Smartphone name Fly Evo Energy 4 speaks for itself: before us mobile device whose main task is to ensure the longest possible operating time in offline... The device has a huge battery, and this allows it to work without recharging much longer than conventional modern mobile devices, which automatically separates the smartphone into a separate specific product niche. Fly Evo Energy 4 is not alone in this niche, other manufacturers also have similar solutions, Lenovo's “long-playing” smartphones, of which there are already several in the portfolio of the Chinese company, are especially noticeable in this segment. The most famous of them are the Lenovo P780 smartphone, which we once wrote about in detail, and the more recent S660 model, the review of which is also now being prepared for release.

Nothing but an unusually long time autonomous work, the hero of today's review is not remarkable. It has an average quality TN matrix, albeit a large diagonal, very large dimensions and considerable weight, a modest design, or rather, its complete absence, as well as fairly average performance indicators of the hardware system. Nevertheless, the Fly Evo Energy 4 smartphone is quite worthy of its own review, because this model is chosen in the store for its unique ability to work for a very, very long time without recharging. In addition, a smartphone does not cost too much money, which is quite consistent with the image of an inexpensive “dialer” and organizer for a person who is looking for a reliable mobile assistant, and not a multimedia combine.

Main characteristics of Fly Evo Energy 4 (IQ4501)

	Fly Evo Energy 4	Huawei Honor 3x	Lenovo S660	Sony Xperia C
Screen	5 ″, TN	5.5 ″, IPS	4.7 ″, IPS	5 ″, IPS
Resolution	854 × 480, 196 ppi	1280 × 720, 267 ppi	960 × 540, 234 ppi	960 × 540, 220 ppi
SoC		MediaTek MT6592 (8 cores ARM Cortex-A7) @ 1.7 GHz	MediaTek MT6582 (4x ARM Cortex-A7) @ 1.3GHz	MediaTek MT6589 (4x ARM Cortex-A7) @ 1.2GHz
GPU	Mali 400 MP	Mali 450MP4	Mali 400 MP	PowerVR SGX 544
RAM	1 GB	2 GB	1 GB	1 GB
Flash memory	4 GB	8 GB	8 GB	4 GB
Memory card support	microSD	microSD	microSD	microSD
Operating system	Google Android 4.2	Google Android 4.2	Google Android 4.2	Google Android 4.2
Battery	removable, 4200 mAh	removable, 3000 mAh	removable, 3000 mAh	non-removable, 2390 mAh
Cameras	rear (8 Mp; video 1080p), front (2 Mp)	rear (13 Mp; video 1080p), front (5 Mp)		rear (8 Mp; video 1080p), front (0.3 Mp)
Dimensions (edit)	144 x 72 x 10.5 mm, 197 grams	150 x 77 x 8.9 mm, 161 g	137 x 69 x 9.9 mm, 151 g	142 x 74 x 8.9 mm, 153 g
average price	T-10818364	T-10616247	T-10725079	T-10540858
Fly Evo Energy 4 offers	L-10818364-10

• SoC MediaTek MT6582, 1.3 GHz, 4 cores ARM Cortex-A7
• GPU Mali 400 MP
• Operating system Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
• Touch TN-display, 5 ″, 854 × 480, 196 ppi
• Random access memory (RAM) 1 GB, internal memory 4 GB
• HSDPA + data transfer: up to 21 Mbps
• Support for two SIM-cards (Dual SIM Dual Standby)
• Wi-Fi 802.11b / g / n, point Wi-Fi access, Wi-Fi Direct
• Bluetooth 4.0
• GPS, A-GPS
• Position sensors, proximity, lighting
• Camera 8 MP, autofocus, flash
• Camera 2 MP (front)
• Li-polymer battery 4200 mAh
• Dimensions 144 x 72 x 10.5 mm
• Weight 197 g

Contents of delivery

The Fly Evo Energy 4 smartphone comes on sale in a large-sized box made of thin white cardboard with one single compartment inside. The packaging does not pretend to be premium: the mass of various textual information and pictures make it rather clumsy.

The kit consists of a compact charger (output current 1 A), connecting cable Micro-USB, a primitive quality wired stereo headset with a thin round wire and an L-shaped plug.

The package bundle of the smartphone is enriched with another curious accessory: it looks like the most common OTG adapter, which is confusing at first, because the smartphone does not support the mode of connecting external devices to the USB port. The answer to the riddle lies in an unusual item found among those listed on the back of the package. technical characteristics which read: " Power bank". It turned out that by connecting any other smartphone, player, etc. with this adapter, they can be recharged from the Fly Evo Energy 4 battery - not quite an ordinary solution, but an original one. True, for this you will have to carry this adapter with you everywhere, but for those who are concerned about the lack of electrical outlets far from civilization, this may be useful.

Appearance and usability

It will take a long time to describe the appearance of Fly Evo Energy 4 in paints: there is absolutely nothing for the eye to catch on to. The body of the device is very thick and very heavy, the device feels like a bulky bar in the hand. The look of the smartphone is completely nondescript, you can't call it cute either. Women are unlikely to like such a gloomy design.

The only plus in all this is the practical coating of the back surface of the case, made of rough-to-touch plastic with a rubberized soft-touch effect. Because of this, a large-sized smartphone is quite secure in the hand, while it is not too easily soiled - there are practically no prints left on matte surfaces.

The back cover is a kind of plastic casing that is put on the frame, completely covering not only the back, but all the sidewalls - with the cover removed, it is not possible to press the side buttons, because they remain on the cover itself.

The cover can be easily removed; there is a barely noticeable ledge in it for engaging with a fingernail. The cover hides a removable battery and two different-sized slots for SIM-cards of Mini-SIM and Micro-SIM formats. Installation of memory cards is also supported here, so you can also find a third slot nearby.

Most of the internal space of the case is occupied by a huge rechargeable battery, which can compete in this matter even with batteries of other tablets. It mainly determines the mass of the smartphone - without it, the device becomes practically weightless.

The battery is removable, it supports all three card slots from below, so hot swapping them is out of the question.

On the outside of the back of the smartphone there are three familiar elements: a small round window of the main camera, framed by a chrome ring, next to it is a single-section LED flash, and below is an array of small round holes that make up the grill of the ringing speaker facing away from the user.

The speaker grill is covered by the surface of the table, which is why the sound of a lying smartphone is partially muffled. The one-section LED flash can be used as a flashlight with preinstalled software. The flashlight has a flashing alarm mode, the flash shines brightly enough.

In the front part, the entire front panel is covered with a flat protective glass without rims, a hole for a small grille is cut out in it auditory dynamics... Nearby are the eyes of the front camera and sensors. Unfortunately, the creators did not provide a notification indicator in the smartphone.

Below the screen, there is space for hardware buttons to control the system and applications. Naturally, these buttons are touch-sensitive, and, unfortunately, they do not have any backlighting - at least we did not find a way to turn it on.

There are two mechanical hardware keys on the sides of the device, they are located on one, right side, one next to the other. Large metallic keys have a soft spring-loaded travel and a distinct response, easy to find blind. Since the lock key is located here not on the top, but on the side, in general there are no complaints about the mechanical controls of Fly Evo Energy 4.

The Micro-USB connector is located here at the bottom end, the headphone output is at the top. The mode of connecting external devices to the USB port (USB OTG, USB Host) is not supported by the unit. The connectors of the smartphone are not covered with any plugs and covers, because the device is not protected from water and dust. There was no strap attachment on the case either.

On sale you can find the Fly Evo Energy 4 smartphone of only one black color, nothing has been reported about the others, but the different colors of the cases are not in the Fly style.

Screen

The Fly Evo Energy 4 smartphone is equipped with a TN sensor matrix of medium quality and far at the highest resolution. The physical dimensions of the display are 62 × 110 mm, the diagonal is 5 inches. At the same time, the screen resolution is only 854 × 480, which gives a dots per inch value of 196 ppi - half that of modern five-inch displays with Full HD resolution.

The brightness of the display has both manual and automatic adjustment, the latter is based on the operation of the light sensor. The smartphone also has a proximity sensor that locks the screen when you bring the smartphone to your ear. Multi-touch technology allows you to handle 5 simultaneous touches.

Alexey Kudryavtsev, editor of the “Monitors” and “Projectors and TV” sections, carried out a detailed examination using measuring instruments. Here is his expert opinion on the screen of the test sample.

