12857 Overview UMIDIGI C Note: state employees with flagship design

Overview UMIDIGI C Note: state employees with flagship design



In the market of budget smartphones huge competition. It is not surprising that manufacturers are trying to attract buyers at any price. An example of this device UMIDIGI C Note, which blurs the difference in design between budget devices and flagships. New looks, equipped with a good hardware, powerful battery 3800 mAh battery and the latest version of Android. Of course, the list of “Goodies” doesn’t end here, and all this in the review.

Specifications UMIDIGI C Note

  • Screen: 5,5″, 1920×1080 (401 ppi), matrix IGZO from Sharp glass 2.5 D
  • CPU: Quad-core (Cortex-A53) MediaTek MT6737T to 1.5 GHz, 64 bit
  • Graphics accelerator: Mali-T720MP2, 600 MHz
  • Operating system: Android 7.0 Nougat
  • RAM: 3 GB
  • Built-in memory: 32 GB
  • Memory card support: microSD up to 256 GB
  • Network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz || WCDMA 850/900(B8)/1900/2100(B1) || FDD-LTE 1, 3, 7, 20)
  • SIM: nano-SIM + nano-SIM (combo slot)
  • Interfaces: Bluetooth 4.1, 3.5 mm headphone Jack, dual band
  • Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n; 2.4/5 GHz), micro-USB, FM radio
  • Navigation: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Beidou
  • Main camera: 13 MP, Samsung S5K3L8 sensor, dual LED-flash
  • Front camera: 5 MP, sensor GC5005
  • Sensors: light, proximity, accelerometer, compass, Touch ID dactyloscopy 2.1
  • Battery: 3800 mAh, non-removable
  • Dimensions: 154,7×76,6×8,3 mm
  • Weight: 172 grams

Packaging equipment

The smartphone comes in a nice cardboard box, which lists all of its specifications. Inside you can find the micro-USB cable red, power adapter (5V, 1A), the envelope with the “clip” and documentation. The manufacturer has not stinted and put in a set of simple silicone case and protective film — useful things.

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Appearance

The case of the smartphone, including most of the rear panel, and a perimeter frame made of aluminum. Plastic made only symmetrical inserts in the upper and lower parts of the cover. Depending on the modification, the color of the back panel can be silver or gold.

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The front side closes a 2.5 D glass, and with the screen off the border between the screen and the body is practically not noticeable, because that creates the impression of bezremontnoy.

Above the screen are indicator of missed events, various sensors and front camera.

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Below the screen are three touch keys. Central located in the recess, one inscribed good working fingerprint scanner. The button itself and touch to unlock the phone or return to the home screen, simply touch it. The side buttons are not highlighted and generally not marked. To understand that you’ve found them, you can light vibration when pressed. And for those who love the keys, in the settings there is an option to activate them.

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At the upper end of the unit has a 3.5 mm audio Jack and the bottom a micro-USB port, speaker and main microphone.

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On the right side you can find volume rocker and the power button. On the left — which have become standard hybrid two slots for nano-SIM, one of which can be sacrificed to install the memory card.

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The back cover is made from aircraft aluminum 6000 series. At the top is a small panel that protrudes about a millimeter, which houses the camera and led flash.

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The overall impression of the gadget — a nice solid appearance, combined with good materials and quality manufacturing.

 

Ergonomics

Frame around the screen is relatively small, therefore, the smartphone, despite the very solid screen, nice in the hand and does not cut into your hand. But for owners of owner of medium size he is, like most other 5.5-inch devices, a little too large to comfortably handle him with one hand.

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To software features that increase the usability of the apparatus can include a customized navigation bar. The user is given the opportunity to choose which side to be on-screen “Back” button and a “application Manager”.

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Screen

UMIDIGI C Note features a 5.5-inch Sharp IGZO matrix with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels.

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The glass that covers the display, made by technology 2.5 D — in other words, the edges of it slightly curved. Functional difference with a normal screen, and visually, the smartphone wins. Glass is coated with an oleophobic layer is quite high quality: the finger glides over the surface of the prints on display. As for viewing angles: when tilting the picture slightly changes color, but remains readable.

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Brightness is not a record — it is sufficient to use the device in the sun. In the smartphone implemented adaptive brightness control, which adjusts the backlight level under changes in ambient lighting. And those who for some reason do not like the standard profile display, can adjust the color temperature to your liking.

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Display understands up to five simultaneous keystrokes, respond correctly, accurately.

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Interface

UMIDIGI C Note running Android 7.0 Nougat. The manufacturer did not interfere in the system — inside no extra software. But useful add-ins very much. However, not all of them are translated into Russian language.

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For example, among the list of the familiar options there is a point Indicator Light, which you can customize the color of the LEDs for different types of notifications.

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Another point, DuraSpeed, allows you to configure permissions to run applications in the background. Removing all unnecessary applications from startup, you can significantly save battery power.

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In the dialer there is Cyrillic — it is needed for a quick search on the phonebook via T9. SMS app and keyboard standard.

