A phone with a surefire multi-day of battery life is still part of the formula in Asus Zenfone line. For this year 2017, they will continue it with our first look on Asus Zenfone 4 Max.
Front: 5.5 inch IPS HD dislay with 2.5D Glass, 8 MP front cam with LED flash and f/2.2 aperture, fingerprint reader
Back: 13 MP dual cameras (1 primary, 1 wide angle) with PDAF, EIS, f/2.0 aperture with flash, Asus branding, non-removable back cover
Internals: 1.4 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 octa-core processor, LTE with 700 Mhz band support, ZenUI 4.0 based on Android 7.1 Nougat, 3 GB RAM, 32 GB ROM, Bluetooth 4.1, WiFi, GPS, 5000 mAh built-in battery
The left side has dual nano SIM and micro SD slot in one single tray while at the right, it has the volume rocker
The top has 3.5 mm. audio jack while at the bottom has speakers and OTG-capable micro USB port
It was the first Zenfone 4 device that I saw with the new ZenUI 4.0 based on Android 7.1.1 Nougat. The camera UI is almost the same (of course there will be some differences compared to other ZF 4 family members) but the pulldown menu is different from the others which you will see later.
There are the camera samples. The Zenfone 4 Max has normal and wide angle camera variations on 2 main shooters. On the wide angle, I am a bit not convinced on the wide angle camera mainly coz it looked like only a picture set at 16:9 aperture. The front cam looks a-ok and good thing, Asus still put in a sensor with f/2.2 aperture
Asus Zenfone 4 Max is priced in the Philippines for (will be updated later)