The front surface of the screen is made in the form of a glass plate with a mirror-smooth surface, resistant to scratches. Judging by the reflection of objects, the anti-glare properties of the screen are worse than those of the Google Nexus 7 (2013) screen (below we compare with it). For clarity, here is a photo in which a white surface is reflected in the turned off screens of both devices (Fly IQ4501 Quad is easy to distinguish, since it is smaller):

The gray surface of the Fly IQ4501 Quad screen confirms the above. The reflection in the screen is tripled, which implies the presence of an air gap between the matrix surface and the outer glass. On the outer surface of the screen there is a special oleophobic (grease-repellent) coating (which is even slightly better than the Nexus 7), so fingerprints are much easier to remove, and appear at a slower rate than in the case of regular glass.

With manual brightness control, its maximum value was about 440 cd / m², and the minimum was 41 cd / m². The maximum value is relatively high, but given the poor anti-glare properties, the screen is unlikely to be clearly visible in bright daylight. In complete darkness, the brightness can be lowered to a comfortable level. Automatic brightness control works according to the light sensor (it is located to the left of the front speaker slit). IN automatic mode when the ambient light conditions change, the screen brightness both increases and decreases. In complete darkness in automatic mode, the brightness is reduced to 21 cd / m2 (acceptable), in an office lit with artificial light (about 400 lux), the brightness is set to 175 cd / m2 (normal), in a bright environment (corresponds to lighting on a clear day outdoors , but without direct sunlight - 20,000 lux or slightly more) - rises to 440 cd / m², that is, to the maximum. It turns out that the automatic brightness adjustment function works quite correctly. At any brightness level, there is practically no backlight modulation, so there is no screen flickering either.

This smartphone has a TN type matrix. The micrograph shows a typical TN structure (or rather, no structure) of subpixels:

For comparison, you can see the gallery of photomicrographs of screens used in mobile technology.

The screen has not the worst viewing angles in the horizontal direction, but at the slightest upward deviation, dark shades are inverted, and when downward, light shades are inverted. For comparison, we present photographs in which the screens of the Nexus 7 and the tested device are displayed the same images, while the brightness of both screens is set to about 200 cd / m2, and the white balance in the camera is forcibly switched to 6500 K. Perpendicular to the screens is the test picture:

It can be seen that the color balance on the Fly IQ4501 Quad screen is noticeably different from our standard, but the colors are not the lowest saturation. And white box:

Note that the Fly IQ4501 Quad has good brightness and color tone uniformity. Now at an angle of approximately 45 degrees to the horizontal plane of the screen:

It can be seen that in this direction the picture is slightly darkened, but the color distortion is not very large and there is no noticeable inversion of shades. Then a white box:

The brightness at this angle has noticeably decreased on both screens (the shutter speed is increased), but in the case of the Fly IQ4501 Quad the drop in brightness is greater. When deflected downward, the image is strongly lightened, the details in the highlights disappear:

When you deviate upward, everything is much worse:

Colors are turned inside out. The black field, when you deviate from the perpendicular to the screen, is highlighted, but not very much. As an example, let's give a variant of the deviation along the long side:

When viewed from a perpendicular view, the uniformity of the black field is not high, since there are areas with a noticeable increase in black brightness along the short edges of the screen:

The contrast ratio (near the center of the screen) is good at 830: 1. The response time for the transition black-white-black is 19 ms (14 ms on + 5 ms off), the transition between gray tones of 25% and 75% (by the numerical value of the color) and back takes a total of 47 ms. The gamma curve, plotted using 32 points with equal intervals in terms of the numerical value of the shade of gray, did not reveal a blockage in either highlights or shadows, and the exponent of the approximating power function is 2.15, which is close to the standard value of 2.2. In this case, the real gamma curve slightly deviates from the power dependence:

The color gamut is not very narrow, but differs from sRGB:

Apparently, the matrix filters mix the components to each other to a moderate extent. The spectra confirm this:

As a result, the colors are relatively saturated, but slightly different from the correct ones. There is no balance of shades on the gray scale as such - the color temperature is higher than the standard 6500 K and varies greatly from shade to shade:

The deviation from the spectrum of an absolutely black body (delta E) is not extremely large, but this no longer plays a special role:

Let's summarize. The maximum brightness of this screen is relatively high, but the anti-glare properties are weak, as a result, the comfort of using on a clear day outdoors raises some doubts. In complete darkness, the brightness can be lowered to a comfortable level. It is also permissible to use the mode with automatic brightness adjustment, which works quite adequately. The advantages of the screen include the presence of an effective oleophobic coating and the absence of screen flickering. There are many drawbacks: typical TN distortions of colors and brightness of shades when the gaze deviates from the perpendicular to the screen plane, poor uniformity of the black field, color gamut different from sRGB, and a disgusting balance of gray shades. Total: the budget version of the screen on the TN-matrix - however, not the worst.

Sound

In terms of sound, the smartphone is nothing special. There is only one ringing loudspeaker, it sounds loud enough, but without a noticeable presence of low frequencies. The spoken speaker sounds about the same. However, this does not really affect the perception of sound during a conversation - the voice of a familiar interlocutor, timbre and intonation remain recognizable. The sound is significantly muffled if the device is placed on a hard surface with the screen facing up.

The device is not able to record a conversation from the line using the built-in means. The smartphone is equipped with a built-in FM radio, which traditionally works only with headphones connected as an external antenna.

Camera

Fly Evo Energy 4 is equipped with two digital camera modules. The front camera here is equipped with a 2-megapixel module, shoots with a resolution of 1600 × 1200 and does not have autofocus. The main rear camera is equipped with an 8-megapixel module with manual and automatic autofocus, shoots with a maximum resolution of 3264 × 2448. The settings menu here is quite convenient, clear and intuitive. There are several shooting modes and tons of different digital effects. Shooting can be done by pressing the mechanical volume rocker.

The video camera can shoot at a maximum resolution of 1080p (30 fps), an example of a test video is presented below.

• Movie # 1 (57 MB, 1920 × 1080)

Examples of photos with our comments are presented below.

	The grass merges gradually, the sharpness in the distant shots is not bad.
	Good sharpness in the field of the frame and in plans. Only in the distant shots does the grass noticeably merge.
	The sharpness is generally good, but the trees somehow selectively merge into a mush.
	The camera chooses the exposure well.
	Grain is clearly visible in the shadows - the result of the noise reduction.
	The sharpness is not bad, but even in faint shadows, noise is clearly visible.

The camera has no significant problems. It cannot be called good, but it looks quite balanced. A rather noisy sensor spoils the picture a little, with which the program copes to the limit. Even in weak shadows, a clear grain from the work of the noise reduction is visible, and in some places the remnants of colored noise come out. The situation is not much better with sharpness, but still acceptable. To distant shots, the sharpness falls rather smoothly, although not always evenly. The optics in the camera are good.

In general, the camera is quite good for a budget smartphone and works out its 8 megapixels.

Telephone part and communications

The smartphone works as standard in modern 2G GSM and 3G WCDMA networks, there is no support for fourth generation networks (4G). The maximum wireless data transfer rate is limited by the HSDPA + standard (up to 21 Mbps download). As a standard, you can organize a wireless access point via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth channels, Wi-Fi Direct is supported. The navigation module works only with the GPS system (with A-GPS) - there is no support for the domestic Glonass system. NFC is also not supported. Spontaneous reboots / shutdowns during testing were not observed, as well as slowdowns or freezes of the system.

The screen of the smartphone is quite large, so the drawing of letters and numbers of virtual keyboards is quite comfortable to control. The layout and arrangement of the keys are standard: here you can switch languages ​​by pressing a special button with a globe, there is no highlighted top row with numbers - you will have to switch the layout every time. The phone application supports Smart Dial, that is, while dialing phone number the search in contacts is carried out immediately.

The smartphone supports work with two SIM-cards, and in general, the work with them in the menu is organized according to the familiar principle: you can designate any of the SIM-cards as the main one for organizing voice calls, transferring data or sending SMS messages. When dialing a number, you also have the opportunity to choose the desired card. A SIM card in any slot can work with 3G networks, but only one of the cards can work in this mode at the same time (the second will work only in 2G). Working with two SIM cards is organized according to the usual Dual SIM Dual Standby standard, when both cards can be in active standby mode, but cannot work at the same time - there is only one radio module.

