anybody got the Ulefone Armor 3T yet?

R10500 · 2019-01-14T13:05:47.000Z

Figured i’d shell out the extra bucks so i wouldn’t have a practically useless hunk of a PCB if ever telco services blacked out in an apocalypse(yes, yet another doomsday prepper). Only found the 20-odd 5 star reviews on Aliexpress but i pre-ordered it on Banggood for a few more dollars. Still waiting on its eventual shipment after 3 weeks! But i’m sure it’ll be well worth the wait. Has anybody here already gotten one, and what about it stands out to you? Could Ulefone be considered among the most reliable of phones, compared with mainstream brands too?

chadvone · 2019-01-14T13:18:42.000Z

I just watched a video. Now I want one. But I haven’t had a working cell phone for a couple years.

LumenDisaster · 2019-01-15T07:54:33.000Z

I’ve had my armor 2 for about a year and a half now, and it’s still going strong, I’ll be getting the armor 3 sooner or later, I’m impressed for a Chinese phone company

joechina · 2019-01-15T08:44:27.000Z

There is a review in German

Notebookcheck

Test Ulefone Armor 3T Smartphone

Testbericht zum Ulefone Armor 3T mit Mediatek Helio P23, ARM Mali-G71 MP2, 4 GB RAM und 64 GB großem eMMC-Flashspeicher. Das Ulefone Armor 3T ist ein günstiges Outdoor-Smartphone für robuste Einsätze und eignet sich gut als Zweit-Handy für Baustelle,...

It’s my go to page about Notebooks and Phone reviews.

please use Google translate.

R10500 · 2019-01-15T13:19:10.000Z

looks like you now have a reason to, you know, lighten the load on your wallet

that’s good to know, it’s astounding how some excellent brands don’t achieve the sort of widespread reach mainstream ones do. I mean, you don’t exactly need excessive advertising to gain attention nowadays…

Thanks for the link!

joechina · 2019-01-15T16:51:09.000Z

Your welcome.

One nice thing is the page is nerdy enough to measure the PWM level on displays

R10500 · 2019-02-14T02:43:22.000Z

Ok, so i’ve had the phone for a week now so i’ll make a few points of what i’ve observed.

The good:

- It’s still at 11% having been almost exactly 7 days( minus 2 1/2 hours) with normal usage throughout. Lives up to Ulefone’s promise!

Speakers are already very audible at volume 1, rivals probably most mini-speakers. As is normal with smartphones though, no perceptible bass.
-thick and heavy! one could probably break a glass table with this. doesn’t feel awkward or too heavy to use, although if you have wrist problems you might not like this
-it is sufficiently bright even below 10% indoors with the lights on, and with the blue screen protector sheet left one. Also more than visible enough at 100% brightness under the mid-day sun. No idea why some have found it insufficient.
-has a shortcut for accessing the camera from standby, just double press the power button. Also, you can focus with the volume down button and activate the shutter with the volume up. Very convenient and ergonomic!

The bad:

-connecting to my home wifi took 10 seconds regularly unlike with my OPPO A57 at 2 seconds.
-doesn’t charge at 2A as claimed. manages a paltry 1.1A. Charger takes quite a while to reach 9V too.
-my phone restarts for no reason every now and then. No idea if other owners have encountered this
-video footage shot with the stock camera app is either laggy or has horrible fps. using cinema fv5(fx5?) solved that but a word of caution because you are able to put it on standby and it’ll apparently continue filming but crash when you do stop running the camera. This won’t happen with the stock app.
-stock camera app also has no settings for long exposure so the camera fv/fx5 app will fill that in very well.
-had to log in with a google account, unless it is indeed unnecessary and i was unaware of it
-TF card may not be detected or recognized initially. Had to reinstall it a few times before the phone prompted me to format it for use. Used a Sandisk ultra extreme 128GB. The OPPO had no such issues
-experienced a few instances of problematic calls where the person i was talking to couldn’t hear me at all though i could hear them
-a little sluggish response when typing or selecting anything

Yet to be determined:

-walkie-talkie performance
-gaming performance( probably never lol)

maybe this will entice someone to buy, maybe not. Just writing what i’ve observed and i don’t think i would make the best proponent of the phone if asked. All i can say is that i’m quite happy with it, but it definitely should be improved upon. But if you’re like me who wants a tank of a phone for a change and that extra perk re: walkie-talkie, you might also be interested to know of the DOOGEE S80 Lite which offers wireless charging on top of basically entirely the same characteristics as this phone, for a substantial bit less. No idea about both brand’s performance historically though so i’m no judge. Wish i’d thought to wait it out a while though!

BlueSwordM · 2019-02-14T02:48:56.000Z

Good: Nice battery life

Bad:

1. Strange. 10 seconds isn’t that bad though, but 2 seconds is very quick.

2. That’s doesn’t seem good. Have you tried using another USB cord?

3. Oh boy, that’s not good.

4. Oh boy too.

5. You need a Google account to use Google services.

6. What was the card format? FAT32 or EXFAT?

7. Oof.

8. Touch latency oof.

AlexGT · 2019-02-14T03:19:55.000Z

Interesting phone, thanks for sharing

Barkuti · 2019-02-14T04:48:36.000Z

Meh.

I use my smartphone heavily, intensely, so much that nearly 100% of my forum posts are sent with my smartphone. It is heavily customized ROM wise speaking.

To me buying a recently released smartphone usually makes no sense. The hardware is nothing without proper software, and to me a stock ROM is usually lacking… a lot. My first priority is to head to XDAdevelopers forum and check out which sort of ROM development level the device has. To me only devices with good ROM development are worth buying and thus I usually acquire more mature devices. I also root and carefully select my software. The result is a smartphone which works like a swiss watch.

Stupid dumbass cucumbery ;-) or ultra-wide screens, sorry to say. Enough is enough with the wide screen crap, 16:9 tops. Browsing in portrait the extra lenght isn't that important, yet when you browse in landscape screen height matters. The bigger the difference between width and height or viceversa, the less useable a screen is. I prefer 16:10 over 16:9 actually, a ratio which is closer to the Golden ratio.