A Chinese firm is touting a smartphone based on Windows XP and running an AMD Geode processor at its core, but whether it can deliver on all of the promises remains to be seen.

In Technology Group Limited calls its creation the "xpPhone," and while the artistic rendering of the 4.8-inch screen shows the familiar Windows XP landscape, most of the UI is in fact quite custom and very different from a typical phone or any XP app you may have seen.

In Technology Group using what it calls an "AMD Super Mobile CPU" and what AMD (NYSE: AMD) calls a Geode XL, the same chip used in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program. It will have up to 1GB of RAM, up to a 64GB SSD or a 120GB HDD for storage.

The TFT LCD screen is touch-capable, something XP doesn't do naturally. It will support the two most widely-used cellular networks in the world, GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA and CDMA/CDMA2000, plus it will have Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, WiMax optional, Bluetooth and stand-alone GPS. It has a 1.3 megapixel camera, one USB slot, one SIM slot for a memory card and a removable Lithium-ion battery that supports five hours of talk time or seven hours of stand-by time.

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