Performance

The Fly Evo Energy 4 hardware platform is based on the MediaTek MT6582 single-chip system (SoC). It is not the most powerful of MTK's quad-core platforms. CPU here has 4 Cortex-A7 cores, clocked at 1.3 GHz. Graphics processing is also handled by the far from the most productive Mali-400MP video processor. The device has only 1 GB of RAM. With built-in memory, the smartphone is even worse - only 4 GB internal memory nominally, but less than a gigabyte is available to the user for his needs - one simply cannot do without a memory card, and some programs will refuse to work without it. The mode of connecting external devices to the USB port (USB Host, USB OTG) is not supported here - you will not be able to read information from a flash drive connected to it.

To get an idea of ​​the performance of the tested smartphone platform, a standard set of tests was carried out. Based on the results of the data obtained during the testing, the Fly Evo Energy 4 system demonstrated the quite expected average performance indicators.

All the results obtained by us when testing the smartphone in the most recent versions of popular benchmarks, we have summarized for convenience in tables. Several other devices from different segments are usually added to the table, also tested on similar latest versions of benchmarks (this is done only for a visual assessment of the obtained dry numbers). Unfortunately, within the framework of one comparison, it is impossible to present the results from different versions of benchmarks, therefore, many worthy and relevant models remain "behind the scenes" - due to the fact that they once passed their "obstacle courses" on previous versions test programs.

In general, according to the results of all tests, the Fly Evo Energy 4 smartphone can be classified as a device with an average (even slightly above average) performance level. In any case, at the moment, the hardware performance of the smartphone should be enough to perform most of the basic tasks that applications from the Google Play Store can deliver, not counting demanding 3D games, but this device is not intended for them. A display of modest quality and resolution and a huge battery are more typical for a business assistant than for a multimedia entertainment center.

Test results in MobileXPRT, as well as the latest versions of AnTuTu 4.x and GeekBench 3:

When testing the graphics subsystem in the 3DMark cross-platform test for the most productive smartphones, it is now possible to run 3DMark in Unlimited mode, where the rendering resolution is fixed at 720p and VSync is disabled (due to which the speed can rise above 60 fps).

The results of testing the graphics subsystem in the gaming test Epic Citadel, as well as Basemark X and Bonsai Benchmark:

	Fly Evo Energy 4	Lenovo S660 (MediaTek MT6582, 4x ARM Cortex-A7 @ 1.3GHz)	Huawei Honor 3x (MediaTek MT6592, 8 cores ARM Cortex-A7 @ 1.7 GHz)	Sony Xperia C (MediaTek MT6589, 4 cores Cortex-A7 @ 1.2 GHz)
Epic Citadel, High Quality	53 fps	59 fps	54 fps	65 fps
Epic Citadel, Ultra High Quality	no support	no support	no support	36 fps
Bonsai benchmark	27fps / 1923	24fps / 1681	26 fps / 1822
Basemark X, Medium Quality	4830	4790	9260

Video playback

To test the "omnivorous" video playback (including support for various codecs, containers and special features, such as subtitles), we used the most common formats that make up the bulk of the content available on the Web. Note that it is important for mobile devices to have support for hardware video decoding at the chip level, since it is often impossible to process modern versions using processor cores alone. Also, do not expect a mobile device to decode everything, since the leadership in flexibility belongs to the PC, and no one is going to challenge it. All results are summarized in a single table.

According to the test results, Fly Evo Energy 4 was not equipped with all the necessary decoders, in this case sound ones, which are necessary for full playback of most of the most common files on the network. To play them successfully, you will have to resort to using a third-party player - for example, MX Player. True, and in it you will first have to change the settings, switching from hardware decoding to software or to a new mode called Hardware +(not supported by all smartphones), only then the sound will appear. All results are summarized in a single table.

Format	Container, video, sound	MX Video Player	Native video player
DVDRip	AVI, XviD 720 × 400 2200 Kbps, MP3 + AC3	reproduced normally	reproduced normally
Web-DL SD	AVI, XviD 720 × 400 1400 Kbps, MP3 + AC3	reproduced normally	reproduced normally
Web-DL HD	MKV, H.264 1280 × 720 3000Kbps, AC3	Hardware +
BDRip 720p	MKV, H.264 1280 × 720 4000 Kbps, AC3	plays fine with decoder Hardware +	video plays fine, no sound¹
BDRip 1080p	MKV, H.264 1920 × 1080 8000Kbps, AC3	plays fine with decoder Hardware +	video plays fine, no sound¹

¹ sound in MX Video Player was only played after switching to software decoding or new mode Hardware +; the standard player does not have such a setting

To test the display of video files on the screen of the device itself, we used a set of test files with an arrow and a rectangle moving one division per frame (see "Testing methods for video playback and display devices. Version 1 (for mobile devices)"). Screenshots with a shutter speed of 1 s helped to determine the nature of the frame output of video files with different parameters: the resolution varied (1280 by 720 (720p) and 1920 by 1080 (1080p) pixels) and the frame rate (24, 25, 30, 50 and 60 fps). from). In our tests we used the MX Player video player in the "Hardware" mode. The test results are summarized in the table:

720 / 30p OK not 720 / 25p OK not 720 / 24p OK not

Note: If both columns Uniformity and Skips green ratings are set, this means that, most likely, when watching movies, artifacts caused by uneven alternation and skipping of frames will either not be visible at all, or their number and visibility will not affect the viewing comfort. Red marks indicate possible problems with the playback of the respective files.

The intervals between frames (or groups of frames) alternate slightly unevenly; in the case of files with 50 and 60 fps, some part of the frames is always skipped. When playing 720p and 1080p video files with an aspect ratio of 16: 9, the image of the video file itself is displayed exactly at the edge of the screen. The brightness range displayed on the screen corresponds to the standard range of 16-235 - all shades are displayed in shadows and highlights.

Battery life

The capacity of the lithium-polymer battery installed in Fly Evo Energy 4 exceeds all values ​​conceivable for a modern smartphone and is as much as 4200 mAh. According to the test results, the subject showed one of the best battery life results of any smartphone we have ever tested. Remains the leader in terms of autonomy.

	Battery capacity	Reading mode	Video mode	3D Game Mode
Fly Evo Energy 4 IQ4501	4200 mAh	25h 00m	15h 20m	8h 00m
Lenovo S660	3000 mAh	25h 00m	9h 30m	4h 45m
Sony Xperia C	2390 mAh	18h 05m	12h 30m	8h 00m
LG G Pro Lite Dual	3140 mAh	14h 15m	8h 40m	6h 50m
Highscreen Alpha GTX	3000 mAh	14h 15m	11h 05m	6h 50m
Huawei Ascend Mate	4050 mAh	18h 05m	11h 35m	5h 00m

Continuous reading in the FBReader program (with a standard, light theme) at the minimum comfortable brightness level (the brightness was set to 100 cd / m²) lasted 25 hours until the battery was completely discharged. When continuously watching YouTube videos in high quality (HQ) with the same brightness level over a home Wi-Fi network, the device lasted more than 15 hours, and in 3D games mode - about 8 hours.

Outcome

As for the cost of Fly Evo Energy 4, on the company's corporate website its price is set at 8 thousand rubles. In general, the device turned out to be average in all respects: the screen is not even IPS, the case is very large, thick and heavy, the platform is not productive, the camera is weak, there are no additional "amenities" such as the second Wi-Fi band, NFC support, OTG, Glonass ... The smartphone is not remarkable for anything, except for a very long battery life, and autonomy is achieved not only powerful battery(which many would be happy about), but also with a weak (and, therefore, not too power-hungry) screen and the same hardware platform. As a result, Fly Evo Energy 4 is a device more suitable for calls and as an organizer for people who are often away from electrical outlets; otherwise, the purchase of this model does not seem very justified. For the same money in stores, you can pick up much less bulky, more attractive and even more productive mobile devices, albeit with a shorter battery life.

It is impossible to combine everything in a smartphone of the budget segment, but the manufacturer needs to attract the buyer with a beautiful idea. For this purpose, Fly has created several lines of inexpensive gadgets with a strong emphasis on one characteristic, for example, Fly EVO Energy 5, a 5-inch smartphone with a capacious 4000 mAh battery and a 4-core processor, came to our laboratory. However, it is not always possible to combine low cost, good overall level of performance and at the same time distinguish a smartphone on the market. In our review, we'll take a look at how the increase in battery capacity has affected other qualities of the smartphone.

