UMi started promotion of their new low-cost Rome X model before the New Year and are now branding the device as having the best camera of an entry-level phone of 2016.
UMi have had a full year of working on their marketing and we are going to see their hype machine in full swing this year, in fact we already have with claims that their UMi Rome X will have the best camera of an entry-level phone in 2016.
For those of you who might have missed it the Rome X is a $74.99 5.5-inch phone that UMi hope could disrupt the market as such as their 3GB RAM UMi Rome did last year. The Rome X features a different screen and 3G support only to keep the cost low.
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UMi’s claim that the Rome X will have the best camera for an entry level phone sounds like the usual move a phone maker might make, and in honesty we expect nothing less. You see the sensor on the UMi Rome X is the same Sony IMX179 that the UMi Zero used back at the end of 2014, so UMi have well over a year to get the best out of this set up.
For those of you familiar with the IMX179 you will know that it is intact an 8 mega-pixel sensor, not a 13 mega-pixel sensor as UMi claim on their website (software is used to interpolate the image and create the 13 mega-pixel photos).
For those of you looking at sub $100 phones then 2016 looks like the year for you. The Rome X will compete against the Bluboo Xfire 2, Homtom HT7 Pro and phones from Elephone.
That’s easy to fix just download a camera app that gives you full control over picture size/resolution.
Super Camer, Open Camera, Camera MX, FV-5 any of those allows you to change the resolution.
Hello!
I am sorry, I know it is an old post…but please can you help me with this locked resolution problem (13 mp). I have this exact phone and it does not allow me to change the 13mp res, it is the only choice, and all those camera apps that you mentioned above, I tried all of them and none of them allowed me to change it either. Thank you and please respond.
That probably means 13mp is what the actual sensor is and they lied about the specs.
Thanks, but is there any other way to go past this, and lower the resolution from 13 to 8 mp?
Why exactly do you want to lower the resolution?
I thought I lose image quality if an interpolated option is used instead of the real megapixel capability. Plus, there is the matter of file size. I know I can resize them later,..but that is not the point.
all mtk I had from mt6589 onwards had this possibility, included some umi’s, but probably there could be some which use non-stock mediatek camera app which don’t allow to change it, I always try to switch to an AOSP as soon as I can, so I can’t tell this.
The problem is a lot of these companies use their own app (or get paid to use some other companies app) for the camera, they don’t use the stock Android one from Google. And often times the stock app they use is terrible. The first thing I do with any new phone (with the exception of a very few) is change out the camera app.