Its unbeatably low price tag sounds too good to be true but that hasn’t deterred more than 600,000 people per second from heading online to buy the $4 Ringing Bells Freedom 251 smartphone, which went on sale yesterday. That kind of traffic has swamped the company’s servers and the website where you can pre-order the phone is currently down, prompting many to head down to Ringing Bells in person to lodge their annoyance. The company has already been accused of dressing up a Chinese-made handset, the Ikon 4, which is imported by Indian firm Adcom, as its new budget phone. Now local competitors have voiced concerns…
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