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!