The Asus ZenFone Zoom is now exclusively available through New York-based B&H Photo Video for $399 USD. This smartphone features an optical zoom lens and the massive camera retailer will ship it to your front door, but at a heavy cost.
At the $399 USD price point the exchange rate will increase the cost to $565 CAD, but shipping and customs fees ring in an additional $60, raising the cost of the ZenFone Zoom to approximately $625 CAD.
The technical specifications of the LTE-enabled Zoom have it running Android 5.0 Lollipop with a 5.5-inch 1080p display, an Intel quad-core Z3580 processor, 4GB of RAM, 3,000 mAh battery and 64GB of storage.
As for the camera, which is a major selling point of the device, it comes with a 13 megapixel rear camera with 4-11mm f/2.7-4.8 optical zoom lens, 3x zoom, OIS, and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture.
[source] B&H Photo Video [/source]
