ASUS has a lineup of popular smartphones in the form of the Zenfone series, and the company also has a sub-brand named ASUS ROG which is well-known for making high-end and premium gaming smartphones. Now, both these brands have announced their plans for major software updates for their smartphones.

Both the companies, ASUS and its subbrand ASUS ROG have revealed the Android 13 update rollout plan for their smartphones, which is set to commence next month, i.e. December 2022.

As per the information shared by ASUS on its social media profiles, the Zenfone 9 will be the first smartphone to get the latest Android 13 update in December 2022, followed by Zenfone 8, which will get the update in January 2023.

On the other hand, the ROG Phone 6D and 6D Ultimate, as well as the ROG Phone 6 and 6 Pro, will be getting an Android 13-based software update sometime in the first quarter of 2023, which means between January 2023 and March 2023.

The ROG Phone 5 and ROG Phone 5S series will get the new Android 13 update sometime in the second quarter of 2023, which means between the months of April and June. We expect the company to reveal a more specific timeframe for the updates in the coming months.

The company has also added that the actual timeframe for the update rollout may differ based on regions and conditions. We expect the phones to get an updated version of the custom user interface when they get the Android 13 update. ASUS phones come with the company’s Zen UI, while the ROG phones run the ROG UI on top of Android.

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Last month, Asus began recruiting testers for the Android 11 Beta program of ASUS ROG Phone 3. A month later, it has finally started rolling out the first Beta build to those Closed Beta testers.

As reported by XDADevelopers, an update with firmware version 18.0410.2101.80 is rolling out to the users of ROG Phone 3. Just like the report says, it’s a closed Beta so it’s currently available only for a small group of people who applied for the Beta program.

Anyway, the update is about 1.1GB in size and brings the Android 11 OS to the device. If you recall, the ROG Phone 3 launched in July 2020 with Android 10 OS out of the box. The UI on the device has ASUS’s ROG UI/ZenUI as an option.

Coming back, you can expect all the Android 11 features like chat bubbles, one-time permissions management, permission auto-reset, and more. That said, you can expect a lot of other changes that ASUS brings for its own UI to the table.

ASUS has been a bit off when it comes to updating its devices. Although it began registrations of the Android 11 Beta program for the ASUS Zenfone 6 way before the official Android 11 announcement, the company rolled out the stable update a bit late.

Add to this, ASUS also confirmed that the original ROG Phone won’t even get the 2019’s Android 10 OS. Either way, the Android 11 for ROG Phone 3 is its first major update so it’s a no-brainer that the device is getting the attention.

Speaking of which, currently, there is no info on when both the Open Beta and stable update rollout for this device will begin.

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