First Official details of the Ulefone Be Touch 3

Ulefone are really getting their money’s worth out of the Ulefone Be Touch design with the announcement of a 3rd edition Ulefone Be Touch 3 announced today.

We were originally sent news on the Ulefone Be Touch 3 yesterday, but didn’t publish it until today as some of the hardware parameters were incorrect. Ulefone have now updated their details and we have the final, official and accurate details of the 3rd edition Ulefone Be Touch.

The original Be Touch shipped with a 720p display, Mediatek MT6752 octacore chipset and 2550mAh battery. The Be Touch 2 launched with slight updates including a higher resolution 1920 x 1080 display and larger 3050mAh battery from Sony.

A Ulefone Be Touch 3 has now been announced with more changes to the original Be Touch theme. The 3rd generation phone will come with the same alloy body, Corning Gorilla Glass 3 2.5D glass panel, FHD resolution, fingerprint scanner and 13 mega-pixel Sony IMX214 main camera.

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The changes to the Be Touch 3 include a lower speed 1.3Ghz Mediatek MT6753 octacore SoC and a switch back to the smaller 2550mAh battery. Ulefone haven’t announced why these changes have been made, but a smaller battery and lower spec processor read as ‘cost savings’ to us.

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Interestingly Ulefone tell fans not to rush and take part in early Christmas sales of the Be Touch 3, and wait for the pricing and planned discounts for the phone. What do you think of these latest Be Touch 3 hardware changes? How much do you think the 3rd gen phone will sell for?

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Xiaomi and LeTV are killing other phone makers.
v
November 5, 2015
The battery is completely the same in all 3 models. The only difference is the factory label
- xteamchinax
  November 5, 2015
  I am writing this using the original 2550mah battery ulefone be touch right now. i bought some backup be touch 2 3050mah batteries from aliexpress. These new batteries are identical to original, even the serial numbers are identical. same battery. different label. ladies and gentlemen, round 3! #dingding

Steve B
November 5, 2015
This is a joke, right?
Muhammad Yasir
November 5, 2015
wot the fq ?!
ITS THE SAME PHONE AGAIN !!!!
no improvements , no innovations !
wat the hell !
kzm
November 5, 2015
This suppose we call downgrade right? I do prefer MT6752 or X10..
Dante
November 5, 2015
for all the idiots who keep complaining about that this is the same phone again a employee told me that they did this so they can install android 6.0 on it
- Joel Adames
  November 5, 2015
  NOT a fair reason. (Crucify me if you may, but I’d rather have a good serviced updated android KK 4.4.4 and great Spec’s and great updates than having crappy hardware that might not run the OS fast enough.
  What I smell here is “”let’s exploit that design and make plenty of cash$$$””
  - MaxPower
    November 6, 2015
    because you actually used your brain rather than let marketing people telling you what you want.
    I’ve read thousands of comments here like: that phone (or company) is crap because they didn’t release Lollipop.
    what they don’t know if that Lollipop is installed only on 18% of the active devices worldwide, and people are having more issues than benefits.
    they should care of having a phone that works well, with good specs and hopefully that last at least a couple of years.
    - balcobomber25
      November 6, 2015
      I love getting into arguments (I know shocking for me!) with people who demand Lollipop but then can’t really say why they need it or what benefit it offers. Their entire argument is “because it’s the newest”.
      - MaxPower
        November 6, 2015
        they are victims of marketing people just like you.
        now your redemption is to rehab them 😉
        balcobomber25
        November 6, 2015
        Lol. I gave up rehabbing. Actually my next trick is to get people to buy Windows Phone lol.
        MaxPower
        November 6, 2015
        Ha! i forgot about that offer.
        Good luck with that:
        definitely harder than selling Doogees 😀
Simion Florin
November 5, 2015
This company must cease to exist! They are liars about battery capacity and their roms are full of bugs.
- balcobomber25
  November 6, 2015
  And this thread is full of employees commenting (just look for comments with broken English praising the company).