Fly EVO Energy 5 technical specifications
Products webpage	Fly EVO Energy 5 official page
Retail price	6.7 thousand rubles
Screen	5 inches, IPS, 480 × 854
CPU	4-core MediaTek MT6582M, frequency 1300 MHz
Graphics Accelerator	Mali-400 MP2
OS	Android 4.4
RAM	512 MB
Memory	4 GB, there is a slot for a microSD memory card up to 32 GB
Camera	Rear - 5 MP Front - 0.3 MP Video recording up to 1920 × 1080 resolution
Wireless interfaces	WAP, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, HSUPA GSM 900/1800/1900 MHZ, 3G
Battery	4000 mAh Li-Ion (removable)
External interfaces	Micro-USB, 3.5mm mini jack
Dimensions (edit)	72 x 144.5 x 11 mm
Weight	193 g
Number of SIM-cards	2 (1 standard, 1 micro SIM)
Sensors	Light and proximity sensors

Below are screenshots of CPU-z.

Fly EVO Energy 5 | Design and appearance

Fly Energy 5 is delivered in a white box, which accentuates the visual representation of the model.

On the back of the box, you can see the characteristics of this device.

Removable cover - "cover" of the box.

Immediately under the cover is a smartphone in a small recess, protected from the edges with a white porous material. Nevertheless, only a thin cardboard "cover" separates the smartphone from the outside world from above, which is of course a small minus.

The protective material has a small notch at the top for easy removal of Fly Energy 5 from the box.

Standard delivery set:

• Fly Energy 5
• Charger
• USB cable
• Headphones
• Instructions

Screen closed protective film, which lists the main advantages of this model.

Fly Energy 5 looks a little oversized due to the thickness of 1.1 cm.

In general, the smartphone looks very stylish, complete and concise. Nothing superfluous, the austere business design will suit users of all generations. However, this fact can be regarded from the other side: some demanding buyers can describe Fly Energy 5 as a "brick".

The front panel does not stand out in any way; when the screen is off, it resembles a black rectangle with rounded edges. In the upper part of it there is a notch for the speaker, a little to the right is the light sensor. There is no LED indicator, which can be a serious disadvantage for users accustomed to Android, because now it is one of the standard attributes of smartphones on this OS. There is also a small metal insert around the screen, which goes below the screen into the central part of Fly EVO Energy 5 and “rises” in the upper and lower parts.

Standard touch buttons located below, in a row, they light up when touched.

The back panel is completely covered with a lid with smooth folds directed to the side edges on all sides. The cover is black, made of plastic, has a rough structure.

Above right is the camera, just below - the flash.

Bottom right - four (top and bottom slightly shorter than the center) lines of holes - here is the speaker.

Just below the center of the back panel is the Fly logo in an embossed rectangle.

The headphone jack is located on the upper left side in the orientation with the front panel facing the user.

The left side is completely empty. At the bottom, just to the right of the center, there is a micro-USB connector.

All buttons are on the right edge, above the center. The on / off button is located just below the volume rocker (there is no "jumper" in the center of the rocker). All buttons are made of plastic, feel tactile, and are located comfortably.

Along all the edges there is a metal, slightly protruding insert, shimmering purple and having visual thin stripes directed along the insert.

The cover can be removed using a small notch at the bottom. The battery takes up most of the space under the cover.

Slots for SIM, microSIM and microSD card are located in two "levels", on top of the usual SIM-card. They can only be accessed after removing the battery (which can be done using a small notch on the bottom).

Fly EVO Energy 5 | Ergonomics

Fly EVO Energy 5 is comfortable to hold in any orientation. However, when charging in portrait orientation, the USB cable will get a little interfering. The unusually heavy weight of the smartphone is also felt - the first consequence of the capacious and large battery.

Fly EVO Energy 5 | Screen

Although the screen is quite large, there is no visual "shovel effect", the edges of the screen are close to the edges of the smartphone itself. For its diagonal, the smartphone has a very low resolution, below the standard for this price category, which is only 480 × 854 pixels. The pixels are very well distinguishable, which is quite logical, but the depth of color and the width of the viewing angles are quite decent, because an IPS matrix is ​​installed on the Fly EVO Energy 5.

There will be no special problems with brightness, it is comfortably adjusted to the needs of the user.

Fly EVO Energy 5 | Software

Fly EVO Energy 5 runs on Android 4.4 OS. The proprietary shell is not used, only elements of Google, Navitel, UBANK, PSB - Mobile and a small set of games are preinstalled.

Fly EVO Energy 5 | Camera

Fly EVO Energy 5 is equipped with a 5-megapixel rear and 0.3-megapixel front cameras. The quality of the pictures from the rear camera is good, but in landscape shots the focus is not very good, in general they are a little blurry.

The front camera matches its small capabilities, the quality of shooting is poor, but this is quite enough for communication.

The pictures were taken from a preinstalled application. You can evaluate their quality for yourself by uploading a full-size version of the image in our gallery.

The camera offers a standard range of settings. You can adjust shooting modes, focus, HDR, photo quality and size, turn face detection on or off, or return to factory settings. One-touch modes include panorama, live photo and beauty face. In our opinion, the settings are located conveniently enough to provide quick navigation among the many options.

Fly EVO Energy 5 | Video

I would like to note that Fly EVO Energy 5 loses most of the popular codecs, but more is not required if you take into account the resolution of your smartphone. The comfort of watching movies is a very controversial point: the brightness and color rendition are at a fairly good level, but the pixel density is too low at all for watching any animation if you want to relax and have fun.

Fly EVO Energy 5 | Music

To listen to music, you can use the pre-installed Play app Music from Google, which is a typical audio player with the ability to buy, store and listen to music. It also has a built-in set of additional functions.

Fly EVO Energy 5 | Performance

CPU performance

We tested the performance of the 4-core MediaTek MT6582M processor using Linpack. Results are reported in millions of floating point operations per second (MFLOPS).

Fly Evo Energy 5 does not support this test: as a result of a series of attempts to run it, an error was generated each time.

Overall system performance

We used Smartbench 2012 1.0 benchmark to assess overall system performance. This benchmark is very similar to the 3DMark and SysMark packages in that it provides simple and convenient performance indices for two categories: productivity applications and games. On the other hand, the synthetic benchmark may not accurately reflect the real performance of applications and games.

You can compare the results with other smartphones and tablets at http://smartphonebenchmarks.com

The test showed good performance at the same time for productivity applications and games. For this price category, a very good result of versatility. However, one should not forget about the low resolution of the display.

Antutu

The test results show that the CPU is good for this price category. The GPU result is somewhat overstated due to the low resolution.

Java script performance

SunSpider is a JavaScript benchmark that demonstrates both the performance of a smartphone's JavaScript engine and the processing power of (to a lesser extent) hardware. Poor JavaScript implementation on a very fast smartphone can blur the entire platform's performance. And at the same time, the excellent JavaScript implementation will make it possible to efficiently use even slow systems. However, today the main implementations of JavaScript engines are getting closer to each other, developers are borrowing all the best ideas. JavaScript tests are single threaded due to the nature of browsers. SunSpider correctly evaluates CPU-sensitive tasks found in real web applications.

Below are the results of SunSpider 1.0.2 on tablets and Android phones... Android devices use the Google V8 JavaScript engine. The smaller the result, the better it is.

Not a very good result, although Internet surfing feels comfortable. It seems to us that the point is again in the poor optimization of the smartphone.

Network bandwidth

We tested network performance using the IxChariot benchmark as well as an 802.11 b / g / n router with 1 Gbps ports. The smartphone was at a distance of about 1 meter from the access point. We tested the maximum available network mode (802.11g or 802.11n), at that time there were no other active transmissions, and no pronounced interference was found in the network coverage area either.

Fly EVO Energy 5 showed not very good results, however, even they will be more than enough for domestic needs, since it is almost impossible to get a high download speed of the material.

Relative Benchmark

This test was created "for growth", really high results, no available devices for Android base can not show. The graphics level is much higher than the gaming average, so even if the results are not impressive here, in real games the performance can be quite good. 60 fps in this test is already the Xbox 360.

