Ulefone Metal Review – A 5-inch Metallic 3GB Octa-core smartphone

The Ulefone Metal is a product of Ulefone’s effort to capture the budget smartphone category of the market. Smartphone making companies have various approaches, while some focus on the high end segment of the market like Vivo, OnePus and Others. Others tend to balance it out with phones ranging from the low-end, mid range to the high end smartphones. However, there are smartphone OEMs majorly Chinese that tries to make an affordable device with acceptable features.

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It is important for budget smartphone to feature attractive specs that somehow makes the price worth paying for. The Ulephone smartphone has a a full metal build alongside 4G LTE connectivity and a fingerprint sensor. So let have a look at this device and see if it is actually worth to be called a budget smartphone.

DESIGN AND DISPLAY

As its name suggest the Ulefone Metal is completely made of aluminium alloy with nicely curved edges. Using CNC technology, the smartphone has a nice attractive polished design.It does not only look good, it feels good as well with a grit blasting that gives the device a premium feel.The front of device has the standard arrangement of proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, microphone and an additional LED light notification.  The smartphone is available in three colours, so you get to choose from the black, silver and grey variant.

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Also, there are no offscreen capacitive buttons with all the buttons located on screen. The speaker grill is located at the back which is loud with a disrupted quality. Aside the looks and feel, the Ulefone has a dimension of 143 x 71 x 9.35 mm and weighs 155g which is understandable considering the full metal build. A 5-inch 1280 x 720 pixel display is what you get with the Ulephone Metal with a 2.5D Arc screen. The screen has a pixel density of 290 ppi and a Corning Gorilla Glass 3.

CPU, OS AND STORAGE

Now moving to what’s on the inside, the Ulefone Metal is powered by a MediaTek MT6753 octacore processor that clocks at 1.3GHz. The 64 bit processor is combined with an ARM Mali T720 GPU for handling you games and software graphics. The above combination of hardware is enough to give an okay performance, however no stellar performance should not be expected here.

The Ulephone Metals has an internal memory of about 3GB and a 16GB which is expandable up to 128GB using a TF card in place of the micro sim.An Android 6.0 is what comes pre-installed in the Ulefone Metal along with the custom made UI.

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BATTERY AND CAMERA

The smartphone is equipped with a lithium ion polymer non removable battery that has a capacity of 3050 mAh which gives you about a day and some hours of use. The rear houses an 8MP camera which can be interpolated to 13MP capable of taking 1080p videos. Howevr the fron has a 2MP camera which can also be interpolated to 5MP for nice selfies.

Ulefone Metal Full Technical Specifications

General

Device Type Smartphone
Model Ulefone Metal
Announced July, 2016
Released Yes
Status Available

Network

2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2
3G Network HSDPA 800/ 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
4G Network 1700/2100, 1800, 1900, 2100, 2300, 2500, 2600, 700, 800,850, 900 MHz
SIM Type Nano + Micro SIM
SIM Count Dual SIM

Data

2G GPRS Up to 32 to 48 kbps; EDGE – up to 236.8 kbps
3G Up to 42.2 Mbps (HSDPA), 5.76 Mbps;(HSUPA)
4G Up to 150 Mbps
Speed HSPDA+ 42.2 Mbps
Web Browser Yes, HTML5

Design

Type Smartphone
Dimensions 143 x 71 x 9.35 mm
Weight 155g
Protection Metallic material
Colours Black, Silver, Space Grey

Display

Display Type IPS LCD touchscreen
Size 5.0 inches
Resolution 1280 x 720 pixels
Colors 16M colors
Pixel Density ~294  ppi pixel density
Touch Screen Yes
Protection Gorilla Glass 3
Features n/a
Secondary Display n/a

Camera

Primary 8MP
Image Yes
Video 1080p@30fps Video
Features HDR, Continuous shooting, Digital image stabilization, Exposure compensation, Face detection, Macro mode, Scene mode, Self timer autofocus, Geo-tagging, IOS, panorama camera with LED flash
Flash Yes, LED flash
Secondary  2MP

Software

Operating System Android OS, v6.0 (Marshmallow)
User Interface
Java Support Yes
Skype Yes
Whatsapp Yes
Facebook Yes
Youtube Yes

Hardware

Chipset MediaTek MT6753
CPU Octa-core
GPU Arm Mali-T720
RAM (Memory) 3 GB RAM
Internal Storage 16 GB
Card Slot Expandable up to 128 GB
Sensors Fingerprint (front-mounted), accelerometer, proximity, barometer, gyroscope compass
Controls TouchPad, Lock Button, and Volume Key

Connectivity

Bluetooth Yes, Bluetooth v4.0, A2DP, LE
Infrared n/a
Wi-Fi Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct,
Wi-fi Hotspot Yes
USB Type Yes, microUSB v2.0
GPS Yes, with A-GPS
NFC Yes
HDMI n/a
Wireless Charging n/a

Battery

Battery Type Li-Ion Battery
Capacity 3050 mAh Battery
Placement Non-removable
Standby
Talk Time
Music Play

Messaging

SMS Yes (threaded view)
MMS Yes
Email Yes, IMAP4, POP3, SMTP
IM Yes & BBM

Media

Audio Playback Yes, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, MIDI, WAV, AC3, FLAC
Video Playback Yes, 3GP, Mp4, MPEG4, H.263, H.264 player
Video Out n/a
FM Radio Yes, Stereo FM radio with RDS
Alert Types Vibration, Ringtones
Ring Tones MP3, WAV
Loudspeaker Yes
Handsfree Yes, 3.5mm Jack

Other Features

– MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FlAC player
– Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
– DivX/Xvid/MP4/H.265 player
– Photo/video editor
– Document viewer
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