Microsoft Orange SPV Phone Review 237
Ian Bell writes "HowardChui.com just posted a review on Microsoft's new Orange SPV which is the first commercially available Smartphone. The SPV stands for Sound, Pictures, Video and you can download games like Doom or listen to MP3s on the speaker or even chat to your friends using the built-in MSN Messenger. But for all that the SPV features, there is no Bluetooth support. It still looks like a killer phone and I like that it is smaller than the PocketPC phones currently on the market."
Ad campaign? (Score:5, Funny)
Your phone has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Must be a MS powered phone (Score:3, Funny)
Anyone else (Score:5, Funny)
That's just a little freaky in my books.
I'm surprised... (Score:5, Funny)
Uhh... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Apple should make one! (Score:4, Funny)
http://www.arstechnica.com/archive/news/
Re:Ad campaign? (Score:5, Funny)
This is assuming you agreed to the EULA which you agreed to by: openning the box, turning on the phone, and then clicking yes to the message that appears (if you click no, the phone becomes inopperatable). Then, after you accept the EULAs you must activate your phone with a carrier and Microsoft, failure to do this will cause your phone to be inopperatable whithin 30 days.
We, Microsoft, reserve the right to use any media for advertising or other purposes that is and/or was on any phone that was activated
Re:Pros vs. Cons (Score:4, Funny)
And besides, what is actually so hard about carrying a PDA and a phone, what did people do before computers?:
Bob: George what do you carry with you?
George: I carry a day planner, phone book, a few rolls of quarters, and a legal pad.
Bob: Why?
George: So I can keep track of my day, make phone calls and produce documents
Bob: Really, I got this new fangled smart phone that does all that plus some
Re:Ad campaign? (Score:5, Funny)
"That's NOT blue LED backlighting, you dolt..."
Re:Slow (Score:5, Funny)
Cons: *poor RF * poor sound quality * no easy way to switch tasks * phone gets sluggish at times * terrible keypad * camera attachment could be better * could not get WAP browser working * no J2ME
I guess since the phone doesn't explode on impact or cause humans to spontaneously combust--could give it a go;)
Re:Semi offtopic - BlueTooth (Score:4, Funny)
You keep using that phrase, I do not think it means what you think it means.
First one, huh? (Score:3, Funny)
All this time, I must have been imagining commercially available smartphones like the Handspring Treo [handspring.com] and the Kyocera Smartphone. [kyocera.com]
Orange? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Uhh... (Score:3, Funny)
Virus! (Score:3, Funny)
(Why this review now? It's an oooold phone around here...)