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The machine at work

The smartphone has the Mediatek MT6737T, which contains four cores ARM Cortex-A53 with a clock frequency of 1.5 GHz and a graphics accelerator ARM Mali-T720 MP2. The RAM is 3 GB and the internal is 32 GB.

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The filling is not the most powerful, but for a budget device it’s one of the best options. This processor consumes economically the battery, not heated, and its power is more than enough to provide the basic needs of the user. The results in the benchmark AnTuTu, 3DMark and GeekBench Sling Shot you can see in the screenshots below.

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3 “gig” of RAM is lacking in abundance: no hang-UPS go from the game in Instagram, check email and come back. During the tests, the lag and freezes have not been fixed, very fast to load the menu and open the folder.

Undemanding user built-in 32GB ROM is enough to store photos, videos, applications Suite, which includes a couple of games (albeit at a very very “heavy” games don’t count — the CPU will only go up to something simpler). If you want to download to the device memory series — there’s a microSD slot that supports cards up to 256 GB.

UMIDIGI C NoteA tough game Godfire: Rise of Prometheus, you can swing your sword and beat your shield with small snubs. Graphics settings in this case at a minimum. UMIDIGI C NoteWorld of Tanks Blitz you can destroy the enemy tanks (or be destroyed by them) with a completely smooth picture at 30-40 fps on minimum settings.

UMIDIGI C NoteWith easy Doodle Jump DC Super Heroes machine coped easily. UMIDIGI C NoteCPU power enough that the game Lara Croft Relic Run you can comfortably run for the treasure.

No slow downs or interface freezes while switching between apps was not seen. A big role in this play and Android 7.0 — the OS itself is running noticeably faster than the last. Of course, compared to the flagship performance C Note is not ideal, but for a budget device — the device simply flies.

Playing videos in Full HD resolution actions are perfectly done. The speaker is loud enough to not miss a call or watch a movie without headphones. Yes, and they also can, because the volume is quite high, and the sound quality is above average. There is bass, but with EQ you can still Tinker with the sound.

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Camera

In UMIDIGI C Note, a simple 13 megapixel camera from Samsung. Pictures fully correspond to the expectations, if we take into account the cost of the device.

The camera app is simple, with a minimal number of settings and modes. Swipe to the right brings up a menu of camera. It is possible to choose modes such as HDR, Panorama, a “Professional camera” and automatic detection of the plot.

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On a Sunny day, the pictures often turn out decent. There were moments when the pictures come out fuzzy. A similar situation is observed in areas with good light the pictures are bright and clear, and if not lubricated and noisy.

The fee for shooting in the dark standard is a noticeable noise. But their number can be reduced if the switch in manual mode and independently set the ISO value and shutter speed.

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HDR makes the picture slightly better, but when shooting in this mode, the machine thinks for a few seconds. Shooting with HDR mode enabled and without it:

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The text remains readable in all conditions:

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Panorama is glued together in a large enough resolution:

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Megapixel front facing camera takes good pictures in any time of the day. It is suitable for “cebasek”, and for video calls.

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The video quality no complaints, for a budget machine videos in Full HD resolution out pretty well. Below is an example of day filming taken.

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Wireless interfaces

The smartphone supports all LTE bands, wifi 5 GHz and Bluetooth version 4.1. Quality of the gadget there are no problems, and the possible speed of the Internet connection shown in the screenshot:

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As for navigation, the gadget supports GPS and GLONASS systems, and quickly identifies the coordinates, even indoors. Cold start of the navigation device takes only fifteen seconds, and the “hot” — less than five.

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Unfortunately, the C Note was not supported by NFC, and then use Android Pay to make purchases will not work.

 

Work offline

In UMIDIGI C Note has a removable battery capacity of 3800 mAh. In normal usage scenarios the charge lasts for half a day or two. This includes reading social networking, chat messengers, web surfing (about two hours use of the Internet as a whole), 30 minutes of voice calls, shooting a couple dozen photos and several videos.

In practice, the result is that over hour of the game at half brightness and enabled Wi-Fi spent about 20% of the battery. And videos in Full HD resolution on maximum brightness in Flight mode, the smartphone is able to twist a little more than six hours.

By the way, in system settings there is a power saving feature that allows you to adjust the balance between performance and battery life.

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For charging and syncing with a PC using a micro-USB connector. From 0 to 100% the unit is charging almost four hours. The wine for this sluggishness lies in complete odnomernom power adapter.

 

The results

UMIDIGI C Note does not disappoint — it is beautifully made and looks great, will please its owner a good battery life and sufficient for everyday needs level of performance. In addition, he has a surprisingly good display and the latest version of Android on Board. For its price, the device looks a tempting offer, which will suit those who do not like to overpay for the brand.

 

Pros:

  • excellent build quality;
  • bright display;
  • a large amount of built-in memory;
  • Android 7.0;
  • a decent battery life.

Cons:

  • no NFC;
  • hybrid card slot;
  • weak processor.

Lyricist: Daniil Bazdyrev

Picture device: Daria Nesterovskaya

Source: 4pda.ru

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