Quite good results for this synthetic test, Fly EVO Energy 5 coped well with it

3D Mark

As a result of running the third most complex test, each time there was a failure and crash: the smartphone cannot reproduce graphics of this quality. A definite disadvantage of Fly EVO Energy 5. The result in the other two tests is average, but the smartphone should prove its position in real gaming tests.

Epic citadel

We have added the Epic Citadel gaming test, which is a demonstration of the capabilities of Infinity Blade's Unreal engine for Android OS. The test has different .apk and cache for different GPUs, so you need to take your versions for the test. The test was carried out in High Quality and Ultra High Quality modes.

Here Fly EVO Energy 5 was also expected to fail: this application crashes shortly after launch. Since the crashes did not occur during the test, the poor gaming performance cannot be judged, however, bad optimization is clearly visible, since this is not the most "heavy" application.

Fly EVO Energy 5 | Battery life

The tests were carried out at medium screen brightness, with one SIM card turned on, without a Wi-Fi connection. The videos were watched with headphones.

When watching the video, we got 11 hours of battery life, in the game - 10 hours. Excellent performance: under an average load, the smartphone "lived" for two and a half days. At the same time, most of the time he was connected to Wi-Fi, making calls and surfing the web, listening to music, using applications.

I was very pleased with the battery charging time - with this capacity, the expected performance was worse.

Fly EVO Energy 5 | Conclusion

Fly EVO Energy 5 showed itself contradictory in the tests: those that were launched gave good results, but there were too many failures in those programs that the smartphone could "pull". Therefore, according to the author, the smartphone is not well optimized.

Nevertheless, Fly EVO Energy 5 is equipped with a relatively powerful SoC for the "budget" segment and coped well with many games run out of tests. The smartphone is assembled with high quality, pleasant to the touch, looks stylish and laconic, however, there is a certain "stinginess" in the design. Some users will surely compare a smartphone with a "brick". I would also like to say about the outer shell and special functions: here the manufacturers also did not distinguish themselves with particular originality, everything is standard. I was not pleased with the low screen resolution, an obvious disadvantage.

Overall, the smartphone feels comfortable and fast, but a bit heavy. According to the author, the emphasis on the high capacity of 4000 mAh has partially justified itself - the time of usual use of Fly EVO Energy 5 without recharging really seems to be long: the convenience of this solution will be appreciated to the maximum by users who are accustomed to "long-lived" old phones and who appreciate the mobility and comfort of long-term work without recharging. The smartphone managed to hold out for two and a half days. Overall cons this phone they pay off with the battery capacity, especially it is a priority for you.

Fly EVO Energy 5 advantages:

• Good performance in applications and games for the "budget" category
• Capacious battery, long battery life
• Good build quality, stylish and laconic design

Disadvantages of Fly EVO Energy 5:

• "Budget" filling, lack of original concepts, not counting the high capacity
• Poor application optimization
• Unusually heavy weight of the smartphone

The explosive growth of the budget communicator market continues. Direct proof of this is the shipments of MediaTek processors last year. It was these inexpensive, productive and economical chips that became the basis for a huge number of Chinese smartphones with Android, which first captured their native market in the Middle Kingdom, and then began expansion into Eastern Europe.

In North America and Western Europe, buyers of most smartphones get them almost for free along with the contract. cellular operator, or they pay a sane initial payment for them, and the rest of the cost is paid in the form of small monthly deductions. Thus, operators encourage users to consume more various services (primarily Internet traffic), and they themselves receive bonuses from smartphone manufacturers. Low-end devices are not so attractive for buyers: there is no point in paying a comparable amount for a cheap smartphone - you still have to pay for the operator's rather basic service contract.

The inhabitants of Russia and our closest neighbors are deprived of all this. There is no subsidizing of devices by operators; without it, even smartphones of the middle segment cost a lot; the number cannot be transferred from one SIM card to another, as a result, subscribers are tied to their operator and its SIM card. Of course, you can buy a smartphone on credit, but the high price of top-end devices, at the level of the monthly salary in the country, and the exorbitant bank interest make this whole enterprise questionable. In addition, it is one thing when a smartphone is provided by an operator in installments, as in Europe, and quite another - when you overpay one and a half times for it to the bank that issued the loan. It is for these reasons that Chinese budget smartphones are gaining popularity in our country. The optimal ratio of price and functionality attracts the attention of buyers who are ready to close their eyes to the absence of a "label" of a well-known electronics manufacturer on their communicator (although there are exceptions - for example, Philips smartphones). Especially when, according to its characteristics, a device from China corresponds to a communicator of the upper market segment, albeit with a lag of 1-2 years, and costs 2-3 times less, like, for example, Jiayu G3.

Some popular representatives of this cohort of mobile devices have already visited our editorial office, but their list is far from exhausted. And now we got another budget smartphone based on the MediaTek platform.

The hero of this review was a representative of last year's line of smartphones from Fly, namely Fly IQ440 Energie. This communicator is almost a complete analogue of the already seen smartphone Fly IQ441 Radiance, the main difference between them is a slightly smaller display diagonal with a more capacious battery in Fly IQ440.

Scope of delivery and characteristics

The communicator comes in a nice little box made of white thick cardboard. Communicator image, its main characteristics and detailed description capabilities allow you to quickly identify and understand what kind of device is contained inside the package.

The following items were taken out of the box: a communicator, a rechargeable battery, a charger with a USB-compatible connector, a Micro-USB-USB cable, a wired stereo headset, ear pads for it, and numerous documentation. All information, both on the box and in the accompanying documents, is presented in Russian.

Fly IQ440 Energie smartphone specifications

• MediaTek MTK6577 platform (2 ARM Cortex-A9 cores, 1 GHz frequency) with PowerVR SGX 531 video core;
• Operating system Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich);
• IPS display, diagonal 4 ″, 480 × 800 pixels, capacitive, with multitouch;
• 512 MB RAM, 4 GB main flash (2.7 GB available);
• Support for microSDHC memory cards up to 32 GB;
• Support for two SIM-cards;
• GSM EDGE / GPRS communication (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) for both SIM cards;
• Communication 3G HSPA (900/2100 MHz) for one SIM-card;
• Bluetooth 3.0;
• Wi-Fi 802.11b / g / n;
• FM radio;
• GPS + A-GPS;
• Position sensor in space, accelerometer, magnetometer;
• 5 megapixel CMOS camera, autofocus, optional VGA camera;
• Lithium-ion battery, capacity 2500 mAh;
• Dimensions 124.5 x 64.0 x 12.8 mm;
• Weight 173 g.

In addition to the diagonal sizes of the display and the battery mentioned above, the absence of an LED flash and the large weight of the Fly IQ440 are noteworthy.

	Fly IQ440	Jiayu g3	Philips W732	Fly IQ441	Huawei Honor	Samsung Galaxy S 2
Screen	4 ″ IPS, 233 ppi	4.5 ″ IPS, 326 ppi	4.3 ″ IPS, 218 ppi	4.3 ″ IPS, 218 ppi	4 ″ TFT TN, 245 ppi
Resolution	480 × 800	720 × 1280	480 × 800	480 × 800	480 × 854	480 × 800
OC	Android 4.0.4	Android 4.0.4	Android 4.0.3	Android 4.0.4	Android 4.0.3	Android 4.0.4
CPU		MediaTek MTK6577 (2 cores ARM Cortex-A9), 1 GHz		MediaTek MTK6577 (2 cores ARM Cortex-A9), 1 GHz	Qualcomm MSM8255T (1 Scorpion core), 1.4 GHz	Samsung Exynos 4210 (2 cores ARM Cortex-A9), 1.2 GHz
GPU	PowerVR SGX 531	PowerVR SGX 531	PowerVR SGX 531	PowerVR SGX 531	Qualcomm Adreno 205	ARM Mali-400MP
RAM	512 MB	1 GB	512 MB	512 MB	512 MB	1 GB
Camera			Rear 5 Mp, Front 0.3 Mp	Rear 5 Mp, Front 0.3 Mp	Rear 8 MP	Rear 8 MP, front 2 MP
Battery	2500 mAh	2750 mAh	2400 mAh	1800 mAh	1930 mAh	1650 mAh
Dimensions and weight	125 x 64 x 12.8 mm, 173 g.	135 x 65 x 10.8 mm, 131 g.	126 x 67 x 12.3 mm, 168.9 g.	128 x 68 x 10 mm, 136 g.	122 x 61 x 11 mm, 140 g	125 x 66 x 8.5 mm, 116 g.
Average retail price	N / A (0)	N / A (0)	N / A (0)	N / A (0)	$123()	$103()

Design and appearance

The hero of the review is another typical representative of the class of compact monoblock communicators. The design of all such smartphones is approximately the same, and the process of creation consists in making a rounded oblong body made of black plastic to accommodate the display and all the filling of the communicator.

