Fly E171 Review
Fly mobile is a less popular brand of mobile handsets in the mobile industry as compared to Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Nokia etc. But E171 proves that it is time we gave Fly the due credit and well deserved appreciation. This handset has all the features that are, if not better, then atleast comparable to all the bigger brand names.
This dual sim handset has a TFT-LCD full touchscreen with a resolution count of240×400 pixels. The touch is decent and even the resolution count is good enough. But when compared to Samsung Corby, Fly E171 definitely falls a little short of the pixel count .It is a really light weight phone of 95g contrary to what the touch and solid body suggests.
This is one gem of a mobile phone when connectivity comes into the picture. You name it and you’ve got all possible kind of connectivity options; like Wi-Fi, GPRS, and WAP browser. Bluetooth and FM radio are the other two requisites fulfilled by the handset. The music player quality is one issue that has always concerned the owners of Fly products.E171 has definitely tried to work hard upon in this point but still hasn’t been a good as that of Nokia 5800 xpress music or Sony Ericsson W980.
Fly E171 is also equipped with a 3.2 MP camera with a video recording feature but it lacks flash. The battery is a 1000mAh but only gives 3 hrs of talk time which is another shortcoming of this handset.E171 is a good handset but not something you won’t get for the same price in a brand of your choice.
Over a quarter of American adults use mobile location-based services
Not many people are “checking in” using services such as Foursquare and Gowalla, but over a quarter of Americans are checking out their surroundings using location-based services.
The latest research from Pew’s Internet and American Life Project found that 28 percent of American adults have used mobile or social location-based services to get recommendations such as the best-rated nearby cafe or directions from their current location.Only about 5 percent of those surveyed used services that post their current locations, though smartphone users were more than twice as likely to signal their location to their friends. In a similar vein, about 9 percent of all users used the location-tagging options on social media.
As once might expect, younger smartphone users are more likely overall to use check-in services, but there was no clear divide on age when it came to hitching a location-tag to a Facebook or Twitter message.
The study also found that blacks and Hispanics were the most likely to use geosocial services, but whites were the most likely to use other location-based phone services.
“Americans are not currently all that eager to share explicitly their location on social media sites, but they are taking advantage of their phones’ geolocation capabilities in other ways,” said Kathryn Zickuhr, the co-author of the report in a statement. “Smartphone owners are using their phones to get fast access to location-relevant information on-the-go.”
