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ASUS Zenfone 6 specs: You'll flip for these specs at this price

The ASUS Zenfone 6 packs a flipping camera and also some pretty hefty specs for the price.
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May 16, 2019
ASUS Zenfone 6 earpiece speaker display closeup

Today, ASUS took the wraps off its latest flagship, the ASUS Zenfone 6. Although the ASUS Zenfone 5Z was a pretty run-of-the-mill 2018 smartphone, the Zenfone 6 is anything but.

The biggest change with the ASUS Zenfone 6 is its flipping rear camera. Rather than putting a selfie cam permanently on the front or a pop-up selfie shooter as we’ve just seen on the OnePlus 7 Pro, ASUS invented a mechanism that flips the rear camera around to the front. This will enable you to take selfies at the same quality as you would using the device’s dual rear cameras.

This mechanism also allows for the front of the Zenfone 6 to be nearly all screen — a 92 percent screen-to-body ratio with no notch in sight.

Aside from that, the ASUS Zenfone 6 specs sheet is pretty decent, too. Check them out in the table below.

ASUS Zenfone 6 specs:

ASUS Zenfone 6
Display
6.4-inch IPS LCD
FHD+ resolution
19.5:9 ratio
Corning Gorilla Glass 6
Processor
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
GPU
Qualcomm Adreno 640
RAM
6GB / 8GB
LPDDR4X
Storage
64GB / 256GB
UFS 2.1
Expandable with microSD card (up to 2TB)
Battery
5,000mAh battery
Quick Charge 4.0 at 18W
Cameras
Primary:
48MP Sony IMX586 sensor
f/1.79 aperture
0.8μm / 1.6μm pixels
1/20-inch
Dual LED flash
4K 60fps video with EIS (front and back)

Secondary:
13MP ultra-wide sensor
Connectivity
802.11a/b/g/n/ac
2x2MIMO
Bluetooth 5.0
NFC
GPS (Dual bands, L1+L5)
GLONASS(L1)
BDS(B1)
GALILEO (Dual bands, E1+E5a)
QZSS (Dual bands, L1+L5)
SIM
Dual nano-SIM
MicroSD card (up to 2TB)
Operating System
Android 9 Pie
Audio
Dual speakers
NXP TFA9874 smart amp
Bundled earphones
3.5mm headphone jack
Dimensions
159.1 x 75.44 x 9.1mm (largest model)
190g
Colors
Midnight Black, Twilight Silver
Corning Gorilla Glass 3 for back glass

Those specs paint the picture of a 2019 flagship with some significant corners cut to keep the price low. For example, there’s no wireless charging, no IP rating, and no in-display fingerprint sensor (the Zenfone 6 has a rear fingerprint sensor).

However, ASUS didn’t skimp much on the internals. There’s the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor paired with the Adreno 640 GPU. There’s up to 8GB of RAM as well as up to 256GB of internal storage (expandable using the microSD slot). There’s a dual SIM tray, too — a must for people who frequently travel.

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One of the standout features of the Zenfone 6, though, is its enormous battery, with a whopping 5,000mAh capacity. That’s 1,000mAh more than the just-announced OnePlus 7 Pro, and 900mAh more than the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus.

The starting price for the ASUS Zenfone 6 is $499/499 euro, which gets you the variant with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. That’s not a bad price to pay for a device with no notch, the latest top-tier processor, a ginormous battery, and an innovative flipping camera. Upping that to 128GB of storage will cost you 559 euro, and the 8GB of RAM/256GB of storage model will cost 599 euro.