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Value for Money6.8/10
Reviewer Rating6.3/10
Overall Rating6.2/10 Based on 46 ratings
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  • Full review by
    pipe23
    on 1st Jan 2006


    User Rating : 9
    Respect : 0

    Good Points: Great for media applications such as music, movies, and games. It also allows users to install great applications for business and organization. It can also be used as a Satellite Navigation system. It's a bit like having a PC in your pocket. Check out the cool Smart Phone applications in Google. As for the bad reviews... I just want to say, when you buy a PC it takes some personal tweaking and your PC becomes a monster, and software is there to help and be used.

    Bad Points: The only bad point I've found is with the SMS feature, as I've been used to SMS-ing with a standard Sony Ericsson. The one thing that rattles my nerves is the fact that after a word is written and you've noticed that the tense of the word should change to make the paragraph grammatically correct, on normal t9's you just backspace until you reach the word, and backspace once more and the word is selected, and it can be changed just by adding or deleting a letter, and if you continue typing it continues with the selected word. With the SPV you cannot back select a whole word, so you are forced to delete what you have to, and then try to type the correct letters and scroll through the t9 option, hoping that the combination you need to make the word correct is there. That is all I find irritating!

    General comments: There is one little technical flaw, but overall, the Orange SPV is a perfect mobile phone. It is a PC in your pocket with a phone built in. Enjoy, but be prepared to spend time installing applications and making it your own personal computer.
    pipe23's review and ratings     | 282 words

  • Review by
    srihari rao kotni Rank: Lance Corporal
    on 26th May 2004


    User Rating : 6
    Respect : 0

    I'm posting an additional comment on this Orange SPV mobile phone. I have bought a new SD/MMC of 128MB beause the default one that comes with purchane is 8MB too little for any thing. When i have incerted this i was expecting the mobile to recognise automatically because it has microsoft windows. To my surprise it did't recognise the sim, i have tried all the options in the Active sync software that comes with it. There is no format option or any way i can copy the files from my disk to the set. ...
    srihari rao kotni's full review     | 121 words

  • Review by
    wilistew
    on 26th May 2004


    User Rating : 3
    Respect : 0

    This Orange SPV mobile phone is good if you want a slow small screen palm top with a phone built in. If you do a lot of calling or texting then forget it. The phone has cut me off calls loads of times, crashed, slowed down enough to make it unusable and none of your mates have got a charger. The text function is useless. The phone has a very small dictionary and seems to not remember words. If you are not a computer nerd who has to download stuff using addsync then get the nokia 6230. The interf ...
    wilistew's full review     | 175 words

  • Review by
    stephen delaney Rank: Lance Corporal
    expert review Expert Review
    on 22nd Feb 2004


    User Rating : 0
    Respect : -2

    This Orange SPV mobile phone is the worst phone on the market, I have been a mobile phone owner/user since 1987 from the big transmobiles to the present day following the advances in technology and advances size reduction until this phone. The technological advancements in quality of reception, clarity of voice, battery life and features. Recption is very poor even against the small Samsung phones, battery life is prehistoric,The features dont work and when you buy the phone it has lots of feat ...
    stephen delaney's full review     | 490 words | 2 comments added.

  • Review by
    adg75
    on 18th Dec 2003


    User Rating : 8
    Respect : 0

    For a business phone, I've very pleased with the SPV E-200 (many improvements over the 100 series). The latest releases have fixed most of the bugs...
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  • Review by
    adp00 Rank: Lance Corporal
    on 16th Dec 2003


    User Rating : 10
    Respect : +2

    I've had this Orange SPV mobile phone for nearly a year now, and I am still absolutely delighted with it. Having read a few of the reviews posted here and on other websites, I have noticed that most of the problems people encounter with this phone (can be slow, unreliable etc) can easily be overcome simply by having the phone unlocked. Visit websites such as www.modaco.com and www.coolsmartphone.com to realise the potential of the SPV. I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU DO THIS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE !!!!!! ...
    adp00's full review     | 179 words

