Wednesday, November 11, 2015
YU Yuphoria review: Cyanogen OS on a budget, but comes with its flaws
With the onslaught of Chinese smartphone makers, homegrown companies are surely facing the heat. In what is increasingly becoming a business model, many companies are selling smartphones online-only. Micromax’s online-only smartphone arm called YU Televentures has already released the Cyanogen OS sporting Yuphoria in the past, and on May 12, it released another device called the Yuphoria . While many had expected a high end device, YU instead released Yuphoria, a budget device with a metallic frame. The Rs 6,999 price point, which has become a standard among budget 4G devices, was also adopted by the YU Yuphoria. Let us see if this phone has what it takes to be first choice for budget phone buyers.
The design of the YU Yuphoria is impressive, considering it has employed a metallic frame. The rear cover is made of plastic and is removable. The rear cover itself isn’t that sturdy. The metallic frame is rounded and gives a good grip on the phone, helped in part by the matte finish on the rear cover. It comes in two colours, Buffed Steel with black cover and Champagne Gold with white cover.
On the top you have a 3.5mm audio jack and at the base there’s the microUSB charging/data transfer port. On the right hand side there are the volume rocker buttons with the power/standby button lodged between the volume rocker. This arrangement although unconventional, is quite ergonomic as you are not left hunting for the power/standby button.
The YU Yuphoria houses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 system on chip which has a 64-bit 1.2GHz quad-core processor with Adreno 306 GPU, along with 2GB of RAM. The chipset is the same one that has been seen on the Lenovo A6000, Motorola Moto E 4G as well as the Xiaomi Redmi 2 and the Huawei Honor 4X, but barring the Honor 4X and the Yuphoria, all other phones comes with only 1GB of RAM. It also offers 16GB of storage of which 11.8GB is available to the user. If you are not content with this storage capacity, then you can even add in a microSD card which lets you increase the storage to 32GB.
The USP of the YU Yuphoria is the CyanogenMod 12 ROM on the Android 5.0 platform. Thanks to this, the phone offers you multiple ways to customise it. There are some of its special apps on the phone such as AudioFX which lets you customise the audio output, ScreenCast lets you record your on screen navigations with the recording registering where you’ve touched the screen as well and so on. YUniverse is the phone’s own browser which is basically a customised version of the Opera browser.
The design of the YU Yuphoria is impressive, considering it has employed a metallic frame. The rear cover is made of plastic and is removable. The rear cover itself isn’t that sturdy. The metallic frame is rounded and gives a good grip on the phone, helped in part by the matte finish on the rear cover. It comes in two colours, Buffed Steel with black cover and Champagne Gold with white cover.
On the top you have a 3.5mm audio jack and at the base there’s the microUSB charging/data transfer port. On the right hand side there are the volume rocker buttons with the power/standby button lodged between the volume rocker. This arrangement although unconventional, is quite ergonomic as you are not left hunting for the power/standby button.
The YU Yuphoria houses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 system on chip which has a 64-bit 1.2GHz quad-core processor with Adreno 306 GPU, along with 2GB of RAM. The chipset is the same one that has been seen on the Lenovo A6000, Motorola Moto E 4G as well as the Xiaomi Redmi 2 and the Huawei Honor 4X, but barring the Honor 4X and the Yuphoria, all other phones comes with only 1GB of RAM. It also offers 16GB of storage of which 11.8GB is available to the user. If you are not content with this storage capacity, then you can even add in a microSD card which lets you increase the storage to 32GB.
The USP of the YU Yuphoria is the CyanogenMod 12 ROM on the Android 5.0 platform. Thanks to this, the phone offers you multiple ways to customise it. There are some of its special apps on the phone such as AudioFX which lets you customise the audio output, ScreenCast lets you record your on screen navigations with the recording registering where you’ve touched the screen as well and so on. YUniverse is the phone’s own browser which is basically a customised version of the Opera browser.
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