Ulefone Future was the company’s first bezel-less smartphone and it turned out to be a surprisingly decent smartphone. We have already reviewed the device and you can check that out from here.

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The official price tag of the Ulefone Future is $239.99 but during the next 7 days, Gearbest is going to offer the device for $209.99. This is a pretty good price if you are looking for a decent bezel-less phone.

The Ulefone Future comes with a CNC metal unibody design with a 5.5-inch 1080p bezel-less display. Inside, it features Helio P10 2GHz chip with 4GB RAM. At the back, the phone has a 16MP Samsung sensor while on the side, you have a fingerprint sensor. Earlier, the phone did have some supply issues but looks like that’s solved now.

Apart from the Future, the company’s Ulefone Metal is also up at a discounted price of $109.99. This includes freebies such as a tempered glass and a flip case. To recap, the Metal comes with a 5.5-inch 1080p display, and 32GB storage. Other phones up fro discount include Ulefone Vienna at $139.99 and Ulefone Power at $143.99.

You can check out the promotions for Ulefone devices on Gearbest from below.

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Ulefone may not be the first name you think of when it comes to smartphones but they have one interesting device, which is called the Future. Learn more in our full review.

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Ulefone Future Review: VIDEO REVIEW

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Ulefone Future Review: UNBOXING

The phone comes in a pretty nice box and the contents include all the usual items you would expect to come with any phone. Some extras include a fast charger, USB C to micro USB adapter and a high-quality TPU case.

Ulefone Future Review: SPECS

Ulefone Future Review: DESIGN and DISPLAY

The phone stands out from the crowd of affordable devices due to its bezel-less display. I have to tell you that it indeed looks great. However, the view on the very edges of the display is a little distorted to make that bezel-less look but I’m okay with that.

The 5.5” 1080p LCD panel itself is great. It is sharp and crisp, and color reproduction is good.

We have a 5MP selfie shooter along with the non-customisable multi-colour LED flash on the top and on-screen navigation buttons instead of capacitive ones.

Also, the phone sports a premium all-metal design with nano-injected antenna lines and great build quality. The buttons are nice and tactile and the phone feels very nice in the hand. We don’t see a side fingerprint scanner very often on budget phones but it is actually very convenient to reach. The scanner is not the fastest I’ve tested but it gets the job done.

As far as camera, we have a 16MP Samsung shooter coupled with a dual LED flash.

The loudspeaker is on the bottom and it sounds tinny as on most of budget phones.

You can put either 2 SIMs or 1 SIM and the microSD card in this hybrid slot. I love the supplied SIM ejector pin. You can just insert it in the headset jack and leave it there.

Ulefone Future Review: HARDWARE and PERFORMANCE

Ulefone Future has some pretty good specs. The phone ships with an octa-core Mediatek Helio P10 chip with the clock speeds of 2GHz, 4GB of RAM and 32GB of expandable storage. These are pretty good specs for the price of the phone to say the least.

The gaming performance is good if you play games on medium graphics. If you set graphics to maximum, you should expect quite a bit of stutter and some skipped frames.

Ulefone Future Review: BENCHMARKS

Ulefone Future Review: USER INTERFACE

We have a pretty standard Android 6.0 user interface. We don’t have any fancy features or customization options but most importantly, the device is fast and you should not expect any hiccups on the daily basis.

Ulefone Future Review: CAMERA

The daylight image quality is pretty good yet not always consistent. You can get some nice and detailed shots but camera may struggle with dynamic range in some situations.

The low-light camera performance is not so great but this is what you usually get with the phones in this price range, anyway.

The selfie camera is not very impressive but it will be enough for social media.

The 1080p video quality is pretty good for a budget phone. See a video review for a video sample.

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Ulefone Future Review: CONNECTIVITY

I didn’t have any connectivity issues with the phone as the signal reception was good and the call quality was decent. Also, the Wifi worked fine. GPS may take a little longer to get the position but it is pretty accurate.

Ulefone Future Review: BATTERY LIFE

The 3000mAh battery can be fully charged 1 hour and 30 mins thanks to the included fast charger.

The battery life is pretty good. I could get over 4 hours of screen-on time on a mixed use.

Ulefone Future Review: CONCLUSIONS

Ulefone Future is one of those devices that wants to stand out from the crowd and the company succeeded in quite a few ways.

