ITG's xpPhone gets options for larger screen and Windows 7, loses sense of identity
By Paul Miller 
posted Nov 14th 2009 10:48PM
posted Nov 14th 2009 10:48PM
It makes sense to release your mostly-theoretical (so far, anyway) desktop OS-based slider handset with the world's newest and best version of Windows, but when your slider handset is dubbed "xpPhone" things become a bit more muddled. But that's the word from Pocketables, who's been in touch with ITG and learned that the MID / phone will not only ship with a Windows 7 option, but also be available in 4.3-inch, 4.8-inch and 7-inch screen sizes. There's also rumors of price ranging from $500 to $700, but what we'd really like at this point is a bit of a demo of this thing in action -- especially now that there's a similar ViewSonic-branded device breathing down its neck.
This is not the phone you're looking for
it'd be pretty entertaining seeing a person talking on a 7" panel
way to go, ITG :)
This phone is so good because it's thoroughly configurable! Nice!
This phone is gay. Until they're able to squeeze an atom processor in there with decent battery life, this thing is pointless and will fail miserably.
This isn't the Droid you're looking for.
Yes indeed, this phone wants nothing more but to have sex with other phones of its kind.
An xpPhone running Windows 7 is probably preferable to a MePhone running Vista, though.
I lol'd a little!
If it's less than ViewSonic's $800 VPC08, then this phone doesn't have to worry about any weird directional-breathing issues.
This thing has "piece of crap" written all over it.
Great review. You should get a pulitzer for your in depth analysis.
Thanks!! I hope I do. I guess after Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize anything is possible
*douche alert*
Absolutely, shootingblanks! With your imagination *does hand gesture* absolutely anything is possible!
this is good if it provided VGA out..can use it as mobile desktop!
Sure it has. VGA output supporting up to 1920x1200, AMD CPU, 1 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD or 120 GB HDD, USB 2.0, BT, GPS, WiFi, WiMax, ...
I love it. So, how many apps does the iPhone have?
if this thing is for real (which i highly doubt) it COULD be awesome. Plus the fun of getting made fun of when you hold a 7" MID to your head to answer a phone call (which i would TOTALLY do)
I am glad I am not the only person alive who things a giant 7 inch screen device would make a perfect phone.
True. I remember the fun I got made of when I used my Motorola A925 smartphone (dubbed "phone booth"), and the conversations that started due to that ginormous phone. My Magic is not even close to being such a conversation starter (plus the fun of listening someone invent the nickname "phone booth", thinking they did something original there). But why not use, like, typical netbook innards?
Netbook Innards use too much power. Battery life would be sheisse. now, if these "smartbooks" can really do all they claim they can...
how strong the window7 is, throng so much business.
If it gets wifi, you could get it without any plan, provided you hang around a lot of wifi hotspots (which i do, being on a college campus). Then, you could set it up with VOIP for 3 bucks a month and save a few wads.
Just about any smartphone has wifi, and most have VOIP apps.
so is this phone gonna have all kinds of versions? starter, home, premium, professional, ultimate, x64..................
It's not losing it's sense of identity, just diversifying. I might have to keep an eye on this thing.
Why have a phone with computer capability when I can have a netbook type device with phone capability.
Finally! An iPhone killer! :P
Yeah, you can totally smash the iPhone with this 400g beast.
when ? and which config ? & price
Honestly, its just kind of awesome to see portable devices get so powerful we're running desktop operating systems on them.
The 7" version will be used on the next season of Trigger Happy TV. "HELLO?! I'M ON THE SUBWAY!"
The site says it supports 4G and 5G. I call bullshit.
"The patented technology of In Technology supports all three 3G standards: HSDPA, EVDO, TD-SCDMA with one machine and supports full internet experience and voice and data communication anytime and anywhere. And it supports 4G! 5G!"
http://www.xpphone.com/en/yingyong/advantages.html
That's because the phone part is exchangeable. So as technology progresses you can swap it.
think i'll wait for 8G. think by then this phone might have the hardware to do any real work on it.
Myself, I'll wait until it's OVER 9G!!!
This is great, imo phones with desktop OSes are the future, now we only need a good high resolution video output and compatibility with PC keyboards and mice. This will be a reality in 10 years, everybody will be able to carry their PCs in their pocket.
What we call smartphones today are close to having the computing power and memory of desktop devices from 10 years ago. The Xp-phone is more like the computing power of 5 years ago.
If people are carrying around smartphones with the processing power of an i7 processor (without burning your ear) in 10 years, then think about what the desktop computers will be capable of?
The only downside I can see is NO MICROSD PORT
That and an accelerometer between the fact that I haven't seen anything about one on anything that I've read about it and the fact that it has a button on the phone UI for switching between portrait and landscape mode I'd say we're probably not going to see one in there
Put Linux on it and I'm there.
The Nokia N900 will be for you then. It's smaller and probably a lot more battery efficient too.
But you can't beat having real Windows on a phone :D
Oh, I'm definitely interested in the N900; but I use my N810 for programming, and I like some unusual languages (e.g., Haskell), which often don't support ARM. The thought of having an x86 in my pocket is extremely attractive—though the battery life would probably rule it out. And, geez, that keyboard is ugly. Who decided to put Enter further from the letters than PgUp and PgDn?
(For those who are about to be helpful: yes, I know I can run Haskell on ARM. On my N810, I have hugs, an interpreter; but I'd rather have ghc, a compiler. Similarly, for Common Lisp, I have clisp, but I'd rather have sbcl; for SML, I have mosml, but I'd rather have smlnj. And then there are some languages which just aren't available, such as Dylan.)
Isnt a 7" slider phone running windows xp just a netbook with a data plan?
Yes it is.
But the smaller two versions are Netphones.
Well, atleast this comment is inline with the article. Both are useless...
I am genuinely excited for this!
We love xpphone so much ,we are xpphone fans.
xpphone The world first breakthrough Mobile Phone, GPS, Notebook Pc
xpphone Three-in-one pocketable mobile terminal
http://www.xpphone.com/en/ (Xpphone Website)
http://forum.xpphone.com/ (Xpphone Global Forum