Thursday, July 16, 2015
The Chinese smartphone manufacturer UMI is about to launch an upgrade to the UMI Hammer smartphone. The smartphone is named UMI Hammer S. UMI has been teasing the features of the phone on social networking sites. The latest tease confirms the presence of the USB connector Type-C. The manufacturer has also revealed that the device will be powered by a MediaTek-made MT6735 SoC coupled with 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal memory. The handset will be equipped with a touch-type fingerprint scanner at the back.The other specifications have not been revealed at present. The most important is that the price will be kept the same as UMI Hammer $139.99
The original UMI Hammer S features a 5-inch HD (720×1280 pixels) IPS display with dual glass and also features Corning Gorilla Glass for screen protection. It is powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core MediaTek (MT6732) processor coupled with 2GB of RAM and Mali-T760 GPU. The Umi Hammer comes with 16GB of inbuilt storage, which is further expandable via microSD card (up to 64GB).
The smartphone comes with an aviation alloy frame with a thickness of 4.3mm. The rear panel of the Umi Hammer features soft-textured polycarbonate material. The listing claims that the handset supports 4G LTE; though it doesn’t support India’s primary 4G LTE band (TDD-LTE 2300 MHz). The dual-SIM based Umi Hammer runs Android 4.4 KitKat out-of-the-box.
It sports a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and 3.2-megapixel front-facing camera. On the connectivity front, the Umi Hammer smartphone offers 3G, GPRS/ EDGE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Micro-USB, and Bluetooth options. The smartphone packs a 2250mAh battery and is listed in Black and White colours. It measures 144×71.6×7.9mm and weighs 168 grams. It packs an accelerometer, ambient light sensor, magnetometer, and proximity sensor.
