ASUS has just announced its new ZenFone 2 during its Experience 2Morrow press event at Jakarta, Indonesia today. Featuring ASUS’ classic Zen-inspired design, the ZenFone 2 offers its consumers a premium design such as a metallic hairline finish and only at 3.9mm thin. Its screen-to-body ration is at 72% , with a 5.5-inch screen, suitable even for one-handed use.

The back is ergonomically curved with an intuitive button that has dual functions: volume control and front camera shutter button for that perfect selfie without twisting your wrist.

ASUS ZenFone 2 comes with Android 5.0 Lollipop and features ASUS ZenUI 2.0.

What Others Can’t See

The ASUS ZenFone 2 has a 13MP rear and 5MP front PixelMaster camera. This photo technology offers a wide range of enhancements, including:

• Low Light mode: Capture 400% brighter photos and videos in low-light.
• Real Tone Dual LED flash: Shoot with warm skin tones and natural colours.
• HDR mode and Blue Glass Infrared Filter: capture challenging backlit scenes such as sunset portraits.
• Wide-angle front camera: Wide, 85-degree field of view.
• Built-in real time beautification: For more fun selfies.
• ZenUI Selfie Panorama: Allows you to capture perfect wefies.
• Manual Mode camera: For DSLR-like experience with ISO, shutter speed and other settings.

Performance

Powered by the latest 64-bit Intel Aton Super Quad Core processor, the ASUS ZenFone 2 is the first smartphone that offers 4GB of 64-bit dual-channel RAM, to increase performance and data-transfer speeds to be PC-like.

The ZenFone 2 also supports dual-SIM with its Dual Sim Dual Active (DSDA) technology to ensure you never miss another call. It also features a 3000mAh battery to provide more than a full day use on a single charge. With 2x faster charging with BoostMaster technology, you cn charge your ZenFone 2 from 0% to 60% in just 39 minutes.

Personalised UI

The ASUS ZenUI has been updated to provide a more enjoyable user experience. There are more than 30ZenUI apps in Google Play and can be updated separately without a full system update. Another feature available via Google Play is the ASUS Launcher that has enhancements for easy customisation and ZenMotion, a collection of intuitive touch gestures that gives you a new experience in the way you interact with the ZenFone 2.

There is a large collection of touch gestures available to launch different apps even when the screen is asleep. For instance, by tracing the letter C on the sleeping screen, you can launch the camera app.

Entertainment

If you love your movies and music, then you would like ASUS’ 5.5-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080 resolution) IPS display with wide 178 –degree vieweing angle and ASUS-exclusive TruVivid technology for better brightness and colour. The phone is also equipped with SonicMaster technology for that has 38% larger audio chambers and improved speakers resulting in 4X more powerful sound output, deeper bass and 2X higher pitch.

The Audio Wizard app that comes with the ZenFone 2 allows you to choose form six different output modes to give you the type of sound you personally enjoy.

As Jerry Shen said, “With all these enhancements, we strongly believe that ASUS ZenFone 2 can meet our loyal ASUS ZenFone 2 customers’ expectations.”

There will also be loads of accessories compatible with the ZenFone 2 to enhance user experience, such as the View Flip Cover Deluxe, ZenEar S, ZenEar, ZenPower, LolliFlash and ZenFlash, which Team PC hope to see available in the Malaysian market.

ASUS ZenFone 2 will be announced and available in Malaysia starting from 9 May 2015 onwards.