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Mobile News for 14 Jan, Part 2: Revival, Revision and Requirements

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In Part 2 of today’s Mobile News, we call back a mobile phone that few probably remember and bring you word of an exciting update development and offer news on a risky but potentially rewarding announcement from Verizon.

xpPhone Revived and Revised

Remember that PC OS called Windows XP? We thought you would. The Windows 7 OS replaced it. Well, it sorta did the same thing with the xpPhone – the first mobile phone that ran on Windows XP OS platform. (Yes, that’s the part few remember: the xpPhone didn’t sell quite as heavily as Microsoft would have liked.)

Well, not only has MS brought the xpPhone back into the future of the line, they’ve tweaked and redesigned it into the xpPhone2, a mobile smartphone that runs on Windows 7 – and Windows 8.

No, it won’t run on Win XP. That’s just the name of the basic line, much like the Xperia line, Galaxy line or the Lumina line by other manufacturers.

The xpPhone2 is rumoured to sport 1.6 GHz speed, an Intel Atom processor, 2GB of RAM and a slide design for both a touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard. We hope, hope, hope that the internal memory figure of 112 GB is true, true, true.

Alas, for all that power, speed and memory capacity, don’t expect the xpPhone to break miniature records, but considering the popularity of the almost-tablet mobile phones, it’s less than smallest and lightest status should be a problem.

Verizon 4G LTE Announcement

Taking a dedicated, hard line on future mobile phone qualifications, Verizon has made the bold, ambitious – and potentially risky – announcement that all its smartphones they retail must be 4G LTE-capable.

Whilst some models in its inventory obviously do not meet this requirement, Verizon has an eye on the potential upgrade and future demand horizon.

We’ll see if the market will uphold the standard or not: Usually, 4G LTE mobile phones and smartphones cost a bit more than even high-quality 3G phones, and the success of this attitude will require 4G LTE models that beat many of the front-runners.


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