This video has been a long time coming
So I previously did a video on the Umidigi S2
But I didn't go into too many details, and I said I was going to do a video on
Actually using the device as my daily driver for the next couple of weeks
And it's been more than a couple of weeks
But I'm still using it as my daily driver, so
I'm going to do this follow-up video now to give you a little bit of an idea on the specs and what it can actually do
So stick around to find out more.
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My name is Jonathan and this is TechWizTime, the YouTube channel that does technology tutorial and review videos
Like I mentioned before I've already done an unboxing and a sort of overview of this
Umidigi S2 before, but, I wanted to come back and let you know my thoughts after using it for a few weeks
So firstly just a little bit of word on the specs, so what it is, It is a Helio P20 CPU inside
That's an 8 core 2.3 Gigahertz CPU.
It's got the Mali T880 inside as well as 64 gig of storage and 4 gigabytes of DDR4 memory
Bluetooth is 4.0 version
And the Wi-Fi is rated at N 2.4 Gigahertz
It only comes in at Android 6, but it does come with the USB C port down below
And this one is not rooted unfortunately
The front camera is 5 megapixels the rear camera is 13 megapixels
It's got a fingerprint sensor and the big sell point with this phone is the battery size
It comes in at 50100 milliamp hours
Which after my testing I can see lasting for about two days with minimal use
But if you're a really heavy phone user then you're probably going to get about 10 hours worth of usage out of this
The other thing is this phone's display is 6 inches
But it only displays at 720p
So the screen resolution comes in at 1440 by 720
So not a full HD display unfortunately
And generally you can get this phone for under $200
And if I've got a coupon I'll put it down below as well
So, under some quick benchmarks. I've got the A1 SD Bench tool here
And we can see that the internal read speed is a hundred and eighty-two megabytes per second, which is awesome
The internal write speed comes in at 116 megabytes per second
Which is equally as good
Onto the micro SD card speed we can see here that the read speed is 43 megabytes per second
And the write speed is at 44 megabytes per second, so not too bad
And lastly on to the RAM speed and we're looking at four thousand five hundred and eighty five megabytes per second
Next up I look at the Wi-Fi, now
This kind of impressed me because it's only got the N and it only operates at the 2.4 Gigahertz it still gave me some pretty impressive specs
So the Wi-Fi download speed came in at 72 megabits per second
And the Wi-Fi upload speed came in at 69 megabits per second
So pretty impressive overall
Next up I look at N22, and I get a score here of 58161 Overall
With the 3d score of 9269
A UX score of 26312
A CPU score of 18171
And a RAM score of 4409
Next up was Geekbench and here I get a single core score of 870, and a multi-core score of 3644
And an extra test that I did here was the battery test, and after a three-hour test I get a score of 4619
Which one I did the math worked out to be about 10 hours of battery life with pretty heavy usage
Next up I tested out the GPU with 3dMark
And in Slingshot I got a score of 871
But with Slingshot extreme
I got a score of 632
Next up I test out Ice storm, and I get a score of
11030
And an Ice storm extreme score of eight 8566
Next up I test out the streaming and media capabilities of this phone and Netflix works straight out of the box
however YouTube does only display any 4k files or 4k streams I should say
At 720p
Which is fine because that's the resolution of the phone anyway
Next up I try my luck with Kody and some 4k files and here
I test out Big Buck Bunny and unfortunately
It just doesn't meet the mark
Neither with the 30 frames per second file or the 60 frames per second file
But I also test out jellyfish which is multiple bit rates, at 55 megabits per second
140, 200 and 400 and unfortunately
Only the 55 megabit per second file is able to be streamed at this stage
Now I did test this over both the Wi-Fi network really close as well as
On the SD card itself, so either way, they just didn't work unfortunately
I even tested it on the device itself since it's got really high read rates
But unfortunately still no luck
So that's streaming and so for the other way next up I will have a look at some gaming
And I test out PSP emulation with the emulator PPSSPP
And the first game up to test is Power Stone
Jeez that's a lot of peace
So here I'm looking at a frame per second rate of 35 to 45 frames per second
So, not near full speed of 60 frames per second, and you could probably get away with playing it
But it's gonna be a little bit choppy
Next up I do test God of War which is gonna kill any device and you're looking at about 10 to 20 frames per second here, so
PSP emulation probably isn't the aim of this device itself
Next up though, I do test our PlayStation emulation
And first off the bat is Final Fantasy 7 and this one actually plays back at 60 frames per second, so
No problems there whatsoever
Metal Gear Solid, that streams back at 60 frames per second as well, so all good there
And lastly Tekken 3, well, it streams at 60 frames per second as well
Which some devices struggle with so pretty impressive
And lastly when it comes to gaming I have a look at Dreamcast emulation with Raycast
And first off the bat here is Sonic Adventure 2, and we're getting about 40 to 50 frames per second, which
Is pretty playable but it's not the full 60 frames per second that you need to get to be fully playable I would say
Next up is Shenmue, which is getting about 25 to 30 frames per second
Not bad at all
And lastly the other fighting game, Soul Calibur
And you can see here we're getting about 45 to 55 frames per second, which
Is still pretty ok like it's not 100% playable, but
You could probably get away with it
So with that all said what did I actually think of the phone
Over using it over the last couple of weeks? Well
It's been a little bit of an adjustment going from iOS to Android, but the main reason that I wanted to is the restrictions that are being put in place by Apple at this stage
I like to customize things, I like to change things up and add little things and so forth and
Android just seems a little bit closer to what I would like to use as a tech person whereas
IOS, and Apple are a little bit constricted
Most days I am getting about two days worth of battery life out of this
If I'm using it
Particularly a lot in one day, then I will only see about a day's worth
And it will go down to about 20 percent
So not bad on the battery life
The display itself has been really good, I've been enjoying it, I haven't noticed that it's not a full 1080p
So not too bad in my opinion
So with all the good things out of the way, what are some of the bad things that I've encountered or you know some of the cons? I guess
And there haven't been a lot, but one of the things that I had when I first got the phone was
Installing my SIM card, I had issues with getting mobile data to the phone, and I found that was just a setting that was disabled in the settings section
I'm not quite sure if that happens with every Android phone, but
It did with my experience
So if you're not getting mobile data
Go through your settings and check it out there
One of the other issues that I did have is involving the camera
I installed a QR code app and it's sort of just disabled it completely, I had to reset the phone
And then it got back up and running, so
I have a couple of issues with the phone's camera, but
It's not something that I use all the time, I'm not a huge video/photo taker
And again that the quality of the front-facing camera was awesome
But in low-light situations not so good
So with all that said and out of the way would I recommend this to people?
I would say Yes, for a sub $200 phone that has all these features
It is a really really good phone
Not so much for the camera if you're looking for a better quality camera you're gonna have to spend a little bit more, I'd say in the the $500 price range
I don't think you'd need to go to the flagship thousand-dollar phones
But if your camera and video and all that sort of thing are important to you, then I would definitely look at the mid-range phones
So if you're interested in grabbing one of these for yourself there is a link down in the description below, and if I find a coupon code I'll also include that down there for you too.
The other thing as well is that the Umidigi S2 Pro is actually coming out soon
I'm gonna try and get my hands on that so if you'd like to see that review
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