Orange SPV M700 (HTC P3600) soon available in France
Nov 30, 2006 gps navigation, phones
Those who’ve been waiting for the SPV M700, namely the Orange version of the HTC P3600, will be glad to learn that it will be available next week in the Orange/France Telecom shops.
The price with subscription will be lower than 250 Euros according to Orange.
One thing to note is that P3600 does not use a GPS SiRF III chip but another kind made by Qualcomm which also manufactures the 3G chip of P3600.
The Qualcomm GPS chip is compatible with technology A-GPS making it possible to download the predictions of current satellite positions that are transmitted to the user in the data message in order to have a very short time to fix. It should be known that this chip GPS can also function in autonomous mode without A-GPS like a traditional GPS receiver.
But following problems of compatibility between the 3G chip and the GPS chip, HTC shut-down the GPS chip on the P3600 saying that “a simple” software corrective measure would be enough to reactivate the chip. This corrective measure will probably be ready for the beginning of 2007.
The future will tell us if HTC will succeed in solving this GPS problem of P3600 and we’ll be sure to let you know.
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December 11th, 2006 at 7:08 am
i have the m600 and i think orange have done a brilliant job with the m700 from what i’ve heard. i can’t wait till it is launch it’s going to be well good. yh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!