UMI Diamond Design, Hardware, Battery, Camera Review

UMI has officially released UMI Diamond smartphone which is well-known for its excellent craftsmanship, and high-competitive hardware and price. We believe this will be the best rival of Elephone S7. In terms of name, UMI Diamond is really as brilliant as diamond. So when you face the choice between UMI Diamond and Elephone S7, which one will you select first?

Design

UMI Diamond has 143*70*9.35mm dimensions, 169g weight, it uses 5inch HD touch screen with 1280*720p resolution, in terms of looking, it adopts unique design, dual curved body to let you enjoy the great gripping feeling. It comes with customized metal frame with light weight. Therefore, you can not only enjoy exquisite craftsmanship, but also good holding feel.

Hardware

UMI Diamond is powered by MT6753 Octo-core 1.5GHz processor, 3GB of RAM and 16GB of ROM internal storage. Although UMI adopts the old Mediatek chipset, it is still Octa core which has been used on many smartphones with powerful function. Double with RAM 3GB, it helps you run the games without stuck, although it just has ROM 16GB, you can still expand it to 128GB storage by a TF card. So you don’t have to worry about its performance.

Camera

UMI Diamond is not well-known for its dual camera, because it just has 2MP front and 8MP back camera, as you know, the lower pixel dual camera is, the worse the image quality is. We can’t ensure UMI Diamond has good dual camera in terms of pixels in theory, but it can still meet our daily needs to take photos everywhere anytime. We can also take selfies by its front camera with beautification.

Battery

As for battery life, it is built in a Sony 2650mAh Lithium Polymer battery which can offer enough working time for us for a light users, but if you play games for more than 5 hours, or watch videos more than 5 hours, we believe you have to charge your phone every day. If possible, just buy the extra battery to avoid out of power when we are on business. What’s more, it has Mali™-T720 MP3 and power saving function to help us save more power if necessary. Anyway, a battery backup is necessary for heavier use.

Other Features

UMI Diamond runs Android6.0 OS to let you enjoy the most convenient users’ experience, and it supports dual SIM card, dual standby, 4G LTE network, and music box speaker with customized audio chip to let us enjoy most clear sound quality. We believe most users like this kind of function.

Conclusion

UMI Diamond has its own advantages such as hardware with 3GB RAM, Octa core, screen with 5inch 2.5D curved screen, Android6.0 OS, Sound audio, etc and cheap price. But there are some insufficient features such as dual camera and battery, anyway, UMI Diamond sells at only $99.99, they will have to control the cost. Therefore, it’s reasonable that UMI Diamond improved its hardware and reduced the battery and camera. But it’s also very competitive and decent smartphone with curved screen. Don’t miss the good chance to catch it at $99.99 for presale.

Compared the Price from the following shops:
efox: UMI Diamond at €99.99
Banggood: UMI Diamond at $99.99
Chinavasion: UMI Diamond at $119.99