“Super”, UMi’s flagship-grade sub brand

jo@jo1234

rikkan replied at 2016-5-24 18:59
Hi

I have some questions about the Umi Super.

Dear,
Please see my below answer in red.
1. How much of the phone is metal?Yes, the phone it metal, the price is 179$, if you get a coupon from this website: http://www.umidigi.com/page-umi_super.html
1.A. Is it just the band around the side, or is the back cover metal aswell?
The back cover and the frame is metal.
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marsm69

jo@jo1234 replied at 2016-5-17 09:57
Dear,Yes, the Umi Super has NFC and gyroscoop sensor.

NFC ?? It is still not listed in the 'updated' specs on the UMI site. So for me it is still very much unclear if the Super has NFC....

marsm69

jo@jo1234 replied at 2016-5-25 12:01
Dear,
Please see my below answer in red.
1. How much of the phone is metal?Yes, the phone it metal ...

Are you sure?

The Touch also was presented as full CNC metal but the back upper and lower bands are plastic and that is visible in color and texture difference and deminishes any premium kind of looks unfortunately. In the Touch renders this appears to be not the case but the real product is not as refined on the back. SO that makes me wonder if I should cancel my Super order or not?

rikkan

jo@jo1234 replied at 2016-5-25 12:01
Dear,
Please see my below answer in red.
1. How much of the phone is metal?Yes, the phone it metal ...

Hi Jo

Thanks for responding.

I appriciate that answers can't always be instant and that perhaps you needed to lookup more details, but would you mind answering the rest of my questions? (In perticular 1.B and 2)

rikkan

marsm69 replied at 2016-5-25 15:43
Are you sure?

The Touch also was presented as full CNC metal but the back upper and lower bands  ...

Yeah, the plastic on the Touch was disapointing.

To be fair to umi though, it was advertized as using plastic around the antenna area. However, from the photos and everything i'd read about it, i thought they ment that only the two seams were plastic rather than the entire end-caps.

It's a shame, since you end up almost constantly touching plastic, which cheapened what was otherwise an excellent phone.  Sadly mine had a defect so had to go back, so i was considering whether it was worth upgrading to a super, or just getting a replacement touch.

bencebacsi

Dear users,

I'm trying to answer the above questions as I can.
1. The center back cover, the frame and the buttons are made of metal. The top and bottom parts of the back cover must be made of plastic to let the antennas to be effective. I guess you'd me more disappointed if your new phone would have an exquisite appearance but useless anyway. Not even the very expensive iPhone 6s Plus is different.

2. There are capacitive navigation buttons beside the also capacitive home button.
3. There's only one loudspeaker (as usually) at the bottom. Two identical speakers so close to each other could produce unwanted distortion and echo while making a call in loudspeaker mode.
4. The data elements are mixed up here. I requested the site administrator to correct it. The correct data is
RAM: 4GB LPDDR3
ROM: 32GB eMMC
LPDDR3 is a RAM technology, eMMC is a fllash memory (ROM) technology.
5. There's an auxiliary (noise canceling) microphone on the top back.
6. Gyroscope and magnetic field sensors are present, so VR applications/devices are supported.
7. No NFC support.

PaulusB

I orded a super to day via tomtop eBay for the best price on eBay i sold my 1 Month Old Touch to my friend hopefull this one is better.

DjAT

I have another question

Is this device support to Different roms like umi touch. have plan to develop Windows or MIUI for this ?

bencebacsi

DjAT replied at 2016-5-26 13:57
I have another question

Is this device support to Different roms like umi touch. have plan to devel ...

Custom ROM releases are planned but no information about a possible Windows release.

bluehawk

Hi, my name is António Barata and i bust buy an UMI Super at IGOGO.es.
I live in Portugal and I want to know if you can indicate me an company (or more) who sell insurance plans for smartphones (buyed in China) and accept that the phone live in Portugal and was buyed out of Portugal?
thanks