SmartphoneThoughts have now commenced coverage of problems with the Orange SPV e200. Their article makes for much less interesting reading than the original MSMobiles version - it's more balanced, and itself links to a more balanced article, and nobody gets sacked!

Even MSMobiles have settled down somewhat, although it's unclear as to whether some Orange shops have pulled the phone or not - looks like a revised article to me, given the emphasis on the word "some". Their list of bugs has been updated, and now adds a little bit more "meat" to their claims of problems.

It seems to me that the best comment on this comes from idunno.org's blog :

"In spite of all that, I still like it. I actually believe these are software faults (for example the joystick in the hardware is apparently 8 way) and we'll see patches. Of course how long it will take to see those patches is another matter."

Let us hope it's soon.