Stay Away. Review on Fly 2080

I bought Fly 2080 at the suggestion of the customer care executive of M-Port, the Kishre Biyani enterprise that operates in Big Bazaar at Orchid City Centre, Mumbai. At Rs. 5890/=, it looked packed with features that Nokia phones offer at around 8000/=. It has bluetooth, is GPRS and WAP compatible, can take memory cards and has an audio and video player plus nice games. However, the menu and the way one has to navigate the buttons makes it very user unfriendly.

The most important difficulty I faced is with entering new names in the Telephone book. It has a fixed interface with facility to take just one office no., one res. no., one fax, one mobile etc. So, unlike with Nokia, one cannot create new fields when one wants to add more than one number. Also, one cannot edit labels over the numbers. If, for example, you have saved just one number under a given name, and later on, you want to add more numbers to that name, you cannot bring up the entire blank list on clicking "edit". You will HAVE to create a new entry and re-feed the old number, and add more numbers to the new entry. After this, you will have to delete the old entry.

The phone is too unfriendly, and I will tell you why.

For example, one cannot scroll through messages once in the INBOX. Similarly, one cannot scroll images. You have to click four buttons to access the next image.(Open>View>Back>scroll to the next image>Open). The WAP services(which cost only Rs. 99 per month) cannot be activated unless one has a GPRS active too(which is 499/= p.m.). As a result I had to inactivate WAP that I had on my BPL Mobile service.

The only nice thing about this phone was that it has a pen and a touch screen and it has a very good volume for the audio and video. However, the video player will not play any movies that one uploads from the computer. Servicing has to be done with the Sony Ericsson people, whose service center is located at Commercial Centre, Tardeo, near AC Market.

Go for this phone only at your own peril.