Posted by: kurtsh | December 11, 2006

NEWS: Samsung’s Windows XP Professional Cellphone

Look at this:


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15607130/

We at Microsoft talked about this in the middle of this year.  A cellphone acting as a person’s mobile computer.  Lower end versions simply connecting to TVs and leveraging Bluetooth keyboards as input devices.

But this is CRAZY:  Thee Samsung MIT (Samsung calls all it’s devices "MITs" for some reason) cellphone does voice & video calls, contains WiMAX networking, x86 CPU, Windows XP Professional, weighs about a pound and contains a fold-out keyboard, 5-inch screen and 30 gigabyte hard drive. Again, just in case you didn’t read that last line, did I mention it runs the full version of Windows XP and also supports the CDMA cellular networking – the same stuff in use by Verizon & Sprint?   (And South Korea & China… did you hear that you European GSM drum beaters?  Not everyone in the world lives in GSM land!)

Bad news:  Not available in the US.  Yet.

Good news:  This phone looks remarkably like the Samsung i600 which was the highest selling Windows Mobile Smartphone for CDMA networks prior to the Motorola Q releasing.  A US release would be undoubtedly predicated on the adoption of WiMAX by cellular vendors.


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