The Phone Packing Windows XP is Finally on Sale

[JMcEntegart]

Windows Phone 7, schmindows Phone 7.

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[Albyint]

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

 

[rohitbaran]

Wow, beats the iCrap in terms of price. BTW, what about battery life? Windows XP wasn't designed keeping smartphones in mind.

 

[alikum]

What's the point of having a fully functional XPPhone?

 

[Guest]

let the hacking begin

 

[mrmez]

First MS 'revive' the Kin, now XP phone.
Are they trying to cannibalise W7 phone?

 

[intelx]

expensive but looks very nice though

 

[rmmil978]

The DOS version is a devilishly good deal...

 

[aznshinobi]

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.

 

[Parsian]

I would want to have this phone just to carry it as a Badge of Honor for NERDISM and promote and popularizing technicality and complexity.

 

[hang-the-9]

Price of 666 for DOS version, hmm... wasn't there an APPLE that was out for 666 back when they first came out? I'm thinking this price is a bit of a dig

The issue with a device like this these days is that almost every phone has web/games/media playback at 1/2 or even 1/4 of the price. 3 Years ago I'd be more impressed.

 

[kingssman]

Sweet! since its a full windows XP phone i wonder if it could install crysis

 

[magicandy]

Where are the hardware specs? I'd like to know what's powering the device so I have an idea of what it'll be able to do, power-wise.

 

[firebee1991]

Pretty sure the article summed it up perfectly. This is awesome for nerd cred, but isn't very practical in the real world. That said, I really freaking want it.

 

[enewmen]

FINALLY

 

[wotan31]

Sweet, now my phone can join a Chinese bot-net and get viruses too, that's awesome!

 

[kronos_cornelius]

ARM or x86 ?

 

[Pyroflea]

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

I was waiting to see a comment on that, lmao. Nicely done.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

its just a bit late....

 

[jimmysmitty]

[citation][nom]mrmez[/nom]First MS 'revive' the Kin, now XP phone.Are they trying to cannibalise W7 phone?[/citation]

This has nothing to do with MS apart from the OS. They didn't develop it, a company called ITG did.

Its interesting but pointless for now.

Although it does show the power of current phone tech.

As for the ARM or x86, I would guess x86 since it would be a major overhaul to rewrite the entire XP kernal to work on ARM.

 

[jaoreill]

sorry, but over 5 years too late

 

[jj463rd]

USB port (gotta have mouse).They should have a burning (above 200 mw)Laser in it too to make it a Swiss Army knife tool (to light up cigs,start fires).Yeah an integrated Laser in it to make it extra cool.

 

[dEAne]

Very nice indeed, too expensive though.

 

[cpatel1987]

Umm whats the battery life on these things? And also, whoever wrote this article, for $798 you can definitely get more than just a low end laptop.

 

[roagie]

Scary, you could load bt4 on the bootable usb drive and run it from there. . That would definitely be something to tote around