xpPhone runs Windows XP, gets costumed as a MID

by Darren Murph posted Jun 5th 2009 at 3:04PM

You see, the name "xpPhone" is rather disingenuous here. At first glance, you may assume that you're about to discover what's likely the planet's first cellular telephone to run a full-fledged version of Windows XP. Sadly, we've got to slot the device shown above squarely into the MID category -- GSM support be darned. Still, we can't help but applaud the engineering efforts; after all, this thing somehow packs an AMD CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 64GB SSD, 4.8-inch 800 x 480 touchpanel, WiFi, various cell radios, a 1.3 megapixel camera and a battery good for five solid hours of use into a device barely larger than the average, yawn-inducing MID found in every last corner of Computex. In fact, it's so impressive that we're beginning to question its authenticity as a real, working product. Much like the number of licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop, the world may never know.

Filed under: Handsets, Others

Tags: AMD, computex, computex 2009, Computex2009, MID, phone, smartphone, windows xp, windows xp phone, WindowsXp, WindowsXpPhone, xpphone

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carcomptoy @ Jun 5th 2009 4:18PM

Is that just a Vista skin then or is it maybe running Windows Vista?

The build quality doesn't seem to be so great, but I would definitely spring for one of these in the future. I'd like to see some comparison shots to see how big it actually is...

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