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Rs. 251 Smartphone Bookings Stopped as Company Servers are 'Overloaded'

Rs. 251 Smartphone Bookings Stopped as Company Servers are 'Overloaded'

By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 17 March 2016 13:50 IST

Planning to buy the Rs. 251 smartphone? You might have missed your chance. The world's cheapest smartphone went on sale this morning via freedom251.com but people were already having problems booking the phone. Now however, the option to buy the phone seems to have disappeared completely, as the company claims that its servers have been overloaded. When you visit the Freedom 251 website you will see the site, but clicking on the buy now button takes you to an error page now.

(Also see: Freedom 251 Bookings Now Open; Read This Before You Buy One)

On the website, the Ringing Bells team claims that it was seeing six lakh hits per second on the webpage, which overloaded its servers. For this reason, the company has decided to take a pause and upgrade the service, which will return within 24 hours. You can see the full text in the screenshot below.

(Also see: Freedom 251: Your 5-Point Cheat Sheet to the Rs. 251 Smartphone)

However, at the time of the launch of the Freedom 251 on Wednesday, the company President Ashok Chadha had stated that after 2.5 lakh units are sold on the website, it will stop accepting further orders. It's not clear if this is still the case or not, or how many orders Ringing Bells has recieved yet for what is probably the world's cheapest smartphone.

(Also see: Freedom 251 in Pictures)

On paper, the Freedom 251 is a Rs. 251 smartphone that comes with a 4-inch display, a 1.3GHz quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM, and 8GB of storage (expandable by up to 32GB), and runs Android 5.1. However, the review units which were shared might not have been made by Ringing Bells at all so as of now, we can't really tell you whether this phone is too good to be true or not.

(Also see: Freedom 251 full specifications)

For now however, the Freedom 251 is simply not available, and if you believe that it is the real deal and wanted to buy it, you might have missed your shot.

(Also see: Freedom 251 Should Be Ringing Some Alarm Bells)

Ringing Bells Freedom 251

KEY SPECS
NEWS

Display 4.00-inch

Processor 1.3GHz quad-core

Front Camera 0.3-megapixel

Rear Camera 3.2-megapixel

RAM 1GB

Storage 8GB

Battery Capacity 1450mAh

OS Android 5.1

Resolution 540x960 pixels

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