Review: Asus Zenfone 3 Ultra

With its good looks and decent performance, the Asus Zenfone 3 Ultra is launched in the market. What exactly do you expect form a smartphone when you are ready to invest a sum of 50K? We guess that you will expect everything that is possible by a smartphone with a support to an elegant and premium design. Interestingly, Asus Zenfone 3 Ultra intends to have all this packed in itself. But is Asus Zenfone 3 Ultra worth spending 50K? Let’s see.

Design and display

The Asus Zenfone 3 Ultra comes in two different colors: Titanium Gray and Glacier Silver. Shiny rims are present on front as well as back panel along with the fingerprint sensor. In spite of being big in size, the Ultra is too light in weight for its size.

Bringing the front panel into discussion, it is all about large area of display. The finger print sensor plays a role of home button as well. The front camera, proximity sensor and the earpiece is located above the screen. The USB Type-C slot is present at the bottom along with speaker grille, while the top edge has the 3.5-mm audio jack.


Coming back again to the display, Ultra has a massive 6.8-inch display supporting full HD resolution.

Performance and camera

The new Asus Zenfone 3 Ultra is supported by an 1800MHz octa-core Snapdragon 652 processor with power of 3GB/4GB RAM. The Ultra comes in 3 variants based on the memory—32GB, 64GB, and 128GB. The front camera and the rear camera have a power of 8MP and 23MP, respectively. The phablet runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow with the support of Zen UI 3.0 skin layer.

In a nutshell, the Asus Zenfone 3 Ultra gives everything that is expected. But if you are ready to spend a huge sum of 50K, then you do have better options.

Poonam Bhosale-Gorade undertook the post of Team Lead–Content Writer in October 2016, following a 3-year stint as a writer and editor of books, reports, special publications, and others at various organizations. She holds a BE degree in Information technology from Indira College of Engineering and Management (2013, graduating with distinction). It’s her unprejudiced love for writing which brought her into the world of content. Her hobbies include reading books, writing on Quora, trekking, playing badminton, etc.

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