Fly Xa Life. Fly Life Mega Review of the smartphone - simple, but tasteful! Work with two SIM cards

The Fly brand expands the smartphone line with an enlarged battery volume by another long-liver - Fly ENERGY 1 (IQ4515 Quad). New has a productive 4-nuclear
Processor, big 5 '' HD IPS display and main chamber 8 MPIX. Fly Evo Energy 1 will go on sale at a democratic price of 7,490 rubles.

• Inexhaustible energy

For the most active users of smartphones and those who are important to always stay in touch, Fly has released a smartphone with an enlarged battery volume of 4000 mAh. Despite
High performance and large capacitive display, Fly Evo Energy 1 can long time do without recharging. The X-LIFE battery provides a gadget operation of up to 15 hours in a continuous conversation mode, up to 8 hours of work on the Internet and up to 250 hours in standby mode.

• Magic Krasok

Fly Evo Energy 1 is equipped with a 5 '' IPS display with HD resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. A wide screen will become an excellent tool for both work and leisure. Applied IPS and OGS technology (in-Plane Switching + One Glass Solution) allow you to estimate the high level of color reproduction, detailing and saturation of the image, wide viewing angles, as well as the readability of the screen, even with a bright sun. Due to the sensitivity of the display, the smartphone immediately responds to the slightest touch, which makes the work even more comfortable.

• For big tasks

The novelty works running the popular Android OS Kitkat 4.4. Optimal distribution 1 GB random access memory Allows you to stabilize the work of the smartphone and achieve the greatest efficiency and performance. Fly EVO ENERGY 1 is equipped with a powerful 4-core processor with a clock frequency of 1.3 GHz, which instantly processes data and provides fast operation even in multitasking mode.

• Attractive design

The FLY ENERGY 1 case, presented in the classic black color solution, attracts attention to the concise and strict design. The size of the novelties make up 143.5 x 72.5 x 10.4 mm. Thanks to ergonomic form, it comfortably falls into the palm and allows you to easily use it in one hand.

• Multimedia Possibility

High-quality 8 MPIX camera is equipped with autofocus, powerful flash and offers extensive capabilities to select shooting modes. Create, edit and share photos with your friends in in social networks Using the Wi-Fi module or high-speed 3G-Internet. Save a large number of multimedia files will not be difficult thanks to 8 GB of integrated memory. If necessary, the repository can be expanded to 32 GB using the MicroSDHC memory cards.

• Pleasant benefit

Support for all modern audio and video formats will not allow to get bored and will help with benefit to spend your free time. And thanks to the wide choice of catalog Google Play. You can always find useful applications, Widgets and popular games. For more convenience in the novelty already installed popular mobile browser Opera, which, thanks to the data compression regime, allows you to increase the speed of the Internet and significantly reduce the costs of online traffic.

Kinomans will appreciate the application of the world's largest video service MEGOGO, which is also included in the Fly ENERGY preset package 1. Wide MEGOGO multimedia base is more than 3,500 full-length films, 1800 cartoons, 850 TV shows, 200 television shows and concerts and many other things.

• Following the best traditions

The novelty supports work 2 active SIM cards. The model covers 2 years of manufacturer's warranty.

Fly Life Mega and him like budget apparatus separate niche in the modern mobile device market. Even when filling the market with productive flagships, the demand for such devices is still there. And this is not surprising - budget gadgets in order to ensure that the costs of modern smartphones should be used at a minimum of costs.

So to speak, without special excesses. And money, if to say honestly, not everyone has enough for the use of a new smartphone for tens of thousand rubles. It only says that the crisis has already passed, but in fact, his echo is still rolling over Russian cities and water.

In this plan, the hero of our today's review is quite typical. But has a few obvious advantages. We started familiarizing with him with unpacking. And at this stage he surprised his asceticism. The manufacturer, collecting a complete set, just guided by the motto "nothing superfluous!"

In a box of the most ordinary cardboard, I only saw the smartphone itself, a charging cable with a microusb connector, a power supply and several low-tech pieces. No films, penny silicone covers and even headsets for it are not! Without this, everything, of course, you can live, but it would be nice to feel a good gesture from the manufacturer, because, like anything, buying a smartphone a certain brand, we also do a good gesture ... On the other hand, the sin is offended - the device is budgetary.

Holding it in his hands, it should be noted that he sits like "blade". This is achieved by the fact that back cover It has a relief surface and absoluses absolutely. Tactile sensations are pleasant, although the materials (plastic) are immediately visible, inexpensive. The sharp corners are missing that for me personally "plus". The body does not stand out thick - wearing it in pocket pants will not be a problem. By weight, the device is rather light and does not pull the hand at all. So that a purely impression makes a positive, but let's see how our subject will show.

