As expeccted, YU Televentures, has launched today its flagship smartphones Yutopia with powerful hardware features. The features of this phone are on expected lines and as per speculations. Yu Yutopia is priced Rs. 24,999 and will go on sale exclusively on Amazon.in from 26th December. The Registrattion of Yutopia has started on Amazon from 2PM and it will be available against open sale.
Being a flagship phone from the house of YU, the Yutopia comes with Unibody Metal design with Aircraft grade Aluminum body with Antenna bands integrated seamlessly into the chassis and this makes its body 90% stronger than a polycarbonate body, as claimed by the company. This phone looks quite sleek and easy to carry. It has thickness of 7.2mm.
The hardware specifications of the Yutopia are quite impressive. This phone features a 5.2 inch WQHD IPS Display made by Sharp with resolution of 2560x1440pixels and 565PPI. This display has pure black touch panel and comes with protection of Corning Concore Glass, which is 0.55mm thin and is claimed to be five times tougher. Under the hood is 64 bit Snapdragon 810 octa-core processor clocked at 2.0Ghz with Adreno 430GPU for supporting 3D gaming on 4K.
The other USP of this phone is its 4GB DDR4 RAM. This phone has internal storage of 32GB which can be extended upto 128GB via microSD card. This phone is equipped with 21MP rear camera having IMAX 230 sensor of Sony with wide angle of 77.3.” This camera looks quite odd on the rear as it is protruding one. It has features of Phase Detection Auto Focus (PDAF), Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS) and Blue Glass, capability of video recording in 4K @30fps. The focus time of the camera is less than 0.2 seconds as explained by the company, but we shall have to test this before commenting further on this aspect. The Yutopia also houses 8MP front camera for capturing selfies.
The Yutopia is packed with 3000mAh high desnsity Li-Polymer battery with Quickcharge 2.0 and the company claims that it is capable of charging from 0 to 60% in 30 minutes. This phone is a Dual-SIM device and supports 4G LTE networks and has other standard connectivity options of 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth etc.
The other highlight of this phone is its Fingerprint scanner, which has round form factor and is placed below the rear camera. Besides providing security features, this scanner also perform wake up function and by tapping on it, you can click selfies also. The finger scanner is also claimed to be capable of more than 10 million scans that too in Ultra-low power consumption mode.
For music lovers, this phone incorporates DTS sound technology for exhilirating sound experience and Little Bird in-ear headphones by House of Marley comes in the box alongwith the phone. This phone runs on Cyanogen OS 12.1,which is based on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop.
At today’s event, YU also annoucned the launch of ‘Around YU’ for integrated search on the device. The Around Yu comes pre-loaded with Yutopia and saves the hassles of using multiple apps for cab booking, purchase of air tickets, searching for restaurants, shopping options etc. This app works like a search engine and if you want to have restaurant details, you just have to swipe right on the home screen to get multiple options of eating to choose from. Similarly, you get details for cab booking, airtickets etc without the need for downloading apps of different companies. For instance, no need to download apps of different Cabs providers like Taxi For Sure, Ola etc. The company will expand the portfolio for search options in due course of time. This has been made possible becuse YU has partnered with Zomato, Ixigo, and Scandid.
The other interesting announcement made by YU is its Assured upgrade programme. Under this, the customer buying Yutopia phone will have an option to upgrade to Yutopia 2 when the new device is launched in the future. The company said that they will offer 40% cashback of value of Yutopia if the customer decides to exchange Yutopia and upgrade to Yutopia 2 when it is launched.
The company is also offering Rs 1000 cashback on purchase of the phone via State Bank Credit Card if purchased under EMI transactions. This scheme will run from 17th Dec’15 to 2nd Jan’16 and cashback will be credited to the customer’s card within 45 days from the end of the campaign period.
From the design and hardware perspectives, the Yutopia looks quite promising. Whether it will turn out to be Killer Device, only coming days will tell the true story. We are hopeful of getting the reivew unit from the company next week and shall publish detailed review by the end of the month. Stay Tuned!
