Thursday, February 28, 2008

Fly 2080, My new phone...

I had Motorola V3i Razr earlier but lost it. Thanks to the Junta of Bombay Junta mail express. Then I thought of buying a rather cheap phone instead of going for another Razr of the like of. I sort-listed a few within the range of 5k bucks. These are Sony Ericsson w200i, Motorola w230 and Nokia 2630. I went to the shop and asked the person to show me w200i but instead of showing me w200i, he started saar there is this new phone Fly2080 and started showing all the functionalities of this phone. I found it quite kool for 5.8k bucks so bought it. Here is my experience with this phone.

This phone's got kool looks for it has a quite big screen and a thickness of only 12 mm. Keypads are also quite kool and easy to use. Comes with 256 MB memory card and is expandable upto 1 GB. Featurewise it's quite loaded for this price range. It has got touch screen, Mp3, mp4 player, video player, 1.3MP camera, GPRS, Bluetooth, unlimited (of course limited to memory size) video recording, e-mail client and ofcourse all basic phone features of sms, mms etc. Has support for Java. Touch screen is quite fast and reponds very well to inputs. Speakers are quite loud for audio and video player.
What I don't like about this phone is it's interface. It's so user-unfriendly. For example, If you have to goto next image while viewing images, it's 5 way process.. goto back->back->down->options->view. Although there is an Image viewer program in this phone that can goto next picture just by pressing down key, this is not set as default program to open the pictures and atleast I didn't find a way to set this as a default. Second bad thing about this phone is the HandsFree quality. It's really bad. You almost can't talk in loudspeaker mode by this phone. Here's how I'd rate this phone...

Design 9/10
Features 8/10
Voice quality(ear phone) 8/10
Voice quality(speaker phone) 4/10
Ease of use 4/10
Value for money 8/10

So overall I think it's a good deal for the price it comes.

2 comments:

Dare Devil said...

Nice cell phone..only one problem that speech codec has some thing wrong....

Ashok Yadav said...

no mate... it's not speech codec.... thr seems to be some problem with the mic or it's netwrking system.. sometimes it becomes very irritating when the person at other end can't hear u...