A Chinese company showed what it’s calling the world’s first mobile phone to run Windows XP at Computex on Friday. The xpPhone wakes Windows from standby mode to receive calls and text messages and has a battery life of seven hours when not in standby. With a larger battery it’s capable of running for 12 hours.
The device is powered by a customized chip from Advanced Micro Devices made by In Technology. It also features a pull-out QWERTY keypad, 120GB hard disk and a 4.8 inch LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 800 by 480 pixels.
Expect it to hit the Chinese market in about three months and later be marketed worldwide. The xpPhone will support Wi-Fi, optional WiMax, GPS and next-generation mobile.
[PCworld] and [Therawfeed]
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Presumably the phone calls & text messages are using VoIP & IM, versus mobile operator phone calls & SMS/MMS. If so, then it may be a mobile phone, but not in the same sense as the mobile phones (aka cell phones) you get from mobile operators.
The mobile phone which is running windows XP is nice but not practical. There are many software for mobile more efficient than windows.In fact this phone is useless nowadays.
the manufacturer of that mobile phone is called HTC from China. they did ever fight down iphone from their HTC diamond in china, india and taiwan. they produce the first smart phone in china, first windeows CE mobile phone in china, and first mutli-layer phone for iphone. today, they are also the first manufacturer for android too.
great… now I can crash the smallest XP machine ever!
What this enables you to do is run things like business enterprise apps that are very customizable and easy to field engineers. Everybody and their brother are writing these little applications short on functionality and not very customizable, but when this baby hits all of a sudden these little apps are nothing but tools to be used by the big dogs. Regarding crashing, my windows Mobile has to be reset about as often as my XP pro box. XP rocks and saves big bucks to the software companies with a huge investment in Microsoft. Macs will only used by the rogue idiots that think that Microsoft needs to die. The fact is those same type people were chasing UNIX in the 80’s and 90’s. Remember Red Hat. If I want to draw pretty pictures all day then perhaps a Mac is a really good box. But if I want to run a company that has 1000 concurrent users banging a database and try and grow that company into something bigger than the “small fry” thinkers that want Mac to take over the world will just continue to draw pretty pictures in their Mac in the corner room.