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Asus Zenfone Max ZC550KL 6A126IN Black

Last Updated: February 24, 2019 (Refresh Now)
7.0
SCORE
/10
Total Reviews
686
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13 MP
PRIMARY CAMERA
5 MP
SECONDARY CAMERA
5.5 meters
SIZE
LCD
TYPE

Review Analysis - 583 recent, verified reviews

Detailed Mode
Battery Life
 97
life, backup, charge, 5000mah, good battery life
+81%
-19%
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" ...  Good battery life and good camera  ...  "
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" ...  Great battery, last ages without charge it and an overall good phone  ...  "
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" ...  Positives- Awesome finish, sturdy, good battery back up  ...  "
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" ...  Powerful battery and trustworthy brand of ASUS.  ...  "
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" ...  I didn't find any negative points in the phone even the battery backup is quite an impressive one.  ...  "
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" ...  good product not better & super battery,camera  ...  "
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" ...  battery is great .  ...  "
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" ...  Good looking, nice camera, battery was awesome.  ...  "
Device Compatibility
 43
mobile, asus, love this phone, buy this phone, working properly
+63%
-37%
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" ...  This is my third ASUS phone which i bought from Amazon.  ...  "
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" ...  I love this Phone , This is the 2nd Phone i am Ordering for my relative .  ...  "
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" ...  I use this phone over 8months, no problem, good phone  ...  "
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" ...  My dream phone  ...  "
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" ...  This phone is one of the best phone .  ...  "
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" ...  I love this phone.  ...  "
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" ...  A great phone .  ...  "
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" ...  Phone was excellent.  ...  "
Price
 42
range, value for money, mobile, waste of money, wastage
+83%
-17%
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" ...  Value for money good finish  ...  "
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" ...  Very good in this budget.  ...  "
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" ...  Worth for money  ...  "
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" ...  Value for money  ...  "
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" ...  Value for money.  ...  "
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" ...  Awesome product in this range  ...  "
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" ...  GOOD STUFF IN VERY AFFORDABLE RATE 7999.  ...  "
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" ...  Sooo better than other mobiles in this price range  ...  "
Product Reliability
 40
months, 2 years, month, working properly, started
+48%
-53%
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" ...  It will not last above a year  ...  "
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" ...  Within 6months motherboard problem .  ...  "
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" ...  It is just 1year and 5 months.  ...  "
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" ...  Only one month old . ... Speakers are already not working .  ...  "
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" ...  bakwas phone, dont buy at all, , hangs alot,, useless product ,, didnt work for one year even,,  ...  "
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" ...  Very bad deal product not working after exact 11 months  ...  "
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" ...  Motherboard issue after 2 years.  ...  "
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" ...  The Sim1 slot of the device stopped working after 7 months of purchase  ...  "
Camera
 31
performance, slow, camera is good, battery, average
+74%
-26%
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" ...  #battery # camera #looks  ...  "
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" ...  The camera is just wonderful especially during day time it gives you a wonderful shot.  ...  "
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" ...  camera is average.  ...  "
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" ...  This is a best phone for batery and camera  ...  "
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" ...  Camera (back) - 9/10  ...  "
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" ...  only thing is phone have a good power back up and good camera  ...  "
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" ...  Camera quality good.  ...  "
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" ...  But else it is flawless ,camera is good with autfocus .can,t be any better  ...  "
Overall performance
 28
performance, phone, speed, processor, processing
+32%
-68%
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" ...  to much slow .  ...  "
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" ...  Its been almost an year since I have been using this phone its sucks it hangs a lot the speed is nil I literally threw the phone to a wall once i got a mew phone the touch gets spoilt the camera shutters are slow needs to restart every now and then .  ...  "
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" ...  Even prior to that I heard complains about how it's performance kept degrading.  ...  "
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" ...  For the first 3 months the performance was good but later it started becoming slow responding.  ...  "
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" ...  Slightly slow processing speed  ...  "
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" ...  Slow, Very heavy.  ...  "
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" ...  Cpu is slowest  ...  "
