Asus Zenfone 2 lands in the US and Canada on May 19

Today at a special event in New York, Asus announced that its flagship Android handset, the Zenfone 2, which was first unveiled at CES back in January will land in the US and Canada tomorrow. The device will be available for pre-order through many stores in the US and Canada, including B&H, Newegg and Amazon.

Specs wise, the Zenfone 2 has both a high-end version and a mid-range version. The high-end version offers a 5.5-inch 1080p LCD display, 13-megapixel rear camera with an f/2.0 aperture lens, Intel Atom Z3580 processor clocked at 2.3GHz, 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage. It will be priced at $299, while the mid-range version offers the same 5.5-inch 1080p LCD display, 13-megapixel rear camera with an f/2.0 aperture lens, but with a weaker Intel Atom Z3560 processor clocked at 1.8GHz, 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage. It will cost just $199. Both versions will run Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box.

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Asus ZenWatch 2 will go on sale early Q3 2015 as planned: CEO

The Asus ZenWatch 2 was originally planned by the company to go on sale early Q3 of this year. But few weeks ago, there were reports of the company's CEO, Jerry Shen, saying that the smartwatch won't hit the consumer market until 2016. However, Shen, in his new statement, dismissed the old statement, saying that the ZenWatch 2 will be showcased at Computex Taipei, the worlds second-biggest computer trade show scheduled for June 2-6, and will proceed to the consumer market early Q3 2015 as originally planned.

Citing the lower than expected battery life of the ZenWatch 2, Shen said that demands for the smartwatch might not go up as speedily as the company's low-cost ZenFone-range of Smartphones, despite the fact that the smartwatch packs all the features of Android Wear. The company was targeting a 7-day battery life with the ZenWatch 2, but the final product has a battery life less than four days on a single charge, which doesn't meet Shen's expectations. The company expects to ship less than 1 million units of the ZenWatch two this year.

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