SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND MAX REVIEW


Samsung launched its midrange android smartphone namely Galaxy Grand max which is priced @ 15,999/- sold via snapdeal. It is available is Black & White shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is pretty good. It has corning gorilla glass 3 on front a plastic pattern finish rear and feels Quite good in hands. It is slim at 7.9mm and weighs 161gms. It has 5.25 inch HD IPS LCD display of resolution 720 x 1280 with 282ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is great. It runs on Touch Wiz User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS
It has 16GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 64GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like music for songs, a gallery to store all images and videos and a movie player for playing movies respectively which are quite good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Conductivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & upto 50mbps upload, Wifi b/g/n, Wifi dual-band, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy). But lacks USB OTG & NFC support. 

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 13MP rear camera with autofocus and Led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc and other modes as well. The camera clarity is very good good overall. Daytime the images are very good good and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is pretty fine. It does FULL HD 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound but lacks HDR having bit-rate of 17mbps respectively and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is very good overall. Daytime the video clarity is very good good and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is pretty fine. It also has a 5MP front camera for selfe's with 1080p video recording and clarity is very good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 4.4.4 Kitkat out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running a Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.2 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A53 Architecture) with 1.5GB RAM and Adreno 306 GPU (400 MHZ single core) GPU. The performance is very good which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at all.
QUADRANT : 8894.
ANTUTU : 21146.
NENAMARK 2 : 59.1fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Removable Li-Ion 2500mah battery. The battery life is Very Good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 7:50H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 8:10H.
TALKTIME : upto 19H(2G) / upto 18H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 510 H(2G) / upto 4790 H(3G).

PROS
*Pretty good build quality.
*Very good display and viewing angle.
*Very good Performance.
*Very good camera and video recording clarity.
*Pretty good loudspeaker.
*Very good battery life.

CONS
*Non-Removable Battery.  
*NFC support & No USB OTG support either. 
*No dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.7/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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