LeEco Le Max 2 32GB

With an all-metal body, the LeEco Le Max2 is as premium as it gets. It’s crafted out from a single aluminium body, which looks even classier in gold.

While there are several reasons to stick with 1080p resolution, including the fact that it doesn’t take the toll on the battery life in comparison to a 2k display. Not only are 2k screens much sharper, they also offer a much more realistic experience when paired with Virtual Reality headsets, which many proclaim are the next big thing in the world of technology. LeEco’s Le Max2 is ready for the same, with its screen resolution of 2,560 x 1,440 pixels. With its 5.7-inch IPS display, the pixel density of 515ppi offers crisp visuals. The colour reproduction is also impressive. Sadly, the brightness levels are a bit low for our liking, especially outdoors. The phablet also gives you the ability to choose between different colour modes – default, vivid, natural or soft.

The LeEco Le Max2 ships with Android 6.0 Marshmallow, which is topped with its own custom skin dubbed eUI. The interface shares a lot with other Chinese UIs such as the fact that there’s no app launcher, but it’s also quite different since it’s not filled to the brim with confusing options or bloatware.

In terms of numbers, the LeEco Le Max2 surely lives up to its flagship stature in the camera department. It sports a 21-megapixel sensor at the back, which is supplemented by a dual-tone LED flash. For selfies, the phone features an 8MP shooter. There are usual embellishments for the camera as well – phase detection autofocus, optical image stabilisation, 4K video recording, and slow-mo video (720p at 120fps) among others.

LeEco has always paid special attention to the performance aspect on its devices, so much so that the Le Max Pro (first impressions) was the first device in the world to be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. While that never made its way to India, the Le Max2 is also fuelled by Taiwanese giant’s high-end chipset. The SoC is formed by the combination of two quad-core processors running at 2.15GHz and 1.6GHz respectively. Not just the processor, the phablet makes sure that you can’t slow it down, thanks to its beefy 6GB of RAM. This makes it one amongst the very few options to feature such capacity of RAM, and while there might be arguments that such power is not needed, it goes without saying that the phone has a plenty of RAM to spare (north of 2GB in most cases) even if you’ve multiple apps opened.

The LeEco Le Max2 is an ideal smartphone for multimedia addicts. It has everything one looks for consuming multimedia – a large display with impressive visuals and an immersive audio experience. We’ve already discussed the former, and now it’s time to talk about the latter which is possible due to LeEco’s proprietary technology CDLA.