MICROMAX YU YUREKA REVIEW

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YU televenture under Micromax launched its budget android smartphone namely Yureka in India which is priced @ 8,999/- sold via Amazon. It is available in Moonstone Grey shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is Good. It has a corning gorilla glass 3 on front and textured back and feels pretty good in hands. It is slim at 8.8mm and weighs 155gms. It has 5.5 inch HD IPS LCD display of resolution 720 x 1280 with 267 ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is very good. It runs on cyanogen's custom User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS
It has 16GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 32GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps such as Zoe camera app stores all your images and has built video player as well as music player which stores and plays respectively which are very good. FM radio comes pre-installed too. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & 50mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n, Wifi Dual-band, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.0.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 13MP rear camera with autofocus and  led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is very good overall. Daytime the images are Great and has fine details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become more visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images and clarity is quite good. It does FULL HD 1080p@30fps HDR video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 16-17 mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is very good overall. Daytime the video clarity is Very good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is acceptable could have been better. It also has a 5MP front camera for selfe's which does 1080p video with HDR and clarity is very good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android based cyanogen (OS) 4.4.4 Kitkat out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 (MSM8939) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running an Octa-Core processor which is of Quad-Core clocked at 1.5 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A53 Architecture) & Quad-Core clocked at 1.0 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A53 Architecture) with 2GB RAM and Adreno 405 (550 MHZ single Core) GPU. The performance is Excellent which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at all.
QUADRANT :13950.
ANTUTU : 27146.
NENAMARK 2 : 59.5fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Non-Removable Li-Pro 2500 mah battery. The battery life is quite good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 8H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 7H.
TALKTIME : upto 17H(2G) / upto 14H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 430H(2G) / upto 420H(3G).

PROS
*Very good build quality.
*Very good display and viewing angle.
*Excellent Performance.
*Very Good camera and great video recording clarity.
*Good Loudspeaker.
*USB OTG support. 
*Quite good battery life.
*Very good pricing for the hardware as its the first to feature Snapdragon 615 SOC (System On Chip) on the budget.

CONS
*Non removable battery.
*Does heat up pretty soon and becomes uncomfortable software update might bring it down to a good extenct hopefully.
*No dedicated camera key.
*Invite based system only.
*After sales service and support is unknown. 

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9.4/10.

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