STOCK DUE DEC 15TH

You won't see this until mid January at the earliest. Its unlikely to actually get posted this year as they never make the release date and then take weeks to work through the back orders,
Only order if you are prepared for a looooong wait .

Too many armchair experts on here whenever a new phone is listed, "yeah but this, yeah but that" when I make a purchase I trust the reviews, or better still ask someone that has actually bought and used this or a similar model from the same brand. The spec for this phone for the cost is outstanding. I took the plunge and bought the recent Umi Iron from banggood, it took an age to arrive as it too was a pre order but it has proven to be a superb phone for the price I paid, it slaughters my old Htc One X in every field and cost me less than £100 delivered. The battery is great, performance superb, screen beautiful with bright colours, feel and build quality very good. Sound more than adequate, Wifi faultless, Cameras very nice but possibly not as good as first stated. To conclude, this handset is less than £70, no it doesn't do iTunes, and no it doesn't say Samsung on the front but its less than £70. nuf said.

I had problem with the phone aswel. I contacted them via their website. they asked me to send the phone back but royal mail wouldnt take it due to battary cant be removed. I then informed them the issue and they returned my money back and asked me to keep the phone. (i had problem with double sim. but its working fine with one sim - even now)

ordered this from bangood and doesn't switch on!! its from China warehouse. what's returning items back like? they sent me a faulty phone

Are you on drugs ?

maxmix

Had mine a few weeks now happy for £60
Good points
GPS
Speed
Memory size
Dual sim
4g
Nice looking
Rooted out the box

Bad
Screen LCD only 2 point touch
Phone gets hot
Battery average
No ota updates

Had a good play with it.

1. 4G speeds... Excellent
2. Drove home from work using GPS and Google maps.... Excellent
3. Compass works
4. Fast and quite responsive once the screen protectors are removed ( shame it has only 2 touch points not 10).

Bad point: Poor Wifi (have to sit on top of the router for best connection).

Bargain

Well, just got this and its freakin sweet for £60 :smile:

Installed Google keyboard and Nova Launcher....brilliant.

Will test it more later, but for the money, it's incredible.
Thanks OP

There is a 3.03 rom currently my device is runing the original stock rom 3.01 no ota yet the 3.03 has better battery but they have broken the compass so no good for you. Other than that no i haven't tried anything else

With the Banggood app coupon, I paid just over £60 but with Xmas post delays, it's not here yet.

Only really wanted to keep in the car as a back up (calls/GPS), so won't be too disappointed if I don't like it because, like you said, it has a lot of good points for a sub £100 device.

Thanks for the info.

Have you tried any of the ROMs available on Needrom?

In all fairness I have owned and used phones like the s6, lg g3, and g4, oppo find 7 and r7 to name a few . Currently I have a honor7. You do get what you pay for in all fairness but for just under 70 which is what I paid it is worth it. Just make sure you understand what you are getting. Its really well built nice size and feeling its fast and fluid and the camera is also quick it looks and fells like a more expensive phone. I would opt to go for the xamoi redmi note 2 for around 90 on gear best over this if less than 100 is your budget but this in terms of build us better and has more of a stock android rom than that. The camera on the umi is quite poor in my opinion more like the moto g first gen yes its that bad and the battery is on the small size well for me it won't last the day. But I really use my phone a lot. The screen is also not AMOLED its LCD with the 2 point touch which really effects the sensitivity and you do feel it.

Great reply ssjinzo. Thank you

Considering the low price, was it with buying?

1. GPS is good it connects too a few satellites not as many as other higher specs phones i have tried but it works well. The accuracy was within 2 meter which is good normally even more expensive phone its between 5 meters.

2. Compass works but it takes time to normalise it's quite slow to turn but it works not well compared to other phones i have.

3. It doesn't have 3 finger screen shot not like the uelfone it only has 2 point touch which is disappointing and does effect sensitivity of screen.

1. GPS any good (quick lock and accuracy)?

2. Does the compass work (does Google maps show which direction you are facing)?

3. Once the three finger screenshot function is switched off, does this phone actually have a 10 point touch screen?

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

Not delivered yet :disappointed:

So how are you all liking this ?

maxmix

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

It was only £60 for first 500 preorders.

showing as £81.17 for me. anyone else got the same?

@ £60 if it sucks, we'll use it as a WIFI music player.

You know, standard bug fixes and optimisation. UMI sling out too many phones that sound excellent on paper and feel really good quality in your hand but they are really really poor internally.

The battery on the UMI Zero I had would drain after literally about 8 hours of non-use. Also more often than not it would just switch off randomly, they acknowledged it once and then forgot about it and started spamming out launch dates for their UMI Hammer...

What support are you after?

Don't waste your money on UMI products. They release about 6 new phones a year, and stop support for all them as soon as they launch. I had an UMI Zero which I bought in March, which was new back then. They since launched the following models: IRON, IRON Pro Hammer, Hammer S, eMax, eMax Mini, Fair.

DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY.

I paid £60 for mine

And from £67 to £80 in one day price gone up.

Please can some one help me why does it say link in active when you try to order. Itsnt not a gimmic is it my brother already ordered one for me.

Skfck

price may drop tomorrow as its black friday

Yes the price went up as the first 500 were discounted.