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" ...  But after a few days I realized that it was having a lot of performance issues. ... I had no clue why the phone was lagging so much inspite of having a qualcomm 615 processor. ... The phone is very sloppy and painfully slow.  ...  "
Display Clarity
 21
display, screen size, touch, hangs, good battery life
+43%
-57%
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" ...  this product very waste disply screen is very varest 20 days gione  ...  "
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" ...  Screen is not gorilla glass, broken light pressure.  ...  "
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" ...  Don't buy, Company has stop manufacturing the LCD . ... If you loose your display then there is no alternative for it  ...  "
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" ...  Dear sir, the mobile screen have a horizontal blue line, after restarting also the line exist.  ...  "
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" ...  Display stopped working itself  ...  "
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" ...  Bad product screen poor  ...  "
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" ...  The product is difectiv cell phone henging prob lem screen touch is not work propri and aftar 20 day phone is swich off in workin time and then i am go in distens 70 km asus sarvis sentar in indor for only phone ripeyrin  ...  "
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" ...  In just 3 months the screen started flickering .  ...  "
Charging
 20
charge, battery, takes, charger, fully charged
+60%
-40%
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" ...  Great battery, last ages without charge it and an overall good phone  ...  "
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" ...  I love it once charged device runs up to 3 days on low usage days otherwise 1.5 days to the minimum for me with net and youtube  ...  "
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" ...  This was the phone for my dad, who required less frequent charging and a slick ui.  ...  "
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" ...  2.5000 mah battery is cool it takes more time to charge  ...  "
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" ...  bt it takes more than 8 hour to fully charged .  ...  "
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" ...  Battery backup is superb but takes 5 to 6 hour to completely charge  ...  "
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" ...  Good battery but taking a long time to charge  ...  "
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" ...  best phone, everything is as described , baterry backup is excellent , but it just heats up sometimes during charging.  ...  "
Software Platform
 18
asus, android, volte, apps, app
+67%
-33%
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" ...  zenfone its a very smooth phone with very excellent user interface  ...  "
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" ...  Compatible with android tv , support mirroring  ...  "
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" ...  6.asus zenUI is awesome ... Based on marshmallow  ...  "
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" ...  You will never get s/w update  ...  "
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" ...  on line software updation is amazing .  ...  "
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" ...  company must think over the latest upgradation of apps and system .  ...  "
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" ...  UI is beyond my imagination.  ...  "
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" ...  Extra app for flashlight, lots of bloatware.  ...  "
Delivery
 14
time, product, delivered, days, amazon
+79%
-21%
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" ...  On time delivery  ...  "
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" ...  Received in good condition?  ...  "
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" ...  product delivered on time and working as expected  ...  "
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" ...  Thanks Amazon for the timely delivery and for bringing smile .  ...  "
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" ...  It is nice but late delivery  ...  "
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" ...  Item reached as per schedule.  ...  "
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" ...  phone arrived 4 days before expected delivery.  ...  "
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" ...  Thanks to Amazon team for 1day delivery.  ...  "
Sound Quality
 13
quality, speaker, picture, battery, working
+46%
-54%
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" ...  Hang more often,poor sound quality  ...  "
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" ...  Picture quality is bad,sound is low and battery life is bad too never ever buy this phone  ...  "
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" ...  Speaker not working  ...  "
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" ...  It is difficult to call from another devise as a peculiar sound (noise) comes along with it.  ...  "
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" ...  Speakers are already not working .  ...  "
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" ...  With In 6 moths speaker and Mike Problem arrived with this product.  ...  "
Touch Sensitivity
 12
screen, problem, working, slow, pad
+17%
-83%
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" ...  touch screen is not as per Asus quality .  ...  "
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" ...  once put it down the mobile is damaged touch was not works well bad and bad product  ...  "
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" ...  Touch pad issue is major issue .  ...  "
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" ...  Because it touch has gone  ...  "
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" ...  slow,touch screen problem .  ...  "
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" ...  Extremely poor touch screen .  ...  "
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" ...  Major problem i have seen is touch sensitivity  ...  "
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" ...  Touch scree not working with in 6months  ...  "
Marketplace
 11
thanks, delivery, want, time, seller
+73%
-27%