Display and opportunity

Turn on your Fly Life Mega. The manufacturer's logo appears on the locia, and then, and the desktop. The screen is quite large - 5.7 inches. Using this smartphone for some time, I made my opinion about his display.

It, given the class of the device, is not at all bad - the resolution of 1440x720 points, the proportions of the parties are comfortable - 18: 9, and, amazing, the IPS matrix, as the basis. In different conditions of illumination, the display behaves quite expected. The reserve of brightness and contrast is enough, rather dammatic viewing angles, but the transfer of colors is far from the desired. The situation can be somewhat fixed by adjusting the screen parameters, but it is most likely to be completely solved. Having played with the settings, I was able to achieve a more or less acceptable display of colors.

Do you know what else I "rushed into my eyes", looking at the display? The desktop is literally clogged with applications. And most of them do not really need them. Probably, the memory of the smartphone (quite modest in terms of the volume of the 8 GB storage, part of which is already engaged in files operating system) Locked to failure! But everything turned out not so bad as I thought.

When you click on the one or another shortcut, the phone moves me to the application store, and does not run the programs themselves. Thus, the manufacturer received very competently (respectful!), Which provided actually links to download software, which can be useful, in his opinion, but not closed the free space by unnecessary software.

Well, now I want to tell about what interests literally everyone - about performance. Two buddles are responsible for it in this device:

1. MEDIATEK MT6737H processor
2. MALI-T720 MP2 video chip

The bundle is not the most, immediately I will say, but for such a device just right. The situation worsens the fact that the RAM is just 1 GB, which at today's times, frankly, will be not enough.

I start to use the phone. I open several applications at once. I open yet. When such programs openly "too much", it starts to affect performance - when switching between desktops, a delay is observed, and the interface can work with jerks.

If you are a lover of games, then this is not a phone for you. "Watch" a round sum and look for something that will be more acceptable, the benefit of today's market offers a wide range of different device performance. On Fly Life Mega only the simplest toys will go, but the joy from them is not so much, unfortunately. Although, who is like!

Pros and Cons Fly Life Mega

But we will not only be bad, there are also certain advantages. Thus, this budget tube supports work in 4G networks, which makes it possible to comfortably surf and quick loading of downloaded files. In addition, in stock and such interfaces needed every day, like Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi, and GPS. It is not at all superfluous is the presence of a built-in radio, which works quite well in the conditions of the city.

Sound in this mid-quality phone. It is relatively loud - the call, or the SMS definitely will not be unnoticed. If you start playing media files, then the impression is somewhat different. It does not get low frequencies, but high and medium too much. However, you can listen to the same radio as you can listen to music from the phone's memory, or network.

No less interesting, what are the cameras in this state employee? The main module is 8 megapixel, and the front camera has a permit for only 2 megapixel. It is worth noting the presence of a flash and the function of automatic focus. The autofocus does not always work correctly - sometimes the operator's help is required. You can record both videos - the machine provides the quality corresponding to HD at 30 frames per second.

I evaluate the quality of photos as satisfactory. Snapshots do not shine outstanding quality, but good lighting They look pretty good. With the worsening of lighting, the quality of photos is changing. If we talk about the front camera, it can be called "nominal".

Battery. An important element of everyone mobile device. This smartphone is equipped with 2 800 mA per hour. Not much, probably. But it is worth considering that consumption is not so big as smartphones with a more "cool" stuffing. For example, I have in mixed mode (calls, some music, a bit of surfing, a pair of rollers from the network) the load of the phone confidently lived until late evening. I consider it a rather decent result against the background of gadgets, which are already informed about the need for charging.

Fly Mobile Phone Manufacturer decided to someone sategorize their main competitor, Philips, playing his field. In contrast, well-known in the market series of Xenium long-playing phones from Philips Fly launched its line also long-playing XLIFE phones. But if Xenium devices have already firmly settled on the market, and their advantages in the form of a long autonomous work It is known to many, then Fly with the XLIFE ruler will have to conquer the location of users, in practice, proving that their phones are also able to work for a very long time. The first swarm of the XLIFE line was the DS150 model, an affordable two-minute apparatus, which will be discussed in this review.

Design, dimensions, control elements

The phone is made in the monoblock form factor and has small dimensions (103x45x15 mm, weight of less than 100 grams), so it is easily placed not only in pocket pocket, but also in the pocket of a shirt, not burdened by the owner. Externally, the apparatus looks quite attractive, such a simple and concise design. In hand, the phone is good, without causing any discomfort from the first minutes of communication with the device. The color solution for the model is offered only one thing, it is a combination of black (facial panel) and dark gray colors ( back panel). The coating of the housing is smooth, but not at all brand, so the device always looks neatly.

