Talk about bad timing for us! Vacation time couldn’t be pushed back and as you might expect, official ZenFone 7 news breaks while we were without much in the way of internet access. We do apologize as we pride ourselves on being first when it comes to ZenFone 7 news. Thank you to all of you sending us email news updates and links about the breaking ZenFone 7 news. Thanks for your consideration!
Launch Event Date: August 26, 2PM Taipei time
Where: Live YouTube stream here
Hot Rumors:
- ASUS hints, “Flip out your imagination!” – flip cameras all but confirmed!
- Sept 1 launch date, pre order phase
- two colors, black or white
- no fingerprint sensor on rear of phone
- side-mounted fingerprint sensor likely based on case photos leak
- price starting at 21,990 yuan up to 27,990 yuan
- euro price rumored to be 499 Euro for 6GB/128GB and 549 Euro for 8GB/256GB
- ZenFone 7 Pro (ZS671KS) using Snapdragon 865+ with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage
- ZenFone 7 (ZS670KS) using Snapdragon 865 with 6GB RAM or 8GB RAM with 128GB storage.
- 6.67-inches (ZS670KS)
- Cameras (ZS670KS) – 64MP/12MP/8MP
- more configurations likely will be available
- leaked case images, if to be believed, indicates no headphone jack
- is there a microSD card slot? Perhaps not.
Well not sure the headphone jack is going to be a big negative. I think it’s a space issue. Having flip camera is going to be huge. Looking forward to this!!
Too bad not much rumor yet on the pro model. I’m eyeing that one TBH. I’ll take AMOLED any day of the week. Seems like people are saying this has 60Hz refresh only? Unlikely?