Yu Yunicorn – Specifications, Price & Review [Complete] [id]

YU, the Micromax’s subsidiary has launched its new smartphone YU Yunicorn, which it touts as the phone ‘Redefining Flagships’, let’s see how good the phone is. If we talk about the design, it comes with a full metal unibody, a brushed aluminium back and a 2.5D curved glass on the front, it looks very beautiful and feels very premium and it is by far the best designed phone Yu or Micromax has ever built so, full marks in design. The Yunicorn sports a 5.5 inches Full HD screen with 401 ppi pixel density and the display is very good. It is powered by the 1.8 GHz MediaTek Helio P10 Octa Core Processor coupled with 4 GB RAM and MALI-T860 GPU. Well, it gives a good lag free performance with normal usage but it lags in high-end games, it would have been great if the company used more powerful processor like the Snapdragon 617 (used in the Moto G4 Plus, has better performance than Helio P10). The phone packs a 13 MP rear camera with f/2.2 aperture, EIS (Electronic Image Stabilization) and Dual-LED flash, it takes decent pictures but the colors are little washed out, better camera phones like the Moto G4 Plus are available at this price. Same is the case with the 5 MP front camera. The Yunicorn runs on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop based company’s new Android on Steroids (AOS) OS which has nearly stock Android like UI but has few added features, it also comes free of bloatwares. The phone also includes company’s Around YU platform, which allows you to book cabs, hotels, flights, order food and much more and, now it also includes a wallet so you can recharge your mobiles, DTH, etc. right from your homescreen and you can do all these without installing any apps like Ola, Uber, Foodpanda, Freecharge, PayTM, etc., just swipe left from the homescreen and the single platform does all these, it is very useful. It includes a fast fingerprint scanner situated below the screen, integrated with the home button. It is a dual sim phone with 4G support, comes with 32 GB internal storage and is expandable upto 128 GB via microSD card but, uses a hybrid slot. It includes a Non-removable Li-Po 4000 mAh battery which gives a good battery backup. Accompanying this big battery, the phone has maintained itself slim with a thickness of 8.5mm, it weighs 172 grams and feels heavy but with this big battery it is totally acceptable. Overall, the YU Yunicorn packs a great premium design and good software with useful features and can be another good choice at this price. If you want an even bigger phone, you can go with YU Yureka Note with 6 inches screen at Rs. 14,299. Micromax’s new Canvas 6 is also a good phone but is lost in the competition.