The bezel-less display design indeed looks great, the phone sports some great specifications, all-metal construction is premium and the phone looks and feels more expensive than it costs.

Also, we have a decent camera for daylight images, a fingerprint sensor and a fast charge support.

On the other hand, it would have been nice to see a more powerful processor for 3D gaming and a little bit faster fingerprint scanner.

At the price of $240 Ulefone Future may not be the only device you have to look for in this price range but if you want a phone with unique looks, decent specs and good day-to-day performance, it may be worth checking out.

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Ulefone Future is finally up for pre-order and users from across the globe can order the device via a number of online retailers. Since the company has started accepting pre-orders, Ulefone decided to demonstrate the performance of the bezel-less display on the Ulefone Future.

The highlight of this device is the bezel-less 5.5-inch 1080p display, so it becomes important for the company to showcase the performance of the display in real life. We still haven’t got our hands on the Future, but here’s a video released by the company showing off the phone’s screen.

The company has reportedly spent a good amount of time adjusting the color tone of the screen for the optimum display experience. You might be seeing a tint of blue on the screen in the video, but Ulefone says that’s because of the poor lighting conditions in Shenzhen at the time of filming the video.

Bezel-less display also means a compact size. This is why despite its 5.5-inch display panel, the Ulefone Future is smaller than the iPhone 6S Plus, which makes it easier to operate with a single hand. The company has also informed us that they have managed to solve the problem of misoperations on the edge of the touch screen (which many fear) by the use of sophisticated algorithms. We will have to see the device in action to see how well the software works to avoid such a problem.

To recap, the Ulefone Future comes with Helio P10 octa-core chip clocked at 2GHz with 4GB of RAM, 32GB internal storage, 16MP Samsung camera and USB Type-C port. The phone is currently available for pre-sale at a price tag of $239.99 till May 25. To check out more details about the features of the device and pre-order link, visit the company’s official website.

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Ulefone Future recently went for sale via flash sale method for $199.99. The highlight feature of the phone is the bezel-less 5.5-inch display on board. However, the phone is known for yet another unique feature, its side mounted fingerprint sensor. Today, the company decided to demonstrate the performance of Future’s fingerprint sensor. The placement of the scanner is ideal for many, near the power button. So, it’s easy to reach out and unlock the device whenever you need. You can check out the video from down below.

So, Ulefone admits that the fingerprint sensor on the Future isn’t the fastest one in the market, mainly because of the small surface area available. Since the available area is small, the sensor takes slightly more time to recognize the user’s fingerprint as compared to rivals. But the company adds that this is the latest generation sensor in the market, which means it is highly responsive.

Now that the flash sale is officially over, the Ulefone Future is available for pre-sale via a number of retailers for $239.99. You get seven different accessories bundled with the phone at this price. You can check out more details of the pre-sale of the device from here.

To recap, the Ulefone Future comes with a 2GHz octa-core Helio P10 processor with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. There will be a 3000mAh battery on board which charges within an hour, with stock Android 6.0 experience. At the back, the phone features a 16MP Samsung S5K3P3 sensor with f/2.0 aperture, PDAF and dual tone LED flash. Up front, you get a 5MP selfie camera. Other features of the phone include USB Type-C, LTE etc.

You can read more about the phone from the company’s official website.

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If you have been keeping track of the Chinese smartphone market, you would know that Ulefone has announced the Ulefone Future bezel-less smartphone. The phone will be offered for sale for a price tag of $239.99, however, a limited number of lucky customers can get this device for even less, for an amazing price tag of $199.99.

Ulefone has informed us that there will be 2000 units available for purchase during the flash sale on May 4, i.e. Wednesday. The flash sale will start at GMT +8 17:00 and will continue till all the 2000 units are sold out. One tip, the company says that more number of units will be offered on Aliexpress during the flash sale than standalone websites, so you may have a better chance of bagging the phone from there.

Now, there is a good chance that you might not be able to get hold of one of the units of the Ulefone Future during the Flash sale on May 4. Even then, don’t be disappointed. The bezel-less device can still be yours for a slightly higher price tag of $239.99. For this price, you get some additional accessories, 7 in total, instead of just USB Type-C cable offered alongside the device during the flash sale on Wednesday.

