Fly E300 Mobile Phone

Fly E300 Mobile Phone

Rohan Naravane, May 05, 2008 1844 hrs IST

Does this touchscreen multimedia slider fail to soar?

Nice screen, touch input, AV cable (included), decent pricing

Unintuitive UI, uncomfortable keypad, low MP3 playback volume, slow data transfer rates

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Design and Features

The Fly E300 is a slider phone that has a business-type appeal, thanks to its black body with metallic silver sidings. But the LX 500 looked much cooler due to its thin frame and shiny lighting. The phone is pretty light and decently sized, and the build is pretty good.


The sliding mechanism is quite sturdy and is like the ones found typically on Samsung phones

The screen quality is also good, and the brightness is more than adequate. The E300's D-pad doubles up as a mechanical scroll-wheel. Since it is not touch-sensitive like the Apple iPod, to scroll down a list, one needs to rotate the D-pad with the thumb. Honestly speaking, it isn't very comfortable, but one always has an option to click the D-pad.


The stylus is well-sized


The numeric keypad buttons are OK when it comes to dialing numbers; however, they can't be relied on for keying in texts fast. In fact, I ended up hitting the wrong button from time to time. Owing to the touch-screen, we get another mode of text entry, though. All in all, the phone's navigation is pretty average. Some of the buttons could have been a little less tight.


Funnily, the SIM card is apparently hot-swappable, but to insert a microSD card, you'll need to remove the battery!


The User Interface may look colorful and attractive to some but isn't very intuitive. It reminded me of older LG or Samsung phone UIs

It was irritating at times when the phone failed to do simple tasks like capitalizing the initial letter of a word after a full stop. The hand-writing recognition would take its sweet time to analyze one word at a time and is not useable at all. But the on-screen QWERTY pad was pretty good to jot down messages with the stylus quickly. The OS is a bit slow though, adding to the misery.

The TV-out cable worked well. It directly portrays the UI on to any TV that has AV ports. It can be used to see picture slide-shows on a big screen.

Compared to the UIs that leading manufacturers have today, this one looks quite outdated -- almost a generation behind.

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USER COMMENTS

I like ur moble FLY-300 so want to purchase it, plz inform me its pice

by Sunil Kumar, New Delhi, on Jun 21, 2008 03:20 PM, Report abuse   Reply

could any1 explain how 2 use tht softwre with which u sync it wid the pc...just can't get it...i cn download stuff frm the pc 2 the fone...but not vice versa...could any1 help me with tht?

by Anonymous, delhi, on Jun 10, 2008 10:05 PM, Report abuse   Reply

anyone know how to copy messages and contacts from phone to pc?

by mayank, delhi, on May 08, 2008 02:13 AM, Report abuse   Reply

all fly handsets are very competitively priced for the features they offer

by sachin, goa, on May 05, 2008 11:07 PM, Report abuse   Reply

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