{"id":1420,"date":"2006-03-09T13:14:23","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T13:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/03\/mobile_download\/"},"modified":"2006-03-09T13:14:23","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T13:14:23","slug":"mobile_download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/mobile_download\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orange just sent me an email promoting their usual stuff &#8211; films, music, downloads etc. I was curious about what they were doing with V for Vendetta, so I followed the link. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orange.co.uk\/entertainment\/film\/movieOfTheMonthDownloads.php\">There<\/a> I learnt I could download various media&#8230; except that I can&#8217;t.<br \/>\nEach time the 247 code that I should text to receive my downloads appears, alongside it is an asterisk that explains that &#8220;this service is unavailable on all Orange SPV phone, the PalmOne Treo and the LG U8150.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo let&#8217;s be clear. The service will not work on any of Orange&#8217;s own-brand phones &#8211; that is to say, their SPV range.<br \/>\nBrilliant.<br \/>\nOf course, why precisely I&#8217;d want to spend &pound;2 on a wallpaper that I could make myself in about 30 seconds using the PC wallpapers available <strong>free<\/strong> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/wwws.warnerbros.co.uk\/vforvendetta\/trailer.html\">official site<\/a>, is not something to worry about here.<br \/>\nSimilarly, I can&#8217;t download ringtones or &#8220;voicetones&#8221; at the princely sum of &pound;3.00-&pound;3.50 each. Shame.<br \/>\nOn a different matter, when is Orange going to release a Windows Smartphone with WiFi built in? Sadly the SPV 600, which would otherwise be my next phone, doesn&#8217;t have it. Is there something around the corner? I know they don&#8217;t want me making calls via Skype with it, hence cutting them out of the revenue stream. The M600 could be the answer, but it seems more of a PDA than a phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange just sent me an email promoting their usual stuff &#8211; films, music, downloads etc. I was curious about what they were doing with V for Vendetta, so I followed the link. There I learnt I could download various media&#8230; except that I can&#8217;t. Each time the 247 code that I should text to receive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}