UMI Super review – 5.5″ 4G Smartphone, Helio P10 64bit Octa Core 2.0GHz, 4GB RAM 32GB ROM

I Super is a brand new 4G Android 6.0 smartphone with a 5.5 inch screen made with a resistent 2.5D Arc Glass and Gorilla Glass 3, Helio P10 CPU with 64bit Octa Core 2.0GHz, 13.0MP Panasonic Rear Camera, 4GB RAM and 32GB ROM, Type-C port and OTG. It has many sensors, including Accelerometer, Compass, Fingerprint Scanner. Dual Sim/micro sd.

Umi Super is a top performing smartphone, with a unibody aluminum body and high quality hardware, like Helio P10 2.0GHz CPU, 4GB Ram, 32GB Rom, quality camera with a Panasonic 13MP sensor.
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Hardware

It mounts the brand new Helio P1o CPU, a Mediatek Cortex-A53 Octa Core 2.0GHz processor also known as MT6755. From benchmark tests the Helio P10 can beat chipsets like Snapdragon 801 and Snapdragon 615. As GPU it mounts ARM Mali T860 MP2 at 700MHz with 2 cores for fast graphic performance. It uses Samsung eMMC 5.1 Flash memory for a huge 4GB Ram and 32GB Rom, a lot of space for your apps and photos, that you can expand with a microsd up to 256GB. This hardware allows fast and reliable performances even in multitasking.

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Screen

Umi super features a Sharp 5.5″ FullHD screen, with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, a high color-saturation 95% NTSC gamut display. It has a 17% better overall color saturation for a richer viewing experience. With this screen you won’t have problems reading your phone in the sun light. Perfect for watching photos, videos, using apps with vivid and natural colors. This phablet has a Screen type of 2.5D Arc Screen which gives this device a wide angle view. The screen is protected with a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 which is really tough and protects your phone’s display from scratch and hits.

Camera

UMI Super features a 13MP Panasonic rear camera, the very latest in camera  technology to enhance photography experience. It’s really quick to activate, to focus and to take the shot. It’s perfect for travels and city tours. It has a flash that allows you to take nice pictures in both Bright and Dim Light. It also supports Touch focus and Auto Focus.

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Design

UMI Super has a premium design, as it is built with aerospace class unibody aluminum. It’s build with just one execution, a customized diamond knife makes the trimming more dazzling, 3D polishing three times makes the body delicate and tougher, five times spraying accurately to 0.02mm thick makes the surface smoother and more durable, mechanical and manual polishing ensures a perfectly rounded arc. And.. it is really beautiful!

Beautiful and super compact! UMI Super has a huge 5.5″ FullHD screen on a superrb metal body that fits like a glove in your hand. It has a almost invisible bezel and high screen to body ratio, so it’s really more compact than other 5.5″ smartphones.

Battery

UMi Super features a huge capacity Sony Lithium-ion battery with 4000mAh. The battery saving CPU combined with a big capacity battery allow you 12hours of internet use, or 15 hours of video play, 48h of 4G call or 120h of music play.

UMI released a video with the battery performance of UMi Super, iPhone 6S Plus, UMi TOUCH compared recording a video. iPhone 6s Plus is the first to drain after 3.5 hours of recorded video. UMI Super records 4 hours and 55 minutes in the end, 20mins more then UMi TOUCH.

UMi super features a SONY® 4000mAh battery, even though UMi TOUCH has the same battery capacity of 4000mAh, and Super CPU and RAM are superior, UMi Super can last more time.  Besides, UMi Super features the PE+ Quick charge technology. With USB Type-C, UMi Super could charge up to 75% in 30 minutes. If you need a big battery to reach the end of the day, UMi super is what you need.

 

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The sleek Vsun Race works on the Android Lollypop 5.1 platform and is equipped with a 1.3 GHz MTK 4G Quadcore Processor and 5-inch high-definition IPS 2.5D Curve Display screen, along with advanced features such as 13 MP Auto Focus Sony Exmors back camera and a 5 MP front camera, Ultra Snapshot, Live Photomode, Dual SIM facility, and Gesture and Voice Capture. The smartphone comes preloaded with VR themes designed to excite and entertain the user and VR Glasses as part of the package.

Vsun Mobile is a new entrant in the already crowded smartphone market place in the Middle East. In hopes of differentiating itself from the competition, the company launched the Vsun Race - an 4G LTE smartphone that also features support for 360-degree Virtual Reality. The company made sure that its customers get to experience VR by bundling a VR Cardboard glass with the device.
The smartphone is available on the market at a very affordable price tag of AED 599. The Race features a metallic frame with the back of the phone made in plastic. The battery back cover is removable, and so is the battery. Under the hood, the Vsun Race runs a 1.3-GHz quad-core processor from Mediatek. On the front of the device, you will find a 5-inch HD IPS 2.5D Curve Display, which is laminated to protect it from scratches and dents.
Below the screen, you will find the home, options and back buttons. On the top of the screen you will find a 5-megapixel front camera. Flip the phone around you come face to face with a 13-megapixel rear camera that packs in a Sony sensor. The phone runs Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system.
Other points that round off the specs include 16GB of storage space and 2GB of RAM. The internal storage can be further expanded to up to 128GB using the microSD card slot built inside the battery compartment. The phone supports Dual SIMs, with one of the slots doubling up as a SIM card slot or a microSD card slot.

