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Microsoft Orange SPV Phone Review

Posted by timothy on from the sticky-fingers dept.

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."

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  1. Re:he's clueless... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Having written code for both the Symbian (6.1 and 7.0) and MS Smartphone, I have to say that I hope to god that Microsoft wins this war.

    Symbian started as a toy PDA OS and has been built up to support real OS functions while MS Smartphone started as a desktop OS and was scaled down to fit on a small device. Neither approach has worked out too well -- Symbian is an example of an OO OS gone horribly wrong and MS Smartphone is too fat for the current devices. However, as devices get faster and have more memory, they will be more able to handle the MS OS. Nothing but a ground up rewrite is going to help Symbian.

    Before you call this a troll, I challenge you to go write a non-trivial Symbian app.