Asus is back with another big battery phone in India. The company had previously launched 4100 mAh battery in Asus Zenfone 3s Max. And next biggest highlight of this device is its 5000mAh battery, which is impressive and lived up to our expectation. But the device lacks performance and packs a budget quality 720pixel display.
Asus Zenfone 3s Max Features
1. Design
This phone has a antibody metal construction. It comes in Gold and Black color options. Below the display is a physical Home key that integrates fingerprint sensor. This key works as physical Home button and can only be used to wake up the device or for fingerprint scanning & unlocking. RATTING: 6.4/10
2. Performance
The Asus Zenfone 3s Max features a 64 bit octa core MediaTek MT6750 processor with Mail T860MP2 GPU and 3GB of RAM. The phone also supports USB OTG and can be used to charge other device as well. The processor is not very powerful and does not handle heavy multitasking. Asus claims that fingerprint sensor detects 360* finger detection. RATTING: 4.4/10
3. Display
The Asus Zenfone 3s Max features a 5.2 inch HD 720×1280 pixel display, 2.5 glass display with a pixel density of 282 ppi. The color reproduction of the IPS panel isn’t accurate, and we found these to be a bit oversaturated. This mobile doesn’t offer color adjustment options, except the blue light filter turn on/off under display setting. RATTING: 6.0/10
4. Primary Camera
The primary camera of this phone 13 mp Pixel Master auto focus shooter with dual LED Flash, and f/2.0 aperture. It is capable of shooting 1080pixel video at 30fps as well. Low light results had poor detailing, high noise and center sharpness was less too. This mobile few nifty features like live effect, panorama shoot, HDR, low light preset, time lapse etc. The app also gets a manual mode and it lets you tweak white balance, gain, ISO, focus etc. The camera auto focus shift a lot and very slow. RATTING: 4.5/10
5. Secondary Camera
The Asus Zenfone 3s Max 8 MP front facing camera with 85 degree wide angle lens. It is only capable of recording 480p video. The good light Selfie had poor sharpness for an 8 mp shooter. Other than that the front camera also has option to put in live filters, use night mode, and low light. For video the app has ‘Time Lapse‘ for front camera as well and similar to back camera, you can put custom time interval up to 5 seconds for time laps video. RATTING: 3.5/10
6. Battery Life
This mobile is 5000mAh non removable Lithium Ion battery. The phone took about 30 minutes to charge from 0 to 20% of the battery in switch off mode and the full charge took 3 hours 45 min. Our standard video loop test procedure involves, a full HD movie playback on a loop in Vlc with 50% volume through headphones, 100% screen brightness, and Wifi enabled. RATTING: 8.1/10
7. Software
The latest Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box with company’s ZenUI skinned on top. This device is 23GB of available storage on first boot, out of the 32GB internal storage. In fact you’ll hardly realize that it is running Nougat in the background, unit you see the split screen feature. Other, personalization options include One hand mode , motion gestures, and some touch gestures like double tap to work or sleep etc. RATTING: 5.2/10
8. Call quality
This device is dual hybrid SIM device that support 4G Volte on both SIM slots. You can either use two sSIM on the device or one SIM with one micro SD card. This mobile has two microphone one primary Mic is hidden in the bottom speaker grill and the secondary noise cancellation mic is next to the primary rear camera. Call quality on Jio was good and it can make HD calls. RATTING: 8.3/10
Asus Zenfone 3s Max Specifications
BRAND | Asus | |
MODEL | Zenfone 3s Max | |
SOFTWARE | ||
Operating System | 4 x 1.0GHZ + 4 x 1.5 GHZ | |
DISPLAY | ||
Display Type | IPS LCD | |
Resolution | 720×1920 pixel | |
Size (in inches) | 5.2 inch | |
Pixels Density | 282ppi | |
Touch screen type | Multi Touch | |
Color Reproduction | ||
CAMERA | ||
Primary | 13 Megapixel | |
Front | 8 Megapixel | |
Video | 1080p video @30fps | |
STORAGE | ||
Internal | 32GB | |
RAM | 3GB | |
Expandable | 32GB | |
BATTERY | ||
Type | Non removable | |
Capacity | 5000mAh | |
CONNECTIVITY | ||
Wi-Fi | Yes | |
Bluetooth | Yes | |
3G | Yes | |
2G | Yes | |
4G | Yes | |
SIM Configuration | Dual sim | |
GPS | No | |
GPRS | Yes | |
NFC Chipset | No | |
Infrared | No | |
Wired | No | |
OTG | Yes, 2TB | |
FM | Yes | |
Flash | Yes | |
Removable Battery | No | |
PROCESSOR | ||
OEM | MediaTek MT6750 | |
Variant | Snapdragon 430 | |
SENSORS | ||
Proximity | Yes | |
Accelerometer | Yes | |
Gyroscope | No | |
Ambient Light | No | |
SOUND | ||
Loudspeaker | Yes | |
Headphones | Yes | |
Price in India: 14999
All over Ratting: 5.9/10