25,000 units of Micromax's Yu Yureka
smartphone will be made available to
purchase on Thursday. It is the fifth flas
sale of the smartphone, and kicks off at
2pm IST on Amazon India for registered
users.
Yu announced the number of units goin
on sale in a tweet on Tuesday. Notably,
this is the first flash sale that will see
25,000 units of the Yureka smartphone
going up for sale in India.
The last flash sale saw 15,000 units of
Yureka smartphone going out of stock i
4 seconds while the third flash sale of
saw 10,000 smartphones going out of
stock in 3 seconds.
The second flash sale saw 15,000 units
being grabbed in just 4 seconds, much
like the last sale. The first flash sale that
had seen 10,000 units go out of stock i
3 seconds also saw a lot of controversy
with site glitches including incorrect pric
listings and allegations the company
actually made only 3,000 units available
for sale.
Last week, Micromax's Yu Yureka starte
receiving its first OTA (over-the-air)
update that brought bug fixes. Notably, i
was an incremental update and added
security fixes, improvements for proximit
sensor and dual-SIM functionality.
Priced at Rs. 8,999, Micromax's Yu
Yureka (Review | Pictures ) offers some
rather impressive specifications at the
price. The dual-SIM smartphone feature
Cat. 4 4G LTE connectivity, and runs
Cyanogen OS 11 based on Android 4.4.4
KitKat. It bears a 5.5-inch HD (720x128
pixels) IPS display with Gorilla Glass 3;
64-bit 1.5GHz octa-core Snapdragon
615 SoC (MSM8939); an Adreno 405
GPU; 2GB of RAM; a 13-megapixel Sony
Exmor CMOS sensor rear camera with an
f/2.2 aperture and flash; a front-facing
5-megapixel fixed-focus camera; 16GB
inbuilt storage expandable via microSD
card (up to 32GB), and a 2500mAh Li-P
battery.
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