Bookings for the world’s cheapest smartphone, Freedom 251 resumed today after a brief hiccup on their official website, www.freedom251.com. On Thursday, the company Ringing Bells boasted that they had already sold around 30,000 units before their website crashed.
The overwhelming demand, which was only to be expected from the bargain-hunters on day one, sent the booking site crashing and the company stopped accepting orders, briefly.
The website’s homepage later read: “Dear friends, we are very grateful for your enormous response and your kind patronage and would submit that as of now we received approx. 6 lakh hits per second as a result of your kind overwhelming response, servers are over loaded.”
(With inputs from ENS)