very soon...

Sd625 isn't crappy at all. It gives you all the performance you need while at the same time they greatly improve efficiency with 14nm processor for smooth gaming even on FHD with no overheating. In fact zen3 is much cooler than other competitor. Battery life is also superb. Even with 3000mah it is on par with RN3 4000mah battery (though not much review atm).

Tbh I don't really interested on zenfone 3 series since they announced their price, but I just can't wait for Redmi 4 with sd625 later lol.

So Vanilla will only have Sapphire Black? Will the other colors come as well?

Sd625 is the crappiest processor in SD line. How crappy? It's using A53. How crappy again? Just look at how crappy is the Mi4i.

To put your argument in context, I guess you are comparing it to A57 (used in SD 808 and 810, to name a few) and A72 (SD 820 anyone?), which are currently available and in use. A53 being the low-end of the three. Right? I mean, you can argue SD625 is just a dye-shrink of SD615 (and by extension, SD616 and SD617) with a newer Adreno GPU.
However, in my opinion, unless you intend to run heavy apps/games, A53s are more than capable to get you through at least for the next two years (which is roughly the time I upgrade my phone again - or maybe less). So, for a lot of people, there is no need to go higher than this to run their facebook/twitter/whatsapp and the occasional games.
Unfortunately, though, the ZF3 price is too close to Mi5, which is using 4xA72. So why not get the A72 instead, right? I mean, I am very much considering the Mi5 right now - ever since Asus Malaysia confirmed their pricing anyway.

Yeah, you put everything in context. Thanks.

i think mi5 is not 4xa72 but 4xarmv8 which same archtecture as apple a9 chip...but nonetheless sd652 great performer in battery life.. i see some of test on youtube that zenfone 3 can pull off second place after redmi note 3 which has a monster battery despite zenfone 3 having less 3000mah battery

yup, my bad. it's using kryo, Qualcomm's custom designed armv8-A...

Again, Qualcomm want you to confuse. It's not SD652. It's SD625. This is because Zenfone 3 is a very slow phone compared to RN3. RN3 half price of Zenfone 3 but beat it in everything. Just show how crappy is Zenfone 3.

my bad..haha..yew..if we compare to sd650, of course sd650 more raw power becoz a72 setup..yeah..your right..they should lower the price..around rm1000 and less..the thing zenfone 3 shine is in camera departmen where it uses same module as mi5..

Thats why Zenfone 3 say that it gift worth RM700. The phone worth RM700 only but sold at double the price.

Asus have forgotten that their brand wise (in mobile phone) still remain in the middle to lower price range !!!!!!!!!!!!!! The success of the zenfone 2 make them forget and hype in their ambition

Lolz so true...

Lets c whether Asus can withstand the competition for another year

Asus should just focus the segment they are good at..

Quite good review of the Ultra 6.8 incher

http://pokde.net/tech/asus-zenfone-3-ultra-review/

same goes to p9..freegift until 1k plus..phone only cost 1k..lol
note 7 cost also only 2k..but raise til 3k..according to sources..
haha..wat we can hope is wait for them to drop price..everyone don't buy..then they no hit target,comfirm drop price..
but it hard since malaysian are rih..haha

Are you an owner of Zenfone 3 ?

I used it now but I didn't find your statements valid, unfortunately.

No offends Bro

Isit 5.2" model? How many SOT you can get?

Some guys are so " intelligent" that they comment on phone performance without actually using or even seeing it. Personally I will never wish to comment on any phone performance until I had actually used it
Comparing it with other similar chipset phone is simply unjustified too unless one had tested both of them