Asus ZenFone AR ZS571KL

Asus Zenfone AR was unveiled along with the company's ZenFone 3 Zoom at the CES, 2017. The Zenphone is the world's first ever smartphone to support both the Google Tango AR platform as well the Google Daydream VR platform.

On the outside, the Zenfone AR looks like a customary phone save for the high-tech AR camera module on the rear. It 's quite a handful but still manageable. The weight is well balanced too. The plastic on the rear robs it of a premium flagship finish, though.

The phone has a Snapdragon 821 SoC which is supported by an Adreno 520 GPU and is run by 6/8 Gigs of RAM. Having a screen size of 5.7-inch, the ZenFone AR is available in 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB storage space options. It has a 3,300mAh battery which is supported by a Quick Charge 3.0 fast charging support.

Running on the latest Android 7.0 Nougat, it has a mammoth 23MP rear camera with 3x optical zoom along with two separate depth and motion tracking sensors. Further, the ZenFone AR has an 8MP front camera with an 85-degree wide-angle lens.

The Zenfone AR India Price is 49,999 INR at the time of writing, which makes it a tad expensive. The AR and VR features of the phone work fine and should appeal to early adopters, but AR still isn't mainstream and thus it's not a priority for most people. read more →

Asus is one of few manufacturers which had more serious smartphone announcements at CES 2017. The most important thing you must know is the device is equipped with Tango, the Augmented Reality platform that adds an information layer on top of the physical surroundings in 3D using a set of cameras on the back.

Asus takes the technology a step further with support of Daydream, Google's Virtual Reality, which is built into Android Nougat. read more →

The Zenfone AR is the first phone to boast both Google’s Tango augmented reality platform and its Daydream virtual reality operating system, both of which are still very new and still rarely properly supported. Daydream support is the more mainstream of the two standards at play here and it joins the Pixel duo and Moto Z in supporting Google’s Daydream View, and the myriad of apps that go with it.
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The Asus Zenfone AR is clearly a phone for those who like to keep up with the latest and greatest in tech. The Asus Zenfone AR has a faux leather back, with fairly convincing-looking grain and feel, and its sides are aluminium. the Zenfone AR is missing a feature I’ve come to take for granted in expensive handsets: it isn’t water-resistant. On occasion, top-end phones offer a level of water-resistance even when the specifications list doesn’t say so.
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