Asus Zenfone Zoom : Picture 9

Slideshows ›› Smartphones introduced in CES 2015

Slide 9 : New additions to the smartphones category at CES 2015

Asus Zenfone Zoom

Asus has introduced a new photo-centric phone, Zenfone Zoom, which features a 3x optical zoom. It is claimed to be the world's thinnest phone with a 13mp camera and 3x optical zoom. It also has an optical image stabilizer and speedy laser auto-focus. A macro function allows the subject to be as close as 5cm to the lens.

For advanced users, the phone's manual mode allows for what Asus calls “professional-grade” manual control of ISO settings, white balance shutter speed and more.

This phone runs on the Android 5.0 Lollipop alongwith Intel Atom Z3580 chipset. It is enabled with a quad-core CPU processor having a clock speed of 2.3GHz. The GPU incharge of graphics is PowerVR G6430 while there is an option for either a 2GB or 4GB RAM which would make the multi-tasking process faster. There are options for internal memory - 16/32/64/128 GB depending on the availability with an expandable memory of up to 64GB.