The ITG xpPhone, recently seen online at GSM Arena, is now available for preorder.

For those of you unaware of the impressive mobile phone handset, it is a very powerful little device that looks a lot more like a tablet than a phone; it is superbly slim with an attractive design and a keyboard that, frankly, you would never know was there.

It has a very impressive 4.8 inch touch screen, the full QWERTY keyboard gives a new meaning to “full keyboard” as it features a number pad, the option of 512MB or 1GB RAM and allows for both HDD and SSD storage.

ITG is a China based manufacturer, and although some people have labelled this latest product yet another iPhone rip off, I beg to differ. It is a powerful device far out of the league of even a high end smartphone, and in terms of sheer power it may as well be a miniature netbook – and one of the more impressive ones, at that.

Included with the phone is the option of a HDD ranging in size from 30GB to 120GB, it boasts a USB port as well as VGA. It also has an inbuilt camera, although only 1.3 mega pixels; but really, no one uses there netbook for taking photos.

It also features GPS, a small track pad for a true netbook feel and both a left and right mouse button. Naturally it supports Wi Fi and sports its own inbuilt 3G modem, as well as an option for Bluetooth connectivity.

It is without a doubt the most innovative and user friendly mobile phone to come out of China this year – to the extent that were it made by a larger US based company it would have unlimited potential in both the mobile phone and netbook markets.