As for the specs, the Ulefone Future comes with a 5.5-inch FHD bezel-less display, with a side mounted fingerprint sensor, Helio P10 chipset, 4GB RAM, 32GB of ROM, 16MP Samsung sensor, USB Type-C and a 3000mAh battery with 9V / 2V ~ 3A fast charging.

Pre-sale link:

http://ulefone.com/page-future-presale.html

Since this is a yet to be released device, Ulefone has also released a number of pictures of the Ulefone Future as well as videos for consumers to check out the device before purchase. You can see them all from down below.

New video:

Introducing the Ulefone Future:

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Smartphone manfuacturers seems to be obsessed about screen bezels. We have seen a few bezel-less smartphones from Chinese companies like Nubia, but now local smartphone makers like Ulefone are also invested in this technology. We have been hearing about the company’s first bezel-less smartphone, namely the Ulefone Future since MWC 2016, and now, the phone will finally go on pre-sale from May 4.

As a part of the initial promotion of the handset, the company will be offering the Ulefone Future for just $199.99, instead of the original price tag of $249.99. This is a good $70 discount from the earlier revealed price tag, making it quite an attractive option. However, this price is only for a limited number of units.

The company informs us that 2000 units of the Ulefone Future will be made available for sale on May 4 at 5PM (GMT +8) via 10 different partner stores of the company simultaneously. After the flash sale is over, the phone will be available for purchase for a slightly higher price tag of $239.99 until the pre-sale period is over i.e. May 25. This price includes the various accessories that the company will be providing along with your purchase, like 9V 2~3A fast charger, USB Type-C cable, USB Type-C to MicroUSB adapter, TPU case, screen protector, and dust plug. In case you are wondering, the orders placed during the flash sale at $199.99 will only come with the USB Type-C cable for accessories.

Coming to the specs of the phone, the Ulefone Future will come a bezel-less 5.5-inch display with the Helio P10 octa-core chip inside and 4GB of RAM. There will be 32GB of storage on board, a side mounted fingerprint scanner, 16MP Samsung S5K3P3 rear camera sensor with PDAF and dual tone LED flash and a 3000mAh battery with 9V 2A~3A fast charge. As for software, the phone runs on Android 6.0.

There will be two colors available to choose from, grey and golden.

Pre-sale link: http://ulefone.com/page-future-presale.html
Future page: http://ulefone.com/products/future/features.html

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We have been hearing a lot about the Ulefone Future smartphone, thanks to the numerous teasers and leaks about the phone. But if you thought that the Future was just a marketing strategy from the company, then you were wrong. Ulefone today announced the brand new Ulefone Future flagship and it’s everything that we expected it to be.

One of the highlights of the phone is going to be the bezel-less display on board, one of the first local Chinese companies to actually release such a device. This does set the phone apart from the numerous other offerings in the market available right now.

Apart from the amazing bezel-less screen, the phone also boasts of a side mounted fingerprint sensor. For many, this might just be the ideal position, located just beside the power button on the right. These two features make the Future an important flagship smartphone in the market right now. But the other specs are equally impressive.

Under the hood, the phone comes with the Helio P10 octa-core chip clocked at 2GHz. There will be 4GB of RAM on board and 32GB of internal storage. At the back, Ulefone Future sports a 16MP Samsung S5K3P3 sensor with PDAF and dual tone flash. As for the bezel-less display, it will be a 5.5-inch panel with 1080p resolution.

Ulefone reveals that the 3000mAh battery on board might be mediocre but it has made sure that the battery will charge quickly thanks to support for 9V/ 2A~3A charging. At this speed, the battery can reportedly charge up completely in just an hour. Other features of the device include Android 6.0, 4G LTE with Cat 6 support, gyro sensor for VR support and USB Type-C port.

Given the flagship status, the Ulefone Future comes with a body made out of a whole piece of magnesium alloy ingot by CNC cutting. The measurements of the phone are as follows: 151.5 x 73.5 x 8.6mm. It will weigh a good 185 grams.

The phone will go on sale for an undisclosed price tag from next week. There will be two colors namely gray and gold. You can read more about the phone from the official company website. Also, check out more pictures from below.

