Nobody in their wildest dream could think of a working smartphone for as low as Rs 251 (USD $4) to become a reality. The company says they are subsidising Rs 3,000 phone at their end just for the masses.
This takes us to the GSM Vs CDMA era, when reliance brought a Nokia 3350 CDMA cell phone to India and sold it at Rs 500 (packed with a reliance connection). The company wanted to make money off the mobile service and not the phone.
And we all know what a broken dream that turned out to be. People did talk about it a lot and many ran away with it too.
With the launch of Freedom 251, people have again taken to their humorous and not-so-humorous side to speak their mind on places like Twitter. We came across some really good statements.
Here is what people are saying about the Freedom 251 smartphone: