This little-known smartphone has the best battery life I've ever tested
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With each passing year, smartphones get thinner, faster, and stronger, with sharper cameras and better displays. But all of that eats power, and lithium-ion batteries are still flawed, needy little things.
There is no perfect way around this. Barring some major technical breakthrough, you simply cannot get a phone that lasts a week off a single charge and adequately performs all the tasks people expect from a modern smartphone.
But the Asus Zenfone 3 Zoom makes the best of what we've got today. The latest device from the Taiwanese tech firm is unremarkable from a distance - it's a midrange Android phone, and there are a million of those. However, by mixing a giant 5,000 mAh battery, an energy-efficient processor, and a good enough display, it lasts longer than any other decently-powerful smartphone I've seen.
Whether that's enough to make it worth your $330, though, is another question. Let's take a closer look:
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