Panasonic launched a new budget segment device called Panasonic P55 MAX. The main USP of the Panasonic P55 MAx is its 5000mAh battery. Also, if you talk about the hardware of this device which is also decent and value for money. The smartphone comes with storage and powered by Android 7.0 (Nougat) and 13MP camera with Quad LED flash for low light photography. It is a perfect companion for those who are always on-the-go with its features such as a massive battery, GPS connectivity, smooth interface and an expandable memory up to 128GB. Let’s see the review of this massive battery budget smartphone.

Panasonic P55 MAX Specifications

Key Specs	Panasonic P55 MAX
Display	5.5 inch IPS LCD
Screen Resolution	1280 x 720 pixels
Operating System	Android 7.0 Nougat
Chipset	MediaTek MT6735
Processor	Quad-core: 4 x 1.2 GHz
GPU	Mali T720
Memory	3GB
Inbuilt Storage	16GB
microSD card	Yes, up to 128GB
Primary Camera	5MP
Secondary Camera	13MP
Fingerprint Sensor	No
Dual SIM	Yes
4G VoLTE	Yes
Battery	5000 mAh
Dimensions	152×77.6×8.7mm
Weight	165
Price	Rs.  8499

Build Quality

Build quality of this device is good and it sports a metal body with removable back cover. Under the metal removable cover, you will find the space for inserting SIM cards and micro-SD card. The massive 5000mAh battery is removable. The smooth metallic texture at the back side looks great. The camera is placed at the left top corner of the back with a quad LED flash light. The Design wise it’s not a very fresh looking design but not bad at the price it comes.

Design Overview

Panasonic P55 Max is a decently designed phone with 5.5 inch HD LCD IPS Display. It comes with 1280 x 780 resolution. Just above the display on the front upper side is the earpiece followed by a 5MP selfie camera. The right side has the volume up & down button and a power button. Inside the removable back cover, there’s are two micro SIM card slots and a micro-SD card slot.

On the back, on the top, a 13MP camera and a quad LED flash and a Panasonic branding in the center.

The navigation buttons are placed on the screen and space below the screen is a complete waste. On the top of the smartphone, there’s micro USB and 3.5mm headphone jack. Bottom of the smartphone houses a speaker and mic.

Hardware

It is powered by Android 7.0 (Nougat) OS and MediaTek MT6735 chip-set clocked at 1.2Ghz and paired with Mali T720 GPU.  It comes with 3GB RAM plus 16 GB internal memory, expandable up to 128 GB and OTG supports enhances your storage options. Moreover, it comes with ZigPlay, a cool feature that keeps all your priorities at your fingertips with simple to use profiles and keeps you connected on the go at home, in the car, at work and anywhere you go. (To be received Over-the-air)

Display

Panasonic P55 MAX sports a 5.5 inch HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720p. It has adaptive screen brightness and overall the display is bright and sharp. The viewing angles of the phone are also good. The visibility of the display under the strong sunlight is also acceptable and text can be easily read. he viewing angles of the phone are enough good that three persons can easily share the screen to watch videos. It has onscreen navigation buttons. So, overall the display is enough sharp and bright to enjoy the content both outdoor and indoor.

Camera

The Panasonic P55 MAX houses a 13MP sensor on the back with auto-focus and 5MP fixed focus selfie camera at the front. The camera app comes with lots of features to enhance the photography. The daylight images it captures still good but in the low light, it perform average. The camera app comes with lots of features including ISO control, Scene mode and White balance control.

Three different modes Normal, Paranoma and Facebeauty.

Performance

The interface Panasonic P55 MAX  is quick with no discernible lag creeping in. The screen is responsive too. The thing which we liked personally is that the Panasonic hasn’t added any extra software layer that most of the times hamper the user experience. The handsets run on latest version of stock Android to give smooth lag free mobile user experience. We used the phone for more than three weeks and enjoy several games and did multitasking as well. We played several high-graphics intensive games on it including WWE, NFS, Asphalt 8 Airborne and Mortal combat, etc. The phone manages all the games without any major problem or heat but we not going to recommend it to heavy gamers. Even while switching between them there was no glitch.

Benchmark scores

Well, the scores are not much impressive but still at the price point the performance it gives is acceptable.

  

Battery

The phone is backed by a 5,000m mAh battery. In the moderate usage, this lasts easily for 2 days. In our video loop test, we played 3 movies continuously of total 4 hours 37 min with full brightness and full volume over Wi-Fi. If you are a heavy user and playing a lot of games, Internet surfing, etc that can easily run for more than one day.