THE UMI SUPER IS AWESOME!

The ‘UMi Super’ Takes the Crown as King of the Mid-range Phones.

No longer do you have to pay the big bucks for a phone that includes a great hardware, great design & decent camera performance. The UMi Super storms onto the stage, fixing the mistakes of the UMi Touch, whilst offering nearly all of the features most people look for in a modern smartphone.

Inside the UMi Super you’ll find one of the latest MediaTek Octa-Core Mobile Processors, 4GBs of RAM, 32GBs of Samsung eMMC storage, an ARM Mali-860 Dual-Core GPU, Full HD Screen and to top it all off it even includes a fingerprint sensor. If this isn’t enough to get your tech buds tingling, then add to this, that the UMi Super will be launching for around £160 ($220 / €199) and we’ve got ourselves some real value for money.

Although I have a lot of praise and compliments for the UMi Super there were a few niggles and software hiccups that popped up during testing. I’ll dive into in more details of those niggles below, but first, let’s take a look at the UMi Super Pros & Con’s.

Screen

The 5.5″ Full HD screen is a real pleasure to behold with its excellent viewing angles and natural colour tone. Images & video are crisp thanks to the 1920x1080p resolution that gives the phone a respectable PPI of 401 which is plenty for a 5.5″ phone. Also included is MediaTek’s MiraVision software which allows you to tweak the screen settings to your desired look (natural, vivid or custom).

Screen Tech Specs: SHARP 5.5″ LTPS Screen, Natural Colours, 1080×1920, 401 PPI, 2.5D, Gorilla Glass 3

Design & Build-quality

As soon as you pick the UMi Super up, it oozes monolithic slab sturdiness. This phone isn’t light at 185 grams, but the trade-off is that you get the extra battery life and a phone that feels like it could survive the apocalypse.

Colours Available: Grey, Gold & Silver

Hardware & Responsiveness

Here’s the bit we all want to know, how does the UMi Super hold up when we put it through it’s Android paces. I wasn’t expecting anything less than fast, knowing that the Super has a 2GHz Octo-Core (Helio P10) mobile processor inside and you’ll be pleased to know all my expectations were met. It’s quick, noticeably quicker than previous generations of MediaTek processors like the MT6753 and the MTK6735.

Helio P10 is 30% more power efficient than previous generation MediaTek CPU’s

CPU: Octa-Core 2GHz
GPU: Mali-T860 700MHz Dual-Core
RAM: 4GB
Storage: 32GB Samsung (Fast!) (read speed: 216MB/s , write speed: 145MB/s)
Expandable: 264GB

Battery

Inside the UMi Super, you’ll find a hefty 4000mAh Sony battery that scored one of the best Geekbench battery scores we’ve seen in a while. UMi have coupled this large capacity battery with PE+ Quick Charge Technology that they claim can charge the phone up to 75% in just 30 minutes.

We put this claim to the test below, although, I should point out that as the Super uses a 2-pin charger we did use an adapter, between the charger and the plug socket, during our tests.

As you can see below our results aren’t quite as optimistic as the UMi claims (still decent for a 4000mAh battery):

• 50% – 1 hour
• 75% – 1 hour 28 minutes
• 100% – 2 hours 10 minutes

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• Back Camera:

  • Panasonic Lens (MN34172)
  • 13MP
  • Bright Dual LED Flash
  • 1080P video recording

  Front Camera:

  • 5MP
  • GalaxyCore® GC5005
  • Beauty Mode
  • Inbuilt Filters

  Do I recommend the UMi Super?? Yes, absolutely!