Guest spvman Posted January 13, 2003 Report Posted January 13, 2003 Well I have finally had enough of my spv - all the issues you already know about (voice dial, battery, lack of software etc etc) have made me see the light. I know its new technology and I know there are bugs yet to be ironed out but frankly there are just too many of them - someone described us as beta testers the other day and they were spot on, unfortunately I rely on my phone too much to be a beta tester! I've had my phone since November and I thought I could learn to live with the quirks until the update came out..still no sign of the update and after a 42 minute phone call to orange tonight with 3 different people (at three different levels) I can confirm that any update will not contain the most important feature to me - voice dialling. It took 42 minutes to push the Trades description act, Sale of goods act etc and get them to accept that I was not going to give up and go higher and higher until I got what I wanted. They were quoting the same thing over and over - i had gone past the 14 day returns date (although later in the conv this changed to 28 days returns policy for some reason) - then the last guy I spoke to said that since i had had a replacement handset in december this gave me ANOTHER 28 days to return my latest handset. Anyway to cut a long story short they are refunding my purchace price, cancelling any upgrade fee and I can collect my new Panasonic GD87e on Thursday!!!! Not a smartphone I hear you all say, but I have been looking at a m8's GD87 and its a LOT smarter than my spv i can tell you!!!! I am sure the next generation of smartphone will be a lot better in every respect - I'm just not prepared to put up with a substandard product in the meantime!! I'm sure I'll get flamed for this from all the diehard spv fans (of which i was one til recently) but I just dont care - I shall soon have a fault free phone!!! I also hope any of you who may be in a similar situation to me and wanting to get rid of your spv can use some of what ive said here to get satiisfaction from Orange. You will be told NO to start with and taken round in circles.... perseveer and be polite but firm - they will give in!! So its goodbye from spvman - would like to say its been a blast..but it hasnt!! I will pop back in a few days to the 'for sale section' as I shall have a 128mb sd card, usb cradle, charger, case and camera for sale (they sent me a whole new kit with my 2nd replacement handset).. or you can email me if interested!!! Take care and good luck :D
Guest DJHope Posted January 13, 2003 Report Posted January 13, 2003 2 bad boss, good bye and good luck, that was one hell of a lot more constructive than MOST "i hate this f*cking phone", however not meaning to be an ar*ehole but a paragraph that big is quite hard to read! :D
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted January 13, 2003 Report Posted January 13, 2003 CU later Youv'e ben a good poster :D Have fun with your new toy.
Guest Emad Posted January 13, 2003 Report Posted January 13, 2003 GD87s are cool lil beasties - spv cam is still better tho :D But yeah, it is a weeee bit more stable. How about a seperate subforum - Whine's and Praises? For everyone who wants to say goodbye and everyone who wants to say yay! I'm sure phpBB supports it..
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted January 13, 2003 Report Posted January 13, 2003 GD87 is sooooooooooo basic! A good phone for the wife... (mine has one!) :D Battery life is barely any better than the SPV! Apart from the camera and screen (and a low res camera at that), the feature set is a step back in time! P
Guest spvman Posted January 13, 2003 Report Posted January 13, 2003 Cheers for the replies guys.. I know my new toy wont do all the spv can but at least its stable and has a decent battery time on it.. Paul maybe your wifes battery is knackered.. Orange quote 5hrs talk time and 8.5 days standby (like we believe that :roll: ) however my m8 gets on average 4days standby with moderate talk time and wap as well - at least double my spv.. more like my old Nokia!!! With a feature set as below and free downloadable games at the mo from the Orange site I would hardly call it basic :wink: Built-in Camera - CMOS Camera - 5 lux sensitivity - Self-Timer Function - Picture Editing 65,536-colour TFT Display 16-Polyphonic Ring Tones Clamshell Design 5 directional Navigation Key GPRS Class 8 (4 + 1 timeslots) WAP 1.2.1 WAP 2.0 Provisioning IrDA SMS Group Send SMS Chat 20 Preset Ring Tones Download Capability (Ring tones and logos)* Melody Composer Voice Memo Vibration alert Built-in Game T9® Text Input Graphic User Interface Desktop Handsfree Voice Dialing Phone Book Memory 200 + SIM Internal Modem Auto World Clock and Alarm - even works when turned off!!! Calendar and Scheduler Calculator and Currency Converter SIM Toolkit C-PHS
Guest spvman Posted January 13, 2003 Report Posted January 13, 2003 Not sure, probably - but since i can do that via numerous wap sites over gprs it aint really an issue :wink:
Guest Chris b.a.r.f. Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 Got to agree with you on quite a few of your points, spvman. It's beginning to look more and more like the SE P800 is the phone for me. I've tried one and, despite nightmare-quality plastics, it's a cracking phone. Does what it says on the box. Not sure about battery life but it can hardly be worse than the SPV's. I'll wait to see what effect the upcoming update has, if it turns out to be of little or no use then it's bye bye SPV. Chris : )
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 Heheh, the [beta] minions revolt. Think i''m going to hold out and see what other companies develop on the smartphone platform though
Guest Shire29 Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 Good luck m8, and thanks for your help. Cheers, Shire
Guest abamara Posted January 21, 2003 Report Posted January 21, 2003 Yeah, how much? I'm interested too! :wink:
Guest yatpeak Posted January 21, 2003 Report Posted January 21, 2003 I really dont see what all these people talking about hundreds of bugs are on about. I've found almost no bugs with my SPV. Sure, it freezes occasionally, and the battery life isn't long, but overall I think it's a great phone and I see absolutely no point in replacing it.
Guest cplowman Posted January 21, 2003 Report Posted January 21, 2003 I'm off as well. SPV and 128Mb SD card now in for sale section. I'm gonna wait for P800, but for now stay with 7650 and PDA. The SPV has taken over my life for the past two months, and i've had enough.............. ;)
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