Overview UMIDIGI S2 - stylish smartphone battery to 5100 mAh

The design of mobile gadgets this year finally have something new. Smartphone screens stretched in length, and upper and lower frame much thinner. fashion pioneers in the proportion of 18: 9 became the flagship of Samsung and LG, and pulled the rest of them. Today we introduce you to UMIDIGI S2 - one of the most exciting smartphones of this kind.

Specifications

UMIDIGI S2 attracts at first glance its impressive appearance. However, performance analysis assures that the iron is good.

Platform MediaTek Helio P20 is not new, but copes with all the necessary tasks. Eight cores can run at up to 2.3GHz, providing excellent performance, even in resource-intensive applications. Particular attention is paid to the creation of this chipset energy efficiency, which is paired with a battery of 5100 mAh led to an impressive autonomy.

The smartphone has 4 GB of RAM, which is now even more luxury than necessity. Nothing, but there is a good foundation for the future. Internal Memory - 64 GB, so that the storage of data is also no problem will arise.

In general, iron fillings smartphone leaves a good impression, which is confirmed by tests (results below).

Packaging and appearance

The smartphone has come to us in a small box of black cardboard. Its design looks gloomy and depressing, does not corresponding to the premium status of the device. In addition to an unfortunate choice of materials UMIDIGI designers a bit too clever by half with the design of the package, put away the smartphone in most of its mineral wealth.

However, it should take the phone in hand, the whole suspicion that arose because of the obscure packaging, disappears. Since the first touch is clear that over the appearance UMIDIGI S2 worked very well.

The device obtained solid metal body of a light alloy with plastic inserts antennas. On the back of the eyes are located in the main camera, flash and a fingerprint scanner, elongated in one line. Scanner location is very good: the index finger falls on it practically error-free.

The ratio of the display side is 18: 9, the corners have a slight rounding. The space above and below the screen is much narrower than that of conventional smartphones, so looks UMIDIGI S2 fresh and unusual. Well, almost like Samsung S8, if, of course, ignore the thin frame on each side.

Right UMIDIGI S2 brink allocated to accommodate the volume rocker and the power button. Buttons tightly seated, press clear. A tray for mounting SIM cards, one of which may be replaced by a memory card, located on the opposite face.

At the lower end of the device has a microphone, a speaker and an audio jack for connecting USB Type-C cable. Separate headphone jack absent, so the upper bound of the smartphone completely empty.

Due to the elongated shape of the phone is great in the hand. And if we put on a complete cover, having a little rough coating, the use of UMIDIGI S2 starts right experience physical pleasure.

Display and Audio

In UMIDIGI S2 set quality Sharp screen production. It has a size of 6 inches and a resolution of 1440 × 720 pixels. At this point, many fans of Full HD can begin to wrinkle your nose - absolutely nothing. No grainy or pixels in reality is not visible. Excellent a clear picture.

Screen promoted by TDDI technology. The touch layer is here directly on the glass, thus significantly reducing the thickness of the display. Color and contrast are excellent images, correct white balance, brightness levels of comfort. If you want to set these parameters to your liking, then your settings MiraVision services.

Loud speaker smartphone loud, so call or notice certainly not go unnoticed. Even the music is quite tolerable. As the background music for the yard gatherings quite descend.

But playing in the headphones a little disappointed. The sound picture is poor and concise, and the level of the maximum volume could have done more.

Performance

UMIDIGI S2 is based on Helio P20 chipset, which is used in many smartphones midrange.

CPU performance is enough for a quick start and smooth functioning of virtually all applications. In the operating system does not appear to be any slowdown or deadlocks. A large amount of RAM allows you to quickly switch between running programs, no matter how much they may be.

For people who understand a lot about numbers, the most persuasive argument will be the results of tests. For everyone else, to sum up: UMIDIGI S2 is not experiencing any performance problems, except for the complex three-dimensional games to play that will be possible only on medium settings graphics.

autonomy

Smartphones with large batteries are usually thick and not very nice. UMIDIGI S2 breaks this tradition. Engineers could fit battery capacity of 5100 mAh in body thickness less than 9 mm. It turned out a successful combination of design and premium toppings LP.

In the test, PCMark Work 2.0 Battery Life smartphone could hold 15 hours 42 minutes, which is a great result. For comparison, the long-playing Xiaomi Mi Max, which costs almost twice as much, shows in this test about the same result.

This means that owners of UMIDIGI S2 can recharge your smartphone once in two days. And if the arm different energy-saving adviceIt is possible to stretch the time up to three days.

Camera

Chinese smartphone cameras lower and middle price ranges look good on paper, but in real life shoot poorly. Sometimes blame cheap matrix, but more often - clumsy software.

This fully applies to UMIDIGI S2. Despite the relatively high-quality primary camera module, it takes mediocre. Under ideal conditions of a smartphone you can still squeeze out a couple of decent photos. But if it is nearing the evening you can on him did not even count.

About the work of the second module and the blur effect to say nothing at all. They are intended solely to enhance the marketing appeal of the device and no practical value have not.

Software

Powered UMIDIGI S2 running Android 6.0.1 operating system. After some time in the sale should go party smartphones with proprietary shell UMI OS, based on Android 7.0 Nougat.

Stock image of the operating system has remained almost unchanged except for the appearance of a few additional items in the settings. We are talking about automatic switching between power consumption profiles, the navigation options of the display panel and the bottom embedded cleaners RAM.

In general, the operating system does not raise any problems. During the testing time was not observed any errors, failures or spontaneous reboots. I am glad that the smartphone is completely free of any sponsor or advertising tools.

results

In early testing, we thought UMIDIGI S2 - it is almost the perfect smartphone. It has bright, attractive design, high-quality large screen, durable metal casing, which is easy to handle. The list of advantages of this gadget also including excellent autonomy, decent performance and competitive price.

In fact, in this model is only one drawback - it's a camera. And the problem is, we believe, lies precisely in the software, rather than in the matrix used. So there is hope that one of the updates to take the smartphone still teach.

Price UMIDIGI S2 at the time of writing is 11 013 rubles. If you're willing to put up with the quality of the photos, it can be ordered.

The author expresses his gratitude to the company Umidigi for providing the test device.