Far from rhetoric is so clear that U’s eye is on China’s smartphone manufacturer companies OnePlus, Xiai and Oppo, which has been presenting “flagship handsets” in the Indian market for a long time. There is an attempt to introduce the perfect smartphone by the company through YouTopia, with it it has also been taken care that it should be in the user’s pocket access.
The attempt of You Telenchers is in the right direction. Has the company succeeded in achieving anything from this? Does Utopia’s performance justify the claims of the company? Let’s know.
Look and design
Aluminum and Magnesium Chassis, one of the important features of this handset. It gives a feeling of premium. The phone is slim, but not so light that give a feeling of holding a toy in your hands. The phone slips in the hands due to the setin texture. We wish that U would have given a bumper case with the handset.
Primary SIM tray and secondary hybrid tray are present in the same flap on the left side. There are volume and power buttons on the right side, which are strong and can be easily accessed. Headphone sockets and micro-USB 2.0 ports are present at the top and lower back respectively.
The rear part has a circular dial with a 21-megapixel camera and dual-tone LED flash unit. There are fingerprint sensors under the rear camera and the bottom of the speaker grill. As expected, the glass cover of the camera is not scratch free and only after two days of use, we showed it. This is another important reason for buying a handset cover.
The front has a 5.2 -inch quad HD IPS display with a protection of the corning’s concore glass. Color reproduction and viewing angles are good. There is no problem in reading on the handset even in sunlight. However, for this you have to adopt some software trick. Touch response can bother you many times, we had this problem many times during the review. This problem does not happen again and again, but in between you will be upset. Notification LED is at the bottom.
You will get a transfer cable, a charger supporting the Qualcomm Quick Charges 2.0 with YouTopia, Little Bird in-ear headsets and instruction book. The quality of accessory is good and gives a long -term lasting. Overall, You utopia is a good looking phone that is designed in such a way that the user does not have difficulty in using it by placing it in one hand. It would have been better if the scratch protection was given for the camera bump.
Specification and software
In terms of specifications, U Televensers has tried to do the best. You will get the best Snapdragon 810 chipset, 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB inbuilt storage. Storage can be extended with microSD cards up to 128 GB. Other features include dual-band Wi-Fi B/G/N/AC, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, USB OTG and FM Radio. NFC is not present and wireless charging is also not given. Apart from other standard sensors, Utopia also has a barometer sensor. The handset has a 3000 mAh battery that supports fast charging.
The YouTopia Cyanogen will run on OS 12.1 which is based on Google’s Android Lollipop 5.1.1. It will also get a based update on Marshmallow soon. After the default, the first boot freeze the page several times. So we would suggest you to switch to another page. The U theme given by Cyanogen is much better, it reflects Wi-Fi and cellular status correctly.
In YouTopia, the company has introduced its new software service Around U, with the help of this you will be able to do many things on the same platform, such as booking cabs and booking hotels.
Apart from this, the UTIVES app has also been given. This is the customization of Oprah Turbo for Utopia. Cyanogen has done a great job in the audio. AudioFX app gives you the option to choose separate profiles for speakers and headset. Apart from this, you also get DTS sound feature. The stock music player is integrated with the song music streaming app. And the results are excellent.
Performance
After removing the default theme, Utopia gives performance as expected. The performance of the app is good and multitasking is also easily done. On average, you will always have 2 GB RAM app left. Snapdragon 810 chipset gets heated only after performing small task. The handset gets very hot around the rear camera, especially while playing games and shooting videos. Sadly, there is no cure for this disease, when the deficiency is in the chipset. Call quality is good and 4G connectivity is present on the SIM slot.
You can store five fingerprints and use them to unlock the phone. It can also be used to take selfies in the camera app. The sensor is not very accurate, sometimes it will tell your fingerprint wrong. Many times it will not register the fingerprint. It seems that it is working with its mind. The handset gave good results in the benchmark test.
The Little bird headset of the House of Marli is another great accessory with Utopia. We did not like the video player app very much. The rear speaker is not very powerful and weakens when used in outdoor.
The 21 -megapixel rear camera is capable of taking close up and landscape shot with details, although there should also be appropriate lights. You can choose different shooting mode by swiping up or down. You will be able to easily access flash, front camera, white balance and shooting mode.
The camera does not focus rapidly and slows down in low light. HDR mode did not work well. In this mode, the photo came from blurred and unnatural.
Optical image stabilization will help take smooth video. The shocking thing is that its 8 megapixel front camera works well. Photos taken from this camera come with details.
The 3000 mAh battery lasted for 8 hours 57 minutes in our video loop test. It would not be called bad, but it could have been better. The phone battery in common use will run till 18-20. The good thing is that they support Quick Charges 2.0.
Our decision
It would not be wrong to call Utopia a good premium attempt by U Televencors. But it is not as powerful as the company has claimed. Just by fitting the top and specification in the fixed budget device, it does not make the best product. There are many characteristics in Youutopia. Excellent 2 display, brilliant build, attractive finish, quick charging, great multimedia and service and good quality accessory, you will get all this with Utopia.
However, there is still scope for improvement in many departments. It is expected that these shortcomings will go away in the next version. The fingerprint sensor present in this handset sometimes works or never. Battery life could have been better. The performance of the camera is not as expected and the warming of the handset due to 810 chipset is not new. We would like NFC and wireless charging features in the next version.
OnePlus 2 is a better option for Rs 25,000. If you want a more resolution device, then LG G3 is still a great option in this price.