ASUS has launched the Zenfone 12 Ultra, the company’s latest flagship Zenfone smartphone, as it had promised. The phone has almost similar specifications as the ROG Phone 9 series that was launched last year.
The Zenfone 12 Ultra packs a 6.78-inch Full HD+ AMOLED HDR 1-120Hz LTPO display with 144Hz refresh rate option for gaming, up to 2500 nits peak brightness and is powered by Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC with up to 16GB of RAM.
There are AI features including on-device Llama 3 8B model from Meta, AI Call Translator 2.0 offering real-time voice translation, AI Transcript 2.0 for recorder offering multi-speaker identification, summarization and translation. It can also summarize articles and documents.
The phone has a 50 MP main camera with Sony LYTIA 700 sensor, 6-Axis Hybrid Gimbal Stabilizer 4.0, 13 MP ultrawide camera and has a 32MP 3X telephoto lens with built-in OIS. The front 32 MP ultrawide selfie camera with RGBW sensor and has a field of view (FoV) of 90°.
The phone has a dual-cell 5,500mAh battery with 65W HyperCharge fast charging for full charge in 39 minutes and also comes with 15W Qi wireless charging.
ASUS Zenfone 12 Ultra specifications
- 6.78-inch (2400×1080 pixels) Full HD+ 1-120Hz LTPO (max 144Hz for gaming) Samsung E6 AMOLED 10-bit HDR 20:9 aspect ratio display, up to 2500 nits brightness, 107.37% DCI-P3 / 145.65% sRGB / 103.16% NTSC, Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 protection
- Up to 4.1GHz Octa Core Snapdragon 8 Elite 3nm SoC with Adreno 830 GPU
- 12GB / 16GB LPDDR5X RAM with 256GB / 512GB (UFS 4.0) storage
- Android 15 with Zen UI
- Dual SIM (nano + nano)
- 50MP rear camera with Sony LYTIA 700 1/1.56″ sensor, f/1.9 aperture, 6-axis Gimbal stabilization, 13MP 120° ultra-wide camera, 32MP 3x telephoto sensor, f/2.4 aperture, OIS
- 32MP front-facing camera, 90° FoV
- 3.5mm audio jack, dual speakers, 5-magnet stereo speaker
- In-display fingerprint sensor
- 5G SA/NSA, Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 7 802.11 be, Bluetooth 5.4, GPS(L1/L5), Glonass(L1), Galileo(E1/E5a), BeiDou(B1i/B1c/B2a), QZSS(L1/L5) and NavIC, USB Type-C, NFC
- Dust and water resistant (IP68)
- Dimensions: 163.8 x 77.0 x 8.9mm; Weight: 220g
- 5500mAh (typical) with 65W Hyper charge fast charging, Quick Charge 5.0 and PD Charging, 15W Qi wireless charging
Pricing and availability
The ASUS Zenfone 12 Ultra comes in Ebony black, Sakura white and Sage green colours and is priced at 1100 Euros (USD 1,140 / Rs. 99,990 approx.) for the 12GB + 256GB model in Europe with a 100 Euros pre-order discount till February 28th, and this time the company is not launching the phone in the U.S.
It is also rolling out in Taiwan and Hong Kong. It costs NT$ 29,990 (USD 911 / Rs. 79,910 approx.) for the 12GB + 256GB model and the 16GB + 512GB model costs NT$ 31,990 (USD 973 / Rs. 85,240 approx.).