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" ...  Very nice product, better den shown in the picture.  ...  "
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" ...  Thanks to Amazon team for 1day delivery.  ...  "
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" ...  thank you amazon  ...  "
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" ...  Thanks for reviews of customers and Amazon and Asus  ...  "
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" ...  Great on time delivery by Amazon.  ...  "
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" ...  Luved it thanks to amazon  ...  "
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" ...  Thanks Amazon for the timely delivery and for bringing smile .  ...  "
Screen Protection
 11
gorilla glass, glass broken, time, phone, height
+18%
-82%
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" ...  And no screen guard and no back cover in the box.this is bad  ...  "
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" ...  Screen is not gorilla glass, broken light pressure.  ...  "
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" ...  Glass broken and I spent rs3000 within six months.  ...  "
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" ...  Screen not working  ...  "
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" ...  In just 3 months the screen started flickering .  ...  "
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" ...  Bad product screen poor  ...  "
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" ...  It fell down once and now the screen has cracked and it's rendered useless  ...  "
Memory
 10
memory, 2gb, storage, gb, 7
+50%
-50%
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" ...  Excessive bloatware eats up the 16gb internal memory. ... The phone hangs when memory gets exhausted.  ...  "
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" ...  I always clear my cache date and ram but the problem didn't resolved.  ...  "
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" ...  I was expecting only 3 threqe things battery, performance(RAM) and camera but except except battery nothing in this phone for which phone should be purchase.  ...  "
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" ...  Also,there is serious ram leak(software issue) with this phone  ...  "
Lagging
 10
lag, hangs, phone, much, bit slow
+20%
-80%
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" ...  lagging every now and then (even rebooting wont help)  ...  "
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" ...  Suddenly phone hangs .  ...  "
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" ...  to much slow .  ...  "
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" ...  For the first 3 months the performance was good but later it started becoming slow responding.  ...  "
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" ...  Some time lag also.  ...  "
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" ...  Lags too much  ...  "
Call quality
 10
calls, call, worst phone, 4g, voice
-100%
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" ...  I have recived phone today but HEADSET is missing and most important thing is I had booked this instrument just because of VOLTE facility but it has limitations only up to 4g mode which leads me so much disappointment.  ...  "
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" ...  Sluggish response , some times phone calls drop out etc  ...  "
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" ...  It is difficult to call from another devise as a peculiar sound (noise) comes along with it.  ...  "
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" ...  in a month the phone is hanging and there is voice quality issues .  ...  "
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" ...  Handset is now hanking  ...  "
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" ...  The worst phone I have ever used  ...  "
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" ...  Seems there is some issue with battery , secondary ear piece speaker is having distortion sound while making call  ...  "
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" ...  Worst phone sir  ...  "
Design
 8
looks, good, premium, looking, feels
+100%
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" ...  3.phone looks are great  ...  "
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" ...  Most of the other phones in this range have bad looks but this one looks slightly premium.  ...  "
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" ...  Design - 10/10  ...  "
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" ...  This is the best no faults feels light  ...  "
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" ...  At first phone is good looking.  ...  "
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" ...  Phone is good looking.  ...  "
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" ...  Phone looks premium.  ...  "
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" ...  look is very good.  ...  "
Build Quality
 8
heavy, fall, easily, damage, build
+63%
-38%
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" ...  Exceptional build quality.  ...  "
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" ...  The phone in this range is tough and durable.  ...  "
Storage
 7
apps, memory, gets, gb, cannot
+14%
-86%
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" ...  Phone gets slow with memory card.  ...  "
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" ...  There are some problems with the product, vibration is not working and sd card is not accepting, I want to replace the product.  ...  "
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" ...  Some of the drawbacks are phone is heavy ,easily gets chipped once dropped, internal memory gets occupied quickly with apps.  ...  "
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" ...  You cannot transfer apps from phone to sd card.  ...  "
Heating
 7
heating, heating issues, charging, problem, heated
+57%
-43%
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" ...  No heating issues.  ...  "
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" ...  No heating issues.  ...  "
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" ...  if we neglect those thing the product is good no heating and hanging issue at all and the display is also verry good  ...  "
