A day after promising to restore its online pre-order services for the Indian masses to book the world’s cheapest “Make in India” smartphone, the “Freedom 251” website continued its poor run on Friday as people faced trouble in pre-ordering the Rs.251 ( less that$4) device. Already mired in controversy over its similarity toAppleiPhone design and appearance and now the Indian government keeping a close watch on its four-day booking offer that started from 6 a.m. on Thursday, the Noida-basedstartupRinging Bells Pvt Ltd claimed to have received 30, 000 confirmed orders and over six lakh hits per second on its website on the first day. But hours later, the firm stopped taking orders after its servers crashed owing to a huge rush to book the device online on http://www.freedom251.com.
However, their were some lucky people who managed to pre-book thesmartphone early in the morning when the website was up.