Asus ZenFone 3 Deluxe (Snapdragon 821)
ASUS has announced a new variant of the
recently announced ZenFone 3 Deluxe, which will come with the brand new
Snapdragon 821, making it the first officially announced phone to include this
chipset.
The Snapdragon 821 will be available on
the top of the line variant, that also comes with 6 GB RAM and 256 GB UFS 2.0
storage. The other two variants have 4 GB RAM/32 GB storage and 6 GB RAM/128 GB
storage respectively and run on the older Snapdragon 820. The rest of the specifications
are identical, including the 5.7-inch 1080p display, 23 megapixel rear camera,
8 megapixel front camera, dual SIM support, fingerprint sensor, USB Type-C,
3,000 mAh battery with fast charging and Android 6.0 with latest version of
ZenUI.
Snapdragon 821 was announced by Qualcomm
just yesterday. It features the same quad-core Kryo cluster but the performance
core cluster has been boosted to 2.4GHz and the power cluster to over 2.0 GHz.
The Adreno 530 GPU also runs at a higher clock speed. Overall, Qualcomm claims
a performance increase of 10% over the already fast Snapdragon 820.
The flagship ZenFone 3 Deluxe is priced
at TWD 24,990 (US$ 776). The 128 GB model is priced at TWD 17,990 (US$ 559) and the
32 GB model at TWD 15,990 (US$ 497).
