Release Date-July 12

[Tom Westrick]

According to GSMArena, the Zenfone 3 line will first be released in Taiwan July 12, but no other countries have been announced yet. Judging by when cases for the Zenfone 3 Ultra on Amazon will be released, I imagine the rest of the world will get these phones during the month of July as well.

 

[turbo098]

i so hope the zenfone 3 ultra will be good..i'm in need of a upgrade

 

[anon(1733)]

So even though i have the OP3 i am looking at getting either the ultra or deluxe. Both look pretty sweet. Just can't decide. I want the ultra for the sheer size for watching movies and reading my Kindle books. But the deluxe has the better specs.

 

[Tom Westrick]

So even though i have the OP3 i am looking at getting either the ultra or deluxe. Both look pretty sweet. Just can't decide. I want the ultra for the sheer size for watching movies and reading my Kindle books. But the deluxe has the better specs.

On paper it has better specs, but I don't know if there's anything the Deluxe can do better than the Ultra (size aside). The Snapdragon 652 benchmarks at a similar speed as the 810 that was the high end last year, but without the weird throttling. As far as I can tell, the audio will be better on the Ultra. The only thing I can think is better on the Deluxe that I'd use is the USB-C port uses 3.0 speeds, while on the Ultra it uses 2.0 speeds. Even then, it's not something I'd care about very often.