This is a very inexpensive chinese phone with australian bands.
UMI eMAX 4G 5.5 Inch 2GB RAM 64bit MTK6752 1.7GHz Octa-core Smartphone
Android 4.4 (upgradable Android 5)
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Looks good with 3700 battery size and 2GB ram. Not sure how good is the camera and CPU speed. On paper it is a nice phone to have.
Any reviews? Build quality?
http://www.gsmarena.com/the_umi_x2_offers_a_quadcore_5inch_1…
Some press release info about this device.
You are referring to the old version which was released in 2013. The one listed here is the new one.
Ah wow OK … there seemed to be very little info I could find heh :|
wrt Chinese phones with MTK6752 5.5" FHD screen,
I'd assume it's best to get the Lenovo K3 Note unless you have some specific reason.
~$210 AUD at gearbest.
How's this compare?
I considered the Lenovo, but after reading about all the crapware Lenovo put on it I decided against.
me too @storm. Bloatware some of which can't be removed killed the lenovo for me.
Some short video's for UMI eMax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNoGzwfJS3I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8jpvqn1duk
Very impressive
Nice phone specs, but apparently the speaker is pretty poor.
I bought one from geekbuying for $160 USD. Google Currency converter says that's about $206 AUD, but what it is in the real world I don't know.
When it gets here I'll give impressions, though the reviews (there aren't many yet) said that overall it's fantastic, except for the crap speaker and not quite as good as others front camera (interpolated to 13mp).
More reviews:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5bClMV7qHs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNRn27FNb9c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDlJASHnvpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-QhPKDSSKY (french but you can still see performance, antutu score, camera pics, hear the speaker etc)
Apparently cheaper here: $A214.01 shipped http://au.dhgate.com/product/umi-emax-4g-lte-smartphone-5-5inch-fhd-android/241005489.html?utm_source=pla&utm_medium=GMC&utm_campaign=it360&utm_term=241005489&f=bm|241005489|105001-CellPhones|GMC|Adwords|pla|it360|AU|105001-CellPhones|c||0HRF|&gclid=CjwKEAjw4-SrBRDP483GvreDr2ASJAD5sCIu8tlxXqLMjoGR—3bTc5CfgS0gEo4OUhbIA7H0QPYfBoC8H7w_wcB
and here: $A219.29 shipped http://www.coolicool.com/umi-emax-mtk6752-17ghz-octa-core-55…
but have no experience with these suppliers.
what is Octa-core? 8 cpu?
Oct means 8, as in October.. So 8 cores.
But October is the 10th month?
Short answer is only if you count the first month as January. The romans started the calendar in March.
Langer answer: People mistakenly believe that July and August were ADDED to the Roman calendar in honor of Julius and Augustus Caesar. What happened was that the names of the fifth month, Quintilius, and the sixth month, Sextilius, were CHANGED to Iulius and Augustus to honor the Caesars.
The original Roman calendar had just 10 months, starting with Martius (became March), and then after December came an indeterminate "winter period" of about 61 days that were not assigned to any month. The original months were: Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Iunius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September (7th), October (8th), November (9th) and December (10th). Note that the Latin names for the later months actually do correspond with their numbered positions.
The last two months added to the Roman Calendar were Ianuarius (now January) and Februarius (now February). This pushed all the other months forward two numbers when later people came to regard January as the "First" month. Probably because of the winter solstice, January became regarded as a time of "renewal" for the sun, and hence the start of a new solar cycle.
September then became the 9th month, October the 10th, and so on, but the original names remained, without matching up with the number their name was first based on.
In summary calendars have been heavily tweaked making things sound odd.
@ShipShapeRC: Thanks for the effort mate, I knew this was the case that some things had changed but I was being a bit facetious.
Having said that I wanted to know if you just went straight to Wikipedia and then noticed that you probably either went to yahoo answers or some site called Claudia dillers blog (good that you spent the time editing it for the post though). I wonder if yahoo's answer copied her blog or the other way around? Plagiarism on the internet is rife we all know but I am guessing no one follows this up and there's no repercussions, although it would probably be a bigger deal is if was one answers site plagiarising another
@Jackson: Yeah a bit cut and paste and some of my own. I knew it from my years doing Astronomy of all things, but could not remember all the names off top of head. I figured it was a facetious question but one that actually had a rather misunderstood and interesting answer. The history of the calendar has almost as many twist and turns as the history of religions. Often they were the domain of the same people. So perhaps not such a big surprise.
@ShipShapeRC:
"The original months were: Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Iunius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September (7th), October (8th), November (9th) and December (10th). Note that the Latin names for the later months actually do correspond with their numbered positions."
Pretty sure Quintilis and Sextilis are also enumerations of the months.
Quin(5 in Latin?, Pent in Greek), Sex(6, Sex in Latin, Hex in Greek). September(7, Sept in Latin, Hept in Greek). And of course Oct(8 in both Latin and Greek), Nov(9 I assume in Latin, Non in Greek), Dec(10 in both Latin and Greek.).
Everything comes from Latin and Greek.. Most often originally from Greek and adopted by the Romans, like many of the Greek/Latin Gods.
Handy if you do chemistry or pharmacy to be able to count to 10 in Greek.
meth, eth, prop, but, pent, hex, hept, oct, non, dec.
Often in mobile devices - I'm unsure with this device though - Octocore means 4 low power cores and 4 high performance cores so rather than having 8 cores to process with you have 4 cores suited to what your phone is doing and Android switches between them as required.
Interesting, this is thirst I have heard of this. I don't use that many taxing apps so I wonder if I could set one just to use low power cores all the time, and my battery doesn't last long enough (although my current phone is only a quad (HTC one m7)
Octacore just means 8 cores. Upmarket phones divide the cores into 4 big fast ones and 4 little power efficient ones, using either (or occasionally both) to get the best performance or efficiency as required. This is called big.LITTLE. Cheaper phones, like this one, just add 8 of the little cores, presumably because the little cores are cheaper. This means you don't get any performance benefit over a 4 core phone unless the application can scale up to 8 cores. On the other hand a modern little core is probably faster than the cores in your old phone, so you'll should get decent performance anyway.
Confused by link…. it mentions works on 2G only, however spec's show 3G info too.
afaik it works on 2g, 3g and 4g (just miss out on one 4g band).
Thinking of selling my iphone 6+ and get this one!