You may or may not have heard that the Freedom 251, the world’s cheapest smartphone, launched in India today, but what we at Freedom-Mobiles didn’t expect was the influx of traffic our own site would develop simply down to the name of the product.

Obviously a search of “Freedom 251” brings up their direct website and countless new articles about the ultra cheap phone, however fire “Freedom” with any other phone related word and we’re pretty high up Google’s billing.

“buy Freedom phone” sees us at number one for example, while we’re number two on the rankings for “Freedom phone” behind UK based SIM provider FreedomPop.

All this has resulted in unwarranted traffic coming through our site overnight from India, as well as an influx of what we thought bizarre phone calls and Facebook messages coming our way; we came in to 300+ voicemails this morning.

Ringing Bells, the company that launched the Freedom 251, were only set up a few months ago claim the phone will help empower the people of India no matter how remote, what they didn’t account for is that fact a company selling mobiles in the UK would have the phone ringing off the hook to baffled Indians looking to buy said phone.

So, if you want to get in touch with ourselves regarding an actual Freedom-Mobiles enquiry maybe give us an email rather than a call