The UMi Super is here: octa-core processor, 4 GB of RAM, 4,000 mAh battery, bargain price!

UMi is a fairly new, less-known brand, which has been making headlines with its aggressively-priced smartphones, notable for construction materials and hardware components one wouldn't expect to see at their low price tiers. The company is currently gearing up to launch a new flagship smartphone, which, as expected, features impressive specs and an unexpertedly low price-tag.

Design

The UMi Super is an all-metal phone, constructed with aircraft-grade magnalium (aluminum and magnesium alloy). The phone sports a 5.5-inch display with a 1080x1920 pixel resolution, which utilizes Sharp's Sunlight technology — it improves outdoor visibility by actively adjusting the contrast on a pixel-per-pixel basis. The Super's thin side bezels and arched back with an abrasive texture ensure easy handling and no slips. The hardware controls consist of a power key and volume rocker on the right, and a special custom button on the left, which the user can assign functions or apps to. We've also got a capacitive home button under the display and a fingerprint sensor on the back, capable of unlocking the phone in 0.1-0.3 seconds.

The capacitive button on the bottom of the device houses a multi-color LED for notifications, which doesn't blink, but fades in and out for a smoother “breathing” effect. The user can assign its different colors for different app notifications.

Hardware and camera

The UMi Super has a MediaTek Helio P10 octa-core SoC humming under its hood. The processor utilizes the Tri-Cluster technology, where the cores are split in three separate groups, each designed to handle a different type of workload, thus achieving better energy efficiency without sacrificing performance. The phone has 4 GB of LPDDR3 RAM and a 32 GB eMMC 5.1 internal memory chip, both manufactured by Samsung. Of course, if space is an issue, the user also has the choice to install a microSD card for extra storage. The charging and data port is of the reversible USB Type-C variety, in tune with the latest tech.

As for software, the Super comes with an almost pure Android 6.0 Marshmallow, with just a few extra options added to the user interface to access settings for the notification LED and the custom hardware button we spoke of earlier.

The phone's non-removable battery utilizes Sony technologies and is super-condensed, housing a capacity of 4,000 mAh. The MediaTek Pump Express quick charging technology ensures that this huge juicebox can be filled up in about an hour.