Hi guys Chris here back checking out another brand of mobile phones so this
is UMIDIGI's Z2 that was just released here so this is powered by the
Mediatek p23 that's an Ccta-core CPU it's paired up with six gigabytes of RAM
a 64 gigabyte rom it runs Android 8.1 it has a notch display on here so if you're
after that new somewhat questionable trend then this has of course got that
on there so the earpiece will be a little bit smaller and it does have dual
cameras on the front so we've got one that's 16 the other is 8 and the same
exact setup on the rear so one is 16 8 F 2.0 aperture how you me did you claim
they are using Sony sensors they're curved glass rear and a metal body
around the outside of the frame of it so it should hopefully have a really good
build quality the battery capacity is 3850 milliamp hours and the display is
that full HD plus because of the notch it's a little bit of an odd resolution
so it's 2246 by 1080 now it does have 18 what quick
charge as well with this dual SIM support so we have a rather plain
looking black box here on the back of it you can see it's just listing those
specs here so if you want to know the LTE band support you can see that right
there so it does cover band 20 in fact it's got global band support which is
great for a phone of this price of course so I can see the phone or has a
case on it which is good to see more manufacturers doing this including cases
so this is a textured matte rubber which is good it'll give it a little bit more
grip to it obviously when your hands are cold and dry phones can be very slippery
considering this also has glass on the rear it does cover the volume up and
down and the power button here which is good that case but I will just put that
phone to the side there for a minute and we'll take a look at what else we get so
I've got this little leaflet here this is just saying thank you for choosing
ume digi so that'll be warranty card instructions and all that the SIM tray
tool right here and then we do have a red
type-c cable and this right here of course is what we're going to need for
audio so that's all types e2 3.5 millimeter adapter
unfortunately no 3.5 millimeter support on this model and then our media tech
pump Express charger the maximum output of this one is 12 volts 1.5 amps and you
can see it is a EU plug so the z2 weighs a hundred and sixty eight grams and
comes in at nine millimeters thick so it does come with this pre-applied screen
protector out of the box taking a look at this wide notch we have here so
that's the first thing that strikes you when you look at the phone we do have
2.5 D rounded glass corners here which it has the manufacturer claims Gorilla
Glass two front facing cameras so once 16 megapixels obviously the larger one
there then the 8 megapixel is the one to the right of it now the earpiece you can
see is very small that is about half the size of your typical earpiece hopefully
this is not going to affect call quality I will have to test that out and then to
the left of the earpiece right here we have an ambient light sensor and a
proximity sensor now your energy on their webpage are saying they advertise
like 3d face unlocking tracking but it's not using actual proper 3d mapping are
things like the what the iPhone 10 has no that's really kind of false
advertising there because it's just using your typical Android 2d face
unlocking now on the rear you'll see we've got two dual tone LED flash and
other two cameras rear round fingerprint reader now these cameras again it's the
same setup as the front so and if 2.0 aperture 16 and 8 megapixels you can see
that we also have curved glass with the edge along here which is a nice touch it
has quite a bit of a Samsung feel to it and why I say that is it's just the
design of it so we've got the middle frame around the outside on the
left-hand side here you can see there's our sim tray so that will take either a
a nano sim and micro sim or nano plus micro is
ECAD you can see some antenna lines there so top and bottom and the middle
goes around and we have a speaker grille at the bottom so obviously there's going
to be one speaker in here the mic and then a type C port up the top secondary
microphone that has it so there is no IR transmitter with this one and we don't
have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack sadly so the buttons are on the
right-hand side we've got the power volume up and down and they are made out
of metal and they do have a good feel to them so their build quality for a two
hundred and fifty dollar u.s. phone I feel is good it's very good it feels
nice in hand the weight isn't too bad and neither is really the thickness time
to power it up now and we'll take a look at that display so you me digi there
it's an IPS panel the resolutions twenty to forty six by 1080 and it is running
stock Android 8.1 I hope they haven't put any bloatware on this so I just had
to tone down the ISO settings with my camera because of course when you first
put this up they put the screen into basically like a full brightness it's
set on full brightness at the moment I believe and here we have obviously a
good look at the knotch and the bezels side bezels aren't bad at all there we
still have quite a bit of a chin here so the bottom bezel is large and you're
still quite a large top bezel there even though we have the notch so we go
through setup here very quick in fact I'll skip ahead with this because this
is just gonna be a standard eight Android 8.1 setup okay so here we go on
the ROM so I went through the typical setup of Android 8.1 added my
fingerprint and just put my credentials in there for Google Play Store so you
can see it is here now have a look at the stock apps we've got onboard so