The tone of the Fly IQ440 design is set by a large and massive battery. It is he who is responsible for both the excessive weight of the device and its tangible dimensions. If you pay attention to the comparison table of communicators, it is noticeable that the greatest weight and dimensions are just in smartphones with a capacious battery. Only Jiayu G3 is an exception - apparently, its developers tried to find a smaller battery or installed a more modern model of a lithium-ion battery.

Be that as it may, Fly IQ440 turned out to be large and massive for its display diagonal. The weight of the communicator is clearly felt both when working with it and in the pocket, which, however, does not mean that the smartphone is inconvenient to use or it puts a heavy load on the hand. The weight and dimensions of the review hero remained within reasonable limits, the smartphone fits comfortably in the hand, at least for a man, both due to the thick body and due to the corrugated rubber-like soft-touch plastic used for the back panel of the communicator.

The diagonal of the Fly IQ440 display is optimal for controlling the smartphone with the thumb of one hand, for which it is very easy to reach any point of the communicator's front panel without changing the grip.

The build quality of the review hero is good. The only inconspicuous squeak was removed only with a strong pressure on back panel smartphone, otherwise there are no backlashes, creaks or shortcomings.

In addition to the aforementioned "rubber" plastic of the battery compartment cover, the materials of the Fly IQ440 case are glossy black plastic (the communicator's rib is made of it) and transparent plastic, which looks like glass and covers the smartphone screen.

In the lower part of the front panel of the communicator there are standard system and application control keys, they are backlit. Above the display are a telephone speaker, light and proximity sensors, an additional camera lens and an LED. The work of the latter seemed strange to us: apparently, its only task is to inform about a low battery level. It does not respond to missed calls, battery charging, or incoming messages. We also did not like the large notch for the speaker, over time, dust will begin to collect in it. And dust began to collect in the gap between the display and the stiffener immediately after removing the smartphone from the box.

The protective display panel is the only structural element of Fly IQ440 that actively collects fingerprints from the smartphone user. The battery compartment cover, also known as the back panel of the communicator body, not only covers the battery, but also fits with its edges on all ends of the review hero's body. Only from below is the protrusion of the Fly IQ440 body stiffener protruding into the cover and thus forms the communicator's end face.

Detaching the back panel of the review hero is quite simple, you just need to pull with your fingernail for the provided recess. Install back - too. A huge battery takes up almost the entire body of the communicator; under it are both SIM card slots and a microSD memory card slot. A little space is left only for the camera lens and the main speaker of the communicator - by the way, covered with a protective piece of cloth. On the reverse side of the battery compartment cover, you can see a rubber damper - a manifestation of the concern of the Fly IQ440 developers about the noiselessness and reliability of the smartphone design. Apparently, they decided to add this detail at the last moment, since the rubber panel is glued crookedly and carelessly.

On the left side of the Fly IQ440 case there are volume control buttons and a Micro-USB connector. On the right side there is only a power control button. All keys are embossed enough to accurately identify them by touch, but their travel could be longer.

Above the hero of the review there is a headset jack (3.5 mm), below - a microphone.

So, there are only a few complaints about the Fly IQ440 design: firstly, these are “dust collectors” in the form of a gap between the screen and the body and a hole for a telephone speaker, secondly, a strange LED, whose operation is almost invisible, and thirdly, a lot of weight and the thickness of the case. However, the last drawback can also be considered an advantage - a thick communicator is more comfortable to hold in your hand.

As for the design of the smartphone, the Fly IQ440 looks good for a budget device. All elements of the communicator's exterior, their location, as well as the body materials in the form of black plastic of various styles, have long become classics and do not cause absolutely any emotions - neither positive nor negative.

Software

The Fly IQ440 smartphone uses Android 4.0.4 as an operating system. The developers have not prepared any additional shells, the system is presented almost in its original form.

But there is plenty of additional software built into the firmware of the review hero by the standards of a budget smartphone. This list includes: clients of popular social networks in Russia - Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki, a player for the streaming video service ivi.ru, a self-developed bookstore Flybook, an Internet bank client Ubank, intaxi - a program for finding and calling a taxi, CoinKeeper - a program for maintaining personal finance, VoiceChanger is a meaningless application (although for someone else) for phone calls "in someone else's voice", works through paid calls to a short number, file manager ES Explorer is perhaps the most useful program on the list, LivelyCubes is a puzzle game, and the list is completed by a huge Yandex widget with a variety of information, which occupies one of the five tabs of the main screen of the system and provides quick access to its various services. It makes no special sense to describe this whole "zoo", most programs do not need introduction; the Flybook and Ubank applications should be noted separately, we have already given a detailed description of them in the review of the brother of the review hero - Fly IQ441.

Whether all these applications will be useful to the owner of a smartphone is an open question. It is commendable that the developers of Fly IQ440, unlike many other manufacturers of mobile devices, left the option to remove unnecessary programs and thereby free up some memory of the communicator for other applications.

Display and sound

The ratio of the physical size of the matrix (4 ″) and the resolution (480 × 800 pixels) is such that the pixel density of the Fly IQ440 display is 233 dots per inch. Of course, with such a pixel density, the Fly IQ440 screen is far from Retina and HD matrices, but in its current form, the picture shown by the review's display looks pretty good for a budget smartphone. Individual pixels of the matrix are noticeable only if you look closely and look for them on purpose.

In general, the Fly IQ440 display, made using IPS technology, is quite good: the viewing angles are good, the picture is rich, the backlight power is sufficient for working indoors, but it becomes difficult to distinguish anything on the screen in bright light - the image dims.

Capacitive touchscreen technology allows multiple simultaneous touches to be recognized. Unfortunately, in the case of Fly IQ440, their number is limited to only two simultaneous signals.

The Fly IQ440 phone speaker and microphone allow you to make calls and communicate with your interlocutors without any problems. The speaker has acceptable sound quality and volume. There were no complaints about the microphone either.

The main speaker has a low power and a general bias of low frequencies... There is no extraneous clanking or rattling, but the melodies sound as if from a deep well. It is very difficult to muffle the speaker, even if you close the hole on the rear panel with your finger - thanks to the multi-layer construction of the case.

The headphone output power of the review hero is average. Weak low frequencies in the signal are also noticeable, even their amplification in the equalizer does not help. In general, the quality of audio output should satisfy the majority of potential owners.

Probably, in order to correct the aforementioned shortcomings, the developers of Fly IQ440 have put a headset with low impedance and very bass speakers into the kit; when the equalizer is on, there is even an excessive constant hum. Oddly enough, it is more interesting to listen to music with Fly IQ440 than with more expensive headphones.

The headset is non-separable, phones are not disconnected from the control unit with a microphone and a call answering key.

The FM radio receiver built into Fly IQ440 traditionally requires a headset or headphones to be connected, but agrees to work without them. The reception quality is average, the control program is standard, there is support for RDS and audio signal recording.

Wireless interfaces and communication

Fly IQ440 has all the wireless data transmission and reception interfaces necessary for mobile life. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules allow you to exchange information on short distance, GSM and 3G - make calls and access the Internet anywhere where these cellular networks are supported. The set is complemented by a GPS satellite navigation system signal receiver.

There were no problems with the communication modules. The communicator successfully makes calls and transmits data over two communication channels, but with limitations. Like all smartphones on the MediaTek platform, the hero of the review allows two SIM cards to work simultaneously only in standby mode, but if a call comes in through one of the channels, then the other smartphone is “out of range”, and the connection to the network is cut off.

The maximum Wi-Fi speed that Fly IQ440 managed to register is 24 Mbit / s, for testing we used a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND router in 802.11n / 40 MHz mode.

