I picked up this phone for £15 off EBay, which is quite a good price for a phone of this age and technical spec. The SPV (Sound, Picture, and Video) is manufactured by Orange and features the Microsoft Smartphone 2002 Operating System, meaning it's packed with the features you'd expect from a Microsoft operating system.

The phone is packed with preinstalled software, so pretty much as soon as you've received the phone you're ready to go with little fuss:
Microsoft ActiveSync - When installed on your PC, your phone will synchronise with your PC to upload and download messages, contacts, calendar events and tasks.
Windows Media Player - Listen to music and watch videos with this integrated application. It's a little slow but does its job. Only downside is it's a little hard to get to grips with and it lacks a fast forward/rewind feature that's become expected on new media players.
SIM Manager - Organise your contacts between your SIM card and Phone memory.
Solitaire - A small game to play when you're bored. It's really just a remake of the one featured on Windows operating systems.
Picture Manager - When using the external camera, this utility allows you to manage your photos and gives you the option to send them to your friends and family.
MSN Messenger - A version of the instant messenger we're used to on Windows platforms. Does exactly what you'd expect, allowing you to connect to your Microsoft Passport account and send messages to your contacts.
Orange Backup - Backup your files and settings to your online Orange account - very useful if you're planning a software or ROM update (available from Orange)
Orange Update - Keep your phone up-to-date with the latest updates from Orange. It also gives you the opportunity to download unique content.

The Phone itself is quite bulky by today's standards. It doesn't fit nicely in to your jean pocket and is almost certain to get in your way. Around 50% of the device is taken up by the large screen though.

The phone comes inclusive with Internet Explorer which users of the Microsoft Windows desktop PC operating systems will recognise. Its primary feature is, like the name suggests, browsing the internet. The browser will only display WAP pages whereas more modern phones tend to give you the option to parse HTML as well. Though I wouldn't exactly see this as a disadvantage as most of the site's you'd want to visit on your phone will come with a WAP version of the site for use with a mobile device - In the end it's easier to use and will save on your GPRS costs by using less data transfer. The Internet Explorer application itself is very responsive and comes with expected features such as a Favourites list.

The Smartphone 2002 platform has been designed by Microsoft to be very flexible and customisable. You have the option to change your home screens, themes and ringtones which are readily available off the internet. All the ringtones supplied by Orange and Microsoft do seem to be a little bit dull, lacking truetone or polyphonic midi ringtones though the phone does support them.

The Calendar feature of the SPV is similar to that in Outlook, where you create appointments containing data such as the Subject, Location, Reminder and Status. The phone will notify you at the reminder time prior to the appointment start time as well as display on your home screen the day that the appointment is set for. This is very handy as at a quick glance you can get your day plan and important information at the same time as checking for new voicemail or SMS - you don't even need to touch the phone keypad.

If using the USB cable isn't practical, the phone comes with a technology that is beginning to start to be replaced by Bluetooth - Infrared. Again, it works with ActiveSync in the same method as above though the connection needs to be initiated manually both on the phone and on the PC.