Review Ulefone Metal: metal smartphone with frameless display

Alex — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:41:18 +0000

The new devices are announced and appear on the market virtually every week, but not every model is really noteworthy. Chinese company Ulefone works on phone market for a long time and it has a large range of stylish and productive devices. Today company announce new smartphone Ulefone Metal, and fans of metal and frameless screens will be happy. Let’s take a quick review Ulefone Metal.

As you might guess, the word «Metal» in title means a metal body. By tradition antennas above and below the rear panel is made of plastic. However, if you think that the new smartphone can be considered a flagship, you are wrong – we have a typical middle-class device.

Ulefone Metal: Display

As mentioned above, the manufacturer opted frameless screen for Ulefone Metal. It has 5 inches and HD-resolution. Smartphone is used Sharp matrix, just think for a moment. Frameless technology is no longer new, and many Chinese companies have a smartphone without the side frames. Nevertheless, the front panel Ulefone Metal is protected by tempered glass (according to the developer it is Gorilla Glass 3), as well as applied technology 2.5D. As a result, the screen is immediately adjacent to the metal frame.

Ulefone Metal: Specifications

Inside smartphone is nothing stunning. In the role of processor is MediaTek MT6753 with 8 cores and maximum operating frequency of 1.3 GHz. The amount of RAM is 3GB and 16GB of internal storage, that you can be expanded with Micro SD memory card.

Ulefone Metal: Cameras

Ulefone Metal has two camera and both of them are interpolated. The main camera uses a sensor Sony IMX149 with 8 megapixels that interpolated to 13 megapixels, and front camera has 2-MP sensor with interpolation to 5-MP. As stated Ulefone, images will be high quality.

Ulefone Metal: Features

Near the rear camera is a fingerprint reader, which speed is 0.2 seconds. Also fingerprint reader is able to recognize up to 5 different prints, and unlock not only Ulefone Metal, but also provide access to applications.

Ulefone Metal works on Android 6.0 Marshmallow with UI from the manufacturer.

Ulefone Metal: Price and release date

At the moment, the exact price Ulefone Metal is unknown. However, some sources says that smartphone will cost about $110. The smartphone has not yet gone on sale, but in China it will be available in the near future.