For all the hype that has surrounded the launch of the "Rs. 251 smartphone," as most people are calling the Freedom 251, the number of handsets that have actually been sold to customers from the freedom251.com website is a rather modest "30,000 plus," Ringing Bell Director Mohit Goel told NDTV in an interview.
The Ringing Bell Freedom 251 smartphone, officially launched on Wednesday night to great fanfare, released to a storm of controversy with doubts about the phone's price and viability.
(Also see: Freedom 251: Your 5-Point Cheat Sheet to the Rs. 251 Smartphone)
Nonetheless, the phone generated enough interest that the company servers could not handle the load. On the website, the company states that it was getting six lakh hits per second, which caused it to shut down bookings for 24 hours, due to overloaded servers.
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