I hope you guys are seeing what`s happening here. I predict this time next year the UK market will be flooded with Xiaomi, Umi, Meizu, Lenovo, Doogee & all the other unknown branded phones/electronics. At incredibly budget prices. The IPhones, S6`s & Z3`s at £600 will be a thing of the past. I give Apple one more year to make a 50 billion dollar profit. The Chinese are coming.....

Gregg's have an app?! My life is forever changed! Thanks

Very honest of you though.

The Chinese need to work out how to sell the lifestyle 'image' factor to them first... most people buy Apple because it makes them feel elitist.

I got the phone been using it if anyone has any questions fire away

Read somewhere it actually has a gyroscope and compass :confused:

Now where's that damn postman?

GPS any good?

Ordered mine using this thread link. Arrived in under 2 weeks. Excellent phone, totally chuffed.

So many conflicting and badly presented reviews on the net.
It'll be either an awesome surprise or a waste of £60.... Makes it even more exciting waiting for delivery :laughing:

Anyone get a despatch notice?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPpOO1S5yNM

doesn't seem well built the amoled screen also looks suspect

unboxing the black actually looks really nice compared to gold make sure you have the volume low when you listen to this as their is a surprise at the end and volume goes really high.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKP00ZGjoh0

Thank you very much, Did you purchase it using that seller?


I looking to buy my first "Chinese" smartphone. But I need somethings that's:

4.5-5inch Max.
720p display is fine
Excellent battery
13mp camera
16gb internal space
Budget around £70-85

Any recommendations

Sure, I got it new from ebay(UK seller) for £159, but they are on there for £139 now Linky
Also consider the P8000, although being a tad thicker, it has a better battery(same spec) and is cheaper at £119 Linky#2
Hope this helps :smiley:

Can i ask how much did you pay for it? and Where from? Cheers

Price gone up £79

Gold

what colours are buying going for ?

Thank you.

​ok. I bought the flagship model. The UMI Zero. It was hailed as a flagship killer. It was awful. Build quality 1st. The softest aluminium you can imagine, supposed Gorilla Glass 3! No way it had that. Battery was awful, half a day with normal usage, the non removable batter swelled and rather than take it back and exchange..... They sent me a new non removable battery and a guide on how to put in the new one. The phone was less than 6 weeks old. Warranty is worth nothing. Plagued with random reboots, upto 6 per day. Phone would freeze regular. No over the air updates as it's rooted. So it's upto you to side load updates via pc. Headphone quality was god awful. Camera interface was rotten too. Umi simply not interested in after care. I'm not anti Chinese phone. Wife has a DooGee X5 pro, great wee phone. But umi..... No hateful

https://youtu.be/xR7xmDbwGE4

Hands on video

Yes I had 400 points would have bought it down more but could not use them.

£60 when using the banggood app no brainer ordered

Showing as stock due Dec 15th.
So realistically its unlikely to be despatched until mid January ( China phones never meet their release date, and then they have all the back orders to work through).
Expect a long wait for this one - remember its Chinese new year at the beginning of Feb when all Chinese factories/stores and couriers shut down for a week. This phone could hit that delay too.

Just saying "Don't do it" isn't helpful, why should we not buy Umi? I'm betting that 99.9% of people who read that comment (myself included) have no idea who you are and therefore have no reason to trust you. Without telling us your reason, it's just a statement open to interpretation by the reader: is it because you have evidence of Umi using the collateral to reincarnate Hitler as a part man, part dinosaur, part robot, cyborg killing machine? That would certainly be an excellent reason to not give them my hard earned cash.

Or perhaps, more realistically, you had a bad experience with one of their phone and/or the company? If it was an issue with a phone, details! If it was an issue with the company, again - details!

Sixty quid for a 3gb octa-core 5.5 incher.... Sold :-)

For the love of god people......... DON'T BUY A UMI! Any other Chinese manufacturer ok, but not a UMI.

Ordered £62.96

£63 all in here

Even cheaper now!

Just pre ordered at £68 with the faster shipping option.