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Now that the Ulefone Vienna is officially announced and is up for pre-order via various retailers, our focus is turned towards the bezel-less offering from the company, namely the Ulefone Future. We have been hearing a lot about the device in the past few weeks, in fact we also saw the device in action at MWC 2016. Now, the company has revealed more details about the upcoming flagship.

First of all, the company reveals that there will be a high-end variant of the Ulefone Future that would come with the deca-core Helio X20 chipset. However, given that the chipset is not yet readily available, this particular version will be released later. Also, considering the high-end targeting, the phone will ship with 128GB of internal storage.

Other specs of the phone will be similar to the standard bezel-less edition. So, you can expect 4GB of RAM on board. The screen resolution will be bumped up to 2K. At the back, there should be a 20MP CMOS sensor. No other specs details were revealed at present.

Along with these two editions, there would be another Ulefone Future edition, which will feature less powerful specs. The phone will abandon the bezel-less display, in favor of a regular screen but with narrow bezels. Inside, you can expect the same Helio P10 processor along with 4GB RAM. However, the camera sensor will be less powerful and the storage on board will be reduced as well. With this version, the company is looking to target the affordable smartphone segment, as it will retail for a cheaper price tag than the standard and high-end editions.

Now, coming to the standard edition, Ulefone Future will come with a 1080p 5.5-inch bezel-less display, with a 16MP rear Samsung camera, side mounted fingerprint sensor, Helio P10 octa-core chip and 4GB of RAM.

The company has confirmed that the standard edition will launch in April. The date is not yet fixed, but stay tuned for more details. You can check out the company’s official website from here.

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Ulefone is all set to release its bezel-less flagship, namely the Ulefone Future in April. The company has been revealing a few details about the phone in the weeks to the launch. Today, the company informs us that the Ulefone Future will come with virtual keys instead of traditional capacitive ones.

The company is reportedly going with on-screen buttons because it will help it reduce the portion below the display. In a video released recently Ulefone has shows us how to enable or customize the navigation buttons on the device.

There are four different options for the user, with optimizations for both left handed and right handed users. You also get a special toggle button to bring down the notifications. Further, you can even hide the bar from the display.

You can check out more details about the navigation bar from the video below.

Coming to the specs of the Future, it will feature a bezel-less display measuring 5.5-inches with FHD 1080p resolution. The phone will reportedly feature Helio P10 processor clocked at 2GHz with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. The initial AnTuTu scores revealed by the company of the Future was just average, scoring just above 51,000 points. However, it was a prototype model and we can expect the score to increase to some extent in the retail version.

The phone will come with Android 6.0 out of the box along with a CyanogenMod ROM. Expect the Ulefone Future to be unveiled in April. Stay tuned for more details in the coming days.

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Bezel-less display seems to be the new obsession among low cost Chinese manufacturers. Elephone has a couple of bezelless phones in the works, UMi has one and even Ulefone has its soon to be announced Ulefone Future smartphone. The specs of the phone have already been revealed and with Helio P10 octa-core chip under the hood and 4GB of RAM, we can expect the performance to be quite satisfactory.

Now, the guys over at Ulefone have decided to release the AnTuTu benchmark score of the Ulefone Future, and they are quite ordinary. In the benchmarking app, the phone managed to score just over 51,000 which is not very high according to today’s standard. But it’s pretty decent for your everyday needs.

One thing to note here is that the score was posted by a prototype model with 3GB of RAM on board. But the retail version will come with 4GB of RAM, hence we can expect the final scores to be a bit higher than this figure.

As for the specs on the final model, the Ulefone Future will reportedly come with Helio P10 MT6755 octa-core processor clocked at 2GHz with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. In comparison, last year’s MT6752’s eight cores were clocked at 1.7GHz and the Mali-T760 GPU was much slower. There will be a fingerprint sensor located on the side of the phone and it is said the phone lacks physical volume buttons as it will be touch based. As for the bezel-less display, you can expect a 5.5-inch panel with 1080p resolution.

While we were not sure whether the Future will meet us in April, the company has assured once again that the release will be next month. So, we better wait and watch whether the company manages to honor the promised release time frame.

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Although Ulefone had announced its Ulefone Future bezel-less smartphone a few weeks back, the phone is not yet available for purchase. Considering the complicated design of incorporating a bezel-less display on a smartphone, we guess it would take still a few weeks for the device to hit the markets.