Comparison with Fly DS420:

The body is fully manufactured from a good quality of plastic, the assembly of complaints does not cause, all the details are adjacent to each other, does not creak anything and does not peel.

In the top end, the center is a fairly bright flashlight, the on / off button is located on the left side surface. The medium key is in size, it is located in a housing, which avoids random inclusions. On the lower end there is a standard miniusb connector, which, among other things, is used and for connecting a wired headset to the phone.

On the back panel at the top of it on a small elevation is a built-in CIF camera lens, and the dynamics hole to play the call signal and other sounds to the right of it. The lid of the battery compartment occupies the large part of the back wall, it is fastened enough, the backlash is, but quite small, so you don't even pay attention to it.

Screen

The device has a small 1.77 "(28x35 mm) display, in contrast to most of the budget machines, it is not used CSTN, but a TFT screen. The resolution of the display is quite standard for this class of devices and is 128x160 points, and the number of colors displayed is 65000. Up to 7 lines of text can be displayed at the same time, two more lines are allocated for service information. The screen quality is low, the picture looks medium on it. Slightly disappointed the viewing angles of the display, they are small both vertically and horizontally, a slight deviation of the device leads to a distortion of the image, which is not very pleasant during operation. The display behaves quite well in the sun, at least it is completely blind, the information on it remains quite read.

Keyboard

The keyboard in the apparatus is also made of plastic. Keys navigation block The average size is quite convenient in operation. The four-position navigation key with the "OK" button included in it, but in the work convenient, and there is no problems with it.

The number keys are located close to each other, they also have medium sizes, but in operation they are not entirely comfortable, with a quick set, erroneous pressing occurs. For people with close-up work with digital keys DS150 can be both problematic.

The backlight of the keyboard is white, it is unevenly distributed. The central key column is better high, but the side columns are highlighted worse, so the characters applied to them are not always well readable.

Battery and XLIFE series

The device has a lithium-ion battery with a capacity of 1200 mAh. According to the manufacturer, the machine is able to work with it up to 6 hours in talk mode and up to 400 hours in standby mode. As you can see, the manufacturer already claims the time of autonomous work, which is less than those of the Xenium range from Philips, in the latter on average the stated work time is 8 hours in talk mode and 1 month in standby mode. In the networks of Moscow operators, Fly DS150 worked an average of 5 days at 15-20 minutes of conversation per day and up to 30 minutes of using other functions. If you also use the phone as a player for 1-1.5 hours a day, then the battery life will be reduced to 3 days. As you can see, the results are not particularly impressive, 5 days, or even more, most of the budget apparatuses can work out and, and, with a larger load. Yes, of course, you can make a discount on the fact that two SIM cards are used in the DS150, but still its battery life is not enough, especially for the "long-playing" phone. The full battery time is about 2.5-3 hours, you can charge the machine from both the network and USB, when connecting the phone to the PC, but in the latter case the charging time will increase.

Well, the first Fly lunge towards Philips failed, new ruler Xlife was not so interesting as her competitor in the face of Xenium. Companies would cost more work on the first XLIFE series apparatus, make a candy from it to shut down the Philips Xenium devices. But, unfortunately, in Fly decided to go to another way, it seems that the company does not want to develop a line of long-playing phones, and the launch of the XLIFE series was needed, only to attack the competitor.

Will the company and further develop this series of phones - on this moment It is unclear, perhaps the manufacturer will throw it, as it was before with some other rules of phones from Fly. If the manufacturer still decides to develop a series, then over the release of the second product they will have to work very well, since the first telephone line will strongly spoil the impression of the series as a whole.

Memory and Connection to PC

Own memory In the device, only about 196 kb, which, of course, is quite small, but the situation can be solved using a microSD format cards, a slot for which is located under the battery phone. According to the manufacturer, the device supports memory cards to 2 GB, but during testing our device has seen and worked with a 4 GB card.

The phone cannot work in Mass Storage mode without installing additional drivers, when you connect it to the PC only charging the battery and all.

