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Yu Yunicorn to Be Available in Its First Flash Sale Today

Yu Yunicorn to Be Available in Its First Flash Sale Today

By Ketan Pratap | Updated: 7 June 2016 16:25 IST

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Highlights

Yu Yunicorn runs Android Lollipop with "Android on Steroids".
It will be available in Rush Silver, Graphite, and Rush Gold.
It comes with Around Yu 2.0 with a host of improvements.

Yu Televentures' latest flagship Yu Yunicorn will be going on sale on Tuesday in its first flash sale. The smartphone will be available at an introductory price of Rs. 12,999 exclusively via Flipkart. To recall, registrations for the sale began last week.

The smartphone will be available in Rush Silver, Graphite, and Rush Gold colour variants, though the last will be available in limited quantities for the first few sales.

(Also see: Yu Yunicorn Review)

The smartphone's hardware highlights are the high amount of memory and ample battery capacity at the price. The 8.5mm thick smartphone also features a metal frame and rear panel, using a brushed aluminium alloy including magnesium and manganese. It also sports a fingerprint scanner on the home button, which will unlock the smartphone in as little as 0.2 seconds, and stores up to 5 fingerprints on a chip.

For software, the smartphone runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop with what Yu calls "Android on Steroids". The Around Yu services platform is said to have received an upgrade to v2.0, and partnerships with Ixigo, Ola, Uber enable bookings. The dual-SIM (Nano-SIM, Hybrid) Yu Yunicorn sports a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixel) display with Gorilla Glass 3, and is powered by an octa-core (4 cores at 1.8GHz, and 4 cores at 1.4GHz) MediaTek Helio P10 SoC with support for carrier aggregation, coupled with 4GB of RAM.

The Yunicorn bears a 13-megapixel rear camera with dual-LED flash, and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with 32GB of storage, which can be expanded via the hybrid dual-SIM microSD card (up to 128GB) slot. It's powered by a 4000mAh battery rated to deliver up to 20 hours of talk time, and 500 hours of standby time. It also offers fast charging support. Connectivity options on board are pretty standard, and include 4G LTE support.

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Yu Yunicorn

REVIEW
KEY SPECS
NEWS

Design
Display
Software
Performance
Battery Life
Camera
Value for Money

Good
Very good build quality and aesthetics
Great battery life
Useful software services

Bad
Underwhelming camera performance
No FM radio
A bit heavy

Read detailed Yu nicorn review

Display 5.50-inch

Processor MediaTek Helio P10 (MT6755)

Front Camera 5-megapixel

Rear Camera 13-megapixel

RAM 4GB

Storage 32GB

Battery Capacity 4000mAh

OS Android 5.1

Resolution 1080x1920 pixels

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Ketan Pratap is the Editor at Gadgets 360. His primary role - debugging the tech hype, benchmarking the future, and compiling it all into precise news, features or reviews. He has spent over 14 years calling out vaporware and identifying the best tech. He’s your guide for everything from chipsets to smart-home meltdowns. When his own batteries are low, he heads for the hills—literally. He’s someone who prefers a remote mountain pass, appreciating a 12,000-foot view that no VR ...More