Monday, March 2, 2009

XPhone: chinese iPhone clone based on Android.

In the market appears more and more phones with touch screen and in the near future should appear even more. It is no wonder that they often happen are similar outwardly and in respect of functionality. Moreover, if to consider them from the point of view iPhone, all of them can seem its copies. Despite it, phones continue to make, and manufacturers try to equip with functions on which their devices will be possible to be differed from other. And the Chinese company Yuhua has decided to present the phone. The device under name Xphone will work on Android operating system. At the first sight the novelty bears a strong resemblance with General Mobile DSTL1 phone which has been shown on the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona one week ago. Xphone is equipped with:
  • Marvell PXA-310 processor with frequency of 624 megahertz,
  • the 128 mbytes RAM,
  • 256 mbytes the built-in memory,
  • slot for microSD cards(cards up to 16 gigabytes are supported),
  • WiFi 802.11b/g and Bluetooth 2.0.
The novelty works in three ranges GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz), GPRS/EDGE. The 3-inch display of phone has a resolution 240×400 pixels. Phone have the 3-megapixel camera, but flash is not installed. Also it is necessary to mark presence of a functional media player ( play back H.264, 3GPP, MPEG4 , 3GP files ), and also a web browser with HTTP, WAP Push, xHTML, SMS, MMS. The 1000 mA/h battery enters into a delivery package. Work time in various modes is not disclosed. The manufacturer not speaks about the price of the device and date of its appearance on sale.