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."
It should be the DRMSDRMPDRMV phone (Score:2, Insightful)
Poor Audio? What's the point then? (Score:5, Insightful)
That's a shame too because it looks like an nice phone and has some decent feature.
Pros vs. Cons (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:ridiculous phones (Score:3, Insightful)
I'll agree with you on the games/camera/web browsing though.
Is it just me or... (Score:5, Insightful)
If I'm going to buy a phone, make sure it makes phone calls!
Not the first commercially available Smartphone (Score:2, Insightful)
useless junk (Score:2, Insightful)
I guess they'll make a portable all-in-one X-BOX, DVD Player, cell phone, laptop with Windows XPee, tape recorder, CD burner, microwave, refrigerator, dishwasher, ass-wiper and "port-a-potty" device next.
This is completely useless and shows no innovation or creativity. I guess they're trying to take bloated software to the next level: bloated hardware.
Re:Anyone else (Score:5, Insightful)
First Microsoft went for the OS market
Next came the browser wars
This was followed by the battle of the servers and PDAs.
Soon afterward came the battle for the gaming console.
Now, I believe smart watches and smart cellphones.
I'm havin trouble thinkin' of anything in my life Microsoft hasn't tried to take over. (All of which they've lost so far. I use Linux, Mozilla, No Server or PDA, Nintendo 64, Casio Watch and Motorola Cellphone)
I don't cherish the thought of having one all-seeing, all-knowing presence touching every part of my daily life.
Course maybe privacy is a wee-bit old fashioned.
Re:ridiculous phones (Score:1, Insightful)
probably...even the stupidest opinion will find support somewhere...
> Don't you realize there are billions of people starving in this world?
yes I do.....what's your point?
Re:Apple should make one! (Score:1, Insightful)
I doubt, however, that OSX can possibly be scaled down to the cell phone level, as it appears unlikely due to the heavy system requirements, and lack of flexability, versus Linux, which can be scaled up or down easily.
Moreover, I think that a catchier name would be iTalk, or iDial (as opposed to iPhone, which sounds a bit cliched), something that describes an attribute of the product instead of the product itself. If they just blantently named everything by it's name, then you'd end up with products like iComputer or iAAC/MP3player.
if the phone sucks (Score:3, Insightful)
Button size, signal receiver, lack of RF, lack of BT (keeps size and price a bit smaller), those were choices made by Orange. No J2E is Microsoft. Although I am not sure why no J2E is bad, but that might just be me.
Re:Big deal. (Score:5, Insightful)
Because identity theft is enough of a problem already, without some pickpocket being able to get your wallet, keys, and phone with one deft move.
~Philly
Microsoft stealing from the commons (Score:3, Insightful)
You make a good point, but taking Names (TM) that already has a meaning and copyright it is stealing from the commons.
They steal the meaning that this name already have. There is nothng wrong with picking a name that helps you in the beginning you just need to undertand that what helps you now will hurt you later so take your pick.
It like the Trademarking of the word Windows. WTF. This was picked percisely because it had a well definied and undertaood meaning. The name helped yuo in the beginning now you are stuck with something that is generic and should be allowed to be trademarked.
Nothing wrong with Smartphone but as a trade mark give me a break. Maybe we need to rename Gnome or KDE SmartWindows.
hes looking for his 15 min of fame (Score:3, Insightful)
anybody noticed that on all reviews on his site
like he wanna be famuos or sumthin?
Call Me Crazy But... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:First one, huh? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:he's clueless... or not (Score:1, Insightful)
Seems to me that this is cause to suggest that Symbian phone is likely to be more stable than an MS based phone.
Re:It should be the DRMSDRMPDRMV phone (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Security (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm quite positively sure that
Re:Call Me Crazy But... (Score:3, Insightful)
I have had a cellphone now since 1996 or so, starting with a Siemens S4 and I am currently the Siemens ME45 and I can count the number of calls that have terminated due to bad reception or network failures on a single hand. I really do not understand how you can view cellphone connection stability as an issue?
Kristian
Re:he's clueless... or not (Score:3, Insightful)
What idiot modded this as a troll. As an ex Psion Revo+ owner, I have to say that the EPOC OS (now known as Symbian) is the most stable, polished OS I have ever used. I can't remember having to reboot my Psion, EVER.
Saying that MS phones crash and Symbian phones crash is like saying "Windows 98 crashes and Solaris crashes". Yeah the statement may be true, but it's deliberately misleading. In reality, the two products aren't even in the same league as far as stability goes.
Example of people discussing Symbian's reliability:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=42924&thresho