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YU made a splash in the Indian smartphone scene last year by not only rubbing OnePlus the wrong way with its exclusive deal with Cyanogen Inc. but also with a great product in the Yureka. Back then, as we noted in the  review,  the Yureka became the best phablet for under Rs 10,000. It even managed to beat the Xiaomi Redmi Note to that crown.  Unfortunately, in this age of iterative updates, seven months down the line the Yureka had lost its edge. In fact, for a last few weeks the Micromax-owned company had stopped selling the phone. Well, YU had good reason for the same as it was planning to launch an upgraded version of the phone dubbed the Yureka Plus.  Obviously, YU is looking to regain lost ground that has been captured by phones like the new Lenovo K3 Note. The Yureka Plus is quite evidently training its corsairs for the K3 Note. Before the K3 Note came to the market, no smartphone in India that was priced at less than 10K had a full HD screen. The K3 Note changed this. 

Lenovo recently launched the K3 Note, which is exclusively available on Flipkart through flashsale. After launching A6000, A6000 Plus and A7000, this is the fourth budget smartphone by Lenovo that is so feature rich. K3 Note sports a 5.5 inch full HD display and has 4G connectivity, just at the price of Rs 10,000. Build and design Lenovo K3 Note doesn't look much different from other Android phones. It is rectangular in shape coupled with rounded corners and a plastic body that has a matte finish. As far as the looks go, the smartphone is very average. A plus point of K3 Note is that it is considerably light in weight when compared to devices with similar dimensions. The front panel of the phone is dominated by the 5.5-inch display with the 5MP front camera placed right next to the earpiece. The front of the phone also has capacitive touchscreen buttons, placed below the display. We found the keys to be very responsive, however, these are not backlit, which hampers the user

Micromax recently launched Canvas Xpress 2 E313 with 5-inch HD Display Octa-Core Processor 13MP Camera Android 4.4 Smartphone At Rs 5,999 Micromax has launched the Canvas Xpress 2 E313, the company’s latest smartphone in the Canvas series exclusively on Flipkart. It has a 5-inch HD IPS display, is powered by a 1.4 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat), which is upgradable to Android 5.0 (Lollipop). It features a 13-megapixel auto focus rear camera with dual LED Flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support and 3G connectivity, similar to other Micromax smartphones. It has Smart Gestures, Quick Look and Camera Widget. It packs Cirrus Logic Wolfson Stereo DAC for an enhanced audio experience. Highlights: 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection1.4 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592M processor with Mali 450 GPU1GB RAM, 8GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD