UMi say that they will be taking their range to the next level with the launch of the UMi Touch which will ship to customers on the 20th March.
The UMi Touch is UMi’s attempt at building a user defined phone, what this means is that UMi have used information gathered from fans to kit out the handset to make it as desirable as they can.
UMi say that while designing the UMi Touch the company used the golden ratio in an attempt to make it as aesthetically pleasing as possible while maintaining comfort. The result is an all metal phone that is strikingly similar to the Meizu MX5.
A lot of detail has gone in to the metal chassis of the phone such as an 8.8mm R Criterion curved design which gives an identical edge radius to the iPhone 6S and beveled 45 degree edges where the metal frame meets the screen.
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So from a design and build point UMi are saying they have upped their game, and internally they have used hardware that customers have asked for including a 4000mAh battery, 3GB RAM, 16GB memory, and 5.5-inch display, in theory the UMi Touch should be a winner.
For those of you wanting to get your name down on the UMi Touch first then you can apply to be a ‘UMi Partner’ from today to the 17th Feb which will earn you a $70 discount. ‘VIP Flash Sales’ will take place on the 17th, while the regular old presale will start on the 18th with phone shipping on the 20th March.
Really good design. I’m going for the Umi partner thingy. Hope I can get the discount when the time comes.
Just registered. Waiting…
Looks like an MX5 with rear speakers, but it is a very good design none the less.
Looks interesting, is there anywhere with full specs?
16GB is a killer, and that it is not for months
ROM*
AND it wont be here for until atleast mid-late 2017 !
Why are you telling me ROM*? I never mentioned RAM. “a killer” means it kills it for me – I do not want it. 32GB is minimum.
i see… you used it in the wrong sense tho
I used nothing in the wrong sense…. I neither wrote RAM nor ROM in my post. You are desperately seeking problems which don’t exist. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
someone’s being a salty bitch
Someone should learn to read before running their whore mouth.
get your head out of your ass before replying , kid !
fucking asshole !
Go fuck a goat you pedophile warlord supporter.
fuckoff .. i don’t even know there were warlords in the world anymore !
ROM = Read only Memory. Your internal memory is obvously writable aswell.
so ?
Anyone know if it will work in the US?
in general, the modem/antenna controller of the SoC/internal board is compatible with an entire category of frequencies (like “cat 6 lte” or .. in the USA it tops out at cat 4 still), and the phone manufacturers add on antennas for their markets separately. the antenna is nothing but a cheap piece of conductive material.
but unless they are already intending to go to market in a region, they won’t support the frequency/band sets there.
The USA is peculiar in that virtually no other major economic block uses their freq/band combinations, and I believe there is even licensing issues that would jack the cost up if a company wanted to add it — meaning that the market is very difficult to get into. That’s why of the chinese companies basically only HTC and Huawei so far have antennas for the US market.
—this does only effect high speed .. 4G LTE. For the regular speed stuff, you just want to check CDMA vs GSM. Some major US carriers support both, others only support one or the other. Both are widely supported, and are basically a global standard by now.
Please UMI expand your horizons and add 3G/4G bands for America
This people are totally mad. Too many phones and zero support.
Every week, new phone. Which reliable company does that?
What about Samsung?
which CPU ?!
MT6580
lame reply man… its impossible !
sad but sounds about right. If they can afford to give a ~half off discount to presales, putting it around $79 after the $70 discount,, then it isn’t likely a MT67** phone.. at least not a 675* or 679*.
It also looks like. the connector is not type C. there’s no mention of AOS. The fingerprint sensor is the weaker kind on the front. So they are offering a decent 2014/2015 phone that was late to market in 2016 for half price.
well … not stoked for this anymore