Is this also true for the HTC Tanager models?  Has anybody tested it on that platform?

No, it isn't for the Tanager. Several people tested it with the Tanager and Canary and there it seems not to be!

I have tried removing the SD card from SPV E200, and it does seem to increase the battery life.  However since buying my first mobile way back in 1996, which was a Nokia, I find the battary life of the E200 very disapointing compared to the 6310i I upgraded from.  The SPV does have is good points in that now I do not have to type in all those contact details again, but if HTC could sort out the Battary life issue I would give the phone a 10/10.  I also belive that Nokia sold me their last phone, the 6310i.

Dear Arne:

I have some of Voyager in warehouse. I want to do the same test about battery life.

Can u tell me how to test it , because i am not practiced to use Voyager.

All I know  from your article is :

1. Insert  Sim card , SD card ,  Power on , Bluetooth on .  Then waiting.....

2. After 14hrs  24min , it hadn't left any battery bar on display

Waht does  the "switched on" mean???

After I testing  , I can post the result here.

The reason why it uses up more battery life is pretty simple once you thin about it:

The phone has to use some power to read the card which wouldn't normally be used if the card wasn't used. The power is required to access the card and such...

So if your not using the card don't have it plugged in, that way your phone won't try to access it for other things

Related issue to Smart Card for SPV E200 - I have purchased a 'cheap' SD card from Ebuyer and it does not seem to be compatible with the phone.  Can anyone tell me why?!! Is it a formatting problem, or does the SPV just work with Orange approved SD cards??

my e200 seems to work with Viking, Panasonic and Lexar mmc or sd cards. Try formattiing it before using in the phone.

I have recently bought a 512MB Viking SD card for use with me SPV e200.   I cant get the card to work in the phone.  My SPV picks up the card, recognises the space availble on the card but when I attempt to write files to it I get errors.  These errors say there may be not enough room on the card or the card may by write protected, but the card is empty and unprotected

I am having the same problems with a Kingston 256Mb SD card. I can write stuff to it when its in my IPAQ but not when it is in the e200. It just says copying, does nothing and the only way to unfreeze is to remove and reinsert which aborts the copy. I can see the contents and space of the card and play MP3's from it but a a time from 1 min to 10 mins the card just disappears and must be unplugged to recognise again.

Has anyone had similar problems or even better found out why and how to fix?!

me too 128mb twinMOSS card doesn't work either. phone can see it and as someone else said it picks up the amount of storage available on it but thats it... error msgs as above when trying to write to it. Any fixes.. tried to format the thing when its in the phone but that made no diff.!!

I am also having problems. I bought a Kingston 256MB SD card also, and i just cant write anything to it. it just keeps saying write error, check the card is not write protected and is not full. and it's not a problem with the card, because my card reader can read/write files to and from it. i tried putting an mp3 on the card using the card reader, and it worked, but my phone would not play it. it recognised the file, but said "cannot play file". any ideas?

Yep, same sort of probs for me, kingston 256MB sd card, sometimes my phone doesnt recognise it, sometimes it does, but i never can write data to it!

I bought a Kingston 512MB SD Card, only to find the same problem as you guys! I can see the card and use it's contents most of the time, but if I try to delete, edit or move andything it gives me errors. I used a 8mb Orange one and NO PROBLEMS. So I put my new 512mb SD card into a card reader and did it that way and it was fine. But this is pointless because whats the use of having a storage card if you can't write to it?! ARGH. Anyone fixed this problem? Please contact me.

I purchased a SanDisk 256mb SD Card for mine which works perfectly. As other people have said, great phone - just needs the battery and bluetooth stuff sorting.

I had the same problem with a 512Mb Kingston card. Having done some research it seems that there are two types of SD card. Single Level Cell (SLC) and Multi Level Call (MLC). The E200 does not like MLC cards, unfortunately most cheap cards are MLC. You need to check what type of card you are buying.