Asus Zenfone 3 Deluxe:Camera and Battery Life

 Asus Zenfone 3 Deluxe: Camera and Battery Life

Camera

• 23MP sensor takes okay outdoor photos in proper light
• Slow and crammed with noise in anything that resembles lowlight
• Over 20 different camera modes and an honest selfie snapper

Asus paid more attention to the Zenfone 3 Deluxe camera, and it cranks up the megapixels with a 23MP Sony IMX318 sensor it dubs "PixelMaster 3.0." Sounds more sort of a really bad 90s AOL Instant Messenger screen name for a pompous camera guru.

That translates to an f/2.0 lens that’s alleged to take 0.03 seconds to autofocus. There's optical image stabilization onboard for shaky hands and a dual tone LED flash for night shots.

Don't let the high megapixel count fool you. The Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge cameras remains the simplest within the biz immediately and it's only 12MP. It's all about the standard of the sensor and post-processing, especially when it involves low-light photos.

In fact, though the Zenfone 3 Deluxe nearly doubles Samsung’s megapixels, it’s not even on the brink of being on par to the Galaxy S7 camera.

Outdoor photos in ample sunlight are ok and, supported that alone, we might have recommended this as a reliable Android camera. But it turns into something of a smartphone werewolf after sunset and indoors without proper light.

Photos in any kind of shade exhibit an excessive amount of shadow and everything lacks detail. That’s an enormous problem when high-end phones take better photos and cheap Android phones do too.

Even with laser, phase detection and continuous auto-focus employed, the camera is just too slow to require photos in lowlight, and that’s an enormous headache. And you'll ditch capturing moving subjects. They’re already gone or moving streaks in low-light.

To its credit, Asus’s camera is bursting with modes, including a comprehensive manual mode with controls for adjusting the main target, white balance, shutter speed and ISO.

Almost all of the opposite modes attempt to catch up on fidgety people with good ideas: All Smiles, Children, and Time Rewind are a mixture of facial detection and picking the simplest burst photo.

Our favorite part is that the kid-face-detecting Children mode includes sound includes trumpet and animal noise sound effects to urge kids to seem at the camera. It’s odd, but effective.

There are literally 20 camera modes in total, including HDR Pro, Beautification, Depth of Field, Super Resolution and GIF Animation. These would be helpful is that the camera always worked well.

Zenfone 3 Deluxe can shoot 4K video at 30fps and its steady enough (but not nearly as good because the Google Pixel XL) by mixing optical image stabilization (OIS) and software-driven bitmap stabilization (EIS). Time lapse and movie are here at low resolutions.

The front-facing camera is 8MP and it takes better-than-average selfie photos. Just make certain to show off the alien-looking beauty mode that’s enabled by default to urge a more realistic shot.

Battery life

• Lasts longer than other phones with a 3,000mAh battery
• Owes much of its longevity to a lower-res screen and software
• Awfully named ‘BootMaster Fast Charging’ charges it rather quickly

The all-day-plus battery life also withstood our lab tests, during which we played a looped 90 minute HD video at full charge. It ended up draining just 13%, on par with the Samsung Galaxy S7.

The Asus Zenfone 3 Deluxe battery has two things going for it: it’s low-resolution screen and its (sometimes too) aggressive battery-saving tweaks when you’re right down to your last precious 10%.

There’s a positive trade-off for having your phone stir up fewer pixels during a 1080p display, and therefore the Zenfone 3 Deluxe Super AMOLED screen looks just fine; small pixel loss, huge battery gain.

With Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 onboard, the battery benefits from Quick Charge 3.0, which suggests it can quickly fill copy rather quickly with a compatible charger.

There’s an Asus fast charger included and that we got an equivalent numbers using an additional Samsung Galaxy Note 7 charger (hey, it’s not ever using it again) that clothed to be even as compatible: 20% in quarter-hour , 47% in half-hour and 70% in 45 minutes. It took 89 minutes to succeed in 100%.

Perhaps the sole thing we can’t drag about the battery and charging is that the silly name for Asus’s charging standard: ‘BootMaster’ Fast Charging. Every manufacturer has their own name for fast charging (even if they’re supported an equivalent tech) and it seems like another bad screen name from yesteryear.