Extensive review posted up at MoDaCo of Orange’s new SPV E200 Smartphone (which comes with both Bluetooth and a built-in digital camera), comparing it with Orange’s first Smartphone, the original SPV:
I think the E200 is an excellent device. As a phone it does everything you would expect from a modern mobile phone. As a multimedia device it has great new video features, an integrated camera (although not as good quality as the SPV) and the facility to record video. The Bluetooth is great and very useful and the new e-mail client makes recieving and sorting e-mails far easier. I am left with the impression that this phone is a far more complete piece of kit than the SPV. Things launch quickly and the menus navigate well, very little egg timer time. My only negative thoughts are that the phone in itself does very little more than the SPV (bluetooth, vid recording and multiple e-mail accounts). So I start to think that this is the phone Microsoft should have produced a year ago.
Read [Via Smartphone Thoughts]
PS – Brighthand is reporting that HTC, the Taiwanese manufacturer that actually builds the E200, has gotten approval from the FCC to sell the phone in the US, so there is a chance some carrier might offer it here.
