next flagship pair – the ZenFone 7 and the ZenFone 7 Pro – now it’s time to clear things up because today the Taiwanese company officially announced the two phones.
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Both devices retain the interesting flip camera solution used in the ZenFone 6 but refine the idea and up the camera count, now featuring three cameras in the rotating module. The system itself consists of a main wide-angle camera that uses a 64MP Sony IMX686 sensor with optical image stabilization (OIS) and 8K video recording capabilities. There’s an ultrawide-angle camera that uses Sony’s older 12MP IMX363 flagship sensor. The third camera is a telephoto with a 3x optical zoom and OIS. The setup is the same on the ZenFone 7 barred optical image stabilization.
Despite some sources suggesting that the ZenFone 7 will make use of a Snapdragon 865+ platform, the latter is reserved for the Pro model. Both devices feature the Adreno 650 GPU – the latest graphics solution by Qualcomm. The ZenFone 7 Pro is equipped with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of fast UFS 3.1 internal storage. The ZenFone 7 comes in two flavors – with 6GB or 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. Both models support up to 2TB microSD cards for storage expansion.
The Asus ZenFone 7 series is already available in Taiwan and will be released internationally on September 1. Here are the prices of both phones:
ZenFone 7 Pro price: €799 (865+ , 8GB RAM, 256GB storage, OIS)
ZenFone 7 price: €699 (865, 8GB RAM, 128GB storage, no OIS)