However, to keep their fans busy, Ulefone has just revealed the CNC Unibody of the Ulefone Future. The company reveals that the Future will have a metal unibody with a single piece making the back cover and frame.

RELATED: Ulefone Future Hands-on

To further explain the manufacturing process, the company reveals that the phone is made from a whole block of aluminum titanium-alloy ingot and is subjected to CNC cutting machine. This helps the phone get its premium look and at the same time, reduces the thickness and the weight of the device to a bare minimum.

The lines that you see on the top and the bottom at the back are for the antenna. The company uses nano injection moulding to make sure that the plastic for the antennas are evenly filled into the grooves of the metal body. From the overall design of the back, it looks like the company is going for a design like the iPhone series for its Ulefone Future.

To recap, the Ulefone Future will come with a 2GHz Helio P10 octa-core chipset with 4GB RAM and a 2.5D display. There will be a side-mounted fingerprint scanner and Samsung’s 16MP camera sensor at the back. The phone will also feature gyroscope which the company claims will support VR functions.

The company is yet to reveal an exact release date or price of the Ulefone Future. But you can expect the release sometime in April this year. Stay tuned for more details.

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Ulefone has been in the market for the past couple of years and in this time, we have seen some value for money devices from the company. Recently, Ulefone teased its latest flagship in the market, namely the Ulefone Future, which claimed to come with a bezel-less design. Given that a small time Chinese company is making such a big claim, we all were a bit skeptical whether the final product would be anywhere close to bezel-less. Now, after visiting their booth at MWC 2016, it looks like, yes, the Ulefone Future is indeed bezel-less.

The company seems to have kept the design quite simple on the Ulefone Future. The phone is indeed bezel-less with zero visible borders. This makes the display stand out pretty well and therefore, the front looks good. All the buttons are located on the right side of the phone. So, you have the volume keys as well as the power button on that side. You even get a side mounted fingerprint sensor on the same side, which is placed perfectly for your thumb. On the left side, you have the SIM card slots.

Coming to the back, it’s pretty plain. This is the company’s first unibody metal smartphone, and it has decided to keep things simple. You don’t even find a Ulefone branding at the back, but that’s because this is not the final commercial unit. The 16MP camera and the dual LED dual tone flash lies on the top left corner at the back. Finally, coming to the bottom, you can see dual speaker slots, but we are still not sure whether thy are just there for a symmetric design or if there are indeed two speakers on board. In between, you will find the USB Type-C port.

The company is marketing the Ulefone Future as a powerful flagship. It features the Helio P10 MT6755 chipset inside with 4GB RAM and 32GB of storage. The phone will be running on Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS right out fo the box.

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Here’re the Ulefone Future specs Summary:

• 5.5-inch 2.5D Bezel-less display with 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution
• Helio P10 (MT6755) True Octa-Core CPU @2.0GHz
• Mali-T860 MP2 GPU
• 4GB LPDDR3 RAM
• 32GB Internal Storage
• 16MP Rear camera with dual-LED (dual tone) flash
• 8MP Front Camera
• 3000mAh battery
• Side Mounted Fingerprint sensor
• USB Type-C
• Android 6.0 Marshmallow Version

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Though Ulefone Power is well sold now, it will not guarantee Ulefone a bright prospect in 2016, because the flagship that leads the fleet must be something new. For the moment, Ulefone Future seems to be the very device the company needs for the future.

Ulefone Future will be more inspiring than anything Ulefone has created. It has a face without bezel between display and the left/right edges, so it will be slimmer than most 5.5-inch devices such as iPhone 6 Plus. You can’t find a volume rocker on its frame because there will be an invisible volume rocker for touch. Its fingerprint scanner will neither sits on the front side nor on the rear, because it will be located on the right edge. The Future will be Ulefone’s first metal uni-body device. And it will come with both Android 6.0 and CyanogenMod.

Inside, there will be MTK6755 2GHz octa-core 64-bit chipset, 4GB RAM, and 32GB storage. Definitely, it will be Ulefone’s flagship device in 2016.

We can see from the official video that UlefoneH has actually been making the bezel-less phone and since Ulefone need to reserve some marketing energy in the beginning of the year, the launch of new flagship may not be far away.

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