Orange SPV

...phone with a camera, and Orange suggested I went for the SPV 100 and it would be free, now that was a good offer to me, so we took it. **WHAT YOU GET** 1) A charger with different adapter's for use without the cradle and to use in other countries like the 2 pin plug. 2) A Desktop cradle for use with PC for updates 3) Sound Cards which is only 8 MB which doesn't do much, you will need to upgrade it. 4) A CD which has Active Sync software. 5) ...
...PC so you can the Orange Updates. You get other ring tones when available, and different home screens. The only good point I would say about this phone is the size of screen and the fact it has an appointments section. The ring tones are very plain, and not very good one's, not great quality either and not that load, abit of a pain when using the alarm, but you can use different ring tones to have as the alarm. **PROBLEMS** I have sent back 6 ...

Jordon 07.02.2004 (24.07.2004) · Read full review
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I've just upgraded to the SPV M600 - it's the first non Nokia phone I've had and it was something of a struggle to get my head around all of the features and to get used to the somewhat different way of doing things. I won't try to list all of the features- if you've had plenty of features on your phone before, suffice to say it's got most of them, although I was disconcerted at first to find no radio, stopwatch,countdown timer etc, which I had found ...
...where the different way of doing things comes in - many features are available for purchase as extra programmes to be run via the pocket PC software, which forms the basic operating system for the PDA function of the phone. Alternatively, you can download and install Java Midlets - if you can find one that works.... To be fair, this model is fairly new and plenty of suitable downloads will no doubt be available in due course. At the moment I'm still ...

robert54 05.10.2006 · Read full review
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...buy a nice shiny new Orange SPV. I purchased it the day before they were supposedly released, it cost me £99.99 on an Orange Contract with a monthly bill of £25. I’ve seen prices of £170 quoted dependant on tariff. Just out of interest I also opted for the SPV special add on of unlimited GPRS, which is valuable if you want to surf the web on your phone.... So the phone then... The first thing you notice is the size of the phone it is quite chunky ...
...Nearly 12 MB Memory…. Orange Update so you can update the drivers on your phone automatically as well as download new programs as they become available. Battery Times are quoted as 3 days standby and 2.5 hours talking but I’d say that this is seriously wrong as I never get near that! Free with the phone: Camera attachment to take photos, a desktop cradle to connect to your PC’s USB port and charge and use the software you get with the phone to ...

Johnsie 11.12.2002 · Read full review
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...browser. I just wish Orange would stop sending me promo text messages!!!! :) ----------------------------------------- Original Review: I upgraded to an SPV from a Nokia 8310 (see previous review). What attracted me to it was that it has many of the features of a PDA on a device the size of a phone. Okay so the SPV is larger than your average phone these days, but it is still a lot smaller than say a Nokia Communicator or the new Sony Ericcson ...
...upgrade (and new contract) in Orange shops. I got mine at the one in Victoria station in London - great people - very helpful. To see the full spec’s I’d suggest looking at the Orange web site (unfortunately I don’t think I’m allowed to provide a link) so for those not wishing to go there I’ve copied and pasted key features at the end of the review. The key things for me where: - Supports Active Sync. I am used to Pocket PC anyway and know that ...

wooballoo 18.05.2003 (04.10.2003) · Read full review
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When I first saw the Orange SPV (which stands for Sound, Pictures, Video trivia-buffs), the first commercial GPRS phone to use the Microsoft 'Smartphone' 2002 OS, I was really excited about it. It looked like it had everything; you could carry around the contents of your MS Outlook as it duplicated all of your data directly from your computer, it could send and receive email, Web browse, run Instant Messenger and it connected via GPRS - all on a ...
...15” computer monitor. However, Orange have a list of sites specially designed for the SPV which cover most things you want to look up when you are out and about. As with e-mails, it's fine for occasional use when out but I wouldn't use the SPV as your primary internet connection. Camera quality I didn’t have high expectation for the quality of the pictures that the SPV would take. I saw it being used for photos on trips but the detail is not nearly ...

smnhicks 06.08.2003 (26.08.2003) · Read full review
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...supplied locked not only to Orange as a network provider, but also locked to prevent any non-approved software being installed. There are a few apps out there for sale, but the list isn't exactly vast. There are also some third party add ons but again, not that many of them. In order to install these it was necessary to hack around and unlock the phone yourself. Eventually Orange relented to some degree and let people do this in a more official way, ...
...unlocking their phones were doing it in order to test software they had written. I'm rather dubious as to how many of those unlocking it ever did anything of the sort. Among the software available there are Spectrum and Gameboy emulators but the keys required to use the game ROMs these require were too unfriendly for my tastes and although I downloaded things for novelty value I never used them. Overall I think that my expectations were not met ...

hawkida 16.02.2004 · Read full review
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...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's features aren't all impressive now, yet aren't too bad for the price range you're looking at for this phone. They Include: GPRS - connection to the internet via the GPRS technology allows you to download web pages and content at a reasonable speed. 177 ...
...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. What you get in the package: A cradle - Allows you to charge your phone and connect it to your PC a charger - Comes ...

