Zenfone 5 launch at Mobile World Congress 2018, Asus hosted a media briefing to tell us about its new phone and directly address the very familiar notch at the top of the device. “Some people will say it’s copying Apple,” said Marcel Campos, Asus’ global head of marketing, “but we cannot get away from what users want. You have to follow the trends.” So that’s settled: the iPhone-esque notch is now trendy and we’re all going to have to marvel at it across a diversity of Android devices, including the new Asus Zenfone.

If you've been able to keep track of all the various Zenfone releases from Asus so far, you’re ahead of me, because I've gotten lost in the cornucopia of slightly different models the company has issued in its brief history as a phone maker. Thankfully, the Zenfone 5 family is relatively simple: there’s the 6.2-inch Zenfone 5 itself, there’s the flagship Zenfone 5Z, which looks the same but amps up the internal specs, and there's the Zenfone 5 Lite (branded as the Zenfone 5Q in the US), which has an entirely different design.

The Zenfone 5 Lite, pictured above, is a predictably simplified device. It bears little physical resemblance to the more premium phone, but it still comes with a 6-inch screen with thin bezels, the same 3,300mAh battery as on the Zenfone 5, and Android Nougat — not Android Oreo — as the operating system. The 5 Lite also has dual cameras on both the front and back, with the additional lenses providing a wider, 120-degree field of view for group photography.

Asus will release the Zenfone Lite in March, followed by the Zenfone 5 in April and then the Zenfone 5Z in June. Exact release dates have yet to be announced, but we’ll bring those to you as soon as they become official.

Source: theverge