Registrations now open for YU YUREKA sale on Jan 22nd


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Micromax’s YU launched the YUREKA smartphone last month for Rs. 8,999. It sold 10,000 smartphones in just 3 seconds in the first flash sale earlier this Tuesday, January 13th. At that time the company confirmed that the second flash sale will take place on January 22nd. Today Amazon.in has started registrations for the second sale. You just need to click subscribe that will be considered as registration. Customers who had registered but couldn’t purchase the YUREKA on 13th Jan, will now be automatically pre-registered for the next sale, said the company.

YU Yureka has a 5.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) IPS display, is powered by a Octa-Core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 (4×1.5GHz + 4×1.0GHz) processor, runs on Cyanogen OS 11 based on Android 4.4 (KitKat), features a 13-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED Flash, 5-megapixel front-facing camera, comes with 2GB RAM, 16GB of internal storage with expansion slot, 2500mAh battery and has Cat4. LTE support, including support for 4G LTE bands (TDD B40 2300MHz and FDD B3 1800MHz) for India.

Amazon started shipping the Yureka smartphones to customers few days back. It offered a free leather back cover along with the smartphone for first sale.

YU and Amazon.in have not revealed the number of units that would go on sale next Thursday, but we should know it along with the number of people registered for the sale in a few days when the registration closes.

[Update: Amazon.in has announced that registrations will close at 2PM on Tuesday, January 20th. It has not revealed the number of units for the sale yet.]


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