Determining the coordinates of the communicator using GPS takes some time. The process can be accelerated by using A-GPS and EPO technologies. Of the navigation programs, the original firmware of the smartphone contains only standard Google maps.

Camera

Fly IQ440 developers did a little strange: they saved on flash for the main camera of the smartphone, but did not remove the additional camera from the front panel. It would be better if they left the flash, but removed the little-used second camera - although as anyone.

Be that as it may, cameras in budget communicators have always been on the "side" in the list of characteristics, potential owners of smartphones of this class are attracted by more weighty parameters and their ratio with the price. They often do not care what the capabilities and characteristics of the camera built into a mobile device, as long as it shoots and records video. Progress, however, does not stand still, and even budget smartphones now have cameras that take good quality pictures and videos.

The matrix of the Fly IQ440 main camera has a resolution of 5 megapixels, which allows taking pictures with a size of 2560 × 1920 pixels; This camera is equipped with an autofocus system, which works, however, a little strange: you cannot specify the focus area manually at all, the camera itself constantly adjusts the focus. Macro shooting is not available at all for Fly IQ440 - the camera refuses to adjust focus to close objects.

Best of all, the camera built into Fly IQ440 manages to shoot panoramas, preferably in good lighting and without objects moving in the frame - in this case, HDR technology helps very well. But she is quite capable of other plots, the main thing is not to count on too much. Examples of pictures can be found below.

The camera control software has a simple and straightforward interface. As if hinting at a purely utilitarian purpose of the camera in this smartphone, there are not very many shooting settings, there is only the most necessary: ​​a timer, shooting mode, geotagging, exposure correction, HDR and various shooting effects (no longer so relevant in the Instagram era).

Let us be convinced once again of the voiced facts and look at the points that Fly IQ440 received in various performance tests.

Softweg Benchmark 1.03

	Fly IQ440	Jiayu g3	Philips W732	Fly IQ441	Samsung Galaxy S 3	Huawei Honor	Samsung Galaxy S 2
Cpu	2 × 1 GHz	2 × 1 GHz	1 GHz	2 × 1 GHz	4 × 1.4 GHz	1.4 GHz	2 × 1.2 GHz
OS	Android 4.0	Android 4.0	Android 4.0	Android 4.0	Android 4.0	Android 4.0	Android 2.3
Total graphics score	50,7	30,3	37,7	49,1	28,6	74,7	34,1
Total CPU score	3009	2993	2674	2748	4054	3201	3261
Total memory score	347	361	562	399	988	551	783
Total file system score	204	231	300	208	468	280	325

Quadrant Standard

As expected, Fly IQ440 and Fly IQ441 are identical. Together with Jiayu G3, they slightly outperform Philips W732, where a single-core version of the MediaTek chip is installed, and are inferior to communicators. Samsung Galaxy S second and third generation.

For everyday work, the performance of MediaTek MTK6577 is more than enough: delays in the operation of the system and programs, if they occur, are not caused by a lack of processor power. For more demanding applications, such as games, and for playing high-definition video, the capabilities of this platform may no longer be enough, as we saw by running the GLBenchmark and NenaMark tests.

NenaMark 2.4

Geekbench 2

It remains to see how things are with the playback of videos of various formats and resolutions. The list of videos and the reasons for their selection are detailed in the article on the methodology for testing video display devices.

Format	Container, video, sound	MX Video Player	Native video player
DVDRip	AVI, XviD 720 × 400 2200 Kbps, MP3 + AC3	reproduced normally	reproduced normally
Web-DL SD	AVI, XviD 720 × 400 1400 Kbps, MP3 + AC3	reproduced normally	reproduced normally
Web-DL HD	MKV, H.264 1280 × 720 3000Kbps, AC3		played without sound
BDRip 720p	MKV, H.264 1280 × 720 4000 Kbps, AC3	played without sound (sound only programmatically, but with video delays¹)	played without sound
BDRip 1080p	MKV, H.264 1920 × 1080 8000Kbps, AC3	plays with delays	not reproduced

¹ the sound in MX Video Player was played only after switching to software decoding; the standard player does not have such a setting

So, Fly IQ440 coped with the playback of all videos except for the most "voluminous" one. But you can also view it if you want, if you switch the MX Player to software decoding mode. It should be noted that hardware acceleration on Fly IQ440 works somewhat strangely: during playback of all videos, there was a slight twitching of the picture. It is not there if you watch videos of lower bitrates and resolutions in MX Player in software decoding mode.

conclusions

The Fly IQ440 communicator turned out to be exactly the device it was supposed to become - a partner for the Fly IQ441, a competitor for the Philips W732, another good budget smartphone based on the MediaTek MTK6577 platform with support for two SIM-cards.

The characteristics of the review hero, its advantages and disadvantages, the weight and shape of the case, the price in the end make it an interesting option for those buyers who need a smartphone based on the popular operating system with a long battery life, a good display, reasonable performance and adequate the price. In this respect Fly IQ440 should meet the expectations of such buyers, if they are ready to turn a blind eye to everything else.

So, with all its pluses and minuses, the hero of the review takes a worthy place in the segment of budget communicators. Long battery life, good display, more than reasonable price (at the time of writing the review equal to 6150 rubles) - this is what makes up the bulk of the "barrel of honey" called Fly IQ440 Energie. Teaspoons of ointment in it - a lot of weight, a thick body, minor design flaws and an ordinary design.

	Fly IQ440	ZTE V889M	Jiayu g3	Philips W732	Fly IQ441	Explay Infinity
Screen	4 ″ IPS, 233 ppi	4 ″ TFT TN, 233 ppi	4.5 ″ IPS, 326 ppi	4.3 ″ IPS, 218 ppi	4.3 ″ IPS, 218 ppi	4.3 ″ Super AMOLED Plus, 218 ppi
Resolution	480 × 800	480 × 800	720 × 1280	480 × 800	480 × 800	480 × 800
OC	Android 4.0.4	Android 4.0.4	Android 4.0.4	Android 4.0.3	Android 4.0.4	Android 4.0
CPU	MediaTek MTK6577 (2 cores ARM Cortex-A9), 1 GHz	MediaTek MTK6577 (2 cores ARM Cortex-A9), 1 GHz	MediaTek MTK6577 (2 cores ARM Cortex-A9), 1 GHz	MediaTek MTK6575 (1 core ARM Cortex-A9), 1 GHz	MediaTek MTK6577 (2 cores ARM Cortex-A9), 1 GHz	MediaTek MTK6575 (1 core ARM Cortex-A9), 1 GHz
RAM	512 MB	512 MB	1 GB	512 MB	512 MB	512 MB
Camera	Rear 5 Mp, Front 0.3 Mp	Rear 5 MP	Rear 8 MP, front 2 MP	Rear 5 Mp, Front 0.3 Mp	Rear 5 Mp, Front 0.3 Mp	Rear 8 MP, front 0.3 MP
Battery	2500 mAh	1650 mAh	2750 mAh	2400 mAh	1800 mAh	1600 mAh
Dimensions and weight	125 x 64 x 12.8mm, 173g	121 x 64 x 11.9 mm, 134 g	135 x 65 x 10.8 mm, 131 g	126 x 67 x 12.3mm, 168.9g	128 x 68 x 10 mm, 136 g	129 x 66 x 9.9 mm, 119 g
Average retail price	N / A (0)	N / A (0)	N / A (0)	N / A (0)	N / A (0)	N / A (0)

When I got to know Fly products, I got the Fly Era Energy 1 Quad at my disposal back in 2015. This is not a novelty, but quite an interesting budget smartphone with a capacious battery. With modest characteristics by modern standards, it has a 4000 mAh battery. Its announcement took place in 2014, and sales are starting to wind down. By the time the test was released, the second generation Fly ERA Energy 2 appeared with a smaller screen diagonal. The version tested today will cost 5000-5500 rubles.

For this price, a quite adequate set of characteristics for a budget smartphone is offered. There are few models with a capacious battery in this budget. We suggest that you familiarize yourself with the experience of long-term operation of this model.

Video review Fly Era Energy 1 Quad

Equipment

Fly Era Energy 1 Quad is delivered in a compact package made of thick cardboard. The box contains a photo of the smartphone and data on technical specifications.

The package includes a microUSB cable, charger, headset, OTG cable, instructions and a warranty card.

