Forget Android, Symbian or iPhone OS. Now run XP on your phone!

Suprised?
While developers are going ga-ga over building newer and efficient operating systems for the mobile clan, ITG, a Chinese technology company has managed to build an actual mobile phone which runs a full featured Windows XP! Now that looks funny! No, its for real!

Now, there seems to be some upside-down matters. The biggies like Google, Apple and Symbian foundation are trying real hard to improve the software to co-operate with mobile technology just to function as if it were a desktop.
But ITG, on the other hand is going ground-up and building ground-breaking hardware to let desktop OS to be run on the regular mobile handsets.
The newbie set to rock is dubbed the xpPhone. No prizes for guessing why! The xpPhone features a large 4.8" touch-screen with a resolution of 800x480 and has a full QWERTY keyboard. With a dizzying array of features, such as dual SSD and standard HDD, VGA output at full HD resolutions (1920x1080), USB port for connecting peripherals, 3G connectivity, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, camera, and more!
Other things on the phone are its optimization for being, well, a mobile device. The phone can be configured to wake from stand-by to receive a call. There's even an option that can let you restore the factory system image or the one created by he user at every restart so that your system remains good always.
On the software side, there's no point in telling you the features, as there's nothing that'll keep you limited if its running a whole desktop OS such as XP.

But the only thing to worry about is the overall weight of the device getting around to 400gm! Consider that in your pocket. You may need a "phone-proof" pocket!

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Here are some of the specifications of the device:

• CPU: AMD Super Mobile CPU
• Memory:512M/1G
• SSD: 8G/16G/32G/64G
• HDD:30G/60G/80G/120G
• LCD: 4.8' TFT Touch-screen LCD 800*480
• Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP
• Network:
  • GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA (HSDPA/HSUPA)
  • CDMA/CDMA2000 1X/CDMA1X EVDO,TD-SCDMA,TD-HSDPA
• Wireless:WiFi 802.11b/g,WiMax(optional),Buletooth,Stand-alone GPS
• Camera Specifications:CMOS, 300k/1.3 Million
• Ports:1 x earphone jack,1 x microphone jack,Docking Connector (include VGA output signal ),1 x USB 2.0, SIM Slot
• Power Management:
  • Battery: Removable Lithium-ion
  • Talk time: about 5 hours,Stand by time: about 5 days
  • Real life: about 7 hours(Standard), about 12 hours(Large)
  • Talk time,Standby time,Operation time may vary depending different usage.
• Weight: 400g (include battery)

Visit the manufacturers website for more details.

Source: ThinkDigit.com -http://www.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-and-PDAs/Move-over-Android-Symbian-iPhone-OS-we_3447.html

Samsung announces 1GHz processor "Hummingbird"

Source: CNET News

Samsung and Intrinsity jointly announced on Monday one of the fastest processors to date likely to be aimed at devices such as the Apple iPhone.
The new 1GHz chip co-developed by Austin, Texas-based Intrinsity and Samsung is similar to the processor that powers the current iPhone 3GS which is a 600MHz Samsunf processor based on the ARM Cortex A8 design.
The new Samsung chip is code-named "HUMMINGBIRD".
"Hummingbird," could be bound for a future iPhone or like device. "Yes, I think it's possible," said Tom R. Halfhill, senior analyst at the Microprocessor Report.

"Samsung could drop Hummingbird into the existing S5PC100 design with few or no changes," Halfhill said in response to an e-mail query, referring to the S5PC100 processor now used in the iPhone 3GS. "Bingo! A next-gen iPhone that could run at speeds up to 1.0GHz," he said.

Halfhill added that Samsung will likely use Hummingbird for future smartphones and discussed Hummingbird at length in an article that appeared Monday in the Microprocessor Report, where he also addressed the possibility of the chip making its way into a future Apple device.

Increasingly sophisticated smartphones will demand faster processors, according to Halfhill. One way to get there is cranking up the chip's speed--referred to as "clock speed"--something that ARM has not emphasized in the past because its designs, to date, have been all about power efficiency not about high-performance.

But that is changing. "The biggest challenge in mobile processor core design and implementation is to achieve high clock speed performance while keeping the power consumption low," said Jae Cheol Son, vice president, SOC Platform Development, System LSI Division, Samsung Electronics, in a statement.

According to market researcher Forward Concepts, the ARM's Cortex-A family could account for about half of the total market for mobile application processors by 2013. The main processor in a smartphone is called an application processor.

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