I said something similar a few weeks back and the chinese phone mafia fanbois tried to rip me a new one on how wrong I was, nice to see I'm not the only one to think the same about chinese phone manufacturing.

Regarding prices etc, I know that I will not be buying another Samsung or even an iPhone at the stupid prices they selling at.

The Doogee F5 I bought a couple of weeks ago is better than an iPhone 5s according to a phone comparison site I looked at last week, and got it for a fraction of the price!

the main difference is that with lg/samsung/sony/motorola, you get robots doing the soldering. that makes quality consistent. with these cheapo chinese phones, there's a lot of hand soldering going on. search for "doogee assembly line" on youtube if you want to see for yourself. there was a similar video for elephone but it's been pulled.

the second significant difference is that with crappy Mediatek chips, mediatek release completely closed android and manufacturers only skin it and/or add a few packages. they have no influence over what android upgrades each soc (chip) gets and they're at mediatek's mercy. i think it's obvious it is not in mediatek's interest to support a single soc over multiple versions of android (fewer sales). hence no cyanogenmod for chinese phones (elephone p7000 was an exception, but thanks to mediatek's binary blobs in linux kernel, cyanogenmod 12.1 was the first and last supported version).

that is why it is usually worth paying twice the price for a similarly specced phone. while you pay 150 squid for a phone with dodgy warranty, miserable support, bad quality control, missing a significant feature here and there and completely breaking within a year, i enjoy a phone for twice the price with all the comforts you miss. oh, and my phone will last 2-4 years with an aftermarket battery + upgrades from cyanogenmod.

​I bought a jiayu g2s for my wife about, I think, three years ago and still waiting for it to break or slow down or anything so I can buy her a new phone, but not such luck. Aside for the quiet speaker, all works like the first day, even the battery lasts the whole day.

​is exactly what Samsung should have done with the S6 non edge. At least is what I expected before I have seen one.

Totally agree, not been on contact for over 3 years now. £35+ a month on contract, or buy a phone for £100-£150 with £12 a month PAYG giffgaff, no brainer :wink:

majority of people USED to buy a phone inclusive with the contract. imo nowadays it is cheaper to buy the phone separate and getting a sim only plan. that's the way it's going.

Well, that's one way of doing it; didn't want to upset the mods.......

$100 from Geekbuying

I`m hoping that the big Chinese players can up their game on the software & support side, better compete with the Samsungs & Apples, so that phones as in this Umi deal are standard for this price point. We`ve been robbed for too long.

I hope you guys are seeing what`s happening here. I predict this time next year the UK market will be flooded with Xiaomi, Umi, Meizu, Lenovo, Doogee & all the other unknown branded phones/electronics. At incredibly budget prices. The IPhones, S6`s & Z3`s at £600 will be a thing of the past. I give Apple one more year to make a 50 billion dollar profit. The Chinese are coming.....

You get what you pay for. I won't buy another Chinese phone.

​I have my eye on the upcoming P9000. I want perfection so hopefully this time they will get it right.

get Redmi Note 2. it doesn't have LTE band 20 but it is awesome in hardware & has software developer community.

They do actually state 8mp's with max pixel of 13mp's,bit like up-scaling of DVD players,a bit of gimmick then.

My phone's rooted (Nexus 4) Barclays Bank don't work, Tesco Bank and PayPal both work fine.

PS/ I have tried unrooting with root checker etc and super root but no change

​thats the weird thing though, banking apps from Tesco Bank, Halifax, Santander all work fine.
I'm sure it is just the being rooted, but odd that actual banking apps do work yet PayPal doesn't lol.

They could easily knock £50 off their phones and still make a huge profit.
Instead they prefer to fleece their doting customers.
Yeah, I'm in awe as well :smirk:

I believe if you download the app you get 10% off your first purchase, making this deal extra splendid!

.... No, they`re not all as bad as Jiayu, and western consumers know it, which is why the tide is changing. :wink:

+1. Phone will be rooted

I have used rooted phones for many years. While I don't often bank on my phone (use HTTPS website) I just cycle my password often as a precaution. Same with PayPal. Probably use it 2 or 3 times a week so using the website rather than an app is hardly a chore.

