Cameras are nothing out of the ordinary

Sporting an 8-megapixel rear camera with autofocus, the UP Xtreme’s camera captures below average photos. While you can get decent shots in broad daylight, the UP Xtreme has difficulties in balancing exposure in tricky lighting situations.

Aside from that, we noticed that color rendition is slightly bland especially in mixed lighting. In good lighting, however, the UP Xtreme manages to capture decent photos.

The same goes for the front camera: Also using an 8-megapixel sensor, the selfie camera captures normal selfies, though they tend to overexpose at times.

Battery can last a day, but there are some caveats

While the battery of the UP Xtreme may be small by today’s standards, it can coast through the day. This is possible as it uses a smaller 5-inch HD display, which is not power-hungry. We could not get the complete battery life stats using PCMark as the app kept crashing on our review unit. However, based on our usage, we manage to squeeze in around six and a half hours of usage at 50% brightness. That’s pretty much below average, which means that you’ll need a power bank handy when you use the UP Xtreme as your daily driver.

When it comes to caveats, the UP Xtreme has a tendency of going too warm, to the point that we got a battery overheating error twice during our review. Like what we mentioned in the performance section of this review, we hope Starmobile issues an update addressing the UP Xtreme’s thermal management.