IOL on the SPV

It's not that I'm purposefully trying to find fault with IOL articles of late, it just happens to appear that way. Or maybe I'm the only one who finds their Science & Tech article, 'I spy with my little cellphone...', amusingly outdated. And it reads like a Microsoft ad, rather than to support the global Smartphone market.

The launching of the Orange SPV cellphone has thrown down the gauntlet. The makers claim that "like no other phone the SPV is powered by Microsoft Windows and opens up a world of Orange services. With the SPV you can share photos with friends, play games and keep updated with information that's important to you. ... blah blah

If they're trying to promote interest in the SPV launch, they're two months late. If they're trying to do the Microsoft vs Symbian comparison, they're two months late.

What they forget to mention are things correctly pointed out by tech site The Register, such as: 'Orange SPV MS smartphone cert security cracked', or 'Orange's SPV MS smartphone - developer hostile bugfarm' or even 'Orange, not MS, is SPV smartphone app-breaker in chief'.

Oh well. I guess it was targetted at the computer-illiterate public.

Slashdot.org readers comment:

I don't like Orange. Nothing rhymes with it, and that makes it hard for a rapper like me to rap about it.

Bondage seems to rhyme, and it goes well with standard cell phone contractual terms.