MattD
November 5, 2015
Just this morning i wrote on another blog that i like be touch design, but i wish it had better specs like a monstrous battery, ir and decent speaker. Well… Obviously they were listening to me, so they can make the exact opposite 😀
All in all, I’m really disappointed… Many aspects could be upgraded, instead it’s a downgrade in many areas, and I’m not just talking about the soc (which is actually nice for me, as i’m not a gamer).
I mean: at least the elephone p8000 has a big battery, be touch 3 has nothing impressive rather than design (and that’s questionable) and a sturdy structure…
- Galindo
  November 6, 2015
  You actually say elephone P8000 is a good product? Just because it has a large battery? You did not see it ugly design, as well as post-fingerprint and difficult to use, at least, ulefone Be Touch 3 has a nice touch fingerprint, is pleased that it is the design on the front, though like the iPhone, as well, it SONY IMX214 has a shot, shooting is very good.
  - MattD
    November 6, 2015
    I didn’t said that that “elephone p8000 is a good product because of tge large battery”, although it’s one of the best elephone so far, but this really isn’t much sayin’. Maybe i haven’t wrote it word by word, but the message was clearly another: many phones have the same hardware combo, BUT the p8000 has a large battery… It’s like his killing feature: like many other competitor, it has some problems, but it stands out because of his battery… Some competitor shine in other feature… But what about the be touch 3? Like i said, design and construction goes for it, no doubt about it, and the front button with the fingerprint is nice if you like it, like you said. But these are all feature we find in the first two models too! When you make the same exact phone for the third time in 6 months, you cannot expect to impress many: you just result lazy. They could have reprojected the phone adding a massive battery or other features: they had all the time to do that, and all the space to add something, since it’s one of the worst optimized phones launched this year. Instead they lazily just throw in a new chip and… Tah-dah! You have a new phone with nothing new. Really disappointing.

Pedro Miguel
November 5, 2015
Why make a worst phone? Well, these guys from ulefone need to buy a brain.
Guest
November 5, 2015
Xiaomi and LeTV are killing other phone makers.
Guest
November 5, 2015
The battery is completely the same in all 3 models. The only difference is the factory label
- xteamchinax
  November 5, 2015
  I am writing this using the original 2550mah battery ulefone be touch right now. i bought some backup be touch 2 3050mah batteries from aliexpress. These new batteries are identical to original, even the serial numbers are identical. same battery. different label. ladies and gentlemen, round 3! #dingding

Steve B
November 5, 2015
This is a joke, right?
Guest
November 5, 2015
wot the fq ?!
ITS THE SAME PHONE AGAIN !!!!
no improvements , no innovations !
wat the hell !
kzm
November 5, 2015
This suppose we call downgrade right? I do prefer MT6752 or X10..
Mario Pruteanu
November 5, 2015
I don’t what I’m going to do anymore, I really rlly like the designs on these phones, but after reading 23 reviews of be touch 1&2, I just want to buy only to break in half myself, overpriced, over selled, and poorly built on the inside!

xteamchinax
November 5, 2015
I remember when a phone’s version number used to mean something….
#mate7 #s6edge #g5s #mi4 #xplay3s
Dante
November 5, 2015
for all the idiots who keep complaining about that this is the same phone again a employee told me that they did this so they can install android 6.0 on it
- Joel Adames
  November 5, 2015
  NOT a fair reason. (Crucify me if you may, but I’d rather have a good serviced updated android KK 4.4.4 and great Spec’s and great updates than having crappy hardware that might not run the OS fast enough.
  What I smell here is “”let’s exploit that design and make plenty of cash$$$””
- MaxPower
  November 6, 2015
  because you actually used your brain rather than let marketing people telling you what you want.
  I’ve read thousands of comments here like: that phone (or company) is crap because they didn’t release Lollipop.
  what they don’t know is that Lollipop is installed only on 18% of the active devices worldwide, and people are having more issues than benefits.
  they should care of having a phone that works well, with good specs and hopefully that last at least a couple of years.
- balcobomber25
  November 6, 2015
  I love getting into arguments (I know shocking for me!) with people who demand Lollipop but then can’t really say why they need it or what benefit it offers. Their entire argument is “because it’s the newest”.
- MaxPower
  November 6, 2015
  they are victims of marketing people just like you.
  now your redemption is to rehab them 😉
- balcobomber25
  November 6, 2015
  Lol. I gave up rehabbing. Actually my next trick is to get people to buy Windows Phone lol.
- MaxPower
  November 6, 2015
  Ha! i forgot about that offer.
  Good luck with that:
  definitely harder than selling Doogees 😀

Simion Florin
November 5, 2015
This company must cease to exist! They are liars about battery capacity and their roms are full of bugs.
- balcobomber25
  November 6, 2015
  And this thread is full of employees commenting (just look for comments with broken English praising the company).