For me while the specs for the money are great with Chinese phones its all about the twin sim. I spent years walking round with two phones in my pocket. Those days are long gone. :smiley:

Doesn't your Elephone allow the PayPal app to be installed unlike my Umi Iron?

No duty and mostly avoid the vat if sent by standard post.

The battery is small for the screen size but it may just be OK because its a 720p screen which would I believe use less power.

You mean like 20% VAT plus import duty?
Do these Chinese imports incur import duty and VAT?

Does*

I agree with you my Elephone p8000 isn't perfect but I can live with it, and for £103 delivered I'm happy with it. I to will be buying a Chinese phone again.

I completely agree too. Bought my Elephone P7000 a few months ago, granted, it`s not perfect, but it`s well worth what I paid, and I`m very happy. If you do you homework, and check the reviews, you won`t go far wrong with a Chinese mobile. Don`t think I`d ever buy another branded overpriced phone again personally :smiley:

A point to note is that unlike Apple, Chinese imports will mostly generate some tax monies for our country. "Initial buy in high" means that you are lining up the already bursting pockets of Apple's shareholders.

Why are these "deals" being allowed on here??

£68 on antelife.com

I have an Umi Iron. Fantastic phone, great battery life. Only downside is that some app makers don't want there apps to run on it (PayPal and Gregg's for instance.

There`s a huge amount of elitism with a "substantial percentage" of Apple sales. It`s almost undeniable. Yet, one has to hand it to Apple for the planet`s best marketing ever, period. 53 billion dollar profit is a colossal sum, it beggars belief, enough give £5 to every man, woman & child on the Earth, solely from their 2014-15 revenues. I`m in awe. :confused:

Very honest of you though.

Yep. Precisely why I bought my phone. Not because I like iPhones at all. Purely the elitism.

The Chinese need to work out how to sell the lifestyle 'image' factor to them first... most people buy Apple because it makes them feel elitist.[/quote]
nice to see no genralisations on hduk:smiley:

Good point. :wink:

Only problem is the small 2500mah battery IMO.

Though the Rome isn`t included in this list here http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/mobile-phone/20-best-chinese-phones-2015-2016-uk-3616945/ , there are SIX OTHERS in this top 20. Umi are big in China!

Good luck to anyone buying this, you think specs on paper will in anyway dictate the terrible user experience? There are hundreds of different models of these terribly made phones, this isn't anything special. Just read the description, how could you possibly trust this? I wouldn't buy this if it was £20.

Shouldnt buy phones that look like other phones. Clone phones are a bad idea. Also it shows screenshots of God of War..... the marketing for this phone should put people off by itself.

looks good - thanks for the tip

Need this with gyro and a 4.5/4.7" screen... would be the perfect phone... even has 800Mhz band 4G and a god-damn AMOLED!! .... there always seems to be one vital feature missing on the Chinese phones.

Voted hot though for people who like comically large screen phones.

wow its looks like the Samsung s6 edge :/

2500mah battery?

Lacks compass and gyroscope ( like every other Umi).
What a shame.

Looks dodgy. Loads of conflicting specs on that link

Was in the press as $89 when announced last week, so will be interesting to see what finally is launched.

i was just gonna post the same:

2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
3G: WCDMA 900/2100MHz
4G: FDD LTE 800/1800/2600MHz

eeerh seems the frequencies i posted are different to yours. where did you get yours from? mines from the bottom of the page in link.

"this phone will only work with 2G network " and "enjoy LTE" wtf?

2G: GSM 900/1800/1900MHz
3G: WCDMA 900/1900/2100MHz
4G: FDD LTE 1800/2100/2600MHz

These maybe from a Asia model. The international version should have 800MHz activated instead of FDD2100. My advise would be to wait until confirmed as you won't be getting one until Jan so little point in pre-ordering.

am i reading right that this doesnt support 3g ?

Looks good, thanks for sharing.
I've added the price and retailer name to your deals title. Please remember to include this when posting as it helps people to see your deal better :smiley: