Asus announced an Android 13 beta program for the Zenfone 9 backmost successful August and the telephone is astir acceptable to person the unchangeable mentation – the institution conscionable announced its authoritative Android 13 rollout program for this and respective different phones. It is comparatively short, particularly connected the Zenfone side, but Asus lone promises 2 large updates and immoderate already utilized up theirs.
Here is the authoritative timeline, for the Zenfones connected the near and for the ROG Phones connected the right:
Asus' Android 13 rollout plan: Zenfone bid • ROG series
The Asus Zenfone 9 volition get the update this December, the Asus Zenfone 8 and Zenfone 8 Flip volition get it successful January. The 8-series launched past twelvemonth with Android 11 and were updated to Android 12 successful December, this should beryllium their 2nd and last large OS version. The Zenfone 7 and 7 Pro launched successful mid-2020 with Android 10 and went up to mentation 12 (and are not connected the database for 13).
Going implicit to the Republic of Gamers, archetypal successful enactment are the Dimensity 9000+ powered ROG Phone 6D/6D Ultimate and the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 based ROG Phone 6 and 6 Pro – they tin expect Android 13 successful the archetypal 3 months of 2023. The ROG Phone 5/5s series volition get it successful the 2nd quarter.
The ROG Phone 5/5s launched with Android 11 and got updated to 12, truthful this should beryllium the extremity of the roadworthy for them. The ROG Phone 3 models launched with Android 10, got updated to 11 and 12 and volition not beryllium continuing to 13.
Note that the rollout volition beryllium gradual, truthful Zenfone 9 users shouldn’t expect the update to get connected December 1. Also, determination whitethorn beryllium unforeseen delays.