nemesis2004 11.02.2006 · Read full review
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...I had to go for Orange as they were the only people who “dared” to support this phone, that’s why it’s called the “orange spv smartphone”. After changing the battery, and setting up all of the other stuff needed to setup this phone, I decided that I would have a little play on it. It seemed good at first, you know, a few games included. I must say that the camera was one of the only best parts about this phone, the videos that it took we excellent, ...
...particular; I think it was orange backup. What a waste of time. I cant remember exactly, but I think it backed up your memory onto their servers, but the one flaw was that I had to get a replacement for the one I had, I’ll come on to that in a minute, so they could not backup my original data, what’s the point of backing up something if you can’t restore it when you need it? As these phones had just come out, they obviously had many flaws to them. ...

uska123 12.04.2004 (14.04.2004) · Read full review
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...peruse at length on the Orange website...) the SPV incorporates: A camera built in MP3 64,000 colour display internet instant messaging speakerphone pocket internet explorer windows media player triband wap gprs infra-red vibrating alert email client voice memo predictive text downloadable games SD (secure digital) memory cards Well, there you are! But a list of features gets you no closer to discovering if the thing's actually any good. Luckily, ...
...cameras. One is on the Orange SPV and the other cost me £39 from Amazon. It's rather unfotunate, but the cheap, nasty 640 x 480 Espion is the superior product in terms of ease of use, speed of deployment and stealth (maximum annoyance for the unwary victim). The orange takes an age to set up. You have to meandour at tedious length through menu after menu until as last you reach the holy grail: the picture editor. Of course you will at this point ...

big_bent_al 01.08.2003 · Read full review
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...get under the screen via the earpiece and Orange have told me there is nothing that can be done about it. Apparently, up till now Orange is the only provider with the SPV although I heard that O2 or T-mobile (not sure) had been considering introducing it in the US. ...

dekom 24.08.2003 · Read full review
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I must start by getting straight to the point. This is the worst phone that I've ever had the displeasure of owning. Bought in Febuary this year, when it was still retailing at £129.99 on contract, I thought I'd walked away from the shop with the bees knees in mobile phone technology. Indeed I had for the first month or so, I had my very own PC in my pocket, the first person that I knew that had a camera attachment and most definately the only person ...
...phone as an MP3 player by using the windows media player that's part of the package. I was soon to find out that all was not as it seemed. Downloading MP3's was relatively simple using the supplied docking cradle, but the media card was only 8MB in size. 2 small MP3's was my limit, but I was happy at least I had the capability and the choice of upgrading the size of the card should I wish to do so. However the more use the phone had, the less capable ...

Petesdad 21.11.2003 · Read full review
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As the first of its kind the SPV was excellant. The ability to browse full internet pages rather than just WAP pages is invaluable. Its also nice to be able to pick up emails on the move. Rather than pay a fortune for ringtones you can transfer WAV files from your PC to the phone using the docking cradle and activsync software included. The same method allows you to download themes and backgrounds from numerous websites free of charge, giving hours ...
...The downside is that it can be frustratingly slow and lacks the well thought out shortcuts of other phones (eg it takes minutes rather than seconds to swith from line 1 to line 2). Hopefully the new and improved SPV E100 irons out some of these flaws and the soon to be released E200 will improve the phone further. (Ammong other things the E200 promises a built-in camera rather than the clip on accessory that the SPV/SPV E100 comes with now) ...

mttgffry 25.10.2003 · Read full review
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This is an excellent phone that does just about everything but make tea. The screen is large enough for most needs, but not big enough for reading maps (unless you carry a magnifying glass with you). The navigating around the different options is simple and straightforward, and a good job to as the number of options is huge like the colour of your screen Green, Yellow, Blue or Red or whatever you fancy. Connecting to your PC is simplicity itself ...
...cable to PC, when connected Active Sync connects automatically, you can then transfer data to phone or from phone with a click of your mouse. The SPV has a camera that is not integrated but is a loose bit of hardware that you plug-in this is a bit of a bind (what do you do with the camera when not connected to the phone?) On a number of occasions I have lost the rag with this phone the keys are small and slippery and the navigation key ( the big ...

lofted-equalisation 12.08.2004 · Read full review
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...As standered from Orange the phone comes with the following: 1)Horizonal Carry Case 2)Mains Charger 3)Desktop Sync Cradle 4)Software CD 5)Travel Adaptor 6)8mb SD(Secure Digital) Card This is a great package, more a buisness phone but will do great for someone who likes their gadgets. A bit of a let-down is that the keypad is quite small but this adds to the character of the phone and the huge screen makes up for this. With the right downloaded ...
...beuty. Also the phone does not support bluetooth but you still have the infra-red. The internet is amazing on this phone it's not boring wap you can get stuck in with the REAL internet. You don't know how good this is until you actually use it Not amny bad points for the SPV but I like it and I do recomend it,Thanks for reading and I hope it has helped. ...

Review_Wizard 18.01.2004 · Read full review
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...market and used the European market as a testing ground for its offical US launch. P.S. The new orange update will fix many of these problems (this is one big plus with the phone - that it includes an automatic software update service and a host of accessories) ...

Siberiantiger 06.02.2003 · Read full review
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