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what's up guys wanted here from Android authority and we're here at CES 2017 taking a look at the second Android smartphone that as Zeus has announced here at their event this is the asus zenfone AR this will be the second commercially available tango ready smartphone the first one of course being the fab 2 pro by lenovo but unlike the fab 2 pro the zenfone AR is much sleeker looking more manageable in the hand and a lot less bulky it's got a full metal frame that wraps around the entire perimeter of the phone and on the back is a very soft leather backing that feels extremely nice and also provides a lot of grip also in the back is a 23 megapixel camera along with the usual motion tracking and depth sensing camera that is needed to run tango it does have a fingerprint sensor but instead of having it on the back like the zenfone 3 zoom the fingerprint sensor is on the front of the zenfone AR which also doubles as a home button and is also flanked by capacitive keys if you're still somehow not familiar with what tango is here is a very brief explanation tango is an augmented reality platform created by Google and its purpose for eyes a lot of practical uses but can also be very entertaining and recreational and as many use cases can all be achieved through your tango enabled device whether it be your smartphone or a tablet not only does the zenfone AR have support for Google's tango but it also be daydream ready right out of the box so although it's the second tango ready smartphone it'll actually be the first Android smartphone with both tango and daydream support and it has all the specs necessary in order to do it it's got a large bright and beautiful 5.7 inch Super AMOLED screen with quad HD resolution a Snapdragon 820 one processor inside and it'll come with either six gigabytes of RAM or a whopping eight gigabytes of RAM which will make the zenfone AR the first smartphone to eight gigs of ram the zenfone AR will also feature a vapor cooling system in order to help prevent the phone from overheating when using its AR and vr capabilities and of course with this being a daydream ready smartphone it's obviously running Android 7.0 new get but you will be getting a Seuss's Zen UI customizations on top of it as well you can expect to see these zenfone AR to be released in q2 of this year but exact pricing and availability is still to be confirmed the zenfone ARS definitely shaping up to be a very interesting device especially with both tango and daydream and it's certainly packing a ton of power inside so we're definitely looking forward to checking it out even further so if you want to see more on the zenfone AR make sure to keep it tuned here to the Android Authority youtube channel and check us out on android comm for all of our coverage on CES 2017