Finally we are seeing more Chinese manufacturers using qualcomm chipsets
and not always sticking with mediatek here we have the Elephone U Pro it's
the top-of-the-line version with 6 gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabytes of
storage powered by the Snapdragon 660 so that has a maximum to about 2.2
gigahertz has Adreno 512 graphics and overall it's not a bad chipset now this
phone retails for about 400 u.s. yes that is very expensive for this brand of
phone that's in fact as I feel their most expensive one isn't it it's quite
an ass and is it really up to the scratch of the price tag it has well a
little bit of a spoiler here yes in terms of build quality it is actually
really quite good a very premium phone well put together
however the software as you'll see later on when I mentioned that does have a few
problems that need addressing ASAP trend now is the 18 by 9 or 2 by 1 aspect
ratio screen and it's a AMOLED panel not Super AMOLED but just normal AMOLED and
it has a maximum brightness of 600 Lux which is very bright this is a decent I
mean sunlight legibility is good and you will notice that it's got proper curved
edges on here so the screen wraps around a little bit on the edges and when you
look at it you can see some color shifting especially on those edges and
the screen itself color shifts out a little bit more than my samsung galaxy
s7 but overall good viewing angles deep blacks good colors and a premium screen
that's covered with Gorilla Glass 5 now on the back here we have this nice blue
this is one of the colors you can get for it and I really do like it it stands
out looks great and you see we've got dual cameras on here now tests of these
cameras outs and yes they are both valid cameras one of them is not fake or
literally just doing nothing only for depth perception no it actually does do
some things here but the cameras as I'll get onto the later on in this review
they're very hiddenness they're not really up to the price tag below that is
the fingerprint reader this is always on and the location of it is fine I find I
can easily get to that and you can feel it because it has recessed in there
a little bit got dual tone LED flashes and there as well now at the top we have
a noise cancellation microphone that's used for what's calls of course and then
in video as well and a dual SIM tray there so it'll take either two nano sims
or a micro SD card and nano SIM you can see those black little lines there those
are the antenna strips there for your reception for 4G which does support LTE
band 20 which is great here for people in Europe now along the bottom there we
have got these two little grills here and one of them is the loudspeaker the
other one the microphone and a type C port yes the 3.5 millimeter headphone
port is not on this mobile which is a little bit disappointing so on the right
hand side here we have some middle volume buttons and the power button now
taking a look at what you get in the box you get a type c 23.5 gonna be an
adapter you've got your white USB type-c cable and then your charger which is an
EU one which is great of course I live in Spain here so that's the one I need
and that has a maximum output of 12 volts 1.5 amps and this box here you get
a clear case which is a silicon one that's not super high quality but good
to have it of course it fits perfectly this sim tool and then a screen
protector which I highly recommend using because Gorilla Glass 5 scratches really
easy and I already have a little scratch on my phone and I don't know how this
happened now the way to the phone is not bad at all it comes in at 168 grams and
eight point six millimeters thick you Pro has faced her mocking and that
generally tends to work quite well as long as you're in good light now what
doesn't work so well is the fingerprint reader so the fingerprint reader here on
the back is an always-on fingerprint reader so that's good you don't need to
wait the phone first but just have a look at how slow this is so put my
finger on here and you can see that took about two seconds or so further then to
unlock I'll just repeat that again okay that was a little bit quicker then and
that took about two seconds again so it's definitely not the fastest
fingerprint reader you will come across and I often find that sometimes it will
not actually work and I need to place my finger on there again for it to read it
again so not the best so the phone is running Android eight point
cero and it has a theme on here that I don't particularly like the theme ocean
it has left it as stock Android but basically everything is stock Android on
this phone but this right here is in fact the icon for Chrome and it doesn't
even look like it so most people wouldn't even realize that that's Chrome
you'd think that's just the built-in Android browser but it isn't
now performance is pretty good most of the time getting around in it but there
is a major problem and that is that the phone will freeze and lock up and it can
sometimes lock up for up to about 10 seconds the screen does not respond it
at all everything just jams up freezes completely I've tried to capture it on
camera but every time I've got my camera out after about 6 - sometimes 10 seconds
it will be perfectly fine again but it is very irritating to use and as often
happens when you at least want it to happen of course that seems to be the
way things work there now you see that the system here has had some Wireless
updates have come through there's an update system now none of those 2 to 3
updates we've had already have addressed this problem so that's one of the major
bugs there there is also another bug with the camera that I don't know if I
can show you on camera that what happens that when you're in camera mode you take
a few photos you change some of the settings and you're just saved for
example the picture size and you change the quality of it and you get out of
this and you want to go back and change over into the video mode okay it's doing
it now but often I found that it would get stuck in camera mode or it wouldn't
allow you to switch between camera mode and video mode Estes one bug there but
overall the performance of the ROM because of that six gigabytes of RAM
that we have on here is actually quite good so you can do a lot of multitasking
swapping between things that isn't too bad but I have noticed a few stutters
it's definitely not the smoothest and the other snapdragon 616 device I tested
which was the show-me me note 3 that seemed to be a lot smoother in terms of
performance and just multitasking in general seems to be better optimized the
Android version of that one there just tweaked it a little bit better here it
needs a lot of work and I'm a little disappointed to say that really the last
two weeks we've had no new updates here which is quite bothersome now the good
thing is the phone doesn't have any bloatware that I see then one not
unnecessary blow here these are some of the updates that I was talking about so
they've had two of them come out but I know about this is the free space you
get so you get about a hundred and living also gigabytes free which is not
bad at all considering we still have a micro SD card supports here's the antutu
score so about a hundred and forty thousand which is respectable for this
chipset and the internal storage so it's not unfortunately ufs 2.1 which will be
