ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe design and build quality
This is a handsome handset. It makes use of a metal unibody and capacitive buttons to provide a smart look at the front. Around the back, you'll find a fingerprint scanner and square camera sensor, while the charge port and speaker are found on the bottom.
Its curved rear was slightly more pronounced in the flesh than what I had expected after viewing the initial marketing materials – it's very clearly curved – but it was comfortable.
Asus boasts an antenna-less design on the Zenfone 3 Deluxe but it's not a facet of the device that I really felt the benefit of. Had it not been announced in the marketing materials, I'm actually not sure I would have even noticed. What it means is that, unlike other handsets with a metal unibody, the gaps where Asus has had to cut out some of the metal to allow the antenna to work are less visible than on similar phones. There are a couple of tiny notches here, and it was impressive once I became aware of it. But I don't see it as a huge selling point.
The dimensions come in at 156 x 77 x 7.5 mm and it weighs 170 g. It's a gorgeous material, the brushed metal feels great, but it's quite a big phone, at 5.7-inches, and perhaps lacks a certain elegance because of it. An elephant wearing nail polish is still an elephant.
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