ASUS released budget ZenPhone (with Intel CPU) starting from $99 USD outright

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  TheGMan on 08/01/2014 - 12:02

  I will be curious to see the reviews about them.

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  scrimshaw on 17/04/2014 - 22:34

  ASUS Zenfone 5 and 6 is now available to pre-order. Certainly doesn't look very budget at first glance.

  http://www.mobicity.com.au/asus-zenfone-6-8gb.html#.U0_KGFfj…
  http://www.mobicity.com.au/asus-zenfone-5-8gb.html#.U0_KYFfj…

  Taiwanese consumers are also complaining on the ASUS facebook page stating that the RRP price was much higher than previously advertised.
  ASUS responds to customer demands by lowering the price and offering refunds to disgruntled consumers, or offering them upgrades to better variants.

  http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=y&pr…

  Price in Taiwan, picture also shows some spec revisions on 5 inch model — there is a 2GB RAM variant on the 16G and 32G versions.

  And the overseas price (in malaysian ringgit)

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    [Deactivated] on 18/04/2014 - 09:45

    Taiwanese customers are not really complaining about the price being higher than advertised, they are complaining that the Chinese customers get 2GB RAM on the zenfone 5 and cheaper than the Taiwanese variant, so Asus decided to give the same specs on both variants yesterday - also lower the price of the Taiwanese variant a bit.

    So just like you said now Zenfone 5 has 3 different variants in Taiwan:
    1G/8G $3990 (~$150)
    2G/16G $4990 (~$180)
    2G/32G $5990 (~$220)
    These are the lowered prices announced yesterday.

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  cpho on 18/04/2014 - 00:24

  Nexus' first direct competitor!
  I think I'd choose this over the Nexus