We analyze the Bluboo Maya Max phone that stands out for its 6-inch screen, its battery capacity and its fingerprint recognition.
A 6-inch phablet within everyone’s reach
Chinese terminals have a huge prominence in the mobile phone market with devices with presence in all ranges and playing a laudable role thanks to the good balance between specifications and functionalities and, above all, by the price of putting to the public. Thanks to these terminals anyone, regardless of their socioeconomic level, can have access to a high performance terminal, albeit sometimes under lesser known brands.
Bluboo is a company based in Hong Kong (China) that has been offering fairly well-achieved entry and medium range terminals such as the Bluboo X range, the particular Picasso or the Bluboo Maya Max, a huge 6-inch mid-high-end terminal.
This smartphone has as its main feature a balance of features that can loosen in certain aspects but that, on a scale, throws us a device very to consider, and more if you want to spend little money on such an expensive telephony market.
Design: Size does matter
What first draws attention when catching a Bluboo Maya Max is its size and weight. We are looking at a device of 162x82x9mm and no less than 211 grams. Having it in your hands feels it weighs, that it is vast in itself, and not very friendly to hold.
It consists of a metal unibody body with some small plastic areas and that cannot be opened, so that its battery is not removable and to insert a microSD card or a SIM it is necessary to make use of the different compartments located on its sides.
To protect it from water and dust is IP65 certified, which means that it has the maximum level of protection towards the plovo (6) and a high level of protection against water (5). In the latter case, even if it is not a terminal that can be submerged in water, it is well protected against splashing or everyday accidents such as spilling a glass of water over the terminal or rain on the screen.
The front of the Bluboo Maya Max shows us its imposing 6-inch screen that we will talk about later, which has the corresponding three virtual buttons in its lower area of it with the addition of a three-point button that gives us access to the customization of the screen.
In this way, we have a shortcut in the lower area that allows us to change the screen background, color, widgets, theme, transitions and alignment of icons, also with a slight shake. The front is completed with the selfie camera next to the speaker, and a huge bottom frame that could have been reduced.
The back of the terminal is smooth, with a huge main circle camera protruding over the body of the phone, and that makes it difficult if we place it on a flat surface, risking scratching our lens.
The small tool located in the upper area of the terminal protects the headphone input, but also serves as a ‘key’ to open the SIM and microSD tray located on one side of the device.
Underneath the main camera we have a dual LED flash and under it fingerprint recognition that unlocks the device in 0.1 seconds in any position of the finger. If we look down we see the logo of the company and the name of the terminal impressed on the body.
It is advisable to tender at the top and bottom of this rear area, since there is a textured plastic band, it seems that it is intended to facilitate the conduction of the antenna waves, since the rest of the area is metal.
On the right side of the terminal we find the on/off button, which also allows us to turn the screen off and on. It should be said that, on our terminal, the button does not work properly, sometimes until you have to wait several seconds until the screen turns on after pressing it. Next to this on/off button we have one-piece volume.
On the left side we have a general mute button and a compartment for SIM and microSD cards. It is a compartment with two holes where you can insert either two SIM cards (it is dualSIM) or a SIM card and a microSD. You cannot enter two SIMs and a microSD at the same time.
Finally in the lower area we have the USB type C and the speaker grilles, feeling good the sounds with a laudable multimedia section.
However, the Bluboo Maya Max has a separate DAC with NXP amplifier to enjoy HiFi sound, and its sound features can be checked in this comparative video against other terminals such as the iPhone 6 Plus.
Big screen, but in HD
The screen diagonal of the Bluboo Maya Max is 6 inches to HD resolution (1280×720). It is an LCD panel manufactured by JDI and with a pixel density of 245ppp. You’ve probably been struck by the fact that this large 6-inch screen has hd resolution, and it’s true that if you look closely, pixels can be recognized individually in certain programs, in addition to the lower definition in general.
Its developers have been able to opt for HD resolution to boost the performance of the terminal, which is closer to a mid-high range and is because it must move fewer pixels to than if it had higher resolution.
Still the colors look vivid and look good on the screen, and we can access a configuration of 3 image modes such as a standard, intense or custom, last that allows us to change contrast, saturation, brightness or color temperature. Thanks to OGS technology the display offers more vivid and defined colors, and that without requiring greater energy consumption.
The display has a wide viewing angle that allows you to observe it from either side without noticing a loss of brightness or contrast.
While the screen is protected by Gorilla Glass 4, it also includes already installed a screen protector that ensures that it does not suffer any accidents if we are a little clumsy when handling a device as large and heavy as this Bluboo Maya Max.
Hardware and connectivity, no complaints
Inside the phone we find a MediaTek processor of 8 cores at a clock frequency of 1.5Ghz that is accompanied by a Graphic processor Mali T860 at 350MHz, more than enough to handle any type of application or game with good ease, and that is understood perfectly with the screen resolution, which as we said is not too demanding.
To the above we must add that we are with a terminal of 3GB of RAM, a size that is now in the mid-range of phones and that is within an industry where the 6GB starts to be adopted on a regular basis in the high-end terminals. In storage we have 32GB, something fair for these times and that are expandable up to 64GB by microSD card.
The best way to test the efficiency of a CPU and GPU is to examine them with a number of benchmarks. In AnTuTu the Bluboo Maya Max has scored 39,936 points, below the Moto G4 Plus or Redmi Note 3, and above the OnePlus X or HTC One A9.
At 3D Mark, more focused on seeing the efficiency of its graphics processor, we’ve received a score of 384 that puts it above the Xperia M5 and below ASUS Zenfone 2. Finally his time at Geekbench has achieved a score of 596 in single core and 2108 in multicore, being 1277 in the test for the GPU.