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UMI Super reveals 6 GB RAM, USB Type-C audio jack and sub 300$ price

Karel BalacApril 30, 2016

We are getting bits of the UMI Super specs reveals here and there and slowly getting to piece the puzzle together. What’s already known is the Super AMOLED display and dual camera setup, so what’s the next stuff coming?

Not even close to full specs yet, but today’s revelations are quite massive, UMI Super is apparently going to have the USB Type-C audio connector and ultra fast charging support for the battery, but the real kicker is 6 GB RAM and price slightly under 300$. Sounds pretty competitive to me so far.

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So what sort of a CPU could UMI Super realistically have paired with 6 GB RAM? Is the Snapdragon 820 a possibility? Keep in mind that unlike some other manufacturers sticking strictly to Mediatek UMI already has an experience with Qualcomm chipset used in their phone with UMI eMAX mini in late summer 2015. So are we getting another Snapdragon UMI phone with the Super model?

And one last question for you in the end, would you consider buying UMI Super for sub 300$ price looking at the specs revealed so far?

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Karel Balac
Working in IT since 2003. Chinese phone enthusiast in the last few years.

MattD
April 30, 2016
Don’t bring such misinformation: umi IS stuck with mediatek, since emax mini is just a rebranded tcl phone… So no way we’re going to see a sd820!
- Muhammad Yasir
  April 30, 2016
  its also VERY expensive for UMI … a 650/652 or x20 would be good
- bizjonny
  May 2, 2016
Beloved Chairman Lei Jun
April 30, 2016
- Young
  April 30, 2016
- - Beloved Chairman Lei Jun
    April 30, 2016
    Very happy to see that the people of the gizchina still support the beloved. I hope your everything good.
    - Muhammad Yasir
      April 30, 2016
      lets see what the real Lei Jun does if he ever comes across this 😀
      hope you don’t make him an alcoholic :p !
      - Beloved Chairman Lei Jun
        April 30, 2016
        My dear, i hope you dont think i am an impostor of the Chairman, for as I Lei Jun, am the Chairman of the Beloved Millet. So I may ask: R U OK?`
        Muhammad Yasir
        May 1, 2016

Stef
April 30, 2016
Finally superphones come into the forefront. After years of mostly meaningless competition on peak performance that plays very little role on phones, phones started to give more attention to RAM, the one thing that can improve day-to-day performance more than anything else via caching.
Of course just because a phone would have great performance it means close to nothing on how good it would actually be in -probably- more important stuff, like handling, battery life. Nor does it say anything about niche uses like GPU and Camera performance.
It would be a funny year though. $700-$1000 phones being beaten in fluidity from $300 phones, merely because $300 phones would do much less loading…
Karly Johnston
April 30, 2016
I am looking at buying Zuk Z2 but no way will it come at $300. I have to see this Super UMI but they have my attention.
- Young
  April 30, 2016

Young
April 30, 2016
No UMI crap shouldn’t worth above 200 USD even if it’s 12GB RAM.
UMI hiking the price of this phone will never do them any good, when there are better phones in China.
Dont be fooled with paper spec, phone got more to do with just hardware.
- bizjonny
  May 2, 2016
  i have seem you every where shitting with all brands. did you actually have one UMI phone? I have it since UMI X1, C1 for my mom and now IRON for my dad and i get the TOUCH for myself for now. they are not perfect certainly considering the price, but to be honest they are just fine as i expected.

Assefa Hanson
April 30, 2016
i wouldnt but it because its umi UNLESS this particular model is well made and not faulty like the TOUCH
PaulBV
April 30, 2016
I hope the build quality and the software will really impove for this smartphone. I wish Good luck for UMI!
- Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
  May 3, 2016
- - Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
    May 3, 2016
    I’m in the market for a new phone and I’m also interested in Vernee Apollo and Redmi Note 3 Pro too.

