The cheapest phone in the world is investigated for fraud

The Freedom 251 is known for being the cheapest phone in the world, created by the Ringing Bells company in India, it only costs 3 euros and from the first moment it was involved in controversy for its price. How is such a cheap phone possible? Where do they get the profits from? .

After the controversy when the phone was launched and the inability of Ringing Bells to satisfy all the reserves (Yes, they accepted reservations even knowing that they did not have enough units), now it is the state of India itself that is going to investigate the company for this product, because plain and simple "A phone at that price is not possible" .

It is the Indian political party, Bharatiya Janata Party, that is initiating the investigation into this Freedom 251 phone and the Ringing Bells company, which is suspected of being involved in a massive pyramid scheme for this product. Many speculate that Ringing Bells would be receiving undeclared government subsidies to be able to sell the phone at well below manufacturing cost.

Ringing Bells has answered questions about his phone in a recent interview on the Gadgets NDTV site :

"We have already explained that we can sell the Freedom 251 at a price lower than its cost of production thanks to innovative promotions and we will complete the delivery of the product in June 2016."

The cheapest phone in the world only costs 3 euros

The cheapest "suspect" phone in the world Freedom 251 is a 4-inch QHD (960 x 540) screen phone, a 4-core processor running at 1.3GHz, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of expandable internal storage with MicroSD card and two 3.2 megapixel cameras and a front 0.3 megapixel camera, the system it uses is Android 5.1, all for 3 euros. As can be seen, it has the bare minimum to make calls, surf the internet and check social networks.