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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. Ad campaign? by mao+che+minh · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Can you hear me n..."

    Your phone has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down

    1. Re:Ad campaign? by jrl87 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Your phone has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down

      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 ... if any of this media is pertaining to Microsoft in any way, shape, or phone, you will be subject to a unlawful usage lawsuit. See article Q!@#$you for further details.

    2. Re:Ad campaign? by Red+Pointy+Tail · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Cool! It even has a blue LED backlighting!"

      "That's NOT blue LED backlighting, you dolt..."

  2. Well... by eightball01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Either the phone is small or his head is really big. Hard to tell.

  3. Must be a MS powered phone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Must be a MS powered phone you have there, it was a little slow on the processing.

  4. Anyone else by Grelli · · Score: 5, Funny
    Is anyone else having flashbacks to Antitrust and the SYNAPSE network that NURV was developing?

    That's just a little freaky in my books.

  5. I'm surprised... by DJ_CCx · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...no one's gone ahead and tried to run Linux on it yet...where's my modchip?

  6. Uhh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That phone is silver, not orange.

    1. Re:Uhh... by telstar · · Score: 2, Funny

      sarcasm - n. - A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound.

  7. Re:Apple should make one! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Over Steve Jobs Dead body...
    http://www.arstechnica.com/archive/news/1 050185127 .html

  8. Re:Pros vs. Cons by jrl87 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am interested in the technology, but, like everything else I am going to let it mature before I even think about purchasing one.
    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 ... but it only works for five minutes every other half hour.

  9. Re:Slow by malia8888 · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the article:

    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;)

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  10. Re:Semi offtopic - BlueTooth by ryanvm · · Score: 3, Funny

    We *HAVE* the technology to do all this, why the hell are hardware manufacturers kicking their damn heals so much?

    You keep using that phrase, I do not think it means what you think it means.

  11. First one, huh? by caouchouc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft's new Orange SPV which is the first commercially available Smartphone

    All this time, I must have been imagining commercially available smartphones like the Handspring Treo and the Kyocera Smartphone.

  12. Orange? by Victor+Liu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks more like a lemon to me.

  13. Virus! by Snaller · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just imagine when the vira start spreading on this. When you are not using it, the phone is busy phoning outer mongola and sending obscene messages to the president!

    (Why this review now? It's an oooold phone around here...)

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