xpPhone: The Smartphone That Runs Windows XP

[Gin Fushicho]

My question is How in the hell do I make phone calls with the damn thing? I better not have to go into the start menu.

 

[pollom]

:S x86 in a mobile phone no thanx, I prefer ARM based phones

 

[overclockingrocks]

this looks way too awesome. I can hardly wait until this is widely available. Iphone? PSSSHHHHHHH

 

[overclockingrocks]

This will be awesome when it's released. Iphone?! What's that?

 

[jesseralston]

http://www.pocketables.net/2009/09/itg-now-accepting-xpphone-preorders-with-choice-of-att-orange-or-vodafone.html#more

Somebody mentioned external hard drives; when they listed the ssd and hdd, it meant both. You choose one of each, not one or the other. Or so they say. They say it'll be an external hard drive when not turned on, so there's that feature built right in.

 

[Brooks G]

I would never buy something like this for a phone bet the fact they're making this is very innovative and shows how fast technology is developing. Tis bueno 😀

 

[mcbowler]

I will wait for the windows 7 phone. Or just keep using my iPhone because it does almost everything a phone should do.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

My biggest problem is those tiny screens and tiny keys.

 

[apache_lives]

if this can be made to a device in similar size to an iPhone/smartphone and have ~16gb of storage and reasonably quick performance then say goodbye iphone - you cant compete with an appstore when you have full windows support and the ability to run normal applications

on the down side you have a million virus's and malware and spyware and what not against you - not so good but eh YOU CAN REINSTALL WINDOWS lol

 

[papasmurf]

...I've recompiled my android kernel 30 times this week trying to get the frame buffer to play nicely with my lg incite - and you're telling me about this now? I've been wasting my time this is the phone I want to hack!

 

[eldesconocido]

Here are the specs:
http://gizmodo.com/5361497/itg-xpphone-runs-windows-xp-pre+orders-for-att-vodafone-and-orange

 

[dethsite2]

derivative of windows ce with xp badging is all i see

 

[xyz001]

who the hell would want windows xp on your phone, when there are androids and iphones out there.....

 

[xBruce88wXx]

heh, i can imagine it now... I'd be playing Starcraft (touchscreen XD) with the sound muted while talking to someone via speakerphone walking them through their computer troubles.

Considering it has an AMD cpu, I'm assuming there's a good chance it will have some ATI IGP variant in there... obviously nothing to fast... but should be enough to watch movies on, maybe play some DX8.1 era games and low-spec dx9 games, or open gl. would run dosbox pretty well... yea there's the control issue, but if you REALLY wanted to you could probably find some kind of usb hub to hook up a keyboard and mouse along with a monitor (according to the spec page of their site it supports a vga connection via some docking thing, res up to "VGA output to 1920 * 1200 resolution").

Forget to do that pesentation for work? or school? you could probably slap something together then hook it up to a projector on your way to work/school while stuck in traffic lol

 

[xBruce88wXx]

sorry for double post there's no edit button...

with some cities (like Atlanta, GA) you have wi-max, such as Clear, where you have internet no matter where you go, so you could also stream videos, look up news, or even see how bad the traffic is up ahead so you can plan an alternate route with that gps that's built in.

beats the heck out of buying a $100 gps unit, a $200+ phone, and then a $300 netbook.

 

[funguseater]

If it can run XP I wonder if it can run win98 and get a big performance boost

 

[NoCaDrummer]

[citation][nom]marcus_br[/nom]For starters, it can have EVERYTHING the others have and then some.What do you need?In Windows, you can EASILY get.[/citation]
I presume that also includes viruses, trojans, and the ability to need to buy into "protection" scheme that we've grown accustomed to in Windows.
Gee, sounds like a Win-Win situation for MS & anti-virus software companies. How about a little less loss on our pocketbooks and our data?

 

[Guest]

Once again, Linux gets shafted, despite scaling perfectly for every machine from the very low end, to the very high end. XP doesn't make a lot of sense on one of these, since it was really, truly, never intended for phones.

I guess AMD doesn't get so much as a tiny bit of recognition on Tom's for this, if it were an Atom based phone, that would've been the basis of the whole article: "Amazing New Smartphone Powered by Intel's Atom CPU!!!". Apparently when AMD does it, it doesn't warrant being mentioned. We haven't seen an Atom phone because Atom + it's chipset consumes WAY too much power for a cellphone battery to handle.

 

[g00ey]

[citation][nom]funguseater[/nom]If it can run XP I wonder if it can run win98 and get a big performance boost[/citation]

It would then be a more relevant question if it can run NT4 or even Win95 which is much less resource hungry than Win98.

 

[g00ey]

But seriously Linux or FreeBSD would be perfect for such a phone, add a few routines adapted for power savings and cell phones and voìla; we have Android...

 

[dethsite2]

considering xp is all but being shelved to be a sold os nowdays i couldn't see the point selling a pbone with xp on it considering xp is no longer= being supported..

i would expect to see a windows ce or windows mobile variant on offer with this phone,,

i know you could run xp on 1gb ram though i wouldn't touch a device like this without atleast 2gb of ram in it, if it was running a full version of xp as this footnote claims you would need 2gb of ram..

since this phone look's like a htc slide mobile or a docomo 838 pro running win mobile 6 it's hard to say what this concept will be..

 

[lolwuut]

But can it run crysis?

 

[matt87_50]

interested in a smart phone that I can freely develop and/or load any application i want on? yes! very!

 

[dethsite2]

apart from card games or java based games i doubt you would see the likes of crysis on this phone..


as for functions you are limited on whay you can install on it it as you hav limited space, you wouldn't find a full version of windows running on it

 

[dimar]

Needs eSATA and a hybrid TV tuner 🙂