Appearance

No sophisticated design should be expected in this price segment. Fly Era Energy 1 Quad is made in a compact plastic case. Laconic and austere design.

The design combines matte and glossy plastic. The side edge is made of plastic, this is the only highlight in the exterior.

Dimensions are 73.7x144.8x11.2 mm and weighs 190 grams. The 5-inch diagonal is offset by the beveled side edges, which makes it comfortable to hold in your hand.

Its main difference from its brothers is the increased thickness of the case, this is a payment for a capacious battery.

I did not like the design of the back cover - made of soft-touch plastic. The lid is very easily soiled, fingerprints are difficult to remove.

The front side of Fly Era Energy 1 Quad is equipped with a scratch-resistant protective glass.

Both connectors are located on the upper edge, they are microUSB and an audio jack. Power button and volume rocker on the right side.

In the upper part of the back cover, the lens of the main camera is displayed, which does not protrude above the surface of the body, here is also a flash.

On the front side there are three touch buttons, front-camera, microphone hole, as well as proximity and lighting sensors.

Fly Era Energy 1 Quad has a collapsible case. The cover hides a battery, two SIM compartments, and a microSD card slot. The build is good. The cover does not bend under pressure, there is no squeak or backlash of parts.

Screen

A 5-inch screen with a resolution of 480x854 pixels is installed. This is a TFT TN matrix with small viewing angles, when tilted, the brightness and color rendition change, the screen fades. Weaknesses include low contrast and poor maximum brightness. Fly Era Energy 1 Quad will go blind in direct sunlight. Supports two simultaneous touches, the sensitivity level is medium. There is an air gap under the glass.

Filling

The heart of Fly Era Energy 1 Quad is the MediaTek MT6582M processor with a frequency of 1.3 GHz. Responsible for the graphics Mali-400 MP. Onboard 512 MB random access memory and 4 GB for data storage. Of these, about 2 GB is available to the user at the first start. The memory can be expanded using a microSD card. The processor cannot boast of a high level of performance.

Supported work in networks 3G, Bluetooth 4.0, single-band Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n and GPS with A-GPS. No malfunctions of wireless modules were detected.

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Battery

Fly Era Energy 1 Quad is powered by a 4000 mAh battery. Taking into account the low resolution and energy efficient processor, the smartphone can work up to 50 hours in music listening mode, about 5 hours at maximum load, 1.5 days in a normal scenario. It takes 4 hours to charge. This smartphone can be used to charge third-party gadgets, an adapter is included.

Camera

The main module Fly Era Energy 1 Quad with a resolution of 5 megapixels. It works in tandem with an LED flash. There is no autofocus. Pictures are not always clear. The ideal condition for him is a sufficient level of illumination, at night the camera is lost. Full HD recording is supported.

Software

The operating system Google Android 4.4 is installed with support for cloud updates. You should not wait for an update either up to 5.0 or up to 6.0.

There are no third-party shells, but there is a large number of partner software. Cleaning the system will take OS experience and time.

Fly Era Energy 1 Quad summary

Fly Era Energy 1 Quad is a good solution when choosing a budget smartphone with a capacious battery. It cannot boast of a high-quality screen and a high level of performance. The strengths include a good build, a sufficient level of performance, the ability to charge other smartphones, support for two SIM-cards. You will not like the small amount of RAM, low resolution, weak cameras, small viewing angles, easily soiled body, lack of autofocus.

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Today I present to you a 5-inch smartphone Fly ERA Energy 1, the main feature of which is a 4000 mAh battery. For comparison, all the phones that I reviewed earlier had a much less capacious battery - 1,200-2,000 mAh. It was all the more interesting to look at the time of his work. I will say right away that everything is just fine in this regard. There are also disadvantages, where can we go without them, but we will consider them below in the traditional format of "pros, cons and characteristics". You can find a more detailed article written for the Internet portal "Na-svyaz.ru" here (link).
The model for testing is provided by the Fly press service.

Cons of Fly IQ4502 ERA Energy 1
1. Not enough memory available for installing applications. This is a common problem for all budget Android devices with 4GB of ROM. Android 4 by default prohibits the installation of applications on the memory card (this requires root and a number of manipulations). In this model, you have about 1.3 GB available.
2. TFT screen with a resolution of 854x480 and a pixel density of 196 ppi. I would like both a higher resolution and an IPS-screen. But then the smartphone would have cost more. However, you quickly get used to the quality of the screen and do not really notice the flaws inherent in TN-matrices. The display recognizes up to two simultaneous touches.
3. In budget smartphones, cameras still shoot very poorly. Fly Energy 1 is no exception. The main camera lacks autofocus at 5 megapixels, and the rear camera has a resolution of only 0.3 megapixels.
4. The smartphone is heavy - 190 g. The thickness of the device is also rather big - 11.2 mm. The reason, as you can imagine, is in the large battery.
5. Preinstalled applications that are not included in the set of programs (list under the heading "Preinstalled software"). In any case, they will have to be deleted to free up space for the applications you need.

Pros of Fly IQ4502 ERA Energy 1
1. Powerful 4000 mAh battery. It is able to work without recharging not 1-2 days, like ordinary smartphones, but up to 3-7 days (with an average intensity of use). Read more about the test results below in the "Battery and operating time" section.
2. Sufficiently fast charging for such a capacious battery - 3.5-4 hours.
3.2 SIM cards. The first sim-module works in 2G / 3G modes, the second - in 2G mode. It is convenient to use the phone with two SIM cards. One for voice communication, the other for mobile Internet (turns on as needed).
4. Diagonal of the screen. The resolution may not be as high as we would like, but 5 inches is still more than 4 or 4.5 inches.
5. 4-core processor MediaTek MT6582 (1.3 GHz) and video accelerator Mali-400 MP. The results of synthetic tests are not bad, 3D games do not slow down either.
6. Not a bad price - from 6,500 rubles. Yes, for this money you can find a smartphone with an IPS-screen, but you will have to look for a phone with similar characteristics and the same capacious battery.

Preinstalled software
One of the latest versions of Android is Android 4.4.2. There is no need to wait for updates to 4.4.4 or 5.0. Besides standard set programs you will find the following applications: social networks(VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook); online services (Taxi, uBank, PSB-Mobile, Change yo! Voice); games (Texas Poker, Sea Birds, Danger Dash, Lively Cubes, World at Arms, Green Farm). A trial version of Navitel is also installed.

Battery and run time
Test 1. Watching online videos on YouTube over Wi-Fi. Brightness on "auto", volume in the middle, listening through headphones, mobile Internet, GPS, Bluetooth are disabled.
For the first time, the smartphone lasted 12 hours, while the charge level decreased from 100% to 30%. But this result was achieved due to the fact that most of the screen was given to black (we launched this video). The second time we started continuous playback of clips and Fly ERA Energy 1 lasted 12 hours before shutting down.

Test 2. Watching movies through a media player. Brightness on "auto", volume in the middle, listening through headphones, all communication modules are disabled (airplane mode).
Better results have been achieved here. 9 hours of continuous playback reduced the charge level from 100% to 40%. It turns out that in this mode the phone can work for about 15 hours.

Charging time from 0% to 100% - 3.5-4 hours using the included charger.

Synthetic test results
AnTuTu Benchmark 5.6 (complex test) - 19 050 (for comparison, the result of MTS Smart Run is 18 310)
Quadrand Standad Edition 2 (complex test) - 8 735 (7 005)
3DMark (Ice Storm test) - 3 245 (3 130)
3DMark (Ice Storm Extreme test) - 2 065 (2 120)

Main features of Fly ERA Energy 1
Processor: Quad-core MediaTek MT6582 (1.3 GHz)
Video processor: Mali-400 MP
RAM: 512 MB
Built-in memory: 4 GB
MicroSD support: up to 32GB
Wireless Modules: 3G / Wi-Fi / Bluetooth 4.0
Mob-go Internet speed: up to 21.6 Mbps
Screen type, number of colors: TFT, 16 million
Screen size: 5 "", 854x480
Camera: 5 MP (2560x1920) and 0.3 MP (640x480)
Camcorder: 1920x1088
Battery: 4000mAh
Working time: 12 hours (watch online video)
Size: 144.8 x 73.7 x 11.2mm
Weight: 190g
Android version: Android 4.4.2
SIM-lock: no
The price of the device: from 6 500 rubles.