What happens when you drop your UMI Touch?


UMI is really trying to wreak havoc, at least with various destruction tests of their UMI Touch model and today we have the drop tests. So how big of a fall can UMI Touch survive?

You can see the answer to that question in the following video, where the phone is dropped from various heights by an asian girl. It survives the 2 meter fall, but we think if the tester would be some athletic chinese guy, the result could be way different 🙂 But still not a bad result and it shows some general sturdiness of the UMI Touch metal body.

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34 Comments

  1. April 26, 2016

    The floor will collapse!
    Did i win anything?

    • Alexis T
      April 26, 2016

      Congratulations, you just won a night with our phone-dropping-lady (not jaw-dropping-lady, it’s another one). Fell free to contact our support to redeem your prize.

      Forever yours
      UMI

      • April 26, 2016

        Damn, now i need to watch the video…
        Edit: OK, i think I’ll pass.

        • Muhammad Yasir
          April 26, 2016

          HAHAHAH !
          i laughed way too hard at this !

      • Muhammad Yasir
        April 26, 2016

        dang ! where’s the “if u know what i mean” and that creepy guy smiling meme in ASCII that i really wanna place here !

      • Muhammad Yasir
        April 26, 2016

        THERE ! got it …

        ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

        • Alexis T
          April 27, 2016

          Congratulations dear friend, your ASCII impersonation of a creepy guy just won you a night with shany, henry and janny. Feel free to redeem your prize before our friendly PR team get another job due to psychological harassment.

          Sincerely yours
          UMI

          • Muhammad Yasir
            April 27, 2016

            nope. thanks…

      • Millet Air Purifier
        April 27, 2016

        You forgot: “DEAR FRIENDS”

        • Alexis T
          April 27, 2016

          omg you’re so right…and i should have used your avatar too ^^

    • MitsosDaBest
      April 26, 2016

      You won a Nokia 3310! =P

  2. greg
    April 26, 2016

    Stop dropping your phones and start giving constant updates and os support

    • Jason
      April 27, 2016

      They still working hard on the software updates, since they release the Umi Touch, they have already updated three FOTA within one month.

  3. Muhammad Yasir
    April 26, 2016

    it BREAKS … or it doesnt …
    stop screwing with the consumer base !

  4. Wolvie
    April 26, 2016

    How about bending test ?

    Not because we purposely want to bend but some people just cannot resist to put inside their tight jeans then suddenly their realize their smartphone changed shape like a croissant LOL

    • Sarry
      April 27, 2016

      Wow, I’m ready to join it, I hope I can win the Umi Touch, thank you Jenny.

  5. metalboyz
    April 27, 2016

    This kind of drop test is just a gimmick/nothing, unless they can provide full replacement warranty for the screen, at least for a year.

  6. Adam Irvine
    April 27, 2016

    Received mine yesterday, fully updated it and so far everything works…

    The camera does lag like hell though, not sure if they’re going to do anything about that as they were meant to have addressed it already in one of those updates?

    Its really quite heavy especially when compared to my brothers Redmi Note 3 Pro and I’m not very impressed with the build quality so far, I can see that one of the capacitive buttons is lit better than the other and for some reason my physical home button is on a bit of a wonk, I’ve managed to move it around a bit as it seems to just be a sticker, but I really shouldn’t need to work on that should I?

    • Inti Energia
      April 27, 2016

      Mine has not yet arrived but the sticky home button is a common complaint from those who have it. I had hoped it was an issue only on the first examples but it seems not. Have you been able to adjust it to your satisfaction?

  7. Shany
    April 27, 2016

    I received my Umi Touch yesterday, it’s It looks fabulous, more beautiful than I expected.

  8. Henry
    April 27, 2016

    Good job umi, great phone.

  9. Millet Air Purifier
    April 27, 2016

    Are people really buying this phone

    • Alexis T
      April 28, 2016

      Reading comments here, it appears only people whose name finish by the letter ‘y’ bought this phone

  10. Jerry
    April 27, 2016

    My UMi Touch is currently on its way, am excited for it

    • Alexis T
      April 27, 2016

      Jerry, Henry, Shany, Jenny, Sarry, let us be clear here :

      I represent UMI on this troll page so please you PR team go somewhere else.

      BTW your name creation bot is bugged : it spits only names finishing by the letter “y”.

      Calling your boss right now.

  11. MitsosDaBest
    April 27, 2016

    I think GizChina should BAN the comments for Guests, because UMi employees are trolling every article… I see the same comments also on YouTube, just a copy & paste!!

    They must change the name from UMi Touch, to “UMi Sucks”.

    • Alexis T
      April 28, 2016

      Too late, pal… check Lucy Archer’s profile 🙂

  12. Lucy Archer
    April 28, 2016
  13. victor
    April 28, 2016

    video edited … cannot be trusted !

  14. Lennald
    May 10, 2016
  15. AndrTech
    May 27, 2016

    Want to know how the Wifi performs on UMI Touch? click here: https://goo.gl/UfZZTc, the wifi speed test is interesting.

  16. June 23, 2016

    I have dropped mine several times and every other part has so far survived expect the camera lens that was cracked.

  17. AndrTech
    June 28, 2016

    Many phone manufactures like to make drop test video to prove that the phone is anti-drop or something. Here is a drop test video for Bluboo maya with protective case on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mx53KVacBQ