Lava Yuva Star 2

The Lava Yuva Star 2 has a standard candy-bar form factor — it does not fold and lacks a rugged build. It stands 165 mm tall and 76.1 mm wide, with a thickness of 8.8 mm, resulting in a total volume of 110.4972 cm³.

The Lava Yuva Star 2 features a 6.75-inch IPS LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 720 x 1600 px and a pixel density of 260 ppi. The display does not include branded damage-resistant glass, and there is no secondary screen. Advanced display features such as HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Vision, and Always-On Display are not supported.

The Lava Yuva Star 2 is powered by the Unisoc SC9863A chipset, built on a 28 nm process with an octa-core CPU using big.LITTLE technology — four cores clocked at 1.6 GHz and four at 1.2 GHz — across 8 threads, with a TDP of 3W. The SoC integrates LTE, supports 64-bit processing, and pairs with 4 GB of DDR4 RAM running at 933 MHz and a maximum memory bandwidth of 7.464 GB/s across two channels, while the maximum supported memory amount is 6 GB. Storage comes in at 64 GB via eMMC 5.1. Graphics are handled by the PowerVR GE8322 GPU, which features 4 execution units, 128 shading units, a base clock of 550 MHz with a turbo of 800 MHz, and supports DirectX 11, OpenGL ES 3.2, and OpenCL 2. The chip carries an L3 cache of 0.512 MB, and benchmark results include a Geekbench 6 multi-core score of 725, a Geekbench 5 multi-core score of 2956, and a PassMark score of 1327.

The Lava Yuva Star 2 has a single-lens 13 MP rear camera with a CMOS sensor, phase-detection autofocus, touch autofocus, continuous autofocus during video recording, and a single LED flash — though optical image stabilization, laser autofocus, and a BSI sensor are absent. Manual controls include exposure, ISO, focus, and white balance, while manual shutter speed is not available. The main camera records video at 1080p and 30 fps with slow-motion support, but there is no optical zoom, no HDR10 or Dolby Vision recording, and no 3D capture capability; standard panoramas are supported but 360-degree panoramas are not. On the front, a 5 MP single-lens camera handles selfies without a dedicated flash and is not positioned under the display.

The Lava Yuva Star 2 runs Android 14, a free and open-source platform that supports multi-user operation, on-device machine learning, offline voice recognition, voice commands, and device tracking. Privacy features include clipboard warnings, location privacy options, camera and microphone access controls, and the ability to block app tracking, though cross-site tracking blocking and Mail Privacy Protection are not available. On the customization side, the OS offers dark mode, dynamic theming, theme customization, customizable notifications, notification permission controls, widgets, and a media picker. Productivity and usability features include split-screen multitasking, Picture-in-Picture, full-page screenshots, Live Text, a child lock, battery health check, an extra dim mode, and the ability to play games while they download. Wi-Fi password sharing, focus modes, app offloading, Quick Start, and the ability to function as a PC are not supported, and direct OS updates from the vendor are not available.

The Lava Yuva Star 2 is equipped with a 5000 mAh rechargeable battery that supports fast charging at 10W via cable, and includes a battery level indicator. Wireless charging is not available, and the battery is not user-removable.

The Lava Yuva Star 2 includes a 3.5 mm headphone jack and a built-in radio, but lacks stereo speakers. Wireless audio codec support is absent across the board, with no aptX, aptX HD, aptX Adaptive, aptX Lossless, or LDAC available.

The Lava Yuva Star 2 supports Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n) and Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac), Bluetooth 4.2, and cellular connectivity, though 5G is not available. It accepts a single SIM card and offers a USB Type-C port running USB 2.0, along with an external memory slot for expandable storage. Download speeds reach up to 300 Mbit/s and upload speeds up to 150 Mbit/s. For location, the device includes GPS with Galileo support, while a compass, gyroscope, and barometer are absent. Other hardware features include a fingerprint scanner, an infrared sensor, and an accelerometer, but NFC, HDMI output, ANT+, a heart rate monitor, a stylus, a built-in projector, motion tracking, optical tracking, 3D facial recognition, an iris scanner, DLNA certification, crash detection, and emergency SOS via satellite are all not present.

The Lava Yuva Star 2 includes a video light, while sapphire glass, a curved display, and an e-paper display are not featured.