ISSUE 10 • ANDROID ADVISOR 67to download from its website. This update is said
tobrings a few fi xes and optimisations to the UMi
Zero, including enhanced battery performance, new
quick toggles, camera optimisations and the addition
of notifi cation lights.
It's a stock implementation of Android, and
includes full access to Google Play. Unusually, apps
such as YouTube and Play Music are not preinstalled
- if you want them just download them free from
Google Play.
There are a couple of extras with Smart screen
and Air gesture, as seen on Samsung phones,
although we didn't manage to get either to work
during our testing.
Battery life
The UMI Zero is fi tted with a high-capacity 2780mAh
lithium-polymer battery, and supplied with a special
charger (note the two-pin plug) that can charge the
battery up to 51 percent in 14 minutes, or give you
enough juice to talk for 2.5 hours in fi ve minutes.
We did fi nd that the UMI became rather warm during
charging, however.
In common with other fl agship phones it has an
Ultra power saving mode that switches o screen
colours, background mobile data usage, Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth and limits the number of apps you can
use at any one time to prolong life. You can also
schedule times for the phone to switch on and o
each day, which will be useful if you want to use it
as an alarm clock but not receive irritating middle-of-
the-night calls or waste battery life.
With normal use UMI says you can expect 21
hours life, so you'll need to charge it every night.