Asus Zenfone 7 spotted on Geekbench, key specs revealed

Asus Zenfone 7 will be an upgrade over the Zenfone 6 or Asus 6z which features a rotating camera.

Asus 6z launched in India last summer. (Asus)

Asus is expected to launch its flagship Zenfone 7 smartphone along with the ROG Phone 3 next month. A new Asus smartphone expected to be the Zenfone 7 has now appeared on benchmarking website Geekbench.

The Geekbench listing reveals an Asus smartphone with the codename ‘asus ZF'. This phone is expected to be the Asus Zenfone ZF or Zenfone 7Z according to tipster Abhishek Yadav who first spotted the Geekbench listing. It would also be called Zenfone 7 which would succeed the Asus Zenfone 6 or Asus 6Z as it is known in India.

According to the Geekbench listing, Asus Zenfone 7 will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 processor. The listing mentions ‘kona' as the chipset which is the codename for the Snapdragon 865. Qualcomm also confirmed earlier this year that the Zenfone 7 and ROG Phone 3 will launch with its flagship Snapdragon 865 chipset.

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The Geekbench listing also reveals that the Zenfone 7 will be powered by 16GB of RAM and run on Android 10 out-of-the-box. There's no other details on the Zenfone 7 that we know of as yet.

Last year's Asus Zenfone 6 or Asus 6z features a rotating camera that can be used for selfies as well. The smartphone comes with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 chipset, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of onboard storage. It also packs a 5,000mAh battery with Quick Charge 4.0.

Asus will also launch the ROG Phone 3 with the Snapdragon 865 chipset. Both smartphones are expected to make their debut next month. Asus will most likely bring the flagship phones to other markets including India soon.