If this pans out, why would anyone want a Windows Mobile Phone?

A Chinese company showed what it calls the world's first mobile phone to run Windows XP at the Computex exhibition in Taipei on Friday. The xpPhone can wake Windows from standby mode to receive calls and text messages. It has a battery life of seven hours when not in standby mode, and with a larger battery it can run for 12 hours.

That's pretty decent battery life, and it's an OS that everyone is familiar with. Maybe MS should run with the idea of having mobile devices run a previous version of Windows instead of a more specialized OS.

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