Work with two SIM cards

The device uses not two radio modulus, as, for example, in phones fly DS400 / 420 and B700, but only one, but thanks to the new chipset in it, two SIM cards can work simultaneously without switching between them. In idle mode, DS150 is available both SIM cards, but as soon as you start working with one of them, for example, you made a voice call, the second becomes inaccessible. The solution with one radio module is budget and is suitable only to the aligning subscribers who, in principle, it is not so important that sometimes one of their numbers will be unavailable. Users who acquire a two-minute apparatus for always both numbers they have been available for communication, the devices like the DS150 will not fit, they should pay their attention to more expensive solutions with two radio modulus.

In the phone menu, everything is done for convenient operation with two SIM cards, there is no primary and secondary card in the device, both are equivalent and simply marked as SIM1 and SIM2, depending on the slot in which they are located. In standby mode on the main phone screen, you can see two reception scales in the upper left corner, which are numbered. The center of the screen displays the names of the operators, the upper - for the first card and the lower, respectively, for the second. Through the phone menu, you can disable one of the SIM cards or both. The device has only one call key, which does not work with the device less convenient, but only adds one too much pressing.

When working with messages, contacts, call lists, no problems occur, in all listed items information for SIM cards is divided, so it is impossible to get confused simply.

Menu

The main menu of the apparatus has only one representation, this is a standard matrix 3x3. The menu icons are not bad, the selected item is highlighted. The submenu is presented in the form of vertical lists. In the apparatus is available fast navigation Using a digital sequence. Also for quickly launch applications can be assigned access to them on navigation keyIn addition, the device has a quick access menu in which you can add up to 10 menu items.

The localization of the device is not the best, there is not entirely correct translation, it is also available in the device and the problem with Russian fonts - the letters are thick, and besides "dance", which is not very nice while reading information from the screen. The phone provides predictive EZI text entry (analogue T9) for Russian and English.

Phone book. Up to 300 contacts can be stored in the memory of the device. For each contact you can record a name (up to 30 characters), up to 4 phone numbers with rigid binding to the type of number, company name (up to 20 characters) and address email (up to 60 characters). Also, the contact can be assigned a picture and ringtone. In addition, contact may be placed in one of five groups, for each of which it is possible to change the name, assign a picture, as well as a call melody.

The contact list displays both contacts from the memory card and the SIM card. The search is carried out in the phone book either by name. The contact list next to the subscriber name is displayed only mobile number Phone, and to view the rest of the numbers you need to choose the contact and press the confirmation key. Fast access The list of contacts is carried out by pressing the right function key From standby mode.

The photo assigned to the subscriber cannot exceed the volume of 20 KB, but there is no such restriction for videos. During the incoming call, the photo is displayed not on the full screen.

Messages. Up to 200 messages can be stored in the memory of the device. The device does not support the EMS standard, only ordinary SMS. Working with glued messages is provided, during operation in the upper right corner, the number of remaining characters and the number of messages used are displayed. There are 10 templates in the phone, which can be changed at your discretion. There is a multi-Russian messaging (up to 10 numbers), as well as sending a message to the subscriber group (from the phone book).

The MMS-message editor is quite simple and understood in the work. You can create message templates. The maximum amount of MMS messages sent cannot exceed 100 KB.

Calls. Standard lists of incoming, dialed and missed calls, up to 30 numbers can be stored in each of them. The same numbers are combined, for each you can see the detailed information, this is the date and time of the call, the name (if the number in the phone book), the number and number of sets. In the conversation counters, you can see the last call time and, separately, the time of all outgoing and incoming calls. There is also a data counter and SMS messages.

Installations. Here all the settings of the phone are collected. You can set the time and date, select the menu language, as well as the input mode to be used by default.

In the device 5 profiles fully customizable by the user. Here you can choose a ringtone for almost any action and both SIM cards, set its volume and set the call mode (single, repeating or increasing). Here it is also possible to choose the type of call signal, it can be: only a call; only vibration; Vibration and call at the same time; Vibration, then.

The screen is invited to choose the wallpaper, it can be one of the preset images or any other graphic file. You can select the screen saver (the same as for wallpaper) and set the time through which it will turn on. By default, the screensaver uses clocks that can be called by clicking on any key in standby mode when the phone keypad is blocked.

This section also contains call settings, networks (you can manually select the range) and security. From the Safety subsection, you can set the keyboard lock automatically after a while (from 5 seconds to 5 minutes).

In the same section it is possible to configure the automatic on / off of the phone on the schedule to save the battery power.

My files. This menu item is nothing more than a file manager. When entering it, you can choose which memory to view, built-in or external, the total volume and amount of free memory is displayed at the top. From the menu, you can open the desired memory or format it. In the file manager, you can set sorting files and folders by name, type, creation time or size. It is possible to create new folders, as well as rename already created. Files can be moved between the folders, send to other devices via MMS. For the selected file, information about its type in the form of the icon is displayed at the top of the screen, the data on its size and the creation date are displayed.