MattD
November 5, 2015
Just this morning i wrote on another blog that i like be touch design, but i wish it had better specs like a monstrous battery, ir and decent speaker. Well… Obviously they were listening to me, so they can make the exact opposite 😀
All in all, I’m really disappointed… Many aspects could be upgraded, instead it’s a downgrade in many areas, and I’m not just talking about the soc (which is actually nice for me, as i’m not a gamer).
I mean: at least the elephone p8000 has a big battery, be touch 3 has nothing impressive rather than design (and that’s questionable) and a sturdy structure…
- Kieslowski
  November 6, 2015
  You actually say elephone P8000 is a good product? Just because it has a large battery? You did not see it ugly design, as well as post-fingerprint and difficult to use, at least, ulefone Be Touch 3 has a nice touch fingerprint, is pleased that it is the design on the front, though like the iPhone, as well, it SONY IMX214 has a shot, shooting is very good.
- MattD
  November 6, 2015
  I didn’t said that that “elephone p8000 is a good product because of tge large battery”, although it’s one of the best elephone so far, but this really isn’t much sayin’. Maybe i haven’t wrote it word by word, but the message was clearly another: many phones have the same hardware combo, BUT the p8000 has a large battery… It’s like his killing feature: like many other competitor, it has some problems, but it stands out because of his battery… Some competitor shine in other feature… But what about the be touch 3? Like i said, design and construction goes for it, no doubt about it, and the front button with the fingerprint is nice if you like it, like you said. But these are all feature we find in the first two models too! When you make the same exact phone for the third time in 6 months, you cannot expect to impress many: you just result lazy. They could have reprojected the phone adding a massive battery or other features: they had all the time to do that, and all the space to add something, since it’s one of the worst optimized phones launched this year. Instead they lazily just throw in a new chip and… Tah-dah! You have a new phone with nothing new. Really disappointing.

Tajwar
November 5, 2015
- Yeti hand
  November 6, 2015
keko
November 5, 2015
i can prepare better roms myself. Actually, i could build phones like this in my garage.
Pedro Miguel
November 5, 2015
Why make a worst phone? Well, these guys from ulefone need to buy a brain.
Mario Pruteanu
November 5, 2015
I don’t what I’m going to do anymore, I really rlly like the designs on these phones, but after reading 23 reviews of be touch 1&2, I just want to buy only to break in half myself, overpriced, over selled, and poorly built on the inside!

xteamchinax
November 5, 2015
I remember when a phone’s version number used to mean something….
#mate7 #s6edge #g5s #mi4 #xplay3s
Tajwar
November 5, 2015
- Yeti hand
  November 6, 2015
Guest
November 5, 2015
i can prepare better roms myself. Actually, i could build phones like this in my garage.
balcobomber25
November 5, 2015
A step back in just about every way. I would have preferred them to use the Helios X10 and update the camera sensor.

balcobomber25
November 6, 2015
A step back in just about every way. I would have preferred them to use the Helios X10 and update the camera sensor.
coolgreek
November 6, 2015
The 1 think i like ulefone be touch 2 is it’s build. It’s tough but beatiful. Eitherway be touch 2 had no 3050 battery (most likely it was a 2200 as it was the same weight and size as ulefone be touch 1) and suffered many problems (battery drain, screen sensitivity, reboots etc), mostly due to bad roms… Anyway i think for the price of be touch 2 (or be touch 3 if it costs about that much) people can buy better phones (meizu m2 note, Xiaomi redmi note2, Let le1 and le1s etc).

