ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe Review: Unlocked Android With 6GB RAM And 64GB Storage

Name: ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe
Brand: ASUS

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 12:55 PM EDT

Smart phones are ever increasingly becoming the way people access the Web. A phone needs to have a responsive web browser to render complex pages quickly, and a reliable radio to ensure content is downloaded as quickly as possible.

We can’t quantitatively state how well the radios perform in the phones as the variables are too difficult to lock down, but we can investigate browser performance. For our tests here we use the JetStream benchmark for Javascript and RightWare’s Web Test 3.0 for comprehensive web performance analysis, including HTML5.

JetStream and Rightware Web Test 3.0

JavaScript and Browser Testing

The iPhone puts up other-worldly scores in these two tests thanks to Apple's fast, custom SoC design and tight integration with iOS and Safari, but in light of the other Android devices, the ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe does very well. It hung with some of the fastest phones we've tested in the JetStream benchmark and came within striking distance of the top Android-based phones in Rightware's Web 3.0 tests.

Tags: Asus, Android, Mobile, smartphone, zenfone, zenfone 3

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com