YotaPhone 2 won’t be coming to the US due to manufacturing delays
Bad news for anyone wanting to pick up a YotaPhone 2 in the US when it releases; the North American launch of the e-ink smartphone has been cancelled due to manufacturing issues and delays.
After scrounging up around $300,000 in a fundraising campaign, Yota Devices claims that there are problems with the manufacturing process that would keep the phone from being released before 2016, which interferes with some of their other device plans. Since backers had to put down $500 to be guaranteed a phone at launch, the company is offering either an international unlocked version (which lacks support for LTE on carriers in the US) or a refund, although they haven’t figured out how to process the refunds just yet.
While it’s a bit of an inconvenience for any backers of the YotaPhone 2, at least everything is up in the air and transparent. That’s a better outcome that some of the other crowdfunding campaigns we’ve seen, especially in the smartphone market.
Anybody else disappointed that the YotaPhone won’t be seeing a US release?
source: The Verge
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