Galindo
November 6, 2015
Use MT6753 is a good choice, because he is more easy to upgrade late, expect ulefone Be Touch3 can upgrade Android6.0. Also, ulefone Be Touch3 has a good exterior design, especially in front of amazing fingerprint-touch. This is a good product, the only downside is that the battery is not great, you need a power bank.
tick
November 6, 2015
I like the desgin, and i don’t have much money buy iPhone, so i think Ulefone Be Touch 3 is my choice.

foreverly
November 6, 2015
I myself is a buyer of both Ulefone Be Touch 2 and Paris, Be Touch 2 for myself and Paris for my wife. Be Touch 2 is indeed full of problems and it seems to me that Ulefone can’t make a bug-free version of Android 5.1 (or 5.0 actually) with the MTK6752 chipset. However, Ulefone Paris is a very good phone with stable software and smooth experience, and both my wife and l like it very much. One thing to be noticed is that the Paris is a combination of MTK6753 and full-functioned Android 5.1. So i guess they have found it is easier to configure a good software version for MTK6753. So i guess Be Touch 3 will be at least better than Be Touch 2.
- Andrey
  November 6, 2015
  Yep Paris is good and it makes me think Ulefone has finally take a little bit effort to improve User experiences. And they updated the Paris software very quick, so far, 2 updates.
  - GuyKiller
    November 6, 2015
    Yep, Paris has a few bugs but not as serious as Be Touch 2. And it’s like the bugs are very easy to fix. That’s why they upgrade the software so frequenty. And i emailed to ulefone service about camera peformance under low light and learned that they would published another software next week to improve it.
    - balcobomber25
      November 6, 2015
      - Dante
        November 7, 2015
- Mengkih
  November 6, 2015
  Agree some words. Yeah, ulefone Paris is great budget phone, the most people have a good feedback on forums. So i think ulefone Be Touch 3 with MT6753 also have a great experience
Galindo
November 6, 2015
Haha, iPhone4 and iPhone4S how, iPhone5 and iPhone5S how, iPhone6 and iPhone6S how.
Alba
November 6, 2015
Now i have saw have many phones used MTK6753, why?
- GIGS
  November 6, 2015
  Because it is very hard to control the enrgy consumption of MTK6752. Elephone P7000 is a disasterous example. Anyway, with more and more brands customize Android ROM for MTK6753, the scheme becomes mature.
  - balcobomber25
    November 6, 2015
    The P7000 was a result of horrible software optimization, I have used a few phones with 6752 and none had any issues with battery life. The most likely reason we have come up with her is because the 6752 was too good of a chip, it made the “flagship” Helios X10 not needed.
    - Dante
      November 7, 2015
      yea this is why the clocks were lowered and the gpu was worsened , remember december 2014 it was the heaven of 6752 phones for 140 bucks (in their mainland of course) but these phones were resl flagships judging by their power and when x10 launched it was caniballized by its lower tier brother , thats why the 53 series wss introduces still their low end was lowered too which sucks …
      next year it might happen too but i doubt p10 will reach x20 performance
  - joe motn
    November 6, 2015
    I’ve got great battery life on the Lenovo K3 Note which uses that processor. I think Elephone just uses a fake battery capacity.
- Mengkih
  November 6, 2015
  MTK company always make a transitional chips, like MT6589,MT6595 and some other chips. So, MT6753 is better than MT6752, MT6752 just have high clock speed.

rimakus
November 6, 2015
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coolgreek
November 6, 2015
The 1 think i like ulefone be touch 2 is it’s build. It’s tough but beatiful. Eitherway be touch 2 had no 3050 battery (most likely it was a 2200 as it was the same weight and size as ulefone be touch 1) and suffered many problems (battery drain, screen sensitivity, reboots etc), mostly due to bad roms… Anyway i think for the price of be touch 2 (or be touch 3 if it costs about that much) people can buy better phones (meizu m2 note, Xiaomi redmi note2, Let le1 and le1s etc).

Mesterio
November 6, 2015
Pass
Kieslowski
November 6, 2015
Use MT6753 is a good choice, because he is more easy to upgrade late, expect ulefone Be Touch3 can upgrade Android6.0. Also, ulefone Be Touch3 has a good exterior design, especially in front of amazing fingerprint-touch. This is a good product, the only downside is that the battery is not great, you need a power bank.

