The idea that this “phone” runs Windows XP is kind of a stretch, yet it’s being called the XpPhone. It’s pretty much a UMPC or MID, though, that happens to make phone calls because, man oh man, would you need some billowy Hammer Pants to carry this thing around in your pocket as your primary phone. Add to that the five hour battery life and a weight that I can only assume to be at least 1.5 pounds and you’ve got yourself a highly portable computer masquerading around as a gigantic mobile phone.
The device is running some sort of AMD CPU — perhaps the Geode processor or, more likely, the Atom-like Neo processor found in HP’s DV2 netbook. There’s also a USB port, headset port, SIM card slot, memory card slot, VGA out (via a mini adapter), camera, touchscreen, what looks like a little trackpad, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and SSD options from 8GB to 64GB.
No word on price or availability, as this unit is just a prototype. I’d guess it’s probably not coming to the US through regular retail channels anytime soon, but it does give a nice look forward about what’s possible. Convergence, synergy, buzzwords, etc.
[via jkkmobile]
Some pics would be nice for people who can’t watch streaming video at work.
Imagine a giant brick with a slide-out keyboard. Thats pretty much it.
I wonder if it’ll run Windows 7? I hope they make it smaller, thats huge for a phone.
Now imagine this with a SAT phone as well
Mac inside and it will be perfect.
well then it would be totaly worthless. I would assume the point of running xp on this device would be to give people a huge ammount of choices. Not tie thier fingers like with a mac.
I’m not really a Mac fanboy, but uuuh, you can run Windows XP on a Mac. Also, you can run just about any other x86 operating system.
But if you’re going to do that just save yourself $1500 and buy a machine with the same specs minus the pretty artsy case for $500 from Dell.
It looks like the lovechild of an OQO Model 02 and a Nokia N810 (plus a cell phone.)