Yandex.Terephone fell by more than 20%

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Yandex reduced the price of its smartphone by more than 20% three months after the start of sales, Vedomosti writes. In the company, a revision of price policy is associated with the holidays. For two months, retailers spoke of low demand for smartphones of the Internet company.

Read more. Yandex reduced the cost of its smartphone from 17,990 to 13,990 rubles. The company explained this in spring holidays and noted that the price will remain at such a level and in the future. “Like the rest of the market players, after a certain time after the model output, we review the price policy and reduce prices,” the Yandex press service noted .

• The company does not connect the review of prices with low demand, without disclosing sales data. Although, as the Vedomosti had previously learned from the employees of the three retailers, in December they managed to sell only 400 Yandex.Terephones.

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Context. Yandex.Terephone with the pre -installed services of the company and the voice assistant "Alice" went on sale on December 7. It can be bought in the Belu online store, as well as in stores of the Svyaznoy, Euroset, M. Video, Eldorado chain and in the Moscow Museum of Yandex.

• The main competitive advantage of the smartphone is Alice’s voice assistant, earlier Fedor Yezhov, vice-president of the company in ecosystem products, told The Bell. To use it in another phone, you need to go to the application, wait until it boots, press the Alice button and ask a question. In the case of the phone from Yandex, you can call Alice, even if the phone just lies next to you.

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Liana Faizova