{"id":195727,"date":"2010-01-18T14:30:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=25006"},"modified":"2010-01-18T14:30:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:30:18","slug":"the-itg-xpphone-gets-officially-priced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/195727","title":{"rendered":"The ITG xpPhone gets officially priced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Screen-shot-2010-01-18-at-January-18-11.16.25-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2010-01-18 at [ January 18 ] 11.16.25 AM\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-01-18 at [ January 18 ] 11.16.25 AM\" width=\"505\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25007\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Its only been around 8 months since the xpPhone &#8212; a phone which, as the name implies, runs Windows XP &#8212; made its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2009\/05\/29\/from-the-good-name-department-itg-xpphone\/\">online debut<\/a>, but its already caused quite the rift between the mega-geeks. One camp seems to think its the coolest thing since air-conditioned underpants; the other seems to think it&#8217;s a big pile of nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout all of this dweeby disputing, one important item remained a mystery: the price. Consider that mystery solved.<\/p>\n<p>Various elements of the phone (color, Windows XP\/Windows 7, etc) are customizable, so the price varies a bit. But according to the manufacturer, the phone will always come in somewhere between 2999 and 4500 Chinese RMB; on this side of the pond, that works out to 400-650 bucks. <\/p>\n<p>What say you, dear reader? Would you drop right around 500 bucks for a brick-sized handset that runs Windows XP?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Crunch Network<\/em><\/strong>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\">TechCrunch<\/a><em> <\/em>obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/JioiJ4QA6KbkPHI6MtEDXj0MGEE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/JioiJ4QA6KbkPHI6MtEDXj0MGEE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/JioiJ4QA6KbkPHI6MtEDXj0MGEE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/JioiJ4QA6KbkPHI6MtEDXj0MGEE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=gOCzrqQimPY:-DzruHaCYq8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=gOCzrqQimPY:-DzruHaCYq8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=gOCzrqQimPY:-DzruHaCYq8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=gOCzrqQimPY:-DzruHaCYq8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=gOCzrqQimPY:-DzruHaCYq8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its only been around 8 months since the xpPhone &#8212; a phone which, as the name implies, runs Windows XP &#8212; made its online debut, but its already caused quite the rift between the mega-geeks. One camp seems to think its the coolest thing since air-conditioned underpants; the other seems to think it&#8217;s a big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}