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these days the question isn't whether you are a Kickstarter phone at all but whether or not you are the best I'm our first Center we're TechnoBuffalo and this is the Ubik oh no the Yuba guna was reviewed over a period of seven days the team who sent it over the Ubik team obviously they made it very clear that what we're using is a pre-production sample it is hand-built and it is not totally representative of the completed product any hardware issues that we see here are supposed to be resolved by the time the production split spins up but I just wanted to let you guys know this is indeed a hand-built pre pro Divine's the Yuba Kuno is in an interesting device the the team behind it has a ton of experience working at major OEM so this definitely isn't their first rodeo the device has a distinct look to it with its kind of non-existent bezels on the side and a kind of a taller form factor but feel sturdy enough in the hand and it does feel a little bit premium with its metal frame and chamfered edges on both sides the back is a plastic non removable panel with a radial texture on it that gives it some kind of nice grip you can kind of hear it there too I wouldn't use the word nice to describe how the phone actually feels in the hand but it doesn't feel bad either it's very utilitarian feels very sharp the corners are kind of tough it I don't know something about it just feels a little bit blocky all right let's talk about some specs inside this thing we're looking at a mediatek processor we'll talk more about that in a little while but in the meantime it's an octa-core MT 6 7 9 5 o'clock - 2.2 gigahertz with 3 gigs of RAM a 20 megapixel Sony camera with 6 different lenses on the inside and 16 gigs of on-board storage that of course is expandable by that 64 gig slot on the side the rest of the hardware is just kind of there the buttons on the side are identical and they're difficult to tell apart when you're looking at them though when you're holding it it's not that big of a deal the U logo on the chin seems like it ought to be a button but it's not the speakers are on the back and they get kind of tinny at higher volumes but there's serviceable otherwise and here on the left side is where you're gonna find your SIM slot on the bottom along with your micro SD slot on the top the 5.5 inch display is strong it's got decent color reproduction the color temperature is a little bit off for me and I wish the colors were a little bit more saturated but the blacks are rich and the sharpness is about where you would expect it to be at 400 dpi where it does take a bit of a dip is the responsiveness of the touch panel it definitely feels like the touch panel here is subpar and I haven't felt that way in a pretty long time when it comes to mobile devices check out this comparison that I did between the galaxy note 5 the newest latest and greatest and the Ubik you know you can see that we don't have a pretty hard time maintaining a consistent touch response and it really does come through on the day to day one of the other marquee features of the uno is the camera and on paper this Sony sensor is packing quite a wallop it should snap some of the best photos you can get on a mobile device but in practice it really does still need a lot of work the camera is totally unable to focus on anything close up period end of story whether you're an Instagram the actual camera app on the phone or the Google camera app the 120 frames per second video doesn't quite work just yet either and it really just results in a choppy melee of visual and audio the software on the camera side though is totally easy enough to use and it does offer a lot of options for those of you who want them mediatek gets a really bad rap in these parts of the world due in part to their refusal to kind of share the source code which means that custom roms and third-party patches aren't something that you should expect to see on the uno this is really kind of unfortunate because I do think that media types doing some good work they're focusing on multi-core and intelligent cluster management and it really kind of shows especially on this little thing the work of heterogeneous multi-processing is the same kind of text that Samsung is working towards with their Exynos chip sets so if you feel one way about Samsung and you use the Exynos chip sets anyway you should be not really all that upset about using a mediatek processor performance in my experience was pretty aside from the obvious issue of touch panel on responsiveness the UNA was always ready for me to throw something at it the benchmarks don't look great compared to similarly costed cohorts but I never had any issues with performance animations were smooth after were responsive there were spots where other devices would lag especially other ones that I've used that I didn't experience here that you know just didn't bat an eyelash at any of that stuff I've never used a mediatek processor before but I'm actually really pleasantly surprised with the quality that I brought to the table on the uno the software here is also totally inoffensive it's mostly stock Android with a few handful of small tweaks there are some nice additions like tapped awake and some gestures when the device is asleep but everything else is entirely stock and that's a good thing stock Android is probably one of the reasons why this thing feels like it runs so smoothly the battery life was totally fine not crazy good but I didn't have any issues with it though this is probably because I was unable to get any SIM cards working on LTE bands here in California so hopefully that's something that they get resolved before they hit production as I said these are hand assembled devices as far as value devices go we're about to start seeing some seriously heavy hitters in the arena and if you want to win you've got to bring your A game the uno just doesn't seem to do anything that other manufacturers aren't doing and it's second iteration Rubick is gonna be counting on the community to let them know what features to support and what the design of the device should be like but for now it's kind of just another bunch of device unfortunately it's not a bad phone I'm just not sure it's doing enough to make a name for itself right handle the UVic comes in at 320 dollars USD which is certainly at the lower end of the value device range but I'm struggling to see anything special about it beyond the totally reasonable price I'm really hoping that next year's entry from Ubik which will have been fueled by the Ubik community is a little bit more forward-thinking even though this isn't the phone I'd be rushing out to get I think it's so so good for the industry that it exists there you have it folks my thoughts on these successfully kick-started Ubik uno have any of you guys backed it or any other kick-started devices is this thing the you know have to capture your attention let me know in the comments what you 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