Asus Zenfone 8 Flip leak reveals flipping camera and a killer chip

Asus Zenfone eight Flip leak reveals flipping camera and a killer flake

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At that place'due south more than ane mode to free up screen infinite on a flagship telephone. While the iPhone thirteen is rumored to be shrinking downwardly the notch that houses its front camera and Face up ID sensors, Asus look similar its taking a different approach with upcoming Zenfone 8 family unit. And it should be familiar if y'all've been following recent Zenfone releases.

In accelerate of the Zenfone's release, 91mobiles has published a serial of photos along with detailed specs for the new Zenfone 8 and Zenfone 8 Flip. It's not articulate when these phones will ship, but the Zenfone 8 Flip will stand out from the smartphone oversupply with a fairly unique camera pattern. Well — unique for phones not built past Asus.

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According to intel from leaker Ishan Agarwal, the Zenfone eight Flip will feature a triple camera setup that'southward housed in a flipping machinery that allows the cameras to rotate over the pinnacle edge of the phone.

zenfone 8 flip and zenfone 8 — (Image credit: 91mobiles)

In other words, you're taking selfies with the same cameras you lot'd use for other images shot past the phone. This should help with taking selfies, in improver to looking a flake strange, since the photographic camera flips upward and sits atop the phone's frame.

You'll be familiar with this approach if yous saw last yr's Asus Zenfone 7 Pro, which also featured a triple photographic camera display that flipped around when it was selfie fourth dimension. The Zenfone 6 offered something similar, but just with broad angle and ultrawide bending lenses.

Agarwal's leak also includes the specs for those three lenses on the Zenfone viii Flip — a 64MP master camera joined by an 8MP telephoto lens and 12MP macro shooter. In other words, the macro lens replaces the ultrawide angle camera on the Zenfone 7 Pro.

	Zenfone 8 rumored specs	Zenfone viii Flip rumored specs
Screen size	five.82 inches	six.67 inches
CPU	Snapdragon 888	Snapdragon 888
RAM	8GB	8GB
Storage	128GB	256GB
Rear cameras	64MP main, 12MP macro	64MP chief, 12MP macro, 8MP telephoto
Bombardment	4,000 mAh	5,000 mAh

Meanwhile, the Zenfone 8 sounds like information technology will sport a more conventional pattern, with 2 rear cameras (the 64MP main shooter and 12MP macro lens). Renders testify a phone with a punch-hole cutout to house the forepart camera, so at that place'll be no flipping with this phone.

Additional specs advise that the Zenfone viii Flip will offer the bigger of the ii screens — six.67 inches versus 5.92 for the Zenfone 8. Both phones volition offer FHD+ resolution, though in the 91mobiles report, simply the Flip is listed with a fast refresh charge per unit — 90Hz in this case.

zenfone 8 and zenfone 8 flip — (Paradigm credit: 91mobiles)

The same Snapdragon 888 powers both Zenfone eight models, with the Zenfone 8 Flip expected to offer more storage at 256GB to the Zenfone 8's 128BGB. The Flip will have a bigger concoction also, Agarwal says — 5,000 mAh vs. 4,000 mAh.

Unfortunately, this leaked report doesn't include pricing or release info. A countdown clock on the Asus website, however, points to a Zenfone 8 launch event next Wednesday (May 12) at 1 p.m. ET. We imagine that any and all questions well-nigh the Zenfone 8 and Zenfone eight Flip will be answered then.

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Brittany Vincent has been covering video games and tech for over 13 years for publications including Tom's Guide, MTV, Rolling Rock, CNN, Pop Science, Playboy, IGN, GamesRadar, Polygon, Kotaku, Proverb, and more. She's also appeared as a panelist at video game conventions like PAX East and PAX W and has coordinated social media for companies similar CNET. When she'due south not writing or gaming, she'south looking for the next cracking visual novel in the vein of Saya no Uta. Y'all can follow her on Twitter @MolotovCupcake.