New MS Smartphone (Orange SPV E100/HTC Tanager)

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Orange have announced their new SPV (E100), major differences to the original SPV are the screen and tweaks to the form factor. The buttons have been made larger and the D-Pad is gone in favour of a Joystick.

The new SPV E100, known as the HTC Tanager is not exclusive to Orange (as was the original SPV also know as the HTC Canary). Some other operators and third party vendors are selling the device. This one branded an i-Mate Smartphone



The screen is vivid and bright in all conditions, using a transflective display with 64k colours (as used in the more recent iPAQs ranges).

Built in MS appls including Internet Explorer (HTML and WAP), MSN Messenger, Windows Media, and the usual Inbox, Contacts and Calender to Activesync with Outlook. Also comes with an MMS client from Ezos and Photo Album from IA Style. There is an optional clip on Camera and an SD and MMC card memory expansion slot which is also SDIO capable.

Here's a pic in context with other Smartphone/PDAPhone devices available at the moment, and in low light to expose the brightness of the screen. While taking the low light pick tonight a moth landed on it ignoring the rest of the devices (so it's not just me who thinks it's really bright!! )





BrianG.

flywheel

got round to playing some more with the multimedia capabilities of the handset - was out on Wednesday at a gig - unfortunately the phone betrays you in a dark environment as it is so bright and your face lights up in a blair witch torch effect

anyhow i'd loaded up some trailers, encoded dvds and music - and afterwards i showed it to some friends - well the screen blew people away especially the movies - based on a transflective display it's really bright and the 65k colours really give an impressive level of quality



so this is the next level up from the 4096 TFT people have been getting used to mainly with the current Symbian based devices - although it's the type of display the manufacturers implement that will determine it's operation under lighting different conditions (more details: Display Modes (Transmissive / Reflective / Transflective)... then roll-on the OLED displays

BrianG

Fidelis

Wow. That looks mighty impressive! I won't even ask how you got your hands on it, I'm positively glowing green with envy

The word on the proverbial street is that it won't be launched by Vodafone Ireland, ever.