Smartphone Umi X Rome: description, photos, reviews

Chinese manufacturers continue to surprise a large number of phones, which are getting cheaper every day. For example, the Umi Rome, superior terminal of the average level is sold at an affordable price - $ 90. If that surprises you, then you don't know about the release of a new model Umi Rome X (the photo is provided later in the article) – "little brother" of the first specified phone, its a mini version.

Dream come True?

For Umi edition phone with an OCTA core CPU, metal case and three gigabytes of RAM at a price not exceeding $ 100 is not something special. But if these excellent characteristics, however, with less power, are offered at an unbelievable price - $ 60? A dream that can't be true? Firm Umi has done the impossible and produced the Rome X-cheapest in the world, metal phone, sold at a price of $ 60, which is to become the flagship of the budget models. Unlike Rome, Rome X do you can buy at this price, so it's definitely not a marketing gimmick.

Design and build

The History of the model is not new, but identical chassis, only without the prefix X has already been produced. All-metal housing made of aluminium with 2.5 D edges on the sides looks great. He frames a 5.5-inch LTPS screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels with a density of 267 pixels per inch. The thickness of the body is the same – 7.9 mm.

The Design of Rome's similar to something between a Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge and some of the new phones of the same manufacturer. At a distance of a smartphone looks like an expensive model. But this is only as long as he will not be in your hands.

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The Phone is available black and Golden. The metal frame is complemented by a glossy back panel made of polycarbonate. Upon closer examination it becomes apparent that the strips on the frame, designed to enhance signal, does not allow the lid to fit snugly to the phone. It spoils what should be attractive premium design, but the ability to remove the rear panel and get access to a removable battery capacity of 2500 mAh and double SIM and MicroSD slot users is welcomed.

Another thing which spoils the phone's design, according to users – a bizarre, randomly placed under the screen, the microphone, located to the right of the back button on the home panel. He's not even in the center, which harms the design, but more importantly, why is he even there?

It is Worth noting that the Home button is touch sensitive and does not have a built-in fingerprint scanner. Today, even cheap Chinese phones equipped with this sensor, and it is usually located on the rear panel. The fact that the phone does not have one at all, to many seems strange.

Metal case

Not so bad. Phone at first glance looks great – it's a pretty big phablet with dimensions 153,8 x 77 mm weight 177 g, with curved glass, rounded corners and beveled rear edges that allow you to manage Umi even with one hand.

Umi Rome X the characteristic thickness, which is 7.9 mm, significant for the phablet was a significant achievement for a phone for $ 60. The rear camera sticks out a bit, but at least near the top, in the middle, which reduces the likelihood of uneven position of the smartphone on a flat surface.

What's really rare in phones – the presence of a frontal flash in addition to dual led on the rear panel. To do a selfie, hold video chats and just to check the appearance easier when there is backlight, although the fact that the front camera has only 2 megapixels resolution, depressing.

Another plus: the speaker hole located in the lower part and not on the rear panel. Umi also has a 3.5 mm headphone Jack, works the FM radio when the headset is connected to your phone.

Finish Unfinished

In General, a brief description of the phone Umi Rome X is – it is still very “raw” device. According to the customer reviews, it is clearly not enough gloss and Polish. In addition, the weight of the smartphone is too unevenly distributed, which he sometimes seems very heavy.

At the front and rear panels easy to remain fingerprints. It is very annoying some users. Everything else, remove them from the surface of the housing is a non-trivial task. Although the smartphone for $ 60 and looks very good, unfortunately, according to buyers, more he didn't.

The Front of the phone has a kind of Chinese gadgets 2011–2012. Front flash is located near the speaker and front camera – above the screen. Under the display are three touch-sensitive buttons: call latest apps, go to home panel and return, located in the order listed.

“the chin" of the phone, on both sides of the USB ports, drilled two sets of holes. But only one speaker.

In General, the smartphone gives the impression of a device made from inexpensive but durable material, which, however, is not enough, figuratively speaking, finishes. The weight is also unbalanced as the largest, and the distribution of its mass.

Umi Rome X: hardware overview

As already mentioned, the phone's single speaker, although two sets of holes under it. However, the main thing is not quantity but quality, and it leaves much to be desired. Umi in Rome X feature audio output with too many high frequencies in the complete absence of bass and low volume fully corresponds to the word “cheap”.

According to user reviews, they experienced difficulty understanding the interlocutor during a phone conversation, so the "victim" of terrible quality is not only the loudspeaker at the bottom of the phone, but the overhead speaker.

The Usual advantage of Chinese smartphone is value for money and quality. Another plus – support of two SIM-cards. The device provides for simultaneous operation of two calling cards in the standby mode, which gives the opportunity to use different rates for work and entertainment. It also supports TF memory card with up to 64 GB.

