The design of the YU Yuphoria is impressive, considering it has employed a metallic frame. The rear cover is made of plastic and is removable. The rear cover itself isn’t that sturdy. The metallic frame is rounded and gives a good grip on the phone, helped in part by the matte finish on the rear cover. It comes in two colours, Buffed Steel with black cover and Champagne Gold with white cover.
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.The YU Yuphoria has a 5-inch HD display and it comes with a laminated glass coating, thereby giving it a pixel density of 294ppi. The IPS panel ensures that you have good viewing angles. Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection is also included which keeps the display protected from scratch marks and smudges. The auto brightness mode tends to jump abruptly between brightness levels when you are using the phone in tricky lighting situations. Sunlight legibility is good as long as you boost up the brightness levels as keeping it in the auto mode was a bit annoying. The phone’s display is sharp and holding at an arms length I did not notice any pixillation. Watching videos or movies on the display is a good experience. There is no noticeable colour tinge on it.
The phone houses a 2230mAh battery and this is good enough for an 8-hour work day on regular use. But if you are a power user, you will need to carry around your charger with you. One thing that is impressive is the quick charging time and you can even replace the battery. The PC Mark for Android test gives a battery life of around 7 hours and 47mins.
