Before anyone had even heard of a ‘Smart Phone’, the business mobile industry was hooked on PDA’s – or Personal Digital Assistants. This bulky device offered users digital access ‘whenever, wherever’. However, it wasn’t what you call ‘cutting edge’ in terms of design, enter the Orange SPV E100.

The Orange SPV – Sound, Pictures, and Video – offered all the access features of a PDA, but looked just like an ordinary phone. In what would go on to become the Windows Smartphone Edition, the operating system offered users email via Outlook, Microsoft document viewing, a pocket version of Internet Explorer and desktop PC – Synchronization. An ‘office away from the office’ was how Orange positioned the model.

With all the current fuss about Windows Mobile 6.5 and the possible launch of Windows Mobile 7, it’s easy to forget that it all began in 2002 with the launch of this remarkable device.

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