E8hffff
April 30, 2016
Just hope it’s got NFC and it out soon. Too many promised phones late to market.
E8hffff
April 30, 2016
Elephone just went and announced 1001 old phones made new. Are Chinese companies struggling and having to revert to unsold stock?
MattD
April 30, 2016
Don’t bring such misinformation: umi IS stuck with mediatek, since emax mini is just a rebranded tcl phone… So no way we’re going to see a sd820!
- Guest
  April 30, 2016
  its also VERY expensive for UMI … a 650/652 or x20 would be good
- bizjonny
  May 3, 2016

Beloved Chairman Lei Jun
April 30, 2016
- Young
  April 30, 2016
- Beloved Chairman is best chairman.
- Beloved Chairman Lei Jun
  April 30, 2016
  Very happy to see that the people of the gizchina still support the beloved. I hope your everything good.
- Guest
  April 30, 2016
  lets see what the real Lei Jun does if he ever comes across this 😀
  hope you don’t make him an alcoholic :p !
- Beloved Chairman Lei Jun
  April 30, 2016
  My dear, i hope you dont think i am an impostor of the Chairman, for as I Lei Jun, am the Chairman of the Beloved Millet. So I may ask: R U OK?`
- Guest
  May 1, 2016

Stef
April 30, 2016
Finally superphones come into the forefront. After years of mostly meaningless competition on peak performance that plays very little role on phones, phones started to give more attention to RAM, the one thing that can improve day-to-day performance more than anything else via caching.
Of course just because a phone would have great performance it means close to nothing on how good it would actually be in -probably- more important stuff, like handling, battery life. Nor does it say anything about niche uses like GPU and Camera performance.
It would be a funny year though. $700-$1000 phones being beaten in fluidity from $300 phones, merely because $300 phones would do much less loading…

Gabriel Dranca
April 30, 2016
Karly Johnston
April 30, 2016
I am looking at buying Zuk Z2 but no way will it come at $300. I have to see this Super UMI but they have my attention.
- Young
  April 30, 2016

Young
April 30, 2016
No UMI crap should worth above 200 USD even if it’s 12GB RAM.
UMI hiking the price of this phone will never do them any good, when there are better phones in China.
Dont be fooled with paper spec, phone got more to do with just hardware.
- bizjonny
  May 3, 2016
  i have seem you every where shitting with all brands. did you actually have one UMI phone? I have it since UMI X1, C1 for my mom and now IRON for my dad and i get the TOUCH for myself for now. they are not perfect certainly considering the price, but to be honest they are just fine as i expected.

Assefa Hanson
April 30, 2016
i wouldnt but it because its umi UNLESS this particular model is well made and not faulty like the TOUCH
PaulBV
April 30, 2016
I hope the build quality and the software will really impove for this smartphone. Otherwise it’s useless. I wish Good luck for UMI!
They will most likely use a Mediatek CPU. I wonder which one supports 6GB RAM.
- Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
  May 3, 2016
- goodluck !
- Mr.Flying Zoom3rz
  May 3, 2016
  I’m in the market for a new phone and I’m also interested in Vernee Apollo and Redmi Note 3 Pro too.

E8hffff
April 30, 2016
Just hope it’s got NFC and it out soon. Too many promised phones late to market.
metalboyz
April 30, 2016
You don’t say!
Ivan Garcia Torregrosa
April 30, 2016
Specs are not the most important. I rather pay 300 $ for a Mi 5 which has been reviewed thousand times with similar comments. I wouldnt spend 200 euros on a phone without a good reviewer giving the thumbs up

realjjj
April 30, 2016
Who cares, they killed it with that Pentile OLED.
Jhonny
April 30, 2016
4g bands?
Muhammad Yasir
April 30, 2016
an 820 would be ABSOLUTE OVERKILL , even for umi who CANNOT afford such an expensive SoC … would make sense if its an x25 or x20 or EVEN a SD 652 … but thats just about it , anything else would be circumstantial and surprising to say the v.least.
metalboyz
April 30, 2016
Umi with software issues

Ivan Garcia Torregrosa
April 30, 2016
Specs are not the most important. I rather pay 300 $ for a Mi 5 which has been reviewed thousand times with similar comments. I wouldnt spend 200 euros on a phone without a good reviewer giving the thumbs up
realjjj
April 30, 2016
Who cares, they killed it with that Pentile OLED.
Roberto Tomás
April 30, 2016
4g bands?
Guest
April 30, 2016
an 820 would be ABSOLUTE OVERKILL , even for umi who CANNOT afford such an expensive SoC … would make sense if its an x25 or x20 or EVEN a SD 652 … but thats just about it , anything else would be circumstantial and surprising to say the v.least.
Atere Jr
April 30, 2016