A Chinese company has announced what it's billing as the world's first phone running Windows XP. In Technology Group's "XPPhone" has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 4.8-inch touchscreen display, up to 120GB of storage, GPS, and both GSM and CDMA connectivity, the company says.
In Technology says its XPPhone runs Windows XP on an AMD processor described only as a "Super Mobile" CPU, with either 512MB or 1GB of RAM, and either HDD (hard disk drive) or SSD (solid state disk) storage. SSDs range from 8GB to 64GB in capacity, while hard disk drives range from 30GB to 120GB, the company says.
The company states that its "patented technology ... makes it possible for a mobile phone to run Windows XP," and claims that the device offers up to five days of standby. The phone is capable of bringing Windows XP out of sleep mode whenever a phone call or SMS message is received, the company adds. However, no word was provided on whether the XPPhone is compatible with push e-mail, for example.
The XPPhone has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard (Click to enlarge)
A removable lithium-ion battery is claimed to power the XPPhone for about five hours of talk time, about seven hours of typical application usage, and a maximum of 12 hours. Meanwhile, the device has a 4.8-inch, 800 x 480 touchscreen display, and a slideout QWERTY keyboard. While we couldn't find overall dimensions, the XPPhone is reportedly just under an inch thick, and weighs 14.1 ounces (400g), with battery.
According to In Technology, the XPPhone includes 802.11b/g wireless networking, Bluetooth, and both GSM/WCMDA and CDMA/EV-DO cellular connectivity. The device will reportedly also be offered in the future with TD-SCDMA (time-division synchronous code-division multiple access), China's homegrown 3G standard.
Features and specifications listed by In Technology for the XPPhone include the following:
Processor -- AMD "Super Mobile"
Memory -- 512MB or 1GB of RAM
Storage:
SSD -- 8GB/16GB/32GB/64GB
HDD -- 30GB/60GB/80GB/120GB
Display -- 4.8-inch touchscreen display with 800 x 480 resolution
Cameras -- VGA-resolution for videoconferencing, and 1.3 megapixel main camera
Keyboard -- Slide-out QWERTY keyboard with separate numeric keypad
Wireless:
WAN -- GSM/GRPS/EDGE/WCDMA, CDMA/EV-DO, TD-SCDMA (forthcoming)
LAN -- 802.11b/g
PAN -- Bluetooth
GPS
Other I/O:
1 x USB 2.0 host
1 x USB device
Microphone and earphone jacks
Docking connector with VGA output
Expansion -- SIM slot
Battery life:
Talk time -- 5 hours
Standby time -- about 5 days
Windows XP application usage -- from 7 to 12 hours
Dimensions -- n/s, except for thickness of .98 inches (25mm)
Weight -- 14.1 ounces (400g)
Background
It's been thought that phones running a desktop version of Windows wouldn't appear until next year, when Intel says it will release its "Moorestown" platform, cutting idle power consumption to just 1/10th of today's Atom CPUs. But, a prototype phone from BYD Electronics was shown off by Intel during April's IDF in Beijing, using the chipmaker's original Z5xx Atoms, in either 1.1GHz (Z510) or 1.6GHz (Z530) flavors. The same CPUs have also been adopted by Taiwan-based DigiCube for its MIDPhone-50, a MID (mobile internet device) that's said to double as a 3.5G cellphone.
A video of the XPPhone at last week's Computex show in Taiwan Source: Jkkmobile (click to play)
Further information
In Technology did not release either pricing or availability for its XPPhone. However, more information may be found (in Chinese) on the company's website, here.
