ITG’s Fabled xpPhone on Sale Now

Posted 11/20/2010 at 4:19pm | by Justin Kerr

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It’s been almost two years since ITG first started teasing us with spy shots of the xpPhone, and the landscape its facing today is a drastically different place. Windows 7 has hit on the desktop end, and Windows Phone 7 is finally showing up Apple users everywhere. Despite all the changes however the inner geek in me is very interested by what I’m seeing.

Featuring a full QWERTY keyboard (arrows and all) this 4.8 inch device has a spec sheet that reads more like a list of things Steve Jobs would never put on a phone than an official press release. USB, VGA, and GPS all come standard on either the 8 or 16GB editions all powered by an AMD CPU. It’s quite a bit of hardware under the hood, but it comes with a pretty steep price tag as well.  The 8GB version will run you $798, with a DOS only version for the cheapskates priced at $666.

I’m not sure I really want Windows XP on my phone, or DOS for that matter, but it certainly would be fun to play around with for a few days. Anyone out there interested?