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" ...  No heating and no hanging problem at all.  ...  "
SIM
 7
dual, working, support, one, network
+43%
-57%
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" ...  Sim does not working. ... Some times one sim working then another doesn't not.  ...  "
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" ...  If you end up travelling with this device , it won’t have network with other European SIM card .  ...  "
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" ...  Only one port support for sim it also hang within one week.  ...  "
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" ...  Both sim network connection shows off though both sim are properly inserted.  ...  "
Size
 7
phone, weight, bit, size, mobile
+29%
-71%
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" ...  I will be scared to carry this phone when i am travelling because of battery life.  ...  "
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" ...  Only thing is it is little heavy.  ...  "
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" ...  The phone is heavy.  ...  "
Apps
 6
app, open, takes, internal, app it takes
+50%
-50%
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" ...  We’re unable to install apps of our choice because default installed apps that are useless and cannot be unistalled use up the entire internal phone memory.  ...  "
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" ...  If press or open any app it takes 3 sec.  ...  "
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" ...  I can't download anything from Google play store in this device.  ...  "
Picture Quality
 6
quality, sound, nice, low, life
+50%
-50%
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" ...  Picture quality is bad,sound is low and battery life is bad too never ever buy this phone  ...  "
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" ...  It's capture in dark Gd picture.  ...  "
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" ...  Picture quality is very poor and process slowly  ...  "
Weight
 6
heavy, mobile, quite, phone, little
+17%
-83%
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" ...  but this is Heavy weight mobile comparative to other mobile  ...  "
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" ...  Only the problem is weight its 200gm. ... For mobile it is little heavy.  ...  "
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" ...  Only thing is it is little heavy.  ...  "
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" ...  Heavy wight mobile  ...  "
Features
 5
working properly, feels
+80%
-20%
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" ...  This is the best no faults feels light  ...  "
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" ...  loved all the features .  ...  "
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" ...  You will not find better option with these features and price  ...  "
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" ...  Nice phone with good features.  ...  "
Display Size
 5
good battery life, good, display, build
+100%
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" ...  Screen size good .  ...  "
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" ...  Larger screen size, amd build quality excellent .  ...  "
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" ...  quite big display  ...  "
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" ...  the best thing is the Screen Size, Which is Huge.  ...  "
Comfort
 5
handle, feels, fall, size, phone
+60%
-40%
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" ...  This is the best no faults feels light  ...  "
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" ...  Feels good in hand.  ...  "
Gaming
 4
gaming, play, max, heavy, 5
+75%
-25%
comment
" ...  5.gaming performance is okay (games lower than 300mb works fine)  ...  "
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" ...  all positive reviews about zenfone max are true and correct except that my piece heats up after 15-20 minutes games played.  ...  "
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" ...  Since we don't play games or photography buffs, it is good for us.  ...  "
Network
 4
network, problem, phone, issue, asus
+25%
-75%
comment
" ...  no signal shows in the menu bar .  ...  "
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" ...  We checked with multiple devices, networks and finally concluded the problem is in the Asus zenphone.  ...  "
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" ...  After 1 month suddenly my phone has network issue.  ...  "
Ease of Use
 3
user, ui, friendly
+100%
comment
" ...  Doesn't hang, easy to handle  ...  "
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" ...  Reasonably easy browsing.  ...  "
Returns
 3
want, replace, refund, amazon
-100%
comment
" ...  I want to Return But Amazon giving no Response  ...  "
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" ...  No return policy, I got this phone today after 6 hrs i tried to return it but they are not accepting only replacement can be done nor exchange nor refund.  ...  "
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" ...  Returned it 3 times and finally called for refund.  ...  "
Data reception
 3
4g, volte, sim, phone, mobile
+33%
-67%
comment
" ...  Not good because no VOLTE Only LTE  ...  "
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" ...  I have no issues with my Redmi note 4 except internet connectivity(it's slower on data)  ...  "
Night Photography
 3
low light, camera, time, pic, mode
+67%
-33%
comment
" ...  night time brightness very high.  ...  "
Front Camera
 3
camera, average, selfie, rear, performance
+67%
-33%
comment
" ...  Selfie camera or secondary camera performance is very average .  ...  "
comment
" ...  I love the back cam :)  ...  "

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Specifications

Body
Size:  5.5 meters
Battery
Battery Capacity:  5000 mAh
Memory
Memory:  2048 GB
Camera
Primary Camera:  13 MP
Secondary Camera:  5 MP
Calling
Dual Sim:  Yes 
Performance
Processor Clock:  1 GHz
Processor Type:  Quad Core 
Display
Type:  LCD 
13 MP
PRIMARY CAMERA
5 MP
SECONDARY CAMERA
5.5 meters
SIZE
LCD
TYPE