Design and built: 7.5/10
There is no doubt that the smartphone looks impressive, however I has the exact same design as the Meizu m3 Note. The curved 2.5D glass on the front, the fingerprint scanner and the metal casing at the back, all of them are identical to the m3 Note The only difference would be the brushed finish on the metal casing which looks great.
At the front there is a 5.5 inch display with the fingerprint scanner below it and the usual sensors, earpiece, notification LED, front camera all placed above. The power and volume rocker keys are placed on the right edge and sim card tray on he left edge. The top houses the 3.5mm audio jack with a microphone for video recording and the bottom edge has the speaker grill and the microUSB port. At the back there is a camera with the dual-LED flash below it.
Overall the handset feels strudy and solid in the and. It has a thickness of 8.5mm and it feeels a bit on the heavy side with a weight of 72g thanks to the metal back. For an affordable phablet, the Yunicorn is a well polished device.
Camera: 6/10
There is a 13MP camera at the back which features an Omnivision purecel OV13853 image sensor, with an f/2.2 aperture lens, dual-LED flash and phase detection autofocus. In bright conditions the image quality looks fine with slightly subdued colors. Even in bright conditions, pictures lack detail and are soft. In low light there is noise and further softening and loss of details. Image loo quite flat and contrast levels are not upto the mark. Even the font camera is a bt of a disappointment as you end up getting soft selfie pictures. The camera app is also ancient reminding us of Android 4.4, although you get pretty standard features like HDR, fine tune controls, filters and more.
Battery: 8/10
The company said that the Yunicorn will offer a battery backup pf four days from its 4, 000mAh battery unit, although that is a very high claim, it managed to offer a pretty good backup of a full day without any issue. if you are a light user you can probably squeeze out a day and a half. In our tests we charged it to a full 100% and used the device all day. Heavy usage resulted left us with 20% battery at the end of the day, which is not bad at all.
Personal Opinion
the Yunicorn is great looking smartphone, and offers a good battery life as well, but that is not enough to make it a recommended device. The overall experience of the smartphone is mostly hampered by he software. It’s somehow not very well optimised, as if the company was in hurry to push out the device. The camera also isn’t very impressive considering that Motorola in the same price offers a much better camera with the Moto G4 Plus.
Yu launched the handset at Rs 12, 999 for the first month but it is currently selling T Rs 13, 499 and will be rs 14.999 starting next month. This kind of pricing makes it a cometitor to the Moto G4 plus, Xiaomi Redmi Note 3, Lenovo Zuk Z1 and LeEco Le 2 all of which are way beter smartphone than the Yunicorn. For that matter, even the Meizu m3 Note is a better option tto go for.