The Phone Packing Windows XP is Finally on Sale

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not bad at all.

 

[unempit]

I'm hearing reports of AMD CS5336 for graphics.

 

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[citation][nom]wotan31[/nom]Sweet, now my phone can join a Chinese bot-net and get viruses too, that's awesome![/citation]You can do that now with regular "phone" OSes.
[citation][nom]Albyint[/nom]XPphone would be awesome, but why have a full OS like that and only have 8gb of memory? The expandable storage could be a saving grace if it were not limited to 16gb[/citation]
It's XP embedded. Not regular XP. 8GB is plenty, and if you need more, it is expandable. Plus, USB storage.[citation][nom]aznshinobi[/nom]What processor is in that thing? With that pricing it's very debatable, The iPhone 4 is 500$-ish with no plan and it packs the A4, a beast of a chip. The G2's 800mhz Snapdragon proves itself to the big dogs and it actually can be OC'd (a cell phone OCing wow lol) to 1.3ghz and it's priced at around 400$ no plan. Oh but most importantly... How will you fit it in your pocket? 4.8 inches of XP fun.[/citation]
Snapdragons are dogs. Don't let clockspeed fool you, the Snapdragon is the Pentium 4 of the mobile world. Samsung's Hummingbird spanks it up and down the street, at the same clocks. See Galaxy S-based phones.

Anyway, this thing probably runs a dieshrunk K8-based chip, like the Geode LXs.

 

[Guest]

One of 3 things is at play here, either:

it's running an ARM CPU emulating x86, which will be slow,

it's running an atom underclocked to 100mhz to fit in a phone power envelope, which is still slow,

or they've compiled Windows XP for ARM, in which case I say: Congratulations, idiots, there are now going to be ARM powered PC's running XP, Intel's going to pitch a fit because you just screwed up the joint Wintel monopoly racket. If Intel can no longer muscle people out of the PC market with their IP, then you won't be able to either...

 

[verbalizer]

If I saw someone accidentally leave this behind unattended, I would definitely play with it for a few days b4 mailing it back to them

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me too.. 😗

 

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[citation][nom]it3113ktu4l_pr0p3r-T[/nom]One of 3 things is at play here, either: it's running an ARM CPU emulating x86, which will be slow, it's running an atom underclocked to 100mhz to fit in a phone power envelope, which is still slow, or they've compiled Windows XP for ARM, in which case I say: Congratulations, idiots, there are now going to be ARM powered PC's running XP, Intel's going to pitch a fit because you just screwed up the joint Wintel monopoly racket. If Intel can no longer muscle people out of the PC market with their IP, then you won't be able to either...[/citation]If you read the article, you'll realize it is an AMD x86 chip, likely a very low power K8-derived chip.

Also a couple of things to note: This is not a Microsoft phone. How exactly is a third party company going to toss together a version of WinXP embedded for ARM, when they don't have the source?

Furthermore, an ARM version of an outdated version of Windows wouldn't break up your supposed (doesn't exist) Wintel monopoly (there's Linux, Mac, and others, and Intel isn't the only x86 chipmaker, people buy them for a reason - and I'm an AMD fan more than Intel). Why? The ARM version would only run software specifically made for the ARM version of WinXP. In other words, nothing we can run on regular WinXP would run unless it was ported over first.

Here's another example: Windows for Itanium. That's right, MS ported a version of Windows to the Itanium architecture. Guess what? There's hardly any software for it, and the Itanium is almost dead.

 

[aaron686]

[citation][nom]rmmil978[/nom]The DOS version is a devilishly good deal...[/citation]

 

[aaron686]

^Love IT.

 

[damiano13mg]

i'd buy one and play solitaire!

 

[deletemach_kernel]

wow a moblie virus carrier...i wonder how slow it would get if we ran an antivirus software on it???

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]__-_-_-__[/nom]there was a planned 120Gb HDD version... 16Gb is not enough for me to use it as a media center.[/citation]
Why would you use your cell phone as anything other than a CLIENT? You can stream crap TO the phone, without needing a ton of internal storage. Not to mention the flash is going to be a lot faster than a low-RPM super-mobile (1.8" or smaller) HDD.

 

[razor512]

For those complaining about the OS being old, think about it this way, windows xp is more functional than any other OS for the mobile phone.

only problem is the ridiculous price, for that price, I could buy a laptop and a smart phone

 

[palladin9479]

With it being an x86 CPU, what are the chances of installing our own OS like say ... Linux on it?

 

[Guest]

yay lets bring back a 9 year old os

 

[toallthehaters]

this. is. stupid. you guys drool over DOS? Get a real terminal and use linux.

 

[Guest]

http://en.xpphone.com/product/product.html

 

[eddieroolz]

It's the devil's phone 😛

 

[yao]

so expensive.. $700... if it is a like a ipad then the price is fine, this is too expensive.

 

[Guest]

Has anyone checked the YouTube vids for the xpPhone? It's HUGE and I can't believe anyone would think that this large of a cell phone would be practical for carrying it around on a daily basis. Where are you going to put it? Oh, that's right, your XL fanny pack.

youtube.com/watch?v=tvweh8xQMmg

 

[unempit]

Reminds me of the commercial with a gecko whipping out his cell phone and wallet at the restaurant

 

[Guest]

awesome a new phone with a 8 year old OS...what next a DOS based iphone?