Asus ZenFone 3 ZE552KL Unboxing – Mo’ Money, Mo’ Zen?

Would you believe its been just 2 years since the first ZenFone? Or would you believe it if I showed you what the third one looks like? ‘Cause Asus has been heavily iterating on their phones since then and this year you can’t even tell that they’re from the same brand. That’s right, the once simple but presentable looking smartphone with modest specs and an even more modest price tag has evolved. Someone pumped tons of smartphone candy into it and now we have the ZenFone 3 – a metal clad, optically stabilized, premium machine with a little price tag boost as well. But is it a Charizard to the first version’s Charmander? Check out our unboxing video embedded above to find out! (And more specs below, if you’re into that.)

	Brand	Device	Launch Date	Launch Price (SRP)	Lowest Price	Processor	Display	Version (At Launch)	Skin	Rear Camera	Front Camera	RAM / ROM / MicroSD	Battery	Telephony	Extra Connectivity	USB OTG / SD Install	Miscellaneous	Updates	Links	Buy Online	UI Smoothness	Antutu Score	Work Battery
	Asus	Asus ZenFone 3 ZE552KL	2016-08-14 (PH)	18995 (PHP)		2.0Ghz Octa-Core Snapdragon 625	5.5" 1920x1080 IPS 2.5D Gorilla Glass	6.0.1 Android Marshmallow	Zen UI 3.0	16MP OIS PDAF LAF Dual Tone Flash	8MP	4GB / 64GB / Yes	3000 mAh Non-removable	Dual SIM LTE		Yes / ???	Metal body, fingerprint sensor			Lazada		60986 (2016-08-30)

If you’re interested in grabbing your own ZenFone 3, both the 5.2″ version (PHP 16,995) and this 5.5″ version (PHP 18,995) are already available as of this writing. You can check them out at your nearest Asus smartphone retailers or grab them online from Lazada here (5.2″) and here (5.5″)!