  • Review by
    cdrogers
    on 4th Dec 2003


    User Rating : 4
    Respect : +1

    This Orange SPV phone sounded great in the literature and promotional videos and materials from Orange. However, once I had opened the box and turned it on I was VERY disappointed. The phone is un-attractive and bulky. It takes 2 presses of the power button to turn on, and then you have to wait up to a minute for WIndows to load, then it's hit and miss that you'll get the PIN screen to go any further. Another let down is the call qaulity, the ear piece is not very loud and the ring tone vo ...
    cdrogers's full review     | 226 words

  • Review by
    scollins316 Rank: Lance Corporal
    on 3rd Dec 2003


    User Rating : 1
    Respect : 0

    The Orange SPV Battery lasts less than a day even without making any calls or using the smartphone features. - The software fails locks up constantly. - Orange won't exchange it for a different phone..!! I've written letters, been to the store, numerous phone calls to no avail, they are standing buy their guns - no exchange. aaaaargh COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY (and my time)
    scollins316's full review     | 71 words

  • Review by
    niteowl Rank: Lance Corporal
    on 28th Nov 2003


    User Rating : 1
    Respect : 0

    Wasted a day of my busy life on the phone to Orange tech support but they still do not know why the Orange SPV does not sync with a PC. The whole point of a smartphone is to have a very mobile office, this does nothing of the sort yet. Perhaps this will be fixd one day but the product was 6 weeks late due to field testing and still does not work out of the box. Anti-virus software kills it dead in the cradle and Orange's final shot at fixing the sync errors was to leave A.V. turned off all the ...
    niteowl's full review     | 221 words

  • Review by
    spv boy Rank: Lance Corporal
    on 25th Nov 2003


    User Rating : 9
    Respect : -1

    The Orange SPV is an awesome phone in brief it has the integrated mp3 player that is great with the fact u can play the songs from a speaker and dont always need headphones although there can be a lag wen loading and opening up programmes but the best point is the ringtones make a wav. file shorter in a wave editing programme e.g nero wave editor and use that its brilliant as well as software updates such as games and applications that can all be added on with the usb cradle AWEOSME PHONE !!!
    spv boy's full review     | 117 words | 1 comment added.

  • Review by
    Rotaree Rank: Corporal
    on 19th Nov 2003


    User Rating : 0
    Respect : 0

    I hate this phone, I can't wait for my contract to be a year old so that I can get rid of it without paying for the privilege. The battery life is atrocious, the software is not sufficiently advanced for its capabilities, the endless random malfunctions are infuriating (not being able to 'hang up', not being able to turn the thing on having had to turn it off to end a call, not having any of the buttons working, not charging when placed on the charger etc. etc. etc.). It is the worst phone I ...
    Rotaree's full review     | 150 words | 3 comments added.

  • Review by
    nhai1
    on 7th Nov 2003


    User Rating : 1
    Respect : -1

    This is the worst phone I have EVER had. I bought it in June 2003, it is now Nov 2003 and this is SPV number 4. The on-off button has failed, twice. The software fails, the keys are fiddly.... how much time have you got. On the eve of the 5th replacement I have persuaded Orange to give me an upgraded phone SPV E100... They agreed and lets see if this incarnation works. If it worked as advbertised, though, it would be a good techy utility
    nhai1's full review     | 98 words

  • Review by
    PicSee
    on 26th Oct 2003


    User Rating : 5
    Respect : +3

    I purchased this phone nearly 12 months ago and my contract is nearly up and i can't wait to change it! Originally I wanted it because of it's near 'PDA' features and that part of it is great. However, I'm fed up with waiting ages for it to boot up and the, very often, slow and painful wait while it decides to do what you asked it to, I have had to take the battery out on several occasions as it froze solid. The reception for phone calls has been quite good but the texts have been very mu ...
    PicSee's full review     | 371 words

