The Chinese manufacturer UMi launches an
affordable smartphone model dubbed Touch on the market that presents almost
"too good" technical specs for this price range.The UMi Touch is a beast of a phone is every sense. It’s a solid,
premium feeling slab of metal that should last you for well into your second of
usage with charging. If you’re looking for a lightweight champion then this
isn’t the phone for you. Batteries add weight, we just can’t avoid this.
The UMi Touch feels fast, even faster if you follow my tip above, have
some decent mid-range specs, a fingerprint reader, metal body and a vivid crisp
screen for just over £100. That in itself makes this a worthwhile phone choice.
UMi Touch starts at… UK : £110 | EU : €135 | US
: $145
FULL SPECIFICATIONS :
Mediatek MT6753 1.5 GHz
Graphics adapter
ARM Mali-T720 MP4
Memory
3072 MB
Display
5.5 inch 16:9, 1920x1080 pixel 401 PPI, multi-touch, capacitive, LCD, IPS, glossy: yes
Storage
16 GB eMMC Flash, 16 GB
, 11.18 GB free
Weight
199 g ( = 7.02 oz / 0.44 pounds), Power Supply: 34 g ( = 1.2 oz / 0.07 pounds)
Price
130
The ‘Good’
o
1080P 5.5″ Crisp display
o
3GB RAM
o
8-Core CPU
o
Fingerprint sensor
o
Front facing flash
o
Sony IMX328 Camera
o
Dual Band WiFi
o
4000mAh Battery
o
Android 6 (Marshmallow)
The ‘Could be better’
o
On the heavy side (190g)
o
Not a massive upgrade from the Iron Pro
o
Average GPU for a flagship
o
No USB-type C
o
Chunky Bezels
Design & Screen
The 5.5″ 1080×1920 resolution screen produces a bright & vivid
picture with a respectable PPI of 401. When you buy an UMi phone, you know you
are getting a decent quality screen with the viewing angles, colours &
brightness having all been excellent on the UMi Iron Pro,UMi Rome and now the UMi Touch.
The UMi Touch features both backlit
capacitive buttons either side of the glass fingerprint reader but is lacking
an RGB notification LED which is disappointing. Another aspect to be aware of
is that the finish doesn’t ooze the premium quality you will find with £300+
phones. Some of the edges and seems aren’t aligned perfectly when you look very
closely, overall, for the price I can overlook this.
Overall the phone looks fantastic but it won’t be winning any innovation
awards as it’s very close to being a clone phone.
Colours Available: Black
& White
Screen Tech Specs: 5.5 inch, IPS, 1080×1920 Resolution, 8.8mm thick, Gorilla Glass 3, 2.5D, 95% NTSC, 5-point multi-touch
Screen Tech Specs: 5.5 inch, IPS, 1080×1920 Resolution, 8.8mm thick, Gorilla Glass 3, 2.5D, 95% NTSC, 5-point multi-touch
Finger Print Reader
It’s great to see the addition of a
front-facing fingerprint reader on the UMi Touch. The fingerprint reader on the
UMi Iron Pro was accurate and worked well but the rear placement wasn’t ideal.
I spend a lot of time with my phone on my desk, so a front-facing fingerprint
sensor is a much better option for me although when on the move a rear sensor
is always easier.
UMi claims the glass sensor will unlock the phone in around 0.1 seconds
which is a three-fold improvement over their earlier fingerprint sensors. In
reality it’s not this fast, but still more than fast enough for you not to
notice it. I found the sensor to be accurate around 8/10 times, the Touch
quickly alerts you to try again with a picture of a read fingerprint.
Finger Print Sensor Specs: Glass,
0.1 Second unlock, Front-facing
Storage
The storage included with the UMi Touch is a standard 16GB within which
you are left with around 11.18GB of storage after all the system OS space is
taken. You do have the option to expand on the initial 16GBs by using the
onboard memory card slot. Using an SD card takes up the place of the 2nd SIM
card so it’s an either/or option.
Test Results – Read 171MB/s & Write 79MB/s
Hardware Specs: MediaTek
6753 8-Core 1.5GHz, Mali-T720 GPU, 3GB RAM, 16GB Storage, expandable memory
card slot, Dual SIM.
Software
The UMi Touch comes with a clean close to stock Android OS that is on
Android Marshmallow 6.0. After setting up the Touch I received an OTA update
from UMi dated the 10/05/2016.
A feature that UMi have built into the Touch that I can see being useful
is their Turbo Download setting. This allows you to use the WiFi connection and
4G/3G connection simultaneously to improve download speeds.
Software: MiraVision, Screen Cast, Air Gestures, Screen Gestures, Double
tap-to-wake, fingerprint software, integrated app closer / cleaner.
Battery
UMi have been clever by using a larger battery in the UMi Touch as poor
battery life is a big issue for a lot of smartphone users. With Chinese phones
leading the way, with super large batteries, it’s good to see a decent sized 4000mAh
battery inside the Touch.
This battery is none-removable and managed to last around 2 days of full
usage during our real world usage testing.
Camera
Phone Features: Autofocus,Continuous shooting, Digital image stabilization, Digital
zoom, Exposure compensation, Face detection, Geo-tagging, HDR, Panorama Touch
focus, White balance
Back Camera:
o 13MP
o Sony IMX328
o Dual LED Flash
Front Camera:
o 5MP
o LED fill flash
Connectivity
Frequencies Supported: – GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 /1900MHz, WCDMA 900 /2100MHz, FDD-LTE B20
(800MHz) / B3 (1800MHz) / B7 (2600MHz)
3G: YES
4G: YES
Bluetooth: 4.1 (low energy)
GPS: GPS, A-GPS
Sensors: Accelerometer, Light sensor, Proximity Sensor, Finger-Print Sensor
USB OTG: YES
USB Type: Micro-USB
Dual SIM: YES
SIM support: Micro SIM + Micro SIM
WiFi: 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11n 5GHz
3G: YES
4G: YES
Bluetooth: 4.1 (low energy)
GPS: GPS, A-GPS
Sensors: Accelerometer, Light sensor, Proximity Sensor, Finger-Print Sensor
USB OTG: YES
USB Type: Micro-USB
Dual SIM: YES
SIM support: Micro SIM + Micro SIM
WiFi: 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11n 5GHz
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