Market Size of the SPV?

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

same here, i've never seen another spv outside of the shop. My work provides T68's as standard and that is what most people have as their personal phone too.

Unfortunately i cant get one of the t68's as i am just a measly year in industry student :D

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

I doubt there's more than 5-6 thousand spvs around anyway in Britain - HTC isn't a bulk manufacturer. Compare that to the number of T68s floating around and that would help explain the rarity.

On the OS complexity side, whenever I've given a friend my spv to fiddle around with and said 'joystick moves around, these two soft keys do those two functions, this is the home button, this is the back button, and the middle button in the joystick is return', they've been zooming quite happily around the phone within minutes - even people who can barely use a computer. Funny, as it took me a while to get the hang of it.. I'm probably just dumb or something..

Taken from http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7007

According to reports on Digitimes.com, the first batch of orders for Orange amounted to almost 200,000 Units, although Orange UK promptly lost 1,440 of them. Digitimes estimates that nearly a quarter of HTC's total shipment of two million handheld devices in 2002 were wireless enabled

[Guest Emad]

Yes, but Orange isn't UK only.. Also, an order of 200k wouldn't come in one go - it would be a series of batches of phones - remember how pissed everyone was getting about the lack of a new batch in winter? Mind you, most places don't even have them now :D

A quarter of 2 million is 500k. HTC also makes the 02 XDA and the T-Mobile exact copy/ripoff..

So, thats my 2 cents on why there aren't that many spvs - 200k phones haven't been churned out as of yet, and that figure is between all of Oranges territories..

[Guest Firaas]

It's a lot nearer to 200k than it is to 5-6k - 1,500 is the amount a single average internet retailer would get - and that's in their first batch, which for many retailers, ran out quickly.

There was even a stage when Orange was out of stock at their head office (in sales and replacements) - these phones are flying off the shelves.

[Guest DJHope]

Definately think microsoft should make a specialised movie convertor just for the SPV, but then i supose anyone could not just microsoft.

[Guest Emad]

Oh well, whatever the total is, its a hell of a lot less than something like the Samsung T100..

DJ - I think microsoft should get around to making a decent media player for the smartphone - how hard can a fast forward/rewind be? Some more codecs would be nice too..

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Definately think microsoft should make a specialised movie convertor just for the SPV, but then i supose anyone could not just microsoft.

if you go to the ms newsgroups (microsoft.public.smartphone) some of the smartphone development team do hang out there and offer advice.

try directing a qu towards Neil Enns, he has an account here i believe and was the project director (or something heh :/) on smartphone i think, the MS team on there are fairly active...