Updated 13 Feb, 2012, 6:30 pm IST

Fly SX210 Hummer

08 May, 2008, 2:27 pm IST | Laiq Qureshi | Mobile phones

A small relief is that the SIM compartment is not buried beneath the battery or suchlike. You need only take the batter cover out to access the SIM. The problem though is that the phone lacks auto update. Despite having the luxury of slipping the SIM card in without switching the phone off, you will always have to reboot to get out of the SOS (emergency) mode. As for the memory card, there's no shortcut – it requires you to take the battery out.

This is a touchscreen phone, a feature that seems quite redundant as it hardly complements the small screen size. It's completely touchscreen, however, and there's a stylus that proves the same. You will find the stylus in the upper right of the phone. The camera and flash are situated behind, without a cover.

The interface is bit like Samsung's in look and feel, and inherits the sluggishness too. One of the most irritating (and I use the word in honest emphasis) things about the phone is the startup and shutdown fanfare. Every time the phone is switched off or on, an image of the Hummer (the car, not the phone) is displayed and the phone does a small song-and-dance routine. You can't even turn it off.

What strikes me as stupid is that when your battery is really low, the phone will not allow you to place a call, but it will still do the little jig before it completely drops dead.

The screen is a 262K color LCD with touchscreen. Over many days of usage I haven't found a good reason to use the touchscreen feature. The user interface (UI) is intuitive enough, but sluggish. In truth the Hummer is a budget-level phone, and the company has no qualms in calling it affordable. The phone comes with all the expected connectivity features – Bluetooth, EDGE, GPRS, and Infrared. We didn't experience any problems with these.

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