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Asus has announced their latest addition to the Zenfone lineup with the Zenfone 3 Zoom . The handset - set to lead Asus into the trending "dual camera" era is also accompanied by the Zenfone AR - a more extreme device based on Google's Tango system Design and features  The handset which looks a bit similar to (cough cough ) another dual camera smartphone brings a departure to Asus's previous design language and instead gives it a more polished -anodized look . The handset packs a - 5.5"1080p Super AMOLED and it has a fingerprint reader at the back .The phone packs a jaw dropping 5000mAh  non removable battery and has a single slot for dual sims or one sim and one microSD card for expanding the 23.64 or 128GB internal storage options . The phone packs a midrange Snapdragon 625 Soc with 8 (A53) cores and 3-4GB of RAM depending on storage.The device runs Android 6.0 with Asus's own UX Camera options  The handset features a Sony made 1/2.5" 12MP IMX3...

Cameras on smartphones usually lack optical zoom because of design restraints , but as Nokia demonstrated  , it is possible to cram high tech camera technology into a phone but at the cost of good looks and thin designs . Asus , a company that has a very short history of making Android powered smartphones has now unveiled a new addition to the Zenfone lineup , which has a familiar design and a camera that can run rings around most rival smartphones of today . Introducing the Zenfone Zoom . The phone , launched today at CES 2015 looks quite familiar due to the circular camera bulge at the rear . The phone , which launched with Android 5.0 and a 64bit Intel Atom Chip and 4GB of Ram is probably unique because it is one of the few smartphones to pack Optical Zoom .The Zenfone Zoom has 3x optical zoom thanks to a 10 element lens array and a Optical image stabilized 13mp sensor , which also has a laser rangefinder , the camera also has a two tone flash and a 5mp front facing camera . O...