Asus Zenfone 6 specs: Everything you need to know

Update

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).

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.

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