Guns 'n' Vegetables
November 6, 2015
I like the desgin, and i don’t have much money buy iPhone, so i think Ulefone Be Touch 3 is my choice.
ii
November 6, 2015
I myself is a buyer of both Ulefone Be Touch 2 and Paris, Be Touch 2 for myself and Paris for my wife. Be Touch 2 is indeed full of problems and it seems to me that Ulefone can’t make a bug-free version of Android 5.1 (or 5.0 actually) with the MTK6752 chipset. However, Ulefone Paris is a very good phone with stable software and smooth experience, and both my wife and l like it very much. One thing to be noticed is that the Paris is a combination of MTK6753 and full-functioned Android 5.1. So i guess they have found it is easier to configure a good software version for MTK6753. So i guess Be Touch 3 will be at least better than Be Touch 2.
- Andrey
  November 6, 2015
  Yep Paris is good and it makes me think Ulefone has finally take a little bit effort to improve User experiences. And they updated the Paris software very quick, so far, 2 updates.
- GuyKiller
  November 6, 2015
  Yep, Paris has a few bugs but not as serious as Be Touch 2. And it’s like the bugs are very easy to fix. That’s why they upgrade the software so frequenty. And i emailed to ulefone service about camera peformance under low light and learned that they would published another software next week to improve it.
- Mengkih
  November 6, 2015
  Agree some words. Yeah, ulefone Paris is great budget phone, the most people have a good feedback on forums. So i think ulefone Be Touch 3 with MT6753 also have a great experience
- balcobomber25
  November 6, 2015
  A conversation among to Ulefone employees….
- Dante
  November 7, 2015
Haha, iPhone4 and iPhone4S how, iPhone5 and iPhone5S how, iPhone6 and iPhone6S how.
Fabio
November 6, 2015
Now i have saw have many phones used MTK6753, why?
- GIGS
  November 6, 2015
  Because it is very hard to control the enrgy consumption of MTK6752. Elephone P7000 is a disasterous example. Anyway, with more and more brands customize Android ROM for MTK6753, the scheme becomes mature.
- Mengkih
  November 6, 2015
  MTK company always make a transitional chips, like MT6589,MT6595 and some other chips. So, MT6753 is better than MT6752, MT6752 just have high clock speed.
- balcobomber25
  November 6, 2015
  The P7000 was a result of horrible software optimization, I have used a few phones with 6752 and none had any issues with battery life. The most likely reason we have come up with her is because the 6752 was too good of a chip, it made the “flagship” Helios X10 not needed.
- joe motn
  November 6, 2015
  I’ve got great battery life on the Lenovo K3 Note which uses that processor. I think Elephone just uses a fake battery capacity.
- Dante
  November 7, 2015
  yea this is why the clocks were lowered and the gpu was worsened , remember december 2014 it was the heaven of 6752 phones for 140 bucks (in their mainland of course) but these phones were resl flagships judging by their power and when x10 launched it was caniballized by its lower tier brother , thats why the 53 series wss introduces still their low end was lowered too which sucks …
  next year it might happen too but i doubt p10 will reach x20 performance

rimakus
November 6, 2015
I had be touch 2 briefly. It sucked ass.
MUG3NHC
November 6, 2015
I had be touch 2 briefly. It sucked ass.
Airyl
November 7, 2015
Why not just take the Paris?
Airyl
November 7, 2015
They didn’t even fix the second one

Hiwyx
November 7, 2015
Basically they just fix the battery problem.
Be Touch 2 has very low OST, due to fake 3000mah battery (real is 2500), so they put a lower power consuming soc and stop lying about battery capacity to find an acceptable battery life.
This is just what be touch 1 should have been. Such a crappy company to sell untested phones.
Guest
November 7, 2015
Basically they just fix the battery problem.
Be Touch 2 has very low OST, due to fake 3000mah battery (real is 2500), so they put a lower power consuming soc and stop lying about battery capacity to find an acceptable battery life.
This is just what be touch 1 should have been. Such a crappy company to sell untested phones.
GhostMom
November 9, 2015

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