Today, UMIDIGI officially announced the price of its
latest budget flagship smartphone the UMIDIGI F2 and it is a truly unbelievable
price: just US$ 179.99 on a limited deal from October 14th to October 16th! The
device is the successor to the successful UMIDIGI F1 and it will hit the market
on October 14th, 7 AM GMT on Aliexpress. The company also released a first look
video of the device.
The killer feature is the quad-camera setup of
course. Since the Xiaomi’s sub-brand, Redmi, released the Note 8 Pro recently,
it’s easy to tell that the F2 is the perfect competitor.
Design is subjective and since both come with a
6.53″ FHD+ IPS panel, the F2 has an advantage since it drops the annoying notch
and adopts a hole-punch front camera. Until we see real-life reviews of
the camera we can’t be totally sure about which is better. On paper, the
UMIDIGI F2 is better since it comes with a 32MP flagship-category selfie shooter
while the Note 8 Pro hosts a 20MP sensor. One the back, both have a
multi-function quad camera setup. The Note 8 Pro sports a higher resolution
main camera but the F2 has a better ultra-wide camera.
The Note 8 Pro comes with the more powerful Helio
G90T SoC but the Helio P70 on the F2 is no slouch either. Also, both come with
the same 6GB/128GB memory configuration but the F2 costs more than $100 less
than its rival. Definitely, the CPU power difference doesn’t justify the huge
price difference. In terms of battery, the UMIDIGI F2 has a bigger battery (5150mAh)
than Redmi Note 8 Pro (4500mAh) while both support 18W fast charging as well as
NFC with Google Pay.
Both phones come with a beautiful glass back cover
but the F2 has a cleaner and more consistent design thanks to the side-mounted
fingerprint sensor. The Note 8 Pro still comes with the old-fashioned
back-placed fingerprint sensor. Only a handful of devices have adopted Android 10 which is Google’s
latest OS. UMIDIGI F2 is one of them and comes with stock Android 10 while the
Redmi Note 8 Pro features MIUI 10 based on Android 9.0.
