A week after unveiling India’s cheapest 5G phone, Lava announces a model for those who are okay with sticking 4G for a while longer – the Lava Yuva Pro will be available soon for just ₹ 7,800 (US$ 95/€ 98). That makes it cheaper than the similar Lava Blaze from July (that one was ₹ 8,700). The Yuva Pro is not an advanced phone, but it does cover all the necessities. It has two sim slots and a microSD for cards up to 512GB. The phone itself has 32GB on board plus 3GB of RAM.
It is powered by an unnamed MediaTek Helio
chipset and runs Android 12. There is a 6.52” display on the front with HD+
resolution (20:9), not the sharpest but it is an IPS panel. Notched into it is
the 8MP selfie camera, around back we find the 13MP main camera (and two
auxiliary modules). There is no word on video recording, so we assume it’s
capped at 1080p.
The fingerprint reader isn’t on the back
(like on the Blaze Pro), it is mounted on the side instead (it is slower,
though, needing 0.65s to unlock the phone vs. 0.35s on the Blaze Pro). The Yuva
Pro runs on a large 5,000mAh battery, which is enough for over 5 hours of
watching YouTube videos. The charging is glacially slow, however, at 10W the
phone needs 3 hours to reach 100%.
Other means of entertainment are available
besides streaming too – you can plug in headphones into the 3.5mm jack and
listen to local MP3s or turn on the FM radio. The phone can act as a hotspot or
connect to local a Wi-Fi 5 (ac) network. You can find the Lava Yuva Pro on the
company’s official online store. By the way, Lava is offering a free screen
replacement in the first 100 days of ownership.