a lot faster than this this is using e MMC 5.1 spec and the speeds are decent
this is not going to slop the phone it just means it won't be as fast as ones
with you FS storage support now while I say ran into a few little problems here
I could never get the proper download speeds that I would expect here from the
fiber line that I have and doing some tests even at my home as well I just
could not get any faster than really about 50 megabits per second download
speeds you can see that the upload is fine now in terms of 4G 4G works out
fine really good speeds they're a good signal strength no problems with that
GPS also works perfectly fine and while the snapdragon 660 has quite a good
integrated the GPS chip seen on that one so no issues there it was always between
about four and three meters of accuracy walking around town now the battery life
so I did some tests of course running this I'll just to mention the charge
time it does charge very quick with Qualcomm quick charge 3 and around about
1 hour and 46 minutes it fully charged from 5% so that's good good in my book
very good not as fast as of course the one plus five or the 5 T so I managed to
get screen on time of 6 hours and 50 minutes you can see here which is good
for the battery considering it's only three thousand five hundred and fifteen
million hours it's not as big as those ones you see with four thousand and that
was okay that was quite demanding you so I believe that most people should
definitely be able to get a full day of use out of this here and you can see
that was what I was actually gaming hit for three hours and 43 minutes so very
demanding use of my end there a bit of Chrome there some asphalt extreme so you
get the basic idea so better life I feel for the size of
phone in the capacity it's holding up okay it's just not the best moving on
now to audio we just have a single loudspeaker down here on the bottom I
feel it's considering the price of this phone around 400 us for expensive of
course for a Ali phone this type of Chinese mobile from this brand they
could have incorporated a loudspeaker also in there earpiece would have been a
little bit better but overall give you a sample now of the speaker it's not too
bad it's got a bit of volume to it but it's not a high quality speaker it's
definitely not the best sounding loudspeaker you'll hear from a mobile
so what about the headphone quality of course it does not include a 3.5
millimeter headphone port on there which is a bit of disappointment so you have
to use the adapter but I did find the quality to be reasonably good it's
definitely clear and has a bit of volume to there it's certainly not the loudest
now in terms of core quality noise cancellation is there it's certainly not
the best either with that so not as good as my samsung galaxy s7 the noise
cancellation on this particular model but I found it to be acceptable the call
quality the other end said I sounded a right to them as well so that's good
so the phone does have an extra couple of features on here you don't normally
get with these brands from China so we have first wireless charging which works
well it's a little bit slower course than charging with the cable it takes
about an hour extra so instead of charging in an hour and a half it's
gonna take actually close to about three hours to fully charge it I've also got
NFC which is great to have but there's an issue with it that it doesn't work
with Android pay so what about gaming performance testing out games here like
rules of survival which is like a pub G kind of style game that it performs well
other games I've tested out like World of Tanks and Shadow Fighter 3 or perform
fine with a good framerate so you're not going to have any issues with gaming or
the snapdragon 660 and it's Adreno 512 GPU so as I pointed out the start of
this video we've got two rear facing cameras on here so we can take some nice
bokeh blurred dip the field shots here portrait mode and when it gets us
stitching right which is hardly ever it does take an amazing looking photo so
take a look at these flowers here this actually looks quite good but most of
the time it will get this stitching completely wrong and it just doesn't
work well so I don't see a lot of people using this because of that because
you're gonna risk taking about 10 photos and maybe about three of them might look
okay maybe not so in daylight when you take a photo most of the time that comes
out okay now in terms of low-light performance you can see not wonderful I
feel that these cameras have an aperture of f-22 or 2.0 it's not actually
mentioned
so can shoot up to 4k video and the quality you'll find is acceptable most
of the time but the problem is that it will sometimes drop frames so it's not
always a steady 30 frames per second that it should be and this is definitely
noticeable more when you use the camera to record 4k in low-light conditions so
in low-light it will drop frames like crazy and sometimes it's only around 26
frames per second even lower it dips down quite a bit but overall the quality
is good now there is no optical image stabilization on the camera and in 4k
you don't have any digital there is digital in 1080p now a sample with that
image stabilization on so it's electronic image stabilization shot in
1080p and it is absolutely disgusting the frame rate look at this it's like 10
5 frames per second really bad and even after 2 to 3 firmware updates elephone
have not addressed this issue it's as if they don't care or they're not even
aware but I don't know how they couldn't be aware of this massive problem with
1080p video when it comes to camera performance I can't help but feel that
you li phone should have just gone with a single decent sensor with optical
image stabilization instead of the cheaper dual 13 megapixel cameras okay
guys so end of the day can I recommend the le phone you pro for 400 us that
it's currently selling for no definitely not
ok the hardware is there we've got a great screen it's got deep black since
an AMOLED panel covered with Gorilla Glass 5 it's curved even and it is very
premium yes it looks like a samsung galaxy is a door the s8 plus it's a
different copycat of that a shameless clone of it really
but there's big problems with the software on this the fact that it
freezes up and it's when you need it the most so I wanted to send it urgent
whatsapp and what happens the whole screen froze up on me for about
in seconds and had me wanting to literally throw the phone through a
window out the window but yeah that should not be happening and
especially not for 400 us it is no way I can recommend it Ellen's current state
now if they can of course patch that fix that fix the camera performance which is
quite poor it does not live up to the price tag at all it's more like a 200
hour us mobile camera quality you get on this you can take some good photos it
takes often bad photos and it will leave a lot of people very frustrated this
phone so I do recommend to go for something like one pluses 5 T my review
is up here that's a little bit more expensive but well worth it or the Xiaomi
Mi 6 my review that one is up here and that's actually cheaper than what
this is selling at the moment you get a Snapdragon 835 for that one so thank you
so much for watching this review and I do hope to see you back in the channel
soon with more up-and-coming mobile reviews and other reviews bye for now