mn1504's Review of Orange SPV C500
22nd Nov 2005
Overall Rating
- Value for money
- Time Phone Owned6 - 12 Months
- Battery Life
- Reception
- Reviewers NetworkOrange
- Screen Quality
- Features
- Style
Screen Size & Quality
Windows Media Player (MP3's etc)
Functionality
Size
Microsoft ActiveSync
Additional Software can be added
Bad Points
Mini SD Card behind Battery
Crashes frequently
Slow Start-Up
No notes feature
Battery life when Bluetooth is on
General Comments
The Orange SPV C500 phone is fantastic. I got rid of an XDAII for this and have no regrets. The phone is compact, has every feature you will ever need and can sync with Outlook with no problems. I got this phone for business use and use it for everything (Emails, Texting, photo's, video, etc.).
The phone has Bluetooth, IR, Camera (stills & Video), sound recording, File Explorer, Internet Explorer, Calendar, ActiveSync, Tasks, MSN Messenger, Media Player and so on.
The best feature is the ability to run additional programs on it. I installed TomTom Mobile Sat Nav on it and it has never let me down. It connected to the bluetooth receiver straight away and I was off. I can even use my Bluetooth headset at the sametime without any problems.
To say the phone's perfect wouldn't be true. I shtere such a phone out there? The only gripes I have with it are the Mini SD card sits behind the battery, so you can't swap it over easily, it crashes fairly frequently, turning on the phone takes forever and there is no notes feature.
Overall after a year of owning one I am very satisfied and would highly recommend it or the new SPV C550 that's just replaced it.
On average, people found this review very helpful
Web Links
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A PD download to unlock the Orange SPV C500 and C550 in seconds. All that is required is the original USB cable that came with the phone and ActiveSync (Free for download from Microsoft.com).
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Unlocking SPV C500 for free (Mobiles - Phones, PAYG, BT etc.)
2. Unzip the 3 files (cert.cab, spvservices.exe and TyphoonNBFTools.dll) to your PC and copy the cert.cab file to your SPV C500 - any directory will be fine but I used the \temp directory.
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