Hiya everyone, I wasn't even considering getting an SPV until my friend let me have a 5 minute play with his today, and I have to say the ability to have full length music videos on the phone is certainely a good way to brighten up train journeys!
So I have problem, I won't get a chance to have a decent enough play with my friends SPV to fully suss it out and it's unlikely that the local Orange shop will give me a "test drive" so I need input from anyone who has tried one out.
I have heard so many conflicting opinions, some say its slow, unresponsive and crap, others say it works like a dream and they would never go back. (that wasn't meant to rhyme!)
So anyone who has had a go with an SPV please give us a comparison to the 7650! I know this isn't strictly 7650 related but please dont lock/delete the thread!
Note! This is not a Symbian/Microsoft salgging match, I simply want comparisons of the phones features/performance!
[quote="headshox"]Hiya everyone, I wasn't even considering getting an SPV until my friend let me have a 5 minute play with his today, and I have to say the ability to have full length music videos on the phone is certainely a good way to brighten up train journeys!
So I have problem, I won't get a chance to have a decent enough play with my friends SPV to fully suss it out and it's unlikely that the local Orange shop will give me a "test drive" so I need input from anyone who has tried one out.
I have heard so many conflicting opinions, some say its slow, unresponsive and crap, others say it works like a dream and they would never go back. (that wasn't meant to rhyme!)
So anyone who has had a go with an SPV please give us a comparison to the 7650! I know this isn't strictly 7650 related but please dont lock/delete the thread!
Note! This is not a Symbian/Microsoft salgging match, I simply want comparisons of the phones features/performance![/quote]
SmartPhone OS is lacking lot of things that you take for granted with 7650:
1) Sending Pictures as e-mail attachments
2) Multiple e-mail accounts (only one in SPV)
3) Text Cut/paste
4) Multiselection in lists!
5) No taskmanager, i.e. no way of closing missbehaving programs, no nice way to swap between them
6) You cannot install anything else except "Orange approved" SW (Orange fault though, not the OSs fault)
7) No Java
8 ) No Bluetooth
9) You cannot have a global setting for delivery reports
10) "Unified Inbox" is an extremely annoying feature... All your short messages, mms, e-mails end up into the same folder in SPV... Extremely annoying
11) Its slow and sluggish
12) The GPRS connection closes everytime it goes to standby/you hit the hangup/keylock key!
etc.etc... You'll find heaps of annoyed customers in the net..
One of the guys who has setup a community site for the SmartPhone has gotten so annoyed with it that he has took it back.
(http://www.smartphone-2000.info/)
"Avoid the Orange SPV like the plague!
(29th Nov 2002)
That's my advice to anyone thinking of buying one. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice toy (in theory) it is just too buggy in reality and Orange Support just havn't got a clue!"
oh 😞 i just assumed it was a 7650 with up to 512meg memory 😞
I still cant get over how cool it was to watch a 4 minute long music video with excellent sound quality, on a phone!
Oh well, when is the next symbian phone with upgradable memory coming?
Also the graphical interface was so clean and tidy, that is one thing that greatly annoys me about the 7650: everything in the menues and screens is sooo BIG and bulky, its like it was designed for 5 year olds, the 7650 inteface is the like running your computer in 320x240 resolution where as the SPV is like 1024x768 i.e. you can fit more information on one screen.
Well, SE P800 is a Symbian OS based phone?
When will I be able to get that? I was told by a rep in Phones4U that I should wait a "month" for the P800 about 4 months ago :-?
They said recently that it will be available here in Sweden before christmas.
Most likely January I think...
sorry to be off topic, but has anyone ever told u that u look like Borris Becker? 😊
MaleBuffy:
How did this get in here! I thought I posted a new reply???!!?!?!
Anyways...the comments are mine:
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAAAAAAA! HE IS RIGHT! YOU DO LOOK LIKE BORIS BECKER! HAHAHHHAHHAHAH.....Ahm....sorry ....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
😃 😃 😃
Well there's alotta better phones coming up, nokia's favor. You can try the N-gage, but seems to gameboy-ish to me. Or the 3650 but that's so bad styling. But they both have MMC cards on them. There's the P800 with the memory expandibility to 128 MB. OR, you can wait and wait, (wait alot) till the new communicator hits shores!! That has to be a winner!
(in this post i went off topic that belong to 4 different forums 😃)
So there's no place to move this 😉
[quote="😊"]Well there's alotta better phones coming up, nokia's favor. You can try the N-gage, but seems to gameboy-ish to me. Or the 3650 but that's so bad styling. But they both have MMC cards on them. There's the P800 with the memory expandibility to 128 MB. OR, you can wait and wait, (wait alot) till the new communicator hits shores!! That has to be a winner!
(in this post i went off topic that belong to 4 different forums 😃)
So there's no place to move this 😉[/quote]
7650i 😉
Well I really think this is not the place for such a question, because this forum is especially for Nokia lovers and most of the time you will get a strongly biased opinion 😉
I think the big difference between the two is that the 7650 is a phone first, with excellent additional functionality. Whereas the SPV is a PDA, with phone functionality added.
I was seriously considering the SPV, but after seeing a buglist as long as my arm, decided to go for the 7650.
For major stuff like MP3's, Games, Video, and seriously trying to organise my life, I use a Tosh e570 PDA with a 1gb microdrive.
Depends really where your priorities lie. It just seems to me that MS are trying to be just that little bit too smart, and leaving out some of the basic functionality we all take for granted nowadays.
What we are essentially talking about is a windows OS that is shoe-horned into a tiny device, and TBH I don't think it cuts the mustard........ YET, whereas Symbian has been designed from the ground up to work with small memory, small processors. I guess its another Pocket PC vs PalmOS thang going on.
Just my opinion.
Mr G
I was lucky enough to play around with the orange spv in an orange shop [/color]for half an hour. and first inpressions is that its a bit bulkier that i first thought. The software is Ms so its easy to understand, but its to slow and that was with a 32mb card just imagine how slow that'll be with a 512mb card. Also you can record video clips like the 7650 as the camera is too slow (i was told by the chap in the shop). being on orange its not available to anyone else (if you do know anyone who can unlock it let me know)
anywayz i'm looking at upgrading my t68i in feb and need something small as i don't want to carry two bulky phones around. anyone got any suggestions?