ASUS ZENFONE MAX REVIEW



Asus launched its budget smartphone in India namely Zenfone Max (Dual Sim) which is priced at 9,999/-. It is available in Black And White shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is good. It has corning glass 4 on front and faux leather on the back and feels very good in hands. It is slim at 10.6mm and weighs 202gms. it has a 5.5 inch HD IPS LCD display resolution of resolution 720 x 1280 with 267ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is very good. It runs on Zen User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is Very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has 16GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 64GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like google play music for songs and a stock gallery and a video player which are good. FM radio comes pre-installed too. 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 Direct, Wifi hotspot as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy) also has USB OTG support.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 13MP rear camera with laser autofocus & Dual LED (Duual tone) flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is very good overall. Daytime the images are very good and has fine details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become more 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 having bit-rate of 16-18 mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is very good overall. Daytime the video clarity is pretty good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is Pretty fine. It has a 5MP front facing camera for selfe's which does 720p video recording and clarity is pretty good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 5.0 Lollipop out of the box. It has Snapdragon 410(MSM8916) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running a Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.2 GHZ (ARM Cortex A53 architecture) with 2GB RAM and Adreno 306 (550MHZ Single-Core) GPU. The performance is very good which provides most number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run well enough and there is no major lag at most cases.
QUADRANT : 13091.
ANTUTU : 24830.
NENAMARK 2 : 58.6fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Removable Li-Po 5000 mah battery. The battery life is Extra-Ordinary which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 10H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 10:30H.
TALKTIME : upto 24H(2G) / upto 21H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 650H(2G) / upto 630H(3G).

PROS
*Very Good build quality.
*Very Good display and viewing angle.
*Very good Performance.
*Pretty good camera and video recording clarity with laser auto focus system.
*4G & USB OTG Support.
*Can be used as power bank.
*Extra-Ordinary battery life.
*Quite good loudspeaker.

CONS
*Bit hefty.
*High end graphic game titles are playable but not the smoothest. 
*No Dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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