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Windows Mobile Reviews Orange SPV M700 Review
Windows Mobile Reviews Orange SPV M700 Review 
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There's no doubting the fact that satellite navigation has taken off nowadays, drive down any road tonight and you'll see an odd glow emanating from within, driver's windscreens have never been so full of car mount suckers! Smartphone users have not been left behind either, its one thingy to envy someone's latest, greatest sat nav unit but to find your way around on your phone, well that's even more impressive. So what's been the single greatest hurdle to date? In my opinion it has to be the lack of integrated GPS. Having to carry around an additional piece of hardware, namely a Bluetooth GPS receiver is a nuisance. Orange's first attempt in the UK to solve this dilemma comes in the form of the SPV M700, a Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone Edition that's caused quite a stir.
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i firstly take "window media player" for grant as it should be an acceptable standard for music player,but come to light later that the sound it produces is crap! i own m700 and ericson p990i..after compare the two(with mp3 file), m700 has been withdrawn from using as my music player...the sound is so bad and lots of hiss and jars. would like to shout loudly about that to people who still in doubt of something about m700. other features work fine,i m impressed! gps,3 party software,vdo......all good! |
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taher
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| more of a question than a comment, how the hell do i get to the gps? i can't find it anywhere! | |
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Rod
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GPS needs to be downloaded installed. Look in the M700's pre-set favourites; failing this use http://uk.orange.webraska.com/mobile.do Be aware, using the Webraska GPS app is not free, and that's above the data connection costs noted above. There is an initial free trial period but check out the various pricing options on the Webraska website. I still wouldn't be without this GPS facility. Its useful when my TomTom is unavailable or just impractical. |
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Rod
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No, nor do I know if its possible to install TomTom's software on the M700. My TomTom here is a stand alone device used solely when driving. |
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jodie
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how do u use the sat nav on spv m700 , does it have voice instructions as well? |
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Rod
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Can I recommend reading the Webraska user guide found at www.webraska.com? It is comprehensive and I'm wishing I'd read it before now! Yes, voice instructions are given to the user. |
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rajah
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in spv m700, can you also write the letters on the screen instead of pointing on the keyboard in the screen? |
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andy
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I`ve had this phone for over 2mounths great features it is easyer to use than it looks. The wi fi and gps are the best features with the wi fi can browse web and direct download apps or programs what ever with no need to go through orange just put in flight mode when you turn on wi fi  my phone came with carwindsceen mount as well as incar charger and case . I`ve had a fhew software freezes and the clock`s time locks but no real problems. I recommend this phone for anybody 9/10 |
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Jayne
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| i have just bought the phone thinking i can download word documents from hotmail and save them on my phone and transfer them to my laptop. however, when i look on my hotmail on the phone - it does not recognise that there are any word documents attached to the email. does anyone else have this problem or know how to access word docs as email attachments? any tips would be very much appreciated! | |
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jon Tammam
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| Ive tried to install a mini SD card into the slot but the phone seems not to recognise it and sais it is not installed. Is there something Im missing here? Do I need to carry out any other steps? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks. | |
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Craig
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| having a nightmare setting up e-mails on this phone!!! keeps coming with enter incoming e-mail password, ive checked ive put the correct settings in but it still says it, orange support have no idea why it does it. not even sure what my username is meant to be, ive set is as the first part before the @ sign but to no evail..... any 1 else had problems setting e-mail up? | |
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alan
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Had phone a week now and i am not a whizz kid 50 guy. sussed out almost everthing on it sat nav really easy to use with voice too,not sure what downloaded maps cost as unlike tomtom eack map for eack journey downladed seperatly,but should be better as latest maps will be used. BUT biggest downside is the music player,ive had to jump through hoops to find my music and only way has to go to the files even then its really awkward to find and use muic,any short cuts welcome. i tried putting card into c card readed in my pc and filling with music,no joy there. Also typng out a text message was absolutly impossible for first few days,i kepy closing the keyboard down,now ive got the hang of it and the feature which remembers previously typed words is exellent. Any help though on use of music or movie player greatly appreciated. |
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simin
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i the music player aint that bad to be honest you can add all music files to the libary on the windows media player and play all from there ar e pics one you wan and so on , i think the quickest way to send them to your card or phone is trught the usb cable using activesync and just send then to your memory card/storage card that way i found it quick and easy white spvm700 with 2gb sd card spv m3100 with 1 gb card |
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Purple Matt
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| I have to say that the M700 is the best mobile phone I have used to date. As with previous comments the phone is not without its faults (bit slow, pain to text with one hand, battery life is acceptable but dont expect more than a couple of days standby....etc.) but in terms of functionallity it is spot on. As an old Palm user I write using the Graffiti handwriting recognition and this is superb, I regularly write 100 word e-mails with no problems. I am currently in Japan and the phone works fine on 3G, in fact I have yet to find a country thay I cannot use it in. I use the wi-fi daily and sync my mail via my office exchange server ( I realise most users may not be able to take advantage of this) but failing that most pop3 mail accounts I have tried work very well. If you are not too happy with the built in media palyer I use Mortplayer for the pocket PC which is a free download from http://www.sto-helit.de/. Any Pocket PC ARM compatible software seesm to run fine on this device, although the only problems I have has to date have been with Skype in that the program crashes randomly. The GPS functionallity of great I use TomTom v6 on the phone with no problems at all. The only problem I have had to date is leaving the phone on in my pocket and filling up the memory because the voice recorder started recording. This was soon fixed by deleting the huge note it created and then disabling all the other buttons on power off so that only the power button turns the unit on. Hope all that helps someone choose this great phone | |
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Troy Tempest
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Ive had this phone for around 1 month now,first of all let me say its a tasty bit of kit,I have the black verison Of m700 with WM6 installed, also installed is Tom Tom 6,work fine first time, also installed is Spb Pocket Plus 4.0.2, id advice all people to download this as it lts u open alot more tabs on your display screen, instead of sorting through loads of folders, for sound purposes i installed pocket music bundle 5, which is sounding good, alot louder than windows media which as rightly stated a pile of crap, I have Skype Installed Also IM All-in-One 4.54 , great proram this as it opens up msn,myspace and yahoo all via the handset, all in all apart form a few freezes id say this is a great PDA, looks wise black version is better and the 400 mhz processor is very fast especially after using Spb Pocket Plus , big diff is if u press top right it acually displays a close feature for programs which actually closes them first time, go this phone runnin as i have my pc set up, so easy, and havnt had any connection problems via wifi,,all in all great phone and id say to anyone thinkin of grabbin one, dont think about it do it  )))))))) |
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Troy Tempest
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Follow Up to M700, This Does Come Without A Radio, But there is a way round this, Download Resco Pocket Radio V1.31, Program Costs $19.00 And u have a good 1000 stations to listen to or u could add your own, Goto www.shoutcast.com and dowload stations from there, right click where it say tune in, and send files to my documents via active sync, and import them to your Pda and customise to your favs, i currently have all the fav stations listed, long way round setting up a radio but well worth it,Amazing quality using this program, very easy to do, good luck )))))  |
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Stevo
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I dont know about you folks, everibody seems to like this device, but i am not big fan. It suposed to be phone with text messaging, some business software, email, internet, camera and mp3 player. As a phone, it is very good. It is also easy to send the texts as well, if you have good eyes. I don't think anyone on this planet will convince me to do my business on this little thing, so i would rate very poor in terms of using business software. Email and Internet is just for showing off, but in practice useless and too expensive. Camera is very poor as well but it can be used for some shots where quality is not important. Sound from mp3 player is as good as ww1 radio. |
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