Following the recent retirement of the UMi brand for UMiDigi (UMi Digital), the Chinese company has announced a new smartphone – the UMiDigi C Note. The phablet device has the same refined design as the UMi Z, boots Android 7.0 Nougat OS out-of-the-box and is priced less than $150.
Sporting a 8.3mm thick, full metal unibody design; the UMiDigi C Note sports a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD SHARP IGZO display with 2.5D Arc Screen, Dual SIM slots (Nano + Nano/microSD) and is backed by a 3800mAh Sony battery, which promises up to two days or more of mixed usage and 15 – 18 days of standby time.
Photography is handled by a rear facing 13MP SAMSUNG S5K3L8 camera with PDAF and Dual-LED flash alongside a front facing 5MP camera for selfies. The Professional Camera Mode allows the user take what the company calls DSLR-like photos.
On the inside, the device is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6737T Cortex-A53 processor clocked at 1.5GHz paired with ARM Mali-T720 MP2 GPU, 3GB RAM and 32GB built-in storage (expandable up to 256GB via microSD). The Touch ID (01 – 0.3s unlock time) rests in the front home button.
The UMiDigi C Note supports 4G LTE (Cat. 4) – B1/B3/B7/B20 as well as Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1 and GPS. Sensor options include – G-Sensor, P-Sensor, L-Sensor, Accelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope, GLONASS, and Hall switch. It is priced at $149.99 but currently available for $139.99.
