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Budget Ouktiel U2 announced pre-sale starts this week for $89.99

Ying HuaAugust 3, 2015

Oukitel have padded out their range of smartphones to include a budget model which will cost just $89.99 in a pre-sale beginning this week.

Oukitel have so far impressed us with their Oukitel U9 and U10 smartphones, device offering good build and hardware for flagship shoppers. For those of us on more of a modest budget though, Oukitel now have the Oukitel U2 available.

The U2 follows the same outward appearance to the U9 and U10, but more importantly the budget phone shares a few of the same materials too! Front and rear glass panels are of the 2.5D curved glass variety offering a feeling like ‘Jade’, with a gold CNC alloy chassis sandwiched between. At under $100 its hard to think of another phone that offers a similar level of construction.

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Budget hardware has been chosen to keep the design and built top notch and we see a 5-inch qHD IPS display in use, quad-core MT6735M chipset, 1GB RAM and 8GB internal memory. Android 5.1 runs on the phone and there is space for dual SIM and the option to use a 32GB SD card.

The retail price for the Oukitel U2 will officially be $99.99, but pre-sale offers will see the cost drop to $89.99 between the 6th – 31st August.

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Ying Hua
I'm an avid gamer and a bit of a Ninja when it comes to gadgets and technology. When I'm not busy with the latest Android and iOS games and I can be found writing at Gizchina.com.

Aa
August 3, 2015
If it just would have HD display. Other specifications are good for the price and are okay for my use.

Mik
August 3, 2015
1gb ram is not enough for Android 5. I got a mtk6752 device and the system is taking 800mb ram. The phone is nearly unusable, because it’s not even enough for browsing.
- Aa
  August 3, 2015
  Than your system sucks or you have too many apps in the background. My system on LG L90 is using only 550-600 MB and I have enough free RAM, but I am using only Viber, Whatsapp and e-mail (that is in the background).
  - Mik
    August 3, 2015
    the 800mb are without apps (system only). In the background I only have whatsapp and email as well.
    Don’t expect a Chinese phone to have a highly optimized system, similar to LG.
    - Marco Lancaster
      August 3, 2015
      What is your phone? MT6752 with 1GB of Ram?If you have 2GB or even 3GB of Ram and your system is taking 800MB this is pretty normal. That’s how The Android system ram works is take memory when is available.
      - Mik
        August 4, 2015
        Mstar M1. there is no bloatware installed.
        I found a new firmware and it helped. The system now takes 700-750mb of memory. At least a browser is able to run fine with some tabs open.
        But two apps can’t run at the same time. As soon as I minimize the browser, it’s removed from the memory and when I reopen it it has to reload everything.
        I can’t recommend any Android 5 phone with 1GB ram.
    - Aa
      August 3, 2015
      Some chinese phone have optimised system, usually if it is Stock, Vanilla, Clean, A.O.S.P. Try to root your phone and delete bloatware and sometimes do reboot and even factory reset (after a few months).
      - Mik
        August 4, 2015
        there is no bloatware and I found no way to root. I found a new firmware update and it helped. Now the web browsing works at least and I can have multiple tabs open.
        I also have a Be Touch 2 and it’s a difference of day and night. The other phone was as slow as a phone with 6000 Antutu.
- Von Box
  August 3, 2015
  Do u expect to receive an IPhone6 for your those 90$? (and as a bonus a car, half of a house, food for five years, and unlimited call s for your hole life)?
  - Dante
    August 3, 2015
    Yes i do – that is why most of the people here are coming , to max the value of their money – Best bang for buck look for exemple at muhammad yasir – skilled bargain hunter
    - Mesterio
      August 3, 2015
  - Mik
    August 4, 2015
    I didn’t compare it to an Iphone 6 you donkey. I said that it can’t even run browsers properly since the system already takes so much memory. The phone was unusable. The webbrowser would crash every time it opened some more complex websites (with ads I assume).
    The mtk 6752 is useless if the phone only got 1Gb of memory.
    All I am saying is that I don’t recommend an Android 5 phone with 1GB ram.
    If someone goes for a budget phone he should look for an Android 4 phone instead.
    - Vondark Ingress Darkness
      August 4, 2015
      My answer is..: ihaa 🙂 (this is the donkey language in my country). I wont recomend anything lower than 2 GRam either. You shouls be more, but mooore explicitly next time like:” i dont recomend only 1GRam because is lagging”.
balabala001
August 3, 2015
I thinks it’s good, beautiful phone. Good price for it, now that they claimed 5.1 for it, I guess they will make it.

