The UMi Super offers super-fast fingerprint unlocking, advanced camera features

The UMi Super is a metal-clad smartphone with a 2 GHz, octa-core MediaTek Helio P10 SoC, a massive 4 GB of RAM, a 5.5-inch Sharp-made IPS display, a super-fast 32 GB eMMC 5.1 storage chip by Samsung, and a 13 MP camera sensor made by Panasonic. The handset is a sum of premium parts retailing at the bargain price of $249.99, but you can easily get it at $179.99 in the next few days, as UMi has announced a promotional period, full of discounts and fun gifts. And, despite the midrange price-tag, the company is certain that this smartphone has the "flagship killer" factor.

What is important in the modern smartphone? A good-looking, but also ergonomic design, a secure lock that's fast to get through when the handset is in the owner's hands, a good camera, and, of course, all of this needs a stable software. UMi isn't interested in re-skinning the Android experience to a point of it being unrecognizable. On the contrary, the company is proud to say that its flagship-killing smartphone totes a pure Android experience, the way Google intended it to look and feel. But what about the other points of importance?

Securely sealed, yet quick to unlock

Fingerprint scanners have become a sort of a mainstream feature for most smartphones nowadays. And while it's not surprising to see a biometric lock on a handset, it is certainly important that the sensor is able to quickly and accurately perform a scan, and the software – capable of responding instantly. Otherwise, unlocking one's smartphone with a fingerprint scanner risks to become more of a nuisance that forces the user to turn it off and forfeit all the security benefits.

The UMi Super's ergonomically placed fingerprint scanner is located on the phone's back, just below the camera, at a spot where the user's finger naturally rests when they grab the smartphone. The Microarray-made 4th generation 3D fingerprint sensor performs a 360-degree scan, so it's not sensitive to the angle the finger is placed at. The system is capable of unlocking the phone in as fast as 0.1 seconds, while at its slowest it goes down to 0.3 seconds. That's blazing-fast, even by premium flagship standards.

A simple camera interface holds tricks underneath