there are quite a few there I guess they've added a lot of you could say
Google's bloat but there is a good thing here that we're not seeing any unwanted
kind of Chinese bloat or applications that aren't even relevant to literally
anyone that isn't of course living in China so that's not there which is good
to see FM radio so we do have hardware FM radio actually that's the first time
I've seen it were the only a type C port so obviously they've wired it through it
see other manufacturers haven't even bothered to do that for example with
Shomi phones they when they had a tight support they normally drop FM radio
hardware tuner support so I have a look and see what version here it is running
so it's Android 8.1 but the patch level is May the fifth so that's another
positive there that's recent that is good to see and I don't believe there
are any Wireless updates but I will check right now no at the time of this
video I'm on the current software so that some trade correction here will
take to nano Sims or a nano sim and micro sd card the frame around it is
reinforced with the middle as well which is good now to demonstrate the
fingerprint reader I find it to be a little bit slow actually so it isn't
always on one place my finger there and you can see it just comes on so it will
take about two seconds there so one two yeah one and a half second so it's not
the fastest now taking a look at the display so the gamma checks out to be
approximately around 2.3 and it is an IPS so the viewing angle 0k but I
probably because of the screen particular actually that this is
happening but it does shift out to darken a little bit when you look at it
at certain angles so not the kind of viewing angles of course that you'd get
from say an AMOLED panel but for this price range category a mobile phone the
display does look good the maximum brightness of this panel tops out at 450
Lux which is not bad the whites are a slight tiny bit cool white there seems
to be no mirror vision application on here normally it's three display
settings where you can tweak your white balance and that's missing the blacks
look okay for an IPS panel colors as well do look good so all in all this is
a decent panel that they have used here these 6.2 inch IPS now there's one
important thing to point out with the notches and this is happening with all
the knotch phones that I have recently reviewed apart from perhaps maybe
oneplus because they're not just not so wide but you're missing out on a lot of
I feel key crucial information that you have with a mobile phone so you can't
see the battery percent right here and you have to swipe down and then you'll
see your remaining battery percent notifications for
example if you're on 4G or not again you're not gonna see it so you have to
bear in mind that when you swap over to a knotch phone that you are going to be
missing out on some of that important information it just cannot be displayed
because there isn't enough physical room there to put it all in a display because
of the knotch now apart from that hiccup with the rom the rest of the experience
is quite good it's actually very smooth multitasking going through selecting
your various different apps that is all quite good of course we've just got the
on-screen navigation buttons it doesn't have a gesture mode with it
but I have noticed that the performance of the ROM in general really is good
apps install fast moving around is really quick and of course you can do
multi-screen split-screen mode here because it is running Android 8 that
came in with Android 7 so for example you want Play Store here drag that to
the top that'll be at the bottom you want to load any here's for example
treble check and then you can see right there that both of these are working
well it does run a little bit slower though depending on what apps you're
running in the split screen mode but yes performance good that at least gets a
thumbs up from me looking now at synthetic benchmarks this is an - - so
the hello P 23 can get 80,000 and this one here so that's on par with other
Mobile's that run this chipset it's about 20,000 points less than the hell
eox 20 and about 3050 sorry thousand points since I a Snapdragon 636 wireless
AC speeds the throughput here connecting up to check out just the maximum I can
get so it's not dependent on my actual connection speed but more the router to
the mobile not so great here so it was about a hundred and fifty s than maximum
ideally I like to see a lot higher than this if it's over 300 that's really good
but this is all the chips it can really do so if you have a fast fiber line you
cannot take advantage and get really super quick download speeds of those
large android games now the GPS perfectly fine here it doesn't lock on
to every single satellite that it will see but the accuracy always hovers
around three and four meters so that's not a problem and this includes driving
moving the car so it's gonna be fine for GPS of
course it does have a hardware compass that is part of the sensors that it has
on there and when it comes to 4G download speeds and uploads perfectly
fine I mean I'm with orange and Spain here and that is about all I can get
where I'm situated at the moment with any phone so you know this beads are
poor but no issues with the signal strength either has been good for both
wireless and for 4G so the internal storage emmc 5.1 spec which is good to
see I half expected to see the older four point five point one spec TMC in
this and those are a lot slower so this is fast of course it's not as fast as
ufs but for this price range of phone this is not bad at all triple check
so does it support seamless updates no because we don't have access to both of
