Asus introduced the Zenfone 5z at MWC 2018 with a
Snapdragon 845 chipset and an impressively low price tag of US$ 340 in India. The
appearance of the phone was nothing out of the ordinary for a 2018 flagship -
dual camera, fancy colors, up to 256 GB RAM, and a wide notch on the display.
Later the notch shrank to a waterdrop cutout, as
seen in Oppo and Huawei smartphones, and it looks like it will also appear on
the Asus Zenfone 6. But here’s the catch - the new device will have the notch
on the right side and not on the center, according to early prototype units.
At first you think the image is a bad joke, but
after seeing the video people with mild OCD might be bothered and we can’t
judge them. Aside from the weird positioning of the front-facing camera,
everything else on the Asus Zenfone 6 prototype seems normal - earpiece in the
top bezel, USB-C and 3.5 mm audio jack, and a speaker on the bottom.
We also see a small black particle below the dual
cameras which might be a weird fingerprint scanner but could also be the PDAF
sensor, while the reader could go under the display. There will also be a face
scanning technology, likely the standard Face Unlock, given the small size of
the unorthodox notch, leaving no room for 3D infrared sensors.