Asus has unveiled the all-new Zenfone Ares in Taiwan. The phone features advanced augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) capabilities and has specifications akin to Asus ZenFone AR, which was launched last year.
The phone has been launched in the Taiwanese market at a price of TWD 9,990 (approximately INR 22,550), which is significantly cheaper compared to Asus Zenfone AR, which is priced at about Rs 49,000 in India.
Asus has stuck with a conventional bezelled display on the device. However, the phone compensates with a superlative specs-sheet and features at its price point. It has cutting-edge features such as DTS support on headphones with 7.1 audio channels and SonicMaster 3.0 which can decode audios of upto 384 kHz for a superior audio experience.
Specifications
Zenfone Ares comes with a 5.7 inch QHD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1440*2560p. The device has an aspect ratio of 16:9, which may sound ancient and out-of-fashion given that displays these days come with a ratio of 18:9 or even 19:9. The display comes with an advanced Tru2life technology which allows users to experience VR on the phone. The touchscreen supports upto 10 fingerprints simultaneously and also supports gloves mode.
The device is powered by a Snapdragon 821 SoC, which is assisted by 6GB and 8GB RAM variants. It comes with four in-built storage capacity variants of 32GB/64GB/128GB/256GB and supports memory expansion of up to 2TB using a microSD card. The smartphone runs on Android Nougat with a customised ZenUI 3.0 loaded on top.