Wi-Fi operates in the 2.4 and 5 GHz frequencies, has Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, but no NFC, OTG and IR Blaster.

Package includes USB cable and charger.

Display

For a 60 dollar phone (Umi Rome X) display feature is impressive. If you rate it on a scale of natural colors to rich, then it leans toward the latter. Paint expressive, as, indeed, all LTPS displays.

Applied technology MediaTek MiraVision helps Umi Rome X Black. Image characteristics thanks to her much improved, it is possible to reduce saturation, contrast and other settings, if prefer natural color.

Since this is a LTPS display, the viewing angles are a bit limited. But many users are quite happy with them, not Picasa more.

The Screen is made by technology of low-temperature ion exchange, increasing impact resistance of the glass surface. For hydrophobic nanocoating should blue filter, tempered glass, safety glass and coating that absorbs electrostatics. The high strength of the surface of the screen protects it from scratches and cracking even in extreme conditions. The surface allows you to install additional protective coating.

Umi Rome X touchscreen seems to be low resolution, but we have come to expect from a cheap smartphone, at least at the time of writing this article.

Duration

In Rome X Umi feature a battery with a stated capacity of 2500 mAh allows you to place it somewhere between low and medium levels. No support for 4G LTE, that phone saves a bit, but the differences in the service life of the device when operating in the modes of 2G and 3G is difficult to distinguish.

If you do not connect your smartphone to Wi-Fi on a single battery charge it can work 8 to 10 hours. With Wi-Fi all that capable smartphone, this hour, perhaps two. Time SOT – about 3-3.5 hours. But if there is a need in the long operation of the device, you can enable power saving mode. Support fast or wireless recharging is not available.

Software

Most phone manufacturer's support Rootjoy that allows you to connect to a PC and quickly save the contents of the memory or reinstall the operating system. This model like no different, although the presence of preinstalled SuperSU indicates that the user is given all permissions.

Right out of the box phone does not possess a great number of applications while the full access to Google Play gives you an opportunity to install all necessary. Users liking a scrolling home screen and application bar. Customized gestures Smart Wake works exactly, but makes it possible in Umi Rome X firmware with Android Lollipop (5.1).

Performance

According to user reviews, phone feature X Umi Rome and its MediaTek chip MT6580, featuring 4 Cortex A53 and video accelerator Mali-400 in terms of performance (compared to the hardware of modern smartphones) is retreat several steps back. Although the device is very budget, given the money for it, it would be possible to create something better. For example, the MT6582 chip is really inexpensive and has good performance.

Microprocessor supported RAM capacity of 1 GB. In comparison with the older model built-in memory has also been reduced to 8 GB but can be expanded with TF card.

Tests

The Basic functionality that you'd expect with any smartphone – viewing web pages, instant messaging and email, camera and, of course, the ability to make phone calls. Unfortunately, none of these categories, the device does not behave well enough.

Online surfing is an integral part of our lives, and the caching of web pages in browsers does not help. And Rome X fights with a pair of tabs open in Chrome. Test Geekbench 3 gives 359 points for single core and 1171 score in multiprocessor mode. 6.0.1 AnTuTu showed a score of 23 964.

Smartphone Umi Rome X: cameras features

Both camera models got from her "older brother". The rear has an interpolated resolution of 13 MP, which in reality is 8 MP. Sensor Sony IMX179 with dual flash, sectionseven lens, blue glassfilter and an aperture of f2,0. Front megapixel camera is characterized by having its own flash. It would be perfect for shooting selfies or conducting video chat in low-light conditions, but, unfortunately, the front sensor is very low resolution, and flash a big difference does not.

Vosmimegapikselnaya Rear camera to increase its resolution up to 13 MP uses the software. Dual led flash works better front. There are all the usual modes and options, including the filters in real time.

Users are not very excited with the capabilities of the camera Umi Rome X Gold. Features sufficient when you do not have a camera, but sometimes the image is very soft, and a large number of details are lacking. In addition, it is very slow: saving a picture takes a long time. Again, this was to be expected from a phone for 60 dollars.

Overall, besides the slow speed of the camera, which can be attributed to the microprocessor, Rome X allows you to take photos, if their quality is not taken too strictly.

Conclusion

Umi is still quite risky, releasing phones one after the other. Although the company was a successful model, made a lot of noise, such as Touch, this is not the first attempt to win a niche in a price interval below $ 100. And Rome X Umi suffered another setback, but in the near future if not this company then any other Chinese manufacturer will conquer this market segment.

Owners are advised to purchase phone Umi Rome X 5.5’’, the characteristics of which are too low for modern means of communication only in cases of a very limited budget. There are a lot of 100 dollar phones that are much better fulfill their responsibilities.