Guest Paul [MVP] Posted January 29, 2004 Report Posted January 29, 2004 Orange have today launched the SPV M1000 Pocket PC Phone Edition device in the UK. The device is based on the HTC Himalaya reference design, as is the O2 XDA2 and the iMate Phone Edition amongst others. Check out the Orange Web Site for full details! The SPV M1000 provides all your familiar office features and combines them with all the phone services you are used to with Orange. With Microsoft® Pocket versions of Internet Explorer, Word, and Excel, as well as PowerPoint® and Adobe® Acrobat® viewer you can continue working on important documents away from your desk. Choose between four different methods of entering data, and the large, full colour touch screen means you can easily view your documents. The in-built camera and video mean you, and your customers, can stay at the forefront of developments by sending photos and videos as email attachments. You can also transfer data using infrared, Bluetooth® or ActiveSync® to your PC or other devices. P
Guest Mr_Protozoa Posted January 29, 2004 Report Posted January 29, 2004 Looks pretty sweet. Was hoping for a 640*480 display though.
Guest Will Posted January 29, 2004 Report Posted January 29, 2004 Just navigated about in the maze of different business support numbers, and was quoted £440.63 + vat @17.5%. You have to be on a business account, and i've no idea if that price is dependant on tariffs etc... (o2 are showing the xda2 at £349.99 on 20-30quid PERSONAL tariffs). Hoping it is brought down in price and to personal customers! If anyone finds more info, post it here!
Guest jmjarvis Posted January 29, 2004 Report Posted January 29, 2004 Or you could go here : http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...2&category=9393 and buy a brand new O2 XDA II with a O2 400 contract for just under £140. I can't beleive just how expensive this is. I now spend 50% of my time in Hungary and STILL Orange don't have an agreement with any one of the 3 GPRS networks over there. :evil: I have been a customer with Orange now for 3 years and the only thing that was keeping me there was the SPV range. I'm seriously considering moving across to O2 as I get the device that I want and I get to use GPRS in Hungary too. And NO I have nothing to do with the eBay add but I may be soon and buy one. 8) Feel better now - thanks.
Guest Saif Posted January 29, 2004 Report Posted January 29, 2004 These guys have the XDA 2 on O2 Max tarriff for £99!!! http://shop.uplands.co.uk/acatalog/O2_XDA_2.html well worth a look me thinks. Orange are losing the plot a little on this one. Just phoned them up and its only avaiable to people with business accounts. They had no further details on the memory of the unit, but I think that it might be the same as the one they launched in denmark - 64Mb. which means you're better off going to O2 to get a device with 128Mb. ho hum.... decisions decisions.... guess my 4.5 year stint with Orange will be coming to an end this March when my contract runs out..... :lol: goodbye Orange hello O2!!!!
Guest jmjarvis Posted January 29, 2004 Report Posted January 29, 2004 I'm with you on this one. My contract ends in April. Orange will be loosing another loyal customer. I don't see any reasons or enticements to stay. You get better deals if you are a new customer than one who wants to upgrade and remain with them. Jas
Guest SmartGuy Posted January 29, 2004 Report Posted January 29, 2004 I still like my I-mate phone edition....not going to part with it yet for this one :lol:
Guest AndyTatt Posted January 29, 2004 Report Posted January 29, 2004 Take a look at Expansys: http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=XDA_SIMFREE They have it for £294 SIM free or £59 with 2 yr O2 contract. Looks good.
Guest nickcornaglia Posted January 29, 2004 Report Posted January 29, 2004 Are those dimensions correct? Only 70mm wide???? EDIT: Yes they are. I drew a 70 x 130 block in CAD and it's the same proportion.Untitled-1.jpg
Guest kyrkesmith Posted January 29, 2004 Report Posted January 29, 2004 That is an impressive width, less wide that my iPaq, and only 2 cm wider than my E100. What's the depth though?
Guest Saif Posted January 30, 2004 Report Posted January 30, 2004 anyone know if this has 128MB of memory or 64Mb?
