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Fri, 05 Jun 2009 COMPUTEX: Chinese company shows Windows XP phone

The phone, the first to use Windows XP, is also a small computer

Owen Fletcher

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A Chinese company showed what it calls the world's first mobile phone to run Windows XP at the Computex exhibition in Taipei on Friday.

The xpPhone can wake Windows from standby mode to receive calls and text messages. It has a battery life of seven hours when not in standby mode, and with a larger battery it can run for 12 hours.

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A customized chip from Advanced Micro Devices powers this mix of a mobile phone and a pocket-sized computer, which is made by In Technology in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.

The device has a pull-out QWERTY keypad, a 120GB hard disk and a 4.8 inch LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 800 by 480 pixels. It weighs 400 grams and is 2.5 centimeters thick.

The xpPhone will go to market in China in about three months and later be marketed worldwide, said Brad Wu, vice president of In Technology.

The xpPhone will support Wi-Fi, optional WiMax, GPS and next-generation mobile.

Later this year, In Technology will release a version that supports the China-developed 3G mobile standard that the country is currently trying to promote, TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access).

The company declined to give details of the computer's microprocessor, which it called the "AMD Super Mobile," or how it will make phone calls from Windows XP.

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Comments received


spyinthesky said on Fri, 05 Jun 2009

Have we somehow gone back 5 years

Jayson Brinkler said on Fri, 05 Jun 2009

How would want a phone running XP? It could have been worse - it could of been Vista! I'm so glad we have the iphone.

@Jayson Brinkler said on Fri, 05 Jun 2009

Or OS X - 1 update & it would be rebooting forever.

@@Jayson Brinkler said on Fri, 05 Jun 2009

I agree - no desktop OS should be used on a phone because they are all way too unstable and insecure for phones.

Michael said on Fri, 05 Jun 2009

A mobile blue screen of death.

Charlotte said on Fri, 05 Jun 2009

But with 100% more software & compatibility.

Gabriel said on Fri, 05 Jun 2009

Oh great - now you can take your Conficker worm host on the go!

Seriously, this idea seems so ludicrous on the face of it, you have to wonder if it's not being pushed by some of the same folks who depend on Windows' security flaws to keep their botnets running…

Taylor H said on Fri, 05 Jun 2009

I agree - no desktop OS is secure enough for a phone.

eldernorm said on Fri, 05 Jun 2009

"I agree - no desktop OS is secure enough for a phone." Well, the iPhone uses Mac OS X with out all the extras.

Just a thought.
en

Taylor H said on Fri, 05 Jun 2009

And OS X was pawned in 2 seconds.

Just another thought!

Ynda said on Mon, 08 Jun 2009

"pawned" - what a geek!

@Ynda said on Mon, 08 Jun 2009

Great come back. Well done.

Si T

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