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

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

  3. Poor Audio? What's the point then? by orthancstone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Guy says in the review that the audio isn't that great, thus flushing the functionality of mp3 playing and making its usefulness as a cell phone kinda crappy.

    That's a shame too because it looks like an nice phone and has some decent feature.

  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.

    1. Re:Anyone else by Geek+of+Tech · · Score: 5, Insightful
      I think you've actually got a point.

      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.

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      Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!
  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. Obscure UI? by djupedal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From ZDNet UK....slightly amusing...but a valid point, none the less.

  7. Re:he's clueless... or not by Faeton · · Score: 5, Informative
    Howard's obviously not clueless to this, as he's reviewed both those phones already a while back. Check out his site.

    Smartphone (with a capital S) is Microsoft's brandname for... smartphones (duh!). They've copyrighted the name, so that's what Howard means when he writes "first commercially available Smartphone".

    I've played with the phone myself, and the OS isn't bloated compared to the Symbian phones (they're about the same). In fact, my Nokia 3650, which uses Symbian, crashes every now and then. I'm not saying the MS one doesn't crash, but don't think because it's made by someone other than Microsoft that it's automagically better.

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

    Looks more like a lemon to me.