"The Orange SPV M600 is an affordable, fully featured Windows Mobile 5 smart phone at a bargain price. It lacks 3G support, but with EDGE you still get fairly decent download speeds and, if you need faster access,the built-in Wi-Fi support gives you the option to access hotspots and other wireless internet links...
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"Orange SPV C600 mobile phone
Orange’s smart phone evolves.
Orange’s last smart phone, the C550, boasted a great screen, but this one looks better yet. Continuing its love-in with Microsoft, Orange’s follow-up is the first handset to run Bill Gates’s new operating system, Windows Mobile 5.0, and the result is improved performance and a modern, icon-based interface instead of the 550’s dated-looking text lists.
While this feels chunkier and more robust than its predecessor, it’s actually a shade lighter. Controls have improved, especially the joystick, which is now more solid and responsive. The hi-res screen sparkles with colour and provides a high enough resolution to display a typical day’s worth of appointments....
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The M5000 comes in at 128 x 81 x 25mm and weighs a heavy 285 g. This is heavier than various other Pocket PC devices and phones, yet despite this it does manage to fit/slide quite well into your pocket. As I mentioned earlier, the device comes in a clamshell style design, the screen opens up to provide either keyboard and screen support, or by swiveling the device 180 degrees, it closes up and allows a tablet style touch screen operation. The great thing here is that you can still use it as a mobile phone in any form, even when it is closed thanks to the handy buttons on the side of the device.
There are buttons all over the place on the SPV M5000 - these allow quick fire access to the varying functions of the device. Opening the device in the clamshell mode is easy, and if you are light fingered you won't have any worries about accidentally pressing the buttons on the side of the unit. The unit contains various buttons such as camera, Dictaphone, brightness and volume controls on the side of the M5000, at the top you have the power button and the SD memory area. At the back of the device you will find the very nice stylus, USB port, Reset button and the mic socket, slightly above those are the hang up and receive buttons for accepting and declining calls when the device is closed. Right at the front of the M5000 you also have dual stereo speakers, not that these are particularly good as usual with Pocket PC devices.
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...Unlike C550, C600 has stylish design similar to this one of C500 and unlike C550 it is powered by Windows Mobile 5.0:
It would have been nice to get a slightly larger 32Mb MiniSD card with the handset, especially as a lot of internal memory is sapped up by the phone, however shops like MobyMemory will sell you a bigger one quite cheaply. As for battery life, obviously if you do choose to have the "Screen Timeout" set to never then battery life is impacted, but you can easily get a days worth of usage out of it with the backlight permanently on. In tests we found that on the "default" settings we could get around four days out of it before having to charge it again.
The C600 is a very good phone. It does all the flashy stuff you want plus it ain't bad at making phone calls either. Call quality is spot on and it connected to my Bluetooth headset first time. Whilst it's not a massively different handset from the C500, Orange have built on the success that the C500 gave. The SPV C600 can be compared to a Formula 1 car. Although it looks almost the same as last years F1 car, the engine, on-board computer, suspension and stability of the car have been improved greatly....
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