YU Yuphoria review: Cyanogen OS on a budget smartphone, but comes with its flaws

Micromax’s online-only smartphone arm called YU Televentures has already released the Cyanogen OS sporting YU Yureka in the past, and on May 12, it released another device called the YU 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.

Features: 7/10
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.


For a budget phone, the YU Yuphoria’s 2GB of RAM specification is quite interesting. In terms of benchmarks, the numbers given out by the Yuphoria are in the same range as that of the Motorola Moto E 4G, Lenovo A6000 and so on. The 2GB RAM, does give the Yuphoria a slight edge and keeps things speedy. I did not notice any lag while switching between apps. The animations were smooth on the default theme. Only the camera app takes a slight delay to begin.