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Now Accepting Orders For The xpPhoneNow Accepting Orders For The xpPhone
This phone has been a long time in the works and now it is available for preorder, though they still have no price for it. The selling point of this phone is that it doesn't run a mobile phone operating system, but rather a full blown version of Windows XP. Think of it as an OQO, but smaller and with phone hardwire built in. A good idea at one time, does this phone still make sense today?
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This phone has been a long time in the works and now it is available for preorder, though they still have no price for it. The selling point of this phone is that it doesn't run a mobile phone operating system, but rather a full blown version of Windows XP. Think of it as an OQO, but smaller and with phone hardwire built in. A good idea at one time, does this phone still make sense today?The specs are impressive. They include:
AMD Super Mobile CPU - after a little bit of time on Google, I still don't know exactly what that is
512MB-1GB of RAM
Solid State Drive in 8/16/32 or 64GB sizes
Hard Disk Drive in 30/60/80 or 120 GB sizes. By the way, you get both the SSD and HDD, presumably to optimize power savings, performance and storage capacities
800x480 screen
GSM radios - GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA/HSDPA/HSUPA
CDMA radios - CMDA/CDMA2000/1xRTT/EVDO/TD-SCDMA/TD-HSDPA
Wifi 802.11b/g - WiMax available
Bluetooth
GPS
Talk time of 5 hours
Operating of 7-12 hrs depending on usage
I would have to use it to see how usable it is. I've seen XP slow to a crawl on 512MB of RAM and get sluggish on 1GB if a lot was loaded. You don't want your machine freezing on you when a call comes in as it has to dump some program to the cache to free up RAM to take a call. Hopefully they have optimized such critical features to be in RAM all of the time.
Boot time as well as suspend and resume could be an issue too. Mobile operating systems live in RAM and work from onboard flash ROM. Once they boot - and that can take a long time for some devices - they are instant on after that. Desktop operating systems are usually much slower to wake up. Windows 7 is supposed to improve this on SSDs quite a bit, but XP? SSD's weren't even a consideration when it was written nearly 10 years ago.
You can read more about it and see some images at Pocketables.net. Do think the time is right for a device like this, or has that time already passed?
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