Asus ZenFone 3 Max Review : 1 Month Later

Asus Zenfone 3 Max comes in two variants, one comes with 5.2-inch Display and other with 5.5-inch Display powered by a Snapdragon 430 Processor.Let’s see if it is worth the price tag in our Full Review after using device for around One month

Asus Zenfone 3 Max comes with a unibody metal design.On the front there is a 8 MP front-facing camera sensors, earpiece and notification LED. Below the display, there are three Capacitive buttons On the bottom there is Micro USB port and Speaker along with a microphone. On the top, the phone is a 3.5mm audio jack. Volume rockers and the power button is on right side of the phone.Coming to the left, we have SIM card slot.

On the back, there is metal body design 16 Megapixel rear camera with Dual tone LED Flash and Fingerprint Scanner below there is Asus branding and antenna lines on top and bottom.Zenfone 3 Max measures 151.4 mm x 76.24 mm x 8.2mm and weighs 175 grams.Asus Zenfone 3 Max can be used in Single also the curved edges on the back gives good grip.Overall build and Design of the Phone looks Good.

Zenfone 3 Max features a 5.5-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS display with 2.5D Curved Glass and creates a pixel density of 401 ppi similar to Zenfone 3 viewing angles is good in outdoor in direct sunlight conditions.Asus Zenfone 3 Max is Powered by a 1.4 GHz Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 Processor with Adreno 505 GPU coupled with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage out of which 23GB is available for user device also supports MicroSD card up to 128GB.

Zenfone 3 Max performance is fast we didn’t face any issue while normal use or while playing games. There was some heating and lag while playing high-end games for more than 15-20minutes. Asus Zenfone 3 Max performed well in our Benchmark test On AnTuTu Benchmark phone Score 44016 points, Geekbench 3 scores 635 on a single core and 1978 on Multicore.The overall performance of devices is good we can’t expect high-end performance from the Snapdragon 430 Chipset.

Coming to Camera Zenfone 3 Max has a 16MP rear camera with Dual LED Flash ., f/2.0 aperture and 8MP front camera. The phone also comes with camera modes such as Auto, Manual, HDR Pro, Beautification, Super Resolution.Low Light, QR code, Night, Effect, Selfie, Panorama, Time Lapse and more modes.Zenfone 3 Max can record videos up to 1080p at 30 fps. The 16MP rear camera on Zenfone 3 Max produces good images in Outdoor and indoor condition but struggles in a low light condition in Auto mode yes with the use of Manual mode we can capture good pictures. As always front camera performance is good. Both camera performance is good it could have been better at the price point Zenfone 3 Max is available.

Asus Zenfone 3 Max has a fingerprint Scanner on rear which is fast and responsive it can also allow users to take call or capture images using fingerprint scanner we can add up to five fingerprints .check out how to setup fingerprint scanner and its working in below video

Asus Zenfone 3 Max (ZC553KL) runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow with Asus own ZenUI 3.0 on top of it. It comes with a lot of pre-loaded apps which can be uninstalled.The overall software is fast and we didn’t face any lag. Rest all Zen UI features are similar to other Zenfone series smartphones. Zenfone 3 Max is expected to get Android Nougat Update Soon.

On Connectivity device include 4G VoLTE Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n/ac, ,GPS/A-GPS, and Glonass. Dual SIM device supports Hybrid SIM and MicroSD card up to 128GB. Speaker output on Zenfone 3 Max is clear when volume is full but when Volume is little bit low sound is less . Speaker output could have been better output via the headphone jack was loud and clear,Sound on calls there was no issue device supports VoLTE which works fine with Reliance Jio calls also worked for us without any issue both SIMs support 4G SIM. Coming to Battery.

Asus Zenfone 3 Max is packed with a 4100mAh Battery. Zenfone 3 Max is able to deliver a battery life up to 2 days on normal use which on heavy use and Dual SIM 4G support we got a battery life of about one and half day with Screen on time of around 6-7 hours. Yes, battery life Zenfone 3 Max is Good as it comes with Full HD Display.

Asus Zenfone 3 Max offers a Full HD Display, Snapdragon 430 chipset powerful battery life, and a better camera which is now available in India for Rs 15,500.There are other options like Redmi Note 4 , Cool 1 which has a more powerful processor.