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The plant YotaPhone 2 accused of Yota Devices in the deceptive

Singapore company Hi-P, which is a manufacturer of smartphones YotaPhone 2, refuted the statement of the Russian Yota Devices abolish the output device to the U.S. market through the fault of the supplier. About it write “news”.

“The allegations made by Yota, completely false. We demanded a public apology from Yota, and we will undertake at its own discretion all necessary measures to dot the i, if you do not get a positive response from Yota”, – said the representative of Hi-P.

To exit the American market, Yota Devices has used the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. The fundraiser was launched on 19 may 2015. Collect managed approximately $300 000. It was assumed that in retail stores USA YotaPhone 2 will go on sale in August 2015 at a price of around $600. However, in early August it became known that the Russian company has cancelled the launch of sales of the new YotaPhone 2 in the United States.

In a statement to users Indiegogo reported: “the Reason for the cancellation of our start associated with unanticipated delays in production and delivery version of YotaPhone 2 for North America is the fault of our maker… when we started this campaign, we were confident that our supplier will be able to fulfil its obligation”.

Yota Devices has offered to pay the money back to those who gave her the money via Indiegogo. Or users can get a phone that will not work on us LTE and 3G networks.

Observers believe that the problems are rooted in compatibility YotaPhone 2 with cellular networks. According to leading analyst Mobile Research Group of Eldar Murtazin, the phone is designed to work in American LTE frequencies it is necessary to completely redo. This is a very expensive and time consuming.

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“You need at least $8 million and six months of work. In the USA there are so many people willing to buy the YotaPhone 2 is sure Murtazin”. There is information that only Russia and Europe sold less than 150,000 vehicles. “It is unlikely that sales in the US, at best, would have amounted to more than 5-10% of total sales”, — said Timur Nigmatullin, an analyst “Finam”.

“Shifting the responsibility to Chinese suppliers and carriers, the explanation of problems in logistics and timing initially did not seem wealthy, says the Director of the Institute of contemporary economy Nikita Isaev. The rules of business etiquette, and rules of business conduct, and legal implications require international players to be responsible in the applications and especially the accusations against the partners. I do not exclude that YotaDevices analyzed the risks of such charges. And possible sued the Chinese manufacturer that is associated with the protection of business reputation, anticipated. Such a claim is more than possible”.

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