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hey what's up guys this is Bailey Stein with Android authority and you're watching our video review of the vivo III map so the V 3 max does look at least a little bit similar to a phone starting with AI and ending with own regardless it would be pretty dismissive to ignore vivos unmistakeably premium design vivos implementation of a metallic shell combined with carefully crafted curves gives the v3 max a remarkably nice look and feel and while some will be hesitant to purchase the goal variant you should know that the gold is very light and barely noticeable in most lighting build quality is excellent here and the physical softness of the metal makes the V 3 max feel a bit unique in the hand relative to other similarly designed smartphones although the latter does come at the expense of being a tad slippery and less scratch resistant for what it's worth our unit only accumulated a couple of minor scratches after a few weeks of use however the three capacitive keys found on the bottom of the V 3 max are unfortunately not illuminated and the choice of a Menu key rather than a multitasking key may seem fairly odd although it is understandable once you realize that fun touch OS offers swipe-based multitasking the 5.5 inch 1080p display looks pretty good with a good amount of saturation and great viewing angles it is lacking a tad in terms of contrast however and sunlight readability is surprisingly bad strangely enough the front display material feels a bit plastic light which makes it more susceptible to fingerprints and scratches you'll likely be happy with the display overall but when compared to displays on phones like the Xiaomi me 5 or even meizu m2 note there is a noticeable difference in terms of quality the V 3 max is being marketed as faster than faster and it's no slouch when it comes to day-to-day performance despite its mid-range Snapdragon 650 to processor the B 3 max performs well enough to be comparable to phones with higher-end chips like the Snapdragon 808 of course fievel's implementation of 4 gigabytes of RAM surely helps in that regard while also leaving plenty of room for multitasking there's also the adrenal 510 GPU which results in a very positive experience when playing even high-end games like s well 8 in the US the v3 max is able to receive HSPA+ in all areas on the AT&T network and some areas on the t-mobile network call quality was notably Pleasant with the vivo and it's always great to see unlocked dual SIM devices you can repurpose the phone's nano SIM slot from micro SD card up to 128 gigabytes if the 32 gigabytes of internal storage just isn't enough and you're cool with using the micro SIM slot exclusively we were quite impressed with the fingerprint reader found on the back of the v3 max as it was able to be both the Huawei Nexus 6p and Xiaomi me 5 in our testing vivo has included a hi-fi audio chip for higher sound quality through headphones and the difference is noticeable when compared to other mid-range devices however unless you use higher quality headphones and stream at a higher bitrate it's difficult to notice anything day-to-day beyond a minor difference what you are likely to notice however is the high quality of the speaker which impressed us with its loud volume and low Distortion although many prefer front-facing speakers the speaker here is still pretty good although the battery is relatively small at 3000 milliamp hours we consistently reached 6 hours of screen on time with variable usage and often noticed impressively long standby times sometimes more than 24 hours there are several power consumption profiles available for use within the I manager app if you do need to extend the battery life further and once the phone inevitably does run out of juice you can take advantage of the phone's fast charging technology of course we have to talk about the 13 megapixel rear camera with phase detection autofocus and good lighting conditions we we're generally happy with the images that the V 3 max produced as most came out sharp with good color reproduction and plenty of dynamic range we did notice that the device tended to underexpose however especially when shooting outdoors thankfully this can be quickly adjusted with the well implemented exposure compensation slider unfortunately we were pretty disappointed with the phone's low-light performance is it offered results that were oftentimes just too noisy and distorted it's also worth mentioning that the phone is not capable of recording 4k video a feature which some users may miss at this price point although the camera software does have a strong iOS vibe it's very functional and easy to use but many different camera modes are easily accessible and offer first-time explanation which will definitely help guide some users things do get quite interesting once we take a look at the v3 Max's software it's running vivos custom fun touch OS 2.5 on top of android 5.1 lollipop unfortunately because it is shipping with the one-and-a-half-year-old lollipop certain features like Google now on tap and fingerprint reader access for third-party apps are missing with no substitute although that is a little annoying fun touch may not be so fun for stock Android enthusiasts as the OS makes several major changes like moving the notification toggles and the multitasking menu into a control center and removing the app drawer with that and app names like eye music I theme and I manager it's difficult to deny that VEVO has found a great amount of inspiration within iOS overall fun touch OS is fairly easy to use but it can take some time to get used to there are also certain areas that feel like they could use more polish but there are also some very nice features like s capture which gives you several options when wanting to share your screen the vivo v3 max is now available globally in either gold or rose gold you can pick it up in India for about twenty four thousand rupees or about three hundred and fifty-five dollars the vivo v3 Mac is a smartphone that is great at many things like design performance audio battery life and camera quality however like any other smartphone it does have its flaws we would have loved to see us availability and us 4G LTE support as well as better glass covering the display and a less iOS like software experience and while it does shine in many key areas the xiaomi nee 5 is simply a more well-rounded option for about the same price unless you need the even better battery life better speaker or just prefer the beat frame axes design you may be better off by purchasing a shell me me 5 instead with that said vivos efforts are not to be diluted we must note that this is still a great mid-range smartphone but with today's highly competitive market great only goes so far thank you for watching our video review of the vivo v3 max please be sure to give it a thumbs up below if you did enjoy it and also don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already 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