[Device Reviews and Information] l1ghtmare:
Yeah to be fair, I ran Geekbench 3 and midway through switched off location services, WiFi and sim cards and it lasted longer. I did have bluetooth on though listening to Poweramp so next time I'll have it on flight mode thanks.

Thanks for the response on how Geekbench3 works. I'm not entirely sure I still understand it, but when I try to get the results anyway it won't show them to me. This is a user complaint on Google Play so unfortunately I cannot give end of test scores but only look on the screen to see how long it lasts. nearly six hours for me, but as I said I had multiple services on. Antutu though says the battery is only AVERAGE 50% better than other phones which is a concern I'm sure you'll agree as you'd think such a large capacity would be at least 60-70% better and at least above average to very good?? The performance Antutu states as superior 90% better if anyone's interested and gaming I think as very good but I will check again when the phone has finished charging.

So if anyone's interested what I will do is this:

Test the phone with Geekbench 3 from full charge on flight mode.

Run PC Mark for Android on the phone as well as their own battery test software.

Go from 100% using the phone like umi do on their promotion on their official site (I'm too junior a member to yet posts links but I'm sure your 'Google-Fu' is strong) for this I will have some services on as I will need to play games and use the internet as well as GPS for 20 minutes etc.

I'll stick my PC Technician hat on and make copious notes on all of the above but if there's anything any fence sitters among you want me to download and test please let me know on here or PM me or whatever.

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My first impressions of this phone battery issue aside is:

Very good camera (even though front says 4 mp and back says 9.4mp :S )

Very fast phone and scrolling speed and general usage very fast. Quicker than my THL T11 (but that has an older cpu)

Games play very well on it. I downloaded one of those rubbish fps games (my opinion) from Gameloft and it looks

amazing and very smooth. No problems there.

The camera has some weird numbers but the quality of picture is still better than my old Thl T11.

WiFi speed is fine, no problems there.

I've not tested the GPS yet.

Call quality is fine.

Video record quality is excellent very smooth and quite accurate without much lag between movement and onscreen action.

Video playback quality is also excellent with the FHD screen working well and the colour balance great.

Technical issues.

The phone has gone dark for me with the colours fading to a weird golden colour twice now. This may have happened because it was on top of a set of screwdrivers that my friend thought may have been magnetic but I'm not sure. The second time was when the phone was hot because of WiFi downloads and then was on my chest as well. So heat may be a big problem for the phone as well as inadequate cooling. However this would possible be a problem with the SoC if it runs too hot in other phones.

No other technical issues so far.

My phone was well packaged when it arrived with no deformation of the umi box which was wrapped in bubble wrap and then in a bigger box, so I don't think shipping and handling (outside of the factory anyway) was an issue.

I'll try and include as much information as possible as I have been frustrated to try and find real world info on this phone and just come up with a wall of Propaganda and marketing hype. I'm not a professional though, just an amateur doing his best.