Yu Yuphoria First Impression

Today was the launch of an Iconic Mobile in the history of mobiles The YU Yuphoria

We have been speculating about the features of the Yu Yuphoria with all the other techies and you can read all about it here.

So getting to the point, Yu Televentures the sister company of Micromax launched their second groundbreaking smartphone, the Yu Yuphoria today. The phone brings a ton of features which are totally new and first time being introduced to the budget smartphones. Since we have had the pleasure of experiencing the phone, let us take down our first impressions of the Yu Yuphoria. And you bet all the 3 teasers released by Rahul Sharma(CEO, Yu Televentures) have us fully excited.

And here's what Rahul had t say after the event -

Proud of launching not just one but three new products #YUPHORIA, #HEALTHYU and #YUFIT, what do you think about it? pic.twitter.com/HSpCRWItOk

— Rahul Sharma (@rahulsharma) May 12, 2015

Let us start with the front of this amazing phone, the Yu Yuphoria has a stunning 5-inch 720p HD-IPS display, which is great for the price it is up for grabs. We feel that they could have not even pulled off a 720p Screen but they somehow managed and with great perfection.

The IPS panel looks gorgeous for the price of the Yuphoria but has a warmer colour palette, which we personally feel is amazing and our Founder Karan Arora loves it, but it totally depends upon person to person if they like it or not.

The display also comes with the protection of the Corning Gorilla Glass 3 which is amazing as we have seen that is is 4X more stronger than normal scratch resistant glass.

The Yu Yuphoria like it's predecessor runs on Cyanogenmod CM12 OS which is based on Android Lollipop 5.0 by google which is said to be the best custom ROM made for Android and the company also allows you to root or unlock your phone without voiding the warranty of the phone, which is so sweet.

This is the first smartphone in the mid-range price segment to feature a full metal band all around it's body made from a single strip of metal not by joining many pieces made possible by breakthrough techniques used in the mobile manufacturing industry for the first time inspired by the automobile industry.

At the back of the Yuphoria, the phone features a matte polycarbonate removable back panel which has a great feel to it of a premium device, and this also makes the phone look like the Nokia Lumia's back whose design everybody in the tech industry love.

At the bottom of the body of the Yuphoria, we see that it houses the speakers underneath its speaker grill which we feel the design is giving class to the back making this look like a flagship phone, the speakers are AAC Speakers with Pure Wolfson Sound with unidirectional sound projection.

At the back the Yuphoria sports an 8MP camera shooter that sits inside a metal ring which Yu is calling the Saturn Rings with a single LED that is sitting in the ring itself on the left side of the lens. The Camera is situated on the middle of the smartphone as keeping in mind that on the edges our fingers usually obstruct the camera's view making our photos to appear not as good as they could have been. Opening the Camera App, we see the clean interface of the Cyanogenmod's Camera App, which is similar to the stock Camera App by Google. and the front camera is of 5MP and has a wide angle lens.

The back is removable with the tab situated at the bottom of the phones back just above the microUSB Port and when opened it reveals a 2300mAh removable battery, which is nice as these days phones are coming with built in batteries. Both the dual-SIM card slots and the microSD card slot are located inside the back panel just above the battery.

We also got time to do some really quick benchmark tests on the Yu Yuphoria, and we were amazed to find such good performance levels check out the scores of all the benchmark tests we did below.

Check out in the image below how the Yu Yuphoria compares to the Motorola Moto E(2nd gen) (extreme left) and the Lenovo A6000 Plus (extreme right) in size, both of it's competitors in the market right now.

On Overall basis, the Yu Yuphoria looks an irresistible smartphone and also is a excellent competitor in the budget segment of smartphones, but how well does it stack up against the competition? You'll have to wait for our full review for that answer. and also to know if all the bugs and kinks of the Yu Yureka are rectified or not.