ITG xpPhone 2 to get some Windows 8 love, starts living large in January

Let’s be honest: with the dimensions of a brick and a comparatively short battery life, it’s no surprise that ITG’s xpPhone hasn’t quite dominated the smartphone market since its launch back in November. Actually, we have not even seen one within the wild, and we certainly don’t have missed it if there ever was one in the street. That said, ITG hasn’t given up, because the company’s just announced its second-generation Windows-powered smartphone. The rationale? Well, interestingly enough, ITG prefers Windows’ greater range of compatible software in comparison with those of mobile OSes, namely Android and iOS. Let’s just leave it at that for now.

Simply dubbed the xpPhone 2, this beast of a QWERTY slider packs a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 chip, in addition to 2GB RAM, as much as 112GB of SSD storage, 4.3-inch display and compatibility with both Windows 7 and Windows 8 — obviously the latter OS depends on its final release date. Not just has battery life been bumped as much as around 18 hours of call time or 46 days on standby, however the phone’s also been slimmed all the way down to 140mm x 73mm x 17.5mm, that is a big improvement in comparison to its bulky predecessor. With the touch-friendly Windows 8 on board in addition to a non-underclocked CPU, we now have a sense that the xpPhone 2 will at the least fare a lot better than Fujitsu’s F-07C ; as for the remaining, we will see when it comes out in January next year. And no, it probably won’t run Crysis.

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