Orange SPV

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Orange SPV Classic (the screen is much better in real life)

The original Orange SPV Smartphone was built by HTC for the European mobile operator, Orange. Powered by Microsoft Smartphone 2002, and launched late 2002, SPV stood for Sound, Pictures, Video, with the emphasis being on the devices multimedia capabilities and potential.

It came with a Texas Instruments OMAP710 processor which clocked in at a speed of 132 MHz. An internal memory of 16 MB RAM and 32 MB of Flash ROM was complemented with the addition of a Secure Digital storage card.

It was most notable as being the first Windows powered smartphone to be released and was greeted with much anticipation. The phone carried mini versions of such desktop applications as Outlook, Media Player and Internet Explorer alongside advanced calendar, task and contact management facilities.

As a result it had as one of its most important target markets the largely overlooked business user segment.

Another of the main selling points of the phone at the time was the display, which had a reflective TFT screen producing 65,000 colours at 176 x 220 pixels resolution. The one drawback to all this in models before the E200 was the lack of a built in camera, something that was becoming increasingly common and popular on much less capable phones.

With a length of 11 cm, width 4.5 cm and a depth of 2 cm, it weighed just 95 g.

More HTC built Orange SPV phones have continued to be regularly released with the latest offering being the SPV C600/HTC Faraday.

[edit] Orange SPV Release History and Specifications

Orange Model	HTC Model	OS	Released	CPU	Speed-Mhz	RAM-Mb	Flash ROM-Mb	Screen
SPV Classic	Canary	SP2002	Nov 2002	TI OMAP 710	132	16	32	176 X 220
SPV E100	Tanager	SP2002	---	TI OMAP 710	132	16	32	176 X 220
SPV E200	Voyager	SP2003	---	TI OMAP 710	132	32	64	176 X 220
SPV C500	Typhoon	SP2003SE	---	TI OMAP 730	200	32	64	176 X 220
SPV C550	Hurricane	SP2003SE	---	TI OMAP 750	200	64	64	240 X 320
SPV C600	Faraday	Windows Mobile 5	Dec 2005	TI OMAP 850	200	64	64	240 X 320