Asus ZenFone Zoom smartphone to be launched in India this month

The Asus ZenFone Zoom smartphone is all set to be launched in India this month. Asus said in a press release that it will launch its "most advanced photography-focused smartphone" in January.

The company also unveiled the phone’s key features like 3x optical zoom, a 13-megapixel camera, laser autofocus, a 10-element lens with OIS, a quad-core processor, and 4GB of RAM.

The new smartphone has retained these features from the ZenFone Zoom which was first unveiled at CES 2015.

The phone runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop and comes with a 13-megapixel rear camera with f/2.7 to f/4.8-aperture, 10-element lenses with 3X optical zoom, OIS (optical image stabilisation), laser auto-focus and dual-color Real Tone flash. It also sports a 5-megapixel front-facing camera.

The phone has 4GB of RAM and gets its power from a quad-core 2.3GHz Intel Atom Z3580 processor.

The inbuilt storage is 64GB and is expandable up to 128GB using microSD card. The display is 5.5-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) and the phone features Corning Gorilla Glass 4.

GPRS/ EDGE, Bluetooth, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi, and Micro-USB is available in terms of connectivity.