Guest mattscholey Posted January 30, 2004 Report Posted January 30, 2004 This phone sounds like it has all the functionality I'll ever want, but I'm being put off it because its too PDAish. I'm 15. 15 yr olds have mobile phones, not PDA's. But I really like the idea of it having everything MS smartphone has, and a lot more. How much of a change is it from carrying this around, compared to carrying an E100 around. Otherwise I think I'd be going for the P900 if it didn't have a dim screen (compared with E100). Thanks, Matt
Guest h00pyfr00d Posted January 30, 2004 Report Posted January 30, 2004 I've had one of these for a couple of weeks, and they're bloody fantastic. Oh and yeah it has 128 mb but it's a combination of Ram and Rom so you end up with about 60mb of Storage. The battery life is better than that of the E200. Turning off bluetooth doesn't make a hooj amount of difference and you get 2 batteries with it as well. What really bugs me is that you don't get that funky predictive text input linking into your contacts list when you dial a number like you do on the Smartphones. To dial a contact you have to actually go into your contacts list and chose the name in the list using the stylus. It's too innacturate with a thumb. The screen is well bright and sharp and it seems to play movies much better than my P900. The camera is far superiour too. You can endlessly record movies with it...but the twilight function kills the framerate. It's very slim but carrying it around causes scratches on the screen. You get a funky flip leather case but it makes it far bulker. It's got a sort of Bezel lug on it to let the camera work when the case is on but it adds to the width. The weird thing is; Yes it is an HTC Hymalaya but it's not Identical to the XDA-II. The buttons are round on the SPV M100 but a sort of Oval shape on the XDA. Strange. I've compared software and hardware versions in the properties of both devices and they are identical.
Guest mattscholey Posted January 30, 2004 Report Posted January 30, 2004 Are there any comparisons of this and the SPV E100, like the excellent one between the P900 and Tanager? Matt
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted January 30, 2004 Report Posted January 30, 2004 What really bugs me is that you don't get that funky predictive text input linking into your contacts list when you dial a number like you do on the Smartphones. You should try Finger Clix (free with iMate versions), it rocks, and gives you Smartphone like dialling! :lol: P
Guest (so)hai Posted January 31, 2004 Report Posted January 31, 2004 Are there any comparisons of this and the SPV E100, like the excellent one between the P900 and Tanager? Matt :wink:Mobile-Battle.jpgTail2Tail.jpgSideBySide.jpgXDAII_vs_E200.jpgXDAII_vs_P900.jpg
Guest Krispy Posted February 1, 2004 Report Posted February 1, 2004 Hi im a SPV M1000 and im a complete copy of the O2 XDA :lol: hmm is it only avail. to business customers? :s i rang up orange about upgrading my spv to the e200 and they quoted 200 quid?! a customer for the past 5 years and they wont cut a deal with me... how nice of them :| but yet if i was to cancel my contract and get one of these square deal things out til sometime in feb. i could get the spv e200 for 20 quid...are orange just wanting to lose customers?
Guest morpheus2702 Posted February 1, 2004 Report Posted February 1, 2004 I am always intrigued when a phone is marketed as a 'business phone'. Sure, tech-head and maybe City trader business people would be looking to have a M1000 as their company mobile, but in my experience the average business person just isn't that clued up or bothered by the sort of features the M1000 has. After having a route around phone shops this morning and knowing the phones sales reps in my company uses, I get the impression that the 6310i is the phone of choice for most business users. Think about it: a) Mono screen, hence nice long battery life :lol: BT if you want to try anything 'exotic' like linking to a laptop, but handy now for your handsfree c) Not small enough to lose that easily Compare the age of Nokia's other phones next to the 6310i - this thing is a pensioner. Anyway, I digress - Orange are being complete plums limiting this to a business audience, especially with the XDAII available. I assume that they have a market research department, and unless I have grossly got this wrong, suggest they start using it!
Guest h00pyfr00d Posted February 2, 2004 Report Posted February 2, 2004 It's a fair point. I've got my M1000 through a contact in the business department of Orange but only on a two month test. When that runs out and I have to give the unit back, if I want one as my personal phone, I'm obviously going to have to switch over to O2.
Guest Saif Posted February 2, 2004 Report Posted February 2, 2004 This is a real shame... I will be contacting Orange again and making an issue out of this... It makes no sense whatsoever for them to be so foolish. They should also make the unit available to all users - not just supposed business customers. It just means people will move over to O2 in droves. oh well..... will let y'all know what they say.... considering Orange are matching the O2 MAX tariff for me they may as well give me the handset and It'll be just like being on O2!!
Guest Saif Posted February 3, 2004 Report Posted February 3, 2004 spoke to orange customer services for about half an hour. they couldn't come up with anything. the best they could offer me was to sell me the handset for £375!!!! which is not that bad.. but if I wanted to buy the handset I could get it from ppcw.net!! they suggested I speak to the business sales team but haven't got the time at the moment. I doubt there will be any serious suggestions from them. at the moment it definitely looks like I'll be leaving Orange for O2....
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