Organizer. In the calendar, it is possible to watch a month and a week, in addition, you can see a list of all events. For the event, its type is selected (reminder, meeting, courses), the date and time (start and end of the event) is set, a small text note (up to 35 characters), a sound notification with the ability to set a replay: daily, weekly, monthly or on the selected days of the week . It is also possible to add text information In the "Location" field (up to 35 characters).

Notes. Everything is similar to the calendar except for the type of notes (date, call, birthday), as well as the possibility of choosing priority (low, medium or high).

Alarm clock. In the apparatus, five independent alarms, the time is set for each, as well as repetitions: daily, weekly, monthly or on the selected days of the week. You can also configure the phone auto inclusion by alarm signal.

Applications. This section contains a calculator, magnitude converter and currency converter, as well as a stopwatch.

Services. The device has a WAP browser version 2.0. The SIM menu is also falling into this section (if available). From here you can configure profiles for data transmission via GSM or GPRS.

Audio player. MP3 player allows you to play compositions with different bit patterns, they can be in any place, as in the phone's memory (of course, there will be difficult to save a lot of songs) and on the memory card. There is one playlist, you can add any compositions at your discretion. You can also include the fleet of the playlist, in which case all the musical compositions that are in the phone's memory or on the memory card will be included in it. Playback in random order and repeat can be activated only through the player settings, it will not work quickly. Rewind inside the composition is available.

The player can work in the background, it is enough to press the postback key, in this case the name of the composition will be displayed under the operator logo in square brackets. The long name is displayed incorrectly, although if you look for information about the file through the player menu (song name, artist, album, genre, year), it is displayed correctly.

The musical possibilities of the device are low, moreover, a complete stereo chamber comes with a telephone. However, to expect some outstanding audio information from the budget apparatus and was not worth it.

FM radio. This feature Available only with a connected headset, as its wire is used as an antenna. Radio quality standard for most phones. The phone has handheld and automatic search Channels selected radio stations can be added to the list (maximum 9 radio stations). Like the player, the radio can work in the background. In addition, there is the ability to record radio stations. In the Radio Settings, you can select the recording quality (high or low), file format (WAV, AMR or AWB), as well as the place where the record will be saved (phone memory or memory card).

Camera. The device has a CIF camera that is capable of making pictures with a maximum resolution of 352x288. Due to the low-resolution of the chamber and its low quality, the pictures made with its help are suitable only for use in the phone Yes Shipping to others mobile phones on MMS.

Competitors

At the moment, Fly DS150 has only one competitor, and this is also a model from Fly, namely DS100. Differences in the devices are minimal and consist only in different designs, the availability of the camera and a slightly more hot battery in the older model and the type of screens used (the CSTN display is installed in the DS100). The difference in price between devices is minimal and is about 200 rubles.

Approximately only in October, the DS100 / 150 will receive a competitor from another manufacturer, in the role of which will perform new model from philips. It will be the most affordable device from the Xenium line, which is the same as the DS100 / 150, will support working with two SIM cards, and, similar to the devices from Fly, it will be installed only one radio module. The price of budget Xenium will be approximately similar to that on Fly DS150.

Impression

The quality of communication in the apparatus is not worse and no better than most modern GSM phones. The volume of the dynamics and sensitivity of the microphone is enough for a conversation in almost any conditions. A little did not like the sound of the speaker, during the conversation, the voice of the interlocutor is slightly distorted, metal notes appear. The device implements a 64-tonal polyphony, the quality of the preset melodies is low, but the situation is easy to change, setting any own composition in MP3 format as a signal. Call volume is high enough, the call is difficult to skip, even if the phone is in the bag. But the vibrations are weak, it can not be felt, even if the device is in pants pocket.

Well, if you forget about the fact that the device refers to the line of long-playing phones, then we can safely say that the phone turned out to be quite interesting, especially for its value. With a price of a little more than 2000 rubles (if it is accurate, 2160 rubles, about $ 67) the device offers a good set of functions and, one can say, as a bonus, also offers the ability to work with two SIM cards. But, of course, I note that during the purchase of the DS150 it is worth remembering that the device is equipped with only one radio module, and this will in turn be sideway if the phone is planned to be used to actively communicate. But for not particularly active users who for some reason use two numbers, the DS150 is quite suitable, there will be no problems with such subscribers.

About the fact that the device belongs to the series of XLIFE long-playing phones, while buying a phone is better not to remember, otherwise you will later disappoint, especially if you had experience using Philips Xenium phones.