Yu Yutopia Launched in India At Rs. 24999, Shipping Starts Today!

Yu, which has launched its new flagship smartphone ‘Yu Yutopia’ last week in New Delhi, India starts shipping today. The Micromax-owned company has launched the much-awaited smartphone earlier this month in India and announced that it will start shipping from December 26. As promised, the company has finally launched the most powerful handset in the world at an expensive price of Rs. 24,999. The pre-bookings of the device started on the E-commerce portal Amazon from December 17 and the device will start the shipping today. The company has announced that there will be flash sales conducted for this smartphone as there are only limited stocks available.

The Yu Yutopia smartphone comes equipped with high-end hardware specifications. One of the highlights of the handset is the onboard fingerprint sensor, which can additionally be used to take selfies. Yu is partially owned by the Indian smartphone makers, Micromax and launched its first smartphone, the Yu Yureka in December 2014.

Yu Yutopia Launched in India - Shipping Starts Today

Since the launch of the first smartphone, the company has launched three more affordable smartphones namely Yu Yunique, Yureka Plus, and Yuphoria. Yu Yutopia is the fifth handset, for which the company is aiming to place it in the high-end smartphone market.

Specifications

The Yu Yutopia smartphone will feature a 5.2-inch display with a pixel resolution of 2560 x 1440 along with a pixel density of 565 ppi. The handset also comes with 91 percent NTSC spec, pure black touch panel, OGS display with Corning Concore Glass for protection. The device is powered by a 2GHz octa-core Snapdragon 810 processor with 4GB DDR4 RAM. The handset also packs in an Adreno 430 GPU. On the storage front, the smartphone include an internal storage of 32GB which can be further expanded up to 128GB via microSD card.

On the Camera front, the device comes equipped with a 21MP rear camera with a Sony IMX230 sensor, phase detect AF and OIS. Also, the device supports 4K recording at 60fps. On the other side, the smartphone has an 8MP front facing camera. It is a dual-SIM smartphone that runs Cyanogen OS 12.1, which is based on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop operating system. In terms of Connectivity, the smartphone supports 4G LTE, 3G, Wi-Fi, and other usual connectivity features.

Yu Yutopia - Specs and Price

The Yu Yutopia is backed by a 3000 mAh battery, with Quick Charge 2.0. The company touts that the smartphone is capable of reaching from 0 percent to 60 percent charge in 30 minutes. Yu is also bringing a preloaded app called Around Yu – which turned out to be the second launch due on Thursday. Apart from music streaming, the smartphone also comes preloaded with Gaana as the default music player, apart from music streaming. The Yu Yutopia smartphone sports a circular fingerprint sensor to unlock the handset which is also capable of capturing selfies.

Yu Announced Exclusive Exchange Offer

Yu has also announced an ‘Assured Upgrade’ Programme which actually means providing an opportunity to the Yutopia consumers the benefit of an assured upgrade to Yutopia 2. The company said during an ‘upgrade window’ around the Yutopia 2’s launch. An exclusive exchange offer has been waiting for the Yutopia owners that they can avail a 40 percent cash back when purchasing the new Yu Yutopia smartphone by exchanging the old handset.

The Yu Yutopia smartphone starts shipping today, i.e., December 26 and will be available for purchase on the giant E-commerce marketplace Amazon India at a price of Rs. 24, 999.

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