the partitions here so that's a little disappointing to see if it had this it
will be much better for getting updates and also for things like custom roms and
all that and now when it comes to the wide vine support it's a level 3 so what
does this jargon mean well that means no Netflix HD no it's just gonna be in your
standard definition unfortunately so 1080p YouTube that's
not a problem but the purpose of showing you this right now is just to give you a
sample of that loudspeaker which is rather loud but it's not super high
quality but does the job
and checking out gaming performance here so this is pub G on the medium sitting
that had auto-detected so I've just gone with this sitting and I have noticed
that from time to time you will get some lag and some stutter but for the most
part it is actually good it is playable you can see when i zoom in there with
the scope so that's fine just don't expect the best performance because it
will be a little bit disappointed with that from time to time you will see
those legs and those status as mentioned and you will notice too that there is
this odd black bar at the top so something's up with that it's obviously
down to software that you me digi will need to patch this after 20 minutes of
gaming I have noticed that the phone does get quite warm to the touch it gets
up to around about 33 34 degrees maximum is what I've seen on the back of the
phone taking a look now at the camera app so the stock camera app is missing
one important feature that was advertised on their website that it
could take those bokeh effect photos so with a blurred backgrounds using the
dual cameras but it doesn't seem to be there so if you swipe up down from the
top sorry you will see that these are the settings we have here so you're able
to set the picture size up to 16 megapixels your ISO there is other
settings but there's nothing there to actually swap that mode over into what
would probably be in one of these spaces here would be that settings so they
obviously need to add that with a firmware update it's not available at
the time of my video here so that should hopefully the coming soon we do have HDR
mode you can see in video mode you can shoot also up to 1080p here that's the
maximum and those are the settings there so video format you can change that over
to the dated very dated now 3gp which i would not recommend using so it's the
sample at a front-facing camera can shoot in 1080p maximum and the quality
is alright audio is okay not too bad no electronic image stabilization so you
see that it won't shake around obviously going to have to use one of those
handheld mobile gimble's to get steady footage with
front facing camera sample footage now this is from the rear camera so 1080p
maximum no electronic image stabilization no 4k 1080p only there are
other mobile phones that are actually cheaper than this one here that can
shoot in 4k and suddenly even support electronic image stabilization with
applications like open camera so that is an area of disappointment here this
sound seems to be alright and you're getting reasonable 1080p quality here
could perhaps be just a little bit sharper but again we're just lacking out
on resolution because it cannot shoot 4k
okay so just to recap here we have a very nice build quality here on the z2
from ume digi it is really quite good and it does have a bit of a Samsung kind
of look to it the frame they've used around their metal volume buttons dual
cameras on the rear however at the time of this video we cannot use the
secondary cameras to take those portrait mode or depth effect photos which is a
shame that feature releasing with the phone and not being available isn't
great but I expect that that will be coming soon with some firmware updates
so it does run stock Android 8.1 this is definitely one of the best features of
the phone because it doesn't have any bloat either which is good
ROM performance surprises here that it is very quick it is fast it's smooth the
screen is also another positive that it's a bright screen now we also have
global LTE support on this one so it's going to work everywhere around the
world another positive so when it comes to the cons well the loudspeaker
performance isn't so great and with the notch you are missing out on seeing some
details for example you cannot see some of the notifications we can't see
actually any notifications what the current firmware way had set up you have
to swipe down to see the battery % now this happens with other mobile phones as
well you don't have any 4k video recording so other mobile phones that
sell in this similar price category and group of this phone they offer I feel a
bit more there because you're getting 4k video support some of them even have
electronic image stabilization support the likes are for example the redmi note
5 that one there sells for about about 220 us and if you use open camera you
get EAS support and you do get a little bit more there so it really depends all
what you want from a mobile phone there's also one other thing too that I
didn't point out in the video but it is missing a status LED on this phone it's
nowhere to be found and even when you're charging it there's
no little red light to tell you you're charging you've got a look at the
screen you can turn the screen on and see the battery percent there so battery
life it's gonna last for around about 7 to 8 hours of on-screen time that's
continuous but expect around about 6 hours there now charge time it's fairly
quick it comes in around one hour and 50 minutes to fully charge the phone with
the included charger so that isn't bad there thank you so much for watching
this unboxing and hands on with the UMIDIGI Z2 and I do hope to see you back in
the channel with more up-and-coming reviews