Computer and smartphone maker ASUS has announced that its latest device, the ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe Edition smartphone, will be available in Canada next month with a price of around $699.

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The new ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe Edition smartphone features an all-metallic design that makes it looks premium and sports a phablet-size 5.7-inch Super AMOLED Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixel resolutions) display screen with 386 pixels-per-inch.

It is powered by a 64-bit Snapdragon 820 quad-core processor with a dual-core clocked at speed of 1.6GHz and a dual-core clocked at 2.15GHz and equipped with an Adreno 530 GPU for graphics, paired with a massive 6GB of DDR4 RAM.

The ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe Edition features a built-in 64GB internal memory that supports UFS 2.0 and can be expanded via a microSD card. It is fueled by a non-removable 3000mAh capacity battery with Quick Charge 3.0 technology support.

The handset sports a 23-megapixel Sony camera with ASUS PixelMaster 3.0, f/2.0 aperture and dual LED flash. On the front is an 8-megapixel shooter with an 85-degree wide-angle lens support.

The new device from ASUS, which measures 156.4 x 77.4 x 7.5mm and weighs 170 grams, runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, coupled with ASUS' own ZenUI 3.0 user interface laid on top.

The announcement of the availability of ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe Edition in Canada came a month after the company launched the ZenFone 3 model in the country for $429.99. The device was sold in the region through various retailers, including Canada Computers, Best Buy Canada, Newegg.ca, NCIX, Staples and Memory Express.

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