Which one is better? i-mate sp3 or orange spv c500?

[Guest CEO]

Talk aobut price/battery time/bluetooth support/...

Thank you.

[Guest Confucious]

They are basically the same product so performance should be the same. As for price, it depends where you are.

[Guest VovaVovaCuma]

Everything is same, except phone name and price...

[Guest niacin65]

It's my understanding that the I-Mate doesn't support JAVA.....correct?

[Guest Confucious]

What gives you that idea? AFAIK they are the same phone with different branding.

[Guest Dark Horse]

The Orange version is sim locked but they do give you a 16MB mini-SD card that unfortunately is pretty useless as its full of trial software and too small for anything else.

The Orange version also come with a different home screen plug-in and the usual crap Orange customisations that no one uses. If this doesn't bother you, then go for the Orange version as its heavily subsidised.

Regards,

Dark Horse

[Guest midnight]

err, you can remove all the trial software you know ^_^

[Guest niacin65]

What gives you that idea? AFAIK they are the same phone with different branding.

Here is a quote from the I-Mate website:

Q : Does the i-mate™ SP3 support Java?

Later i-mate™ SP3’s have a Java client installed. If your device has the client, you will find in the “Start” menu and is called “Java”. .

I may have misunderstood it to mean early versions didn't support it, but maybe they meant it just wasn't included...?

The ROM for the O2 (xphone) didn't include JAVA, even though it was the same 'ol Voyager. I never tried to install it, so maybe both companies just meant it didnt COME with Java, but it would run if installed?

[Guest VovaVovaCuma]

In my SP3 ( 2 days old ) I dont have JAVA... how to install it into the phone?

[Guest NoBackUp]

SP3

NO DUST (3 weeks old now)

NO JAVA (Yep it ant there)

No ISSUES with the Backlight it works as stated

So the SP3 does have a different OS than the C500 and the people who are reporting a hardware problem with the Backlight are looking in the wrong area... :roll:

The SP3i will be out here (Dubai) within the next few weeks and my mother in law (God Bless her grave ..ooops) will be bringing me an SDA/SDA Music from germany so I'll get back on that comparison later... ^_^