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Guest Simon Desser
Posted

I just found this in an advert for the SPV in a brochure for "The Link". I suppose it could be a bit out of date, but it IS what they are handing out in stores?

SPV Fax.jpg

Posted

NICE ONE!!! HAHAHA! Yep!! And a PowerPoint that became availible like 3 month after release of SPV??

Guest spiderboy
Posted

You can send faxes using the Orange data service. I use it all the time with my phone although it is a bit slow and cant use it with GPRS yet. Read more about it here!

Guest Monolithix [MVP]
Posted

And the Powerpoint viewer came with the phone...

Nice try though Simon.... ;p

Guest Simon Desser
Posted

Sending faxes by Orange Data Services does not mean the SPV comes with a fax like the advert says. These services are not specific to the SPV.

And I never said that a "Powerpoint Viewer" didn't come with the phone!?

Guest ajb3000
Posted

fast GPRS connection?? i wouldn't call it that recently!!

Guest Monolithix [MVP]
Posted

Sorry Simon, I was a ~little~ general :)

* points comment in madu's direction ;p

Guest woody
Posted

its when you don,t use your finger ,like everyone else :wink: :wink:

Guest Firaas
Posted

If the SPV's a fax, like the promotional material states, then nothing else would be required to use it as a fax:

To take full advantage of this service you need a data enabled phone, a laptop or palmtop, connection to a data service from Orange and connection, by cable or infrared, from your phone to your laptop or palmtop.

I think what Orange meant to say is that it's a modem - when's the last time you bought a fax which can't be used without a PC? (Waits for smart ass "I've got a 56k fax modem" replies.)

Guest Simon Desser
Posted

Firaas, I'm not trying to be a smart ass, but my "old" Motorola Accompli 008 (which they can't give away now) worked independantly as a fax machine, even letting you draw sketches on the fax as well as text.

Guest Firaas
Posted
Firaas, I'm not trying to be a smart ass, but my "old" Motorola Accompli 008 (which they can't give away now) worked independantly as a fax machine, even letting you draw sketches on the fax as well as text.
Yeah that's the only circumstance where the SPV could be a fax - but my smart ass comment was regarding 56k fax modems, which won't work without a PC :)

when's the last time you bought a fax which can't be used without a PC? (Waits for smart ass "I've got a 56k fax modem" replies.)
Guest spacemonkey
Posted
Sending faxes by Orange Data Services does not mean the SPV comes with a fax like the advert says. These services are not specific to the SPV.

Oh... fair enough... they should also stop advertising that it can make phone calls, cos that's not SPV specific either.

But seriously, since they added the fax mechanism to Orange data services just about every phone sold will list fax somewhere in it's list of features... yes Orange have done some things to annoy us, but this is scraping the barrel for reasons to be pissed off.

Just remember, they were the first network to take the risk of putting out a Smartphone 2002 device. They're not totally evil

Guest awarner [MVP]
Posted
what's a dictaphone?

Voice recorder

dictaphone sounds more important :roll:

Guest Honest John
Posted

Since they are advertising things that are not present on the SPV, should they rename themselves "The Missing Link"?

Guest vijay555
Posted

Can someone tell me who much voice recording you can do. And, can you do voice recording through the hands-free (i don't have spv yet).

I my pocketpc i can draw faxes/docs, and using IRDA send a fax through another mobile.

Has anything like that been fudged up for SPV? even sending text only fax-messages through NotBad etc would be nice:

"URGENT FAX: Vijay must leave the hideously boring planning meeting because his harem of young ladies can no

longer keep themselves occupied. If you agree, signify your acceptance by becoming indignant."

V

Guest DJHope
Posted

Surely if the SPV contains a modem its actually defined as a FAX/Modem like just about every modem on the planet and hence it does support fax functions.

Posted

The advertising isn't so far from the truth - I'm sure that the modem part would support the sending of faxes.

Now what would really have annoyed me would have been if they'd advertised it as having "voice dialling"! Thought that was included as I read a review of the SPV in a PC mag and the reviewer's unit definitely *did* have voice dialling. No fair :)

Hax

Guest Monolithix [MVP]
Posted

More bending the truth slightly ...

Guest h00pyfr00d
Posted

Guys guys guys, can't we all just get along? :)

Posted

Thought we were?!?!? Just healthy discussion isn't it?

Hax

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