Price shows as £80.71 when I click the link

Almost managed to get the Umi Iron Pro for £90 (with pre sale discount) but without clear info if it'll actually have a gyroscope/compass...I gave it a miss.

@£60 this Umi is worth a shot in the dark.

First 500 preorders were $99 glad got one now £79

Gold

what colour's are buyers going for?

iphone 6 from the bottom

Technically I suppose yes but seeing as nobody else has complained least of all the OP of that thread and they haven't updated the price
also the general mess of the website with the 'picks' and 'black Friday' deals
best to just give people another heads up I would have thought

Depends on what you mean by replaced. My Oneplus One hasn't technically got a removable battery. But when the battery degrades a period of time you can always open the phone (lose warranty but the phone will be useless otherwise anyway) and replace the battery in some cases. Just need to watch a tear down video on youtube etc to see how easy if, possible it is to do.

Amen to this! Like stated, so many armchair warriors who see the words 'Chinese' and 'mobile' on here and steam in with the usual BS - ironically probably posted using their mainstream-branded, CHINESE MANUFACTURED, massively overpriced device of choice.

https://youtu.be/xR7xmDbwGE4

Hands on video of the phone doesn't look as nice as the pictures but still looks nice. Looks like htc from the front and s6 from the back and sides

​yes

​yes.

I don't like Mediatek CPUs, and I would prefer Full HD. But you can't argue with the price.

It says the battery is "Built IN". Does that mean it cant be replaced?

Just to let people know Chinese times for pre orders are usually off the mark. Add another month I would say to the date of postage add another 2 to 3 weeks before you get it in hand. You probably get the phone in hand after January mid to end of January I would say. At the moment they a promising postage from the 15 December this could be later, as well on top add Christmas postage mid to end January looks more and more likely may been even being of Feb

Could someone please tell me the pros and cons of getting a phone like this? Or provide links. Thanks. Whilst I'm in the market for a new phone and really want to go the windows 640 route I do keep being drawn back to the £100-200 Chinese brand phone. will only buy the limited on available from amazon or fulfilled

Amazing!

Too many armchair experts on here whenever a new phone is listed, "yeah but this, yeah but that" when I make a purchase I trust the reviews, or better still ask someone that has actually bought and used this or a similar model from the same brand. The spec for this phone for the cost is outstanding. I took the plunge and bought the recent Umi Iron from banggood, it took an age to arrive as it too was a pre order but it has proven to be a superb phone for the price I paid, it slaughters my old Htc One X in every field and cost me less than £100 delivered. The battery is great, performance superb, screen beautiful with bright colours, feel and build quality very good. Sound more than adequate, Wifi faultless, Cameras very nice but possibly not as good as first stated. To conclude, this handset is less than £70, no it doesn't do iTunes, and no it doesn't say Samsung on the front but its less than £70. nuf said.

My bad, it was another phone using same chip with only 2gb ram and 1080 screen, had slight lag while gaming/multitasking. 1 of nicest looking phones I've seen in awhile though. Battery capacity is pretty low though, won't hold much charge with the bright colours of lollipop os

that's the same phone I saw that struggled to multi task,game. Least it had a decent battery though

Same SoC as the Elephone P8000 which went to 2500 degrees http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/elephone-p8000-3-different-colours-3gb-ram-16gb-rom-64-octa-core-cpu-4150mah-fingerprint-2236845

Comes with a $7 soc. Can't see it being much good, will be very laggy at times I think. Unless ram management is decent, I saw a review of it on youtube

I presume Brooker88 meant another phone with a MTK6753 SoC.

Honestly people are insane to trust devices like this. I would not touch this piece of crap with a barge pole mainly for trusting the OS etc.

as I said in the previous thread, my Umi iron is great....battery lasts 3 or 4 times as long as my 6 month old HTC M9 so I got rid of it.
Only downside is that one or two apps don't download, I.e. PayPal, but all the other banking apps do.

haha people are still waiting for lollipop updates on umi emax. dont expect firmware up date support. umi are crap for firmware and bug patches. stick woth samsung/sony

Shouldn't that one be modified instead of making a new one?

yeh no probs.900 and 2100 3g bands

Will a Virgin SIM work with these phones ?

looks amazing for sixty quid.think il order one see what its like.think these phones are basically stock android.battery wont be brilliant but external charges are so cheap now i got a xiaomi one off banggood for 7 quid that will charge this phone three times

STOCK DUE DEC 15TH

You won't see this until mid January at the earliest. Its unlikely to actually get posted this year as they never make the release date and then take weeks to work through the back orders,
Only order if you are prepared for a looooong wait .

will hold o. till Friday

Can run plenty of exploits and hacks on this phone remember we are fsociety.

£60.56 just nabbed it for that price first time app used £10% off I had over 400 points shame it never let me use them too can't really go wrong for the price really 3gb ram.

Already posted

Apologies couldn't see the rest of them cheap phone with decent spec at that price it doesn't matter if you break it cheap enough to replace

It states at the bottom of the page its 2g gsm only

How does this compare to a galaxy S4? Will the 4g work in UK on all providers?

720p screen?

Pre-Order ?

6% TCB aswel - you do the maths