Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Umi Z Review – Next Generation Flagship Smartphone?”.
What’S the gladness to use a box here and in front of you right now we have the most interesting phone I’ve seen this year so far. This is the new me Zed and it’s got the potential to redefine the mid-range smartphone market. So just fully start my full review I’ll. I should be giving another one of these smartphones away so be sure to subscribe and then follow me on Twitter I’ll, announce the winners there. So anyway, this is the illumines edge, and you know a company means business. When the smartphone comes with three different cases and a tempered glass screen protector, the packaging and presentation is honestly phenomenal.
It felt like I paid 400 to 500 pounds of the smartphone, whereas in actuality you can get this for as little as two hundred and twenty dollars. One of the first things that struck me when I took it at the box was just how organ AMA kit is now generally with Chinese flagship. They tend to sort of crumb all the components they can in there to try and really make the spec sheet stand out, and they sacrifice on design with the image that the company has taken a slightly different approach.
They use something the company called dual 3d design. Essentially, meaning the edges are curved on both the front and the back of the phone, and it palms extremely well. Not only that, but it’s got a very good weight to it, well-balanced as well. It doesn’t feel like it’s going to slip over anytime soon and the materials are super high-quality.
It doesn’t attract him. Any finger prints feels premium and at the same time, can also withstand a good drop or two at eight point, two millimeters: it’s hardly the thinnest phone out there, but the curviness of it really does make it a pleasure to hold still some points while using the Phone, it kind of reminded me of a rounded pebble in a good way. So the reason the you musette is such an interesting phone is that for sub $ 250 it probably has the most impressive specifications on paper in the entire world and that doesn’t stop with the camera.
We’Ve got a 13 megapixel Samsung sensor, capable of 4k video and backed up by phase detection. Autofocus laser autofocus and a quad LED flash and result are marvelous. So if I saw it even with my Google pixel smartphone and in some photos, you really can’t tell much difference it captures a lot of detail, always pushing those 13 megapixels to the max.
It’S got rich colors deep contrast has even got some fancy little filters built into the camera which, while subtle, can actually add quite a nice effect to your photos. It’S got a decent amount of depth of field. Nothing else standing, but also the camera itself is honestly. Quite impressive everything was very fast thanks to the new chipset which I’ll get onto in just a second and has also got a very extensive Pro Mode. Funnily enough, we’ve also got a front-facing flash, which is a rather unusual addition to smartphones these days and combine that with the front-facing 13 megapixel camera and whilst not quite as good as the rear. The front-facing photos are fantastic.
So in terms of software right now at least, we’ve got Android 6.0. The company has promised an OTA update is 7.0, but it hasn’t released yet, and I can’t really comment on how that’s going to be, but so now the OS, generally speaking, is pretty good. It’S pretty low and below where it runs really fast, but every now and again you can’t help but feel like the OS has been a little bit rushed. Sometimes text will overlap or you’ll see an icon.
That’S a little bit out of place and one very confusing a mission is the lack of capacitive keys on the bottom bar there’s just none. So if you actually want to hit the back button, you either have to navigate to the top corner of the screen, or you have to swipe up your navigation bar hit the back button and then swipe down to disable it again. It seems very arduous. Now the screen for the most part is good. It’S not the brightest display out there, but even in most outdoor conditions, it should do you fine, now, you’ll, probably notice. Whilst the colors are great, it’s not the best.
In terms of contrast, blacks could be a little bit deeper and you will be able to tell the difference between this and maybe a Samsung display. Something I can vouch for, though, is the dragon trail glass that this thing is using. It’S very slick to the touch as a nice texture to it, there’s also very resistant to scratches. Unfortunately, there is still a bit of a bezel on this guy, which makes it feel like more of an iterative improvement rather than the next step forward.
Under the hood, though, things get even more interesting, we’ve got four gigabytes of RAM, which is great in itself, but also the helio x27 cpu, and this is the first phone in the entire world to use it. It’S the fastest mobile ten core CPU. You can get right now and it’s also backed up by a fairly beefy GPU. It scores great in benchmarks, I mean nearly 110,000 is really up there with smartphones that do cost a lot more than this.
I think so that it just doesn’t always translate into incredible gaming expenses like you would hope, even though it does in theory and on paper, perform very well in actual day-to-day use in terms of games. In terms of you, I it’s good, but it’s not fantastic. Even on Real Racing 3, a mandroid game, that’s more than three years old! Now, every now and again, when you turn a corner, it’ll just drop a few frames and it just takes away from what could have been an amazing experience. Do you mean that is very strong when it comes to battery? We’Ve got three thousand seven hundred eighty million powers of battery capacity, which means that after a full charge, you’re looking at two full days of usage on top of that, you can get to nearly fifty percent with just 40 minutes of charging, with its own proprietary fast Charge technology not too bad. The speaker is nothing to run home about it’s, not terrible. It reaches a decent volume, but it lacks base. So it doesn’t really do justice to vocals or voices when you’re watching TV and film, I didn’t really have any problems with the front-facing fingerprint scanner also do prefer a rear placement. It still works very fast on this one and it’s extremely secure as you’d expect and as an icing on the cake, as well as the 32 gigs of inbuilt storage. We’Ve got room for 256 more by a micro SD card, so guys they have.
It does the umi’s ed I’d say this is one of the longest reviews I’ve done just because it’s such an interesting smartphone, whilst on paper, it’s extremely impressive. The company is clearly innovating in new ways. It’S trying to push the boundaries of what we can expect for a mid-range flagship and whilst it doesn’t quite achieve the upper echelons of what we might expect based on its specifications for the price, at least it’s still a very impressive smartphone and should be commended.
The cameras, fantastic battery amazing screen is pretty good too, and the performance shouldn’t be underestimated, so guys, that’s it from me for now. I really appreciate you watching and don’t forget to subscribe and follow me on Twitter to enter the giveaway for the smartphone. With that being said, unless you the boss and I’m signing out .