The phone derives its power from a 2250 mAh battery. The company claims the phone offers 6+ hours of talk time on a single charge, and on our battery tests, we did manage to clock around 7.5 hours of talk time.
The Vsun Race is being marketed as a VR phone - so the company, as mentioned earlier, bundles a cardboard glass. The phone also packs in VR applications such as Deep Space VR, lamper VR, Little VR Shooter, and Rollercoaster VR. In order to use these apps, all you need to do is to click the VR icon on home screen, put the phone into the cardboard glass, and start experiencing VR.

In order to gauge the performance of the phone, we ran AnTuTu benchmarks on the device. The Vsun Race came up with an average performance of 24107 points. VR experience through the phone was good, too. The phone's 13-megapixel rear camera can take some really good photos in outdoors. However, under low light conditions or indoors, the camera sometimes turns up with grainy images. The phone's front camera takes average looking selfies.
For a price point of AED 599, the Vsun Race is a good smartphone that features some average VR capabilities. If you are on the market, looking for a second phone, the Vsun Race might fit the bill.

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Purists will argue that you need a PC to truly play games, especially if you're a fan of pushing the levels of graphics quality beyond the capabilities of a mobile phone or a mere gaming console. In this regard gaming desktop is still the king, particularly when it comes to having the kind of components and horsepower needed to smoothly run 4K gaming and to support virtual reality (VR) setups, such as the Oculus Rift, but sometimes you want something to tote around the house or over to your friend's place. If that's what you need, we're here to help you choose which gaming laptop to buy for playing on the go.

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MicroSD cards have become standard in Android smartphones and a wide range of other devices. They’re insanely tiny and still manage to offer as much as 256GB of storage. These little cards are the ideal solution for phones and other compact devices, but Apple refuses to add microSD card support to its iPhone lineup so it can keep ASPs as high as possible.
Well, Lexar has a simple new accessory that adds microSD support to any modern iPhone or iPad.

It’s called the Lexar microSD To Lightning Reader and as the name suggests, it’s a simple device about the size of a thumbnail with a Lightning connector sticking out.
Popping it into the bottom of an iPhone takes you to the App Store where a free companion app from Lexar can be downloaded. Once installed, content including photos, videos and music can be moved off the phone and onto any microSD card. Is it fast? Well, I tested it out with a new Lexar Professional 1800x microSDHC card and I’m not sure I’ve ever seen faster data transfers from a mobile device.
Lexar’s companion app lets users pick and choose files to offload, or they can configure the app to sync files automatically. The latter is a fine option for people with 128GB iPhones, but it defeats the purpose for users with smaller capacities.
The Lexar microSD To Lightning Reader costs $29.95 and is compatible with any and every microSD card you might already own, making it one of the cheapest options out there for iPhone-compatible external storage. The solution certainly isn’t as desirable as microSD storage implemented at the system level, but since that’s probably never going to happen, this is the best iPhone users are going to get.

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Split-Screen Multitasking

Remember how excited Apple fans were when split-screen mode finally came to the iPad? And remember how annoyed they were when they found out it wasn’t available on the iPhone?
Smartphones have giant screens these days and there’s simply no reason to restrict multi-window view to tablets alone. Samsung has offered this feature on its Galaxy phones for years and users love it. Read a webpage in one window and take notes in another. Watch a YouTube video while you respond to emails. Chat with friends in WhatsApp without closing the Facebook app. In Android N, the world is your oyster.

Instant Apps

Google flew past this at the very end of the keynote on Wednesday but it’s actually a huge deal. In fact, it’s probably the biggest advancement in mobile app distribution since Apple first launched the App Store back in 2008.
With Instant Apps, users can begin testing out an app from right within the Google Play store… without purchasing it or even downloading it.
Think about how awesome that is. Is that new Twitter app really any better than Falcon Pro 3? Is Google’s hot new Allo app really worth downloading? Is that Flappy Bird clone you just happened upon even more infuriating than the original? You’ll be able to answer all those questions and more in an instant without having to purchase or download anything.

Power-Saving Features

Battery life continues to be the most frustrating thing about the iPhone. Apple’s phablet has decent enough battery life (though it still isn’t quite as impressive as rival phablets) but the 4.7-inch iPhone 6s sometimes can’t even make it through a workday.
Apple added a new Low Power Mode and some other power-saving functionality in iOS 9, but they’re nowhere near as impressive as Android N’s Doze and Svelte features.
Doze debuted in Android Marshmallow and it works very, very well. The feature puts devices in a dormant state when not in use, and it’ll see further optimizations in Android N thanks to “Doze on the Go.” Instead of requiring a phone to be motionless for Doze to work its magic, phones running Android N will see Doze benefits anytime the screen is off.
Then there’s Project Svelte, which prevents apps from waking up when network connection statuses change. It doesn’t sound all that exciting, but the result is far less draw on your device’s battery.

Background System Updates

This, Android fans, is a game-changer.
Smartphone updates are a huge pain because your phone is completely unusable while updates are being applied. That might be 5 minutes or it might be 15 minutes, but your communications are completely severed while updates are underway.
With Android N, updates will work like they do in Chrome OS. They’ll be downloaded in the background (over Wi-Fi only, don’t worry) and they’ll be applied instantly when the phone reboots because they’re installed as separate system images.

Virtual Reality

While iOS users continue to daydream about VR, Android device owners will enjoy a comprehensive VR experience courtesy of Daydream.
Daydream is Google’s attempt to take control of the VR experience, which is already seeing fragmentation in these early days. Google Daydream is a software platform and a hardware reference platform for both headsets and controllers, giving developers and vendors the tools they need to take full advantage of Android N’s virtual reality capabilities.

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