Paap Mrittu
August 3, 2015
Excellent design and build for a $100 phone.
Andrei
August 3, 2015
nice design, ugly borders
- Max
  August 4, 2015
  at least it looks like they are going for the “real bezel look” and not those bezelless fakes some of the companies try to market right now. i enjoy their honesty.
  - Andrei
    August 5, 2015
Aa
August 3, 2015
If it just would have HD display. Other specifications are good for the price and are okay for my use.
Guest
August 3, 2015
1gb ram is not enough for Android 5. I got a mtk6752 device and the system is taking 800mb ram. The phone is nearly unusable, because it’s not even enough for browsing.
- Aa
  August 3, 2015
  Than your system sucks or you have too many apps in the background. My system on LG L90 is using only 550-600 MB and I have enough free RAM, but I am using only Viber, Whatsapp and e-mail (that is in the background).
- Guest
  August 3, 2015
  the 800mb are without apps (system only). In the background I only have whatsapp and email as well.
  Don’t expect a Chinese phone to have a highly optimized system, similar to LG.
- Marco Lancaster
  August 3, 2015
  What is your phone? MT6752 with 1GB of Ram?If you have 2GB or even 3GB of Ram and your system is taking 800MB this is pretty normal. That’s how The Android system ram works is take memory when is available.
- Jhonny
  August 3, 2015
  Do u expect to receive an IPhone6 for your those 90$? (and as a bonus a car, half of a house, food for five years, and unlimited call s for your hole life)?
- Aa
  August 3, 2015
  Some chinese phone have optimised system, usually if it is Stock, Vanilla, Clean, A.O.S.P. Try to root your phone and delete bloatware and sometimes do reboot and even factory reset (after a few months).
- Dante
  August 3, 2015
  Yes i do – that is why most of the people here are coming , to max the value of their money – Best bang for buck look for exemple at muhammad yasir – skilled bargain hunter
- Mesterio
  August 3, 2015
  Muhammad Yasir is growing too big for this site he should have his own spinoff!
- Guest
  August 4, 2015
  Mstar M1. there is no bloatware installed.
  I found a new firmware and it helped. The system now takes 700-750mb of memory. At least a browser is able to run fine with some tabs open.
  But two apps can’t run at the same time. As soon as I minimize the browser, it’s removed from the memory and when I reopen it it has to reload everything.
  I can’t recommend any Android 5 phone with 1GB ram.
- Guest
  August 4, 2015
  I didn’t compare it to an Iphone 6 you donkey. I said that it can’t even run browsers properly since the system already takes so much memory. The phone was unusable. The webbrowser would crash every time it opened some more complex websites (with ads I assume).
  The mtk 6752 is useless if the phone only got 1Gb of memory.
  All I am saying is that I don’t recommend an Android 5 phone with 1GB ram.
  If someone goes for a budget phone he should look for an Android 4 phone instead.
- Guest
  August 4, 2015
  there is no bloatware and I found no way to root. I found a new firmware update and it helped. Now the web browsing works at least and I can have multiple tabs open.
  I also have a Be Touch 2 and it’s a difference of day and night. The other phone was as slow as a phone with 6000 Antutu.
- Vondark Ingress Darkness
  August 4, 2015
  My answer is..: ihaa 🙂 (this is the donkey language in my country). I wont recomend anything lower than 2 GRam either. You shouls be more, but mooore explicitly next time like:” i dont recomend only 1GRam because is lagging”.

Von Box
August 3, 2015
It looks like the Oukitel U6 without the second screen
balabala001
August 3, 2015
I thinks it’s good, beautiful phone. Good price for it, now that they claimed 5.1 for it, I guess they will make it.
Muhammad Yasir
August 3, 2015

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