Re: Wanted: Cheap Nokia 6310i, 6210 etc

Cab wrote:
>
> sweller wrote:
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> > Cab wrote:
> >
> > > I'm not happy with the Orange SPV500
> >
> > What don't you like? Just to compare notes....
>
> 1. I would say "It's Windows", but it's not that. It's okay and is a
> fairly decent OS for a Smartphone, but there are a lot of bugs.
> Whether these be MS bugs or Orange bugs, I don't know.

Ooo! Ooo! I do - they're MS bugs, mostly. Occasionally they're 3rd
party providers to MSs' bugs. Orange didn't do any software for it,
just added a bit of graphics and the odd Explorer bookmark.


> There are also
> a few dodgy workarounds. For example, when you filter calls, it goes
> through a visible sequence, that seems to me that someone has
> programmed the phone to send a sequence of keys.

Mostly dodgy workarounds for dodgy bits of OS api - some of it is truly
horrendous.



> 2. But it takes bloody ages to "boot up" (in the order of around a
> minute or so).

Much, much better in the later versions, thank ***.


> 3. It does slow down quite a bit, when you have a number of
> applications running. Fairly normal, but I think that the problem
> stems from the fact that certain applications don't always shutdown
> properly and remain in memory.

It's windows CE - applications are either in the foreground or are at
the mercy of the OS. In fact, sometimes, when an application in the
foreground asks for more memory, windows asks it to shut down so it can
recover memory to fulfill the request...

Applications are *meant* to stop doing anything if they are not
visible, but many are poorly written. Some are poorly written by MS.



> 5. Orange have this habit of locking down their phones,

Not in the UK they don't. And if they do they're legally obliged to
unlock them if you ask.


> 6. It's fucking ugly.

Well, taste is personal, but compared to what? I think they're all ugly.


> 7. The camera is *** (640x480) and there's no flash/light.

I'd much rather it didn't have a camera at all, let alone a torch.


> One of the few things it does have going for it, is that the battery
> is good. Also the fact that you can lob in memory cards. TBH, I stuck
> in a 512Mb card but never use it.

MP3 player, YKIMS.


> The thing is, that they may not be 'practical' reasons for not liking
> the phone, but the main one is that I don't feel comfortable with it.
> You know, when something doesn't click?

Whereas for me, it's one of the few phones I don't hate. Plus, it lets
me beat it as chess.

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