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    srihari rao kotni Rank: Lance Corporal
    on 23rd Sep 2003


    User Rating : 5
    Respect : 0

    hi! I had brought the orange SPV mobile phone in Uk as i'm one of the few supporters of Microsoft. Another reason is its very fancy and very rich with features. I took this to India and begins all the problems. As its the basic GPRS phone, i have no problem in connectivity, but no service provider was able to support the phone incase of any service problems. Added to this the usb interface stopped working and the set is running outof memory. I cant upgrade this as i'm not in UK. Since i have cha ...
    srihari rao kotni's full review     | 110 words | 2 comments added.

  • Review by
    Phil.
    on 18th Aug 2003


    User Rating : 1
    Respect : 0

    This is possibly the most unreliable phone I have ever owned. In three months I am now awaiting for replacement number 4. The problems have included the operating system freezing (normally at the end of a call). Buttons failing to work. Problems with the phone recognising attachments (the camera or SD card). Most recently the phone has refused to switch on... instead it just clicks! Like a twitching corpse! Am I the only one to have this bad luck.
    Phil's full review     | 101 words

  • Review by
    Krosfyah.
    on 4th Aug 2003


    User Rating : 9
    Respect : +1

    Iv had the Orange SPV Mobile phone for a week - certainly rich in features, especially compared to my old 8310 (why on earth can we not have a radio too though?!) The only thing i don't like is the fact that, as has been mentioned, i see the "hour glass timer" (or Orange equivalent a lot while using the various applications - ok, so at worst you wait a few seconds, but you dont really want to see the thing at all. Also, when selecting something, sometimes it is processing and the timer is not ...
    Krosfyah's full review     | 233 words

  • Review by
    William.
    on 4th Jul 2003


    User Rating : 10
    Respect : +6

    RINGTONE PROBLEMS Everybody seem to think the ringtones are rubbish but you need to look aroung the web like I did. Basicly you can have all different types of ringtones. Basic (1 note at a time for example nokia 3310, nokia 330) Polyphonic (a little more jazy. sounds cool) Music (real music cd type) The Orange SPV covers all three. I am only going to explain Music (CD type) if you want to know how to do the first two write back. first :- Go to http://www.download.com and download the t ...
    William's full review     | 422 words | 6 comments added.

  • Review by
    pepsichris.
    on 23rd Jun 2003


    User Rating : 9
    Respect : +2

    The Orange SPV is a really good phone - not for the people who get scared by using Caller Groups or setting up Profiles etc. Obviously not perfect, but the automatic updates have improved it massively, mine synched up straight away, and all Internet Settings etc were already in place. Doesn't navigate like other phones or any Windows OS - has one main menu which is like a cross breed of the Windows Start Menu and a normal phone menu. Pauses for a second or two at times, but in understandable ...
    pepsichris's full review     | 341 words | 1 comment added.

  • Review by
    Louis.
    on 9th Jun 2003


    User Rating : 10
    Respect : +3

    Having had this phone for three months i feel ready to review it. First of all i got it from orange on a upgrade for free. Happy Days! Well i have opened the phone up to run on all networks, i can also put any software on it that i wish. Check this site for lots of help and advice www.coolsmartphone.com I have lots of game on it, as i have upgraded my memory card. The phone is amasing, yes it has downfalls like, baterry life, but if you do the orange update from there site it improves it con ...
    Louis's full review     | 215 words | 5 comments added.

  • Review by
    Beks.
    on 3rd Jun 2003


    User Rating : 9
    Respect : +4

    When i first bought this it was just a good phone with a lot of features but the battery life was awful just about triple the time on the new video phones and those are bad. But upon discovering the web sites www.modaco.com and www.coolsmartphone.com I have now got the full benefit or what i consider to be the best phone on the market. For stlye there is the samsung V200 but for features and size it is this. When you can play cd quality tunes for your ringtones. Just encoding WAV files from your ...
    Beks's full review     | 224 words


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