Rumors about the upcoming announcement of smartphones series ASUS ZenFone 3, supposedly scheduled for 30 May, the day before the opening of Computex 2016 have not been confirmed. ASUS CEO Jerry Shen (Jerry Shen) announced that the presentation of new products will take place in June.
In an interview with the Taiwanese publication DigiTimes Shen said that ZenFone family of next-generation smartphones will continue to focus on the segment of the average price level.
As you know, most of the models ZenFone 2 series uses the Intel chipsets. However, Intel has announced the suspension of work on mobile chips. Therefore, a new series of smartphones ZenFone 3 will be based on a system-on-chip Qualcomm and MediaTek companies. According to Jerry Shen, approximately 90% of the models ZenFone 3 is set Qualcomm chip, while the remaining 10% of the new devices will be based on chips MediaTek.
The head of ASUS said that the company began to use solutions for Qualcomm chips manufacturer of smartphones in September 2015. Consequently, changes in the Intel policy will not affect the production of the ASUS smartphones, use chips and Qualcomm and MediaTek will not affect the company's profits.
According to the plans of the ASUS , about two-thirds of the supply of a new generation of smart phones will account for PHABLET ZenFone 3 Max and only one-third - on the model ZenFone ZenFone 3 Deluxe and 3.
