Thanks to Coolicool for sending Umi Fair for a review

What we have in the packaging are the UBS cable and a power plug.

Umi Fair Review: DESIGN

When it comes to the design, we are looking at a fairly compact phone due to its 5” display.

Umi Fair is lightweight and sits comfortably in the hand due rounded corners and a soft somewhat baby skin finish on the back.

On the front we have a 2MP shooter, earpiece and a sensor light. This time around, Umi chose to implement on-screen navigation buttons.

The chassis is made of metal and on the right we have volume rocker along with the power key.

On the top there is a headset jack and on the bottom we have a charging port.

As far as optics go, there is a 13MP shooter along with a dual LED flash.

Right underneath the camera, there is a fingerprint scanner.

On the bottom we have a speaker grill.

The backplate can be removed and underneath it you can find a removable 2000mAh battery, 2 SIM card slots and a microSD card slot.

Umi Fair Review: DISPLAY

The Umi Fair comes with a 5” 720p panel, which is definitely not the sharpest we’ve seen but it’s pretty good for a budget phone. However, the sunlight visibility could be better.

Umi Fair Review: UI

When it comes to the UI, UMI Fair runs on Android 5.1 out of the box with a light Umi skin on top of it.

It is almost a stock Android build but, as usual, we have extra features like gesture controls built-in. However, they don’t seem to be working all the time or working slowly.

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The star of the show of this phone is supposed to be a fingerprint reader. However, it does not impress. Firstly, the setup is very slow and it takes forever to register your fingerprint. Also, the reader is super slow and inaccurate despite registering the same finger 3 times. Honestly, I ended up turning off the fingerprint scanner feature off.

In general, the UI is working smoothly but I’ve had quite a few error messages from Google Play store, a few app crashes but most importantly, downloading huge apps like Asphalt 8 can be a pain. It just takes forever to download them in comparison to higher-end phones.

Umi Fair Review: BENCHMARKS

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Umi Fair Review: HARDWARE and PERFORMANCE

The Umi Fair has a pretty standard configuration for budget phones:  MTK6735 chip, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of expandable storage.

While the day-to-day performance is usually smooth and the 3D gaming is also possible but you will experience a constant stutter and lots of skipped frames.

Umi Fair Review: MULTIMEDIA

Consuming HD content is smooth. As far as the rear mounted speaker, it is a similar story like on other cheap phones. It is just mediocre.

Umi Fair Review: CAMERA

The 13MP camera does not impress. There is a low amount of detail, colours tend to look washed out and the dynamic range adjustment is just terrible.

Same can be said about the video quality.

Umi Fair Review: CONNECTIVITY

I would rate a call quality okay and same goes with other connectivity options. They work fine but the GPS is not the fastest to get a lock speed and not the most accurate one.

Umi Fair Review: BATTERY LIFE

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The battery life is decent but nothing really impressive. I could get over 3 hours of screen on-time on a daily basis and doing just some basic tasks.

Umi Fair Review: CONCLUSIONS

I would call Umi Fair just another budget phone from China. Well, it has a decent design and good build quality.

However, the main selling point, which is a fingerprint reader, does not work properly. It is very slow to setup and the real life usage is just a pain. It is not accurate and very slow, and it makes you want to turn this feature off.

In general, I was happy with the UI performance but those Google Play store errors and a few app crashes were annoying.

All in all, Umi Fair is not the worst phone we’ve seen in this price range but it is not the best either.

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It happened so that I have two UMI smartphones at the moment – Hammer S and Fair. I have already done the first impressions video about of the former one and this time around I wanted to share my initial thoughts about the UMI Fair – a cheap smartphone that has a fingerprint scanner.

We wanted to say thanks to Coolicool.com for providing us with UMI Fair for a review.

Umi Fair Unboxing: Video

My first impressions about UMI Fair is that it has a great design and good build quality for such a cheap phone. It definitely feels good in the hand and the phone is manageable in one hand due to its 5″ display.

Also, I love the metal chassis going around the device and a soft plastic back, which both give a nice feel to the touch.

As far as UI goes, so far it seems it is running smoothly but I haven’t even installed any apps on the device.

When it comes to the fingerprint scanner, which is supposed to be a star of the show here (UMI wants us to believe so), it does not seem to be working fine. As you may have seen in the video, it is not accurate enough and even the setup process is annoying. Well, I will give my final thoughts on that when the full review is ready as I have already started using the phone as my daily driver.

So here it is, the UMI Fair. If you have any questions about the device, please let me know in the comment section.

UMI Fair in pictures:

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UMi has come up with interesting smartphones in the past few months. From their recent releases, it looks like the company is targeting a specific crowd with each of its devices. For example, the UMi Iron was an affordable flagship with a beautiful metal body and mid-range flagship specs. On the other hand, the UMi Hammer S was a smartphone for those who didn’t want to worry about damaging their phone during usage. Now, the company is back with a new smartphone, called as the UMi Fair. This time around, this emerging Chinese smartphone manufacturer is trying to attract the mid-range market customers who would love to have fingerprint ID on their devices.

The UMi Fair’s highlight is its fingerprint sensor located at the back. The company says this is the ideal location for your everyday unlocking. It adds that the rear placement is not only convenient but its also faster. Moreover, with fingerprint ID, you don’t have to worry about losing your important personal data to strangers. UMi states that the Fair comes with military grade hardware recognition with an intelligent self learning algorithm. This translates into accuracy of 99% and better durability.

Under the hood, the UMi Fair comes with MT6735 quad-core chip. There’s 1GB of RAM on board and 8GB of internal storage. This should be enough for your basic everyday usage, although we would have liked at least 2GB of RAM. As for the display, the phone comes with a 5-inch screen with 720p resolution translating into pixel density of 294 ppi. The inner frame is made out of stainless steel to provide offer greater durability.

At the back, the UMi Fair comes with a 13MP camera and up front, a 2MP shooter. The overall body measures 8.4mm, which is quite decent and weighs only about 120 grams. The battery is a bit on the lower side, 2000mAh, but for the given specs, it should roughly last a day. The phone supports 4G LTE Networks FDD (800/1800/2600) bands and comes with Android 5.1 out of the box.

Overall a decent entry level phone. But with a fingerprint sensor on board, the UMi Fair could turn out to be as popular as its Hammer series, given the right price tag. The phone will be launching on September 25, so stay tuned for more details.

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