Ubik Uno: A New Inexpensive 'Flagship Killer' Smartphone

[IInuyasha74]

A new company known as Ubik has entered the smartphone market, tossing its Ubik Uno flagship smartphone in to do battle against the likes of the Oneplus 2.

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[kenjitamura]

Wow... SO much wrong with this.

First problem: Everyone remember the Ouya? When they launched their kickstarter campaign the specs looked great for the price. But guess what? ARM has a very short pause between architecture releases and every new architecture blows the previous one out of the water. By the time this phone gets out of development and starts getting into consumer hands all of the competing phones at that price point will be using A72 cortex cores rather than the A53 cores this thing uses. It will be dead soon and these developers will just have to hope to God the hype for this can carry them to a buyout like Razr did for the Ouya.

Second problem: How can these developers be promoting an "open source" phone using a Mediatek chipset? Mediatek has a horrible history with open sourcing for anything other than its One line of phones which they were most likely forced to do because they worked directly with Google for those. This kickstarter team can only make the most recent blobs available, which are needed for custom ROM's, as long as they as a company continue to exist and actively pass it along from their contract with Mediatek. If their company goes belly up then everyone who bought and received this phone will be SoL for software updates because Mediatek will only give the blobs for their hardware to people contracted with them as a supplier.

 

[zodiacfml]

Right. You might as well get the OnePlus Two now.

 

[Urzu1000]

At this price point, this phone isn't going to make a big splash for its specs. For the same price, you could get a Zenfone 2 with much better specs.

 

[Ryangrant]

The price figures are contradictory. The early bird says $280 and retail will be $345. the infograph shows retail up to $298. At $345, it's not that much cheaper than its competitor.