Asus Zenfone 3 will launch next month

Taiwanese tech giant Asus's Zenfone 3 is coming in June. The company's CEO Jerry Shen reportedly confirmed the news.

Zenfone 3 the upcoming flagship smartphone was previously rumoured to launch later this month. But the company CEO Jerry Shen has reportedly confirmed the smartphone to arrive in June.

According to a report in Digitimes, Shen said that the Asus Zenfone 3 smartphone series will target the mid-range market, however, the average selling price of the smartphones is likely to go up as compared to the current Asus Zenfone 2 series. The company will be launching the devices in the $260-307 price segment and compete with Huawei and Oppo in the $300+ segment in China.

The smartphone is built around a 5-inch 720p IPS display, much like the current Zenfone 2 ZE500CL. The Z00EDB is powered by an unnamed chipset with a quad-core 1.2GHz processor inside. 2GB of RAM and 16GB of base storage are on board, with the option for microSD expansion.