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[msmobiles.com_robot]

Orange is a European (mainly) cellular network operator and despite the fact that Orange UK is the biggest operator in UK, in fact Orange is owned by French company France Telecom, so no wonder that this groundbreak...

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[thelondonthing]

Well congratulations - you've excelled yourselves once more with another article peppered with glaring inaccuracies and falsehoods. Note the following corrections:

1. It is called the Audiovox SMT 5600, not the STM 5600.


2. The fact that Orange is owned by France Télécom is of no relevance to the order of the ROM update; France doesn't come first in all things despite what you'd like to think. Witness the fact that the new Orange SPV M500 (based on the HTC Magician) was first officially released for retail sale in the Netherlands.


3. Owners of the SPV C500 have not been "stuck with [an] outdated version of [the] Windows Mobile operating system" (i have inserted words in square brackets to correct your appalling grasp of syntax). The operating system on the C500 is Windows Mobile for Smartphone 2003 Second Edition, and the updated ROM is also WMfS 2003 SE; this hasn't changed. The fact that the C500 had WMP9 does not make the operating system as a whole out of date; it merely meant that one single element of it, a single program on the phone was out of date. WMP is a program included with the operating system; WMP's supposed obsolescence on C500s does not render the whole OS "outdated". It staggers me that you can't tell the difference between a single program and a whole operating system.

A simple analogy to help you grasp the concept: if a desktop user upgrades to Windows XP Home Service Pack 2, but still has Windows Media Player 9, this does not render the whole operating system obsolete or outdated. It simply means that WMP is not as current as the latest available version; however Windows XP SP2 (the operating system) is right up to date. The fact that WMP is integrated directly into the ROM on Windows Mobile doesn't make this analogy any less valid; it is still a single program, one element, of the broader user experience.


4. You might like to note that last month, i-mate released a ROM update for US versions of their SP3i Windows smartphone (HTC Feeler) which included Windows Media Player 10 to replace WMP9. Therefore, Orange's update of WMP9 to WMP10 is not "groundbreaking", as they weren't the first people to do it. Feel free to contact i-mate if you don't believe me - frankly I think it would do you good as it's about time you actually bothered to do some bloody research for one of your articles instead of just lifting it off other websites and then adding a load of bollocks to it.

[wdowell]

The SPV C500 was released in the UK several weeks BEFORE it came to France...so i don't buy the logic of the update release dates