ASUS Zenfone Zoom and Zenfone Max to officially launch next week

Jerry Shen, CEO of ASUS, announces that the company’s Zenfone Zoom and Zenfone Max will officially launch during IFA next week after recently showing a preview to everyone.

Asus ZenFone Zoom specs:
5.5 inch IPS LCD display @ 1920×1080 pixels, 401ppi
Intel Atom Z3580 64bit 2.33GHz quad-core
Intel HD Graphics 533 MHz
2GB or 4GB LPDDR3-1600 RAM
16GB and 32GB internal storage
LTE Cat. 4 150Mbps Dual-SIM, Dual-LTE
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth 4.0
13MP rear camera, Dual Color Real Tone Flash
5MP front-facing camera
GPS with aGPS support
Li-Po 3,000mAh battery
Android 5.0 Lollipop
Asus Zen UI

ASUS Zenfone Max specs:
5.5-inch display (1280 x720 resolution)
Gorilla Glass 4
1.4GHz Snapdragon 410 quad-core processor
2GB RAM
8GB storage
expandable via microSD up to 64GB
13MP rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, laser autofocus, and dual-tone LED flash
5MP front camera
Dual-SIM
4G LTE
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
GPS
Bluetooth 4.0
5000mAh battery (non-removable)
Android 5.0 with ZenUI

The Zenfone Zoom was introduced back in January, while the Zenfone Max was announced early this month. With the number of new handsets coming from the Taiwanese company, Shen told Digitimes that ASUS is planning to ship over 21 million smartphones by the end of this year, with plans to expand it significantly to 30 – 40 million units by 2016.

Stay tuned as this year’s IFA in Berlin will be held this September 4-9 where we will be hearing the formal launch that hopefully includes the release dates for each.

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