Zenfone 3 Deluxe with SND 821 processor has been launched by Asus in September with impressive specs sheets. Today, let’s get a short review about the Asus top-notch phone.

Zenfone 3 Deluxe: Pros and Cons

First, let’s see how beautiful Asus Zenfone 3 Deluxe is! The phone comes with an all-metal body, and this unibody aluminum design looks elegant. The phone is equipped the 5.7-inch AMOLED screen which is considered in phablet territory, although there are more and more devices that came to market this year already have 5.5-inch screens. Still, Zenfone 3 Deluxe is not bigger than its 5.5-inch rivals by reducing the side bezels and placing the soft keys on the metal below. Therefore, excellent unibody metal design is the first cons from Zenfone 3 Deluxe.

Next to Zenfone 3 Deluxe Review, let’s talk about the specs which is the second good point of this device. Asus’s device offers on the inside 6GB of RAM with 256GB of ROM for Snapdragon 821 variant. There is a MicroSD slot that can take you up to 200GB and beyond. It has a dual-SIM slot that is well-suited to traveling. The 3,000mAh not removable battery inside is somewhat small for a phone of this size. However, it is easily lasting a full day with moderate usage. The USB-C port has Quick Charge 3.0, which could help your phone reaches 60 per cent charge in 39 minutes as long as you use its own charger.

On the rear, we have 23MP Sony IMX318 main camera supported by f/2.0 aperture 6-element lens and 4-axis OIS and an 8MP sensor for selfie. On paper, that sounds pretty robust, but in practice, it becomes the anchor weighing the Deluxe down. The first shortcoming Zenfone 3 Deluxe is facing that it can’t capture images consistently well. It’s pretty good for shooting in daylight, but shadows and highlights contrast too much when the auto exposure and white balancing veers off. The difficulties only appeared in low-light and night shots. Despite a reasonably open aperture and image stabilization at work, it is very difficult to get the picture right. The second drawback is that, the smartphone, despite of outstanding specs, it is still running last year’s Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow and it is unclear when it will be upgraded to Android 7.0 Nougat.

Zenfone 3 Deluxe Review

Like most things, the phone sure has its own weak and strong points. However, we would love to appreciate the effort of Asus. In fact, Zenfone 3 Deluxe is the most powerful smartphone from them. Would you buy Zenfone 3 Deluxe with $747 (Rs. 49,990)?