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Freedom 251 could be a scam

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"Indian Cellular Association has complained to Telecom Ministry to look into depth on claims made by company (Ringing Bell). Indian Cellular Association says minimum price for 3G phone is Rs 2700."

Freedom 251, the cheapest smartphone on the planet is out for sale. Noida-based manufacturer Ringing Bells’ are offering Rs 251 smartphone on their website freedom251.com. Gadget lovers, as well as, smartphone aspirants are rushing to the site to order the product at the unbelievable price. However, tech pundits opine that it could be a big scam, since such a smartphone with such considerable specifications could not be sold at such a meagre price, with whatsoever the amount of subsidy offered by the government.

According to veteran tech journalist Aseem Manchanda, even the set of headphone, usb charger amount up the price which the company claims they are charging for the entire phone set. “Indian Cellular Association has complained to Telecom Ministry to look into depth on claims made by company (Ringing Bell). Indian Cellular Association says minimum price for 3G phone is Rs 2700. It is not possible to offer phone at Rs 251,” he said. 

Journalists present at the event sensed something fishy last evening since the sample phones handed over to journalists for assessment was a poorly rebranded version of Chinese smartphone Adcom Ikon 4. Whitener was pasted above the logo of Adcom before handing it over to the journalists. 

One should also recall the high-handed attitude shown by DataWind, the manufacturer of Aakash tablet. The gadget was made available at an extraordinary cheap price of Rs 2500. Nearly 40 lakh customers had booked the tablet. However, only 2.5 lakh units was manufactured by the company. Many of the customers were left unattended by the company after major logistical failure.

Also the company hasen't yet started the manufacturing, they are saying they will start the manufacturing in May'16. Also they haven't shown any manufacturung plant yet as where they will be manufacturing the device. So only in 1 month they will produce this much devices which will fulfill all consumer demands. There are different editors who visited the office but was no one to attend them. Are we relying to a company which is recently registered on september'15.

It would be rather advisable to wait before you place your order based on the eyeball grabbing price.

I am sorry for yesterday's post about the reason why the phone was so cheap...
Actually i expressed the reasons which the company claimed to be the reason. But there's a fact behind it which i mentioned in the above post.

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