Dell's entry into smartphones imminent?
updated 11:10 am EST, Wed December 5, 2007
Dell Smartphone Imminent
Dell is near the end of developing its return to the handheld market through a smartphone, according to a hint in the latest issue of Forbes. Expanding on a leak from earlier this year, the Texas PC maker is allegedly coordinating the production of a phone with the Taiwanese manufacturing firm Quanta and is drawing on the expertise of recently added executive Ron Garriques, who previously headed the mobile division at Motorola before he jumped to Dell early this year. The new phone will focus heavily on music and video playback as well as Internet access, although the report is unclear as to whether the computer builder is customizing the interface or using off-the-shelf software.
Previous reports suggested the device will be a spiritual revival of the Axim PDA phased out at the company in April. Windows Mobile 6, a variant on 3G Internet access (likely HSPA), and a full keyboard similar to RIM's BlackBerry Curve or Palm's Treo are all considered likely candidates for the device.
Although the original rumor did not suggest a release date, the new report points to a release in early 2008, roughly a year after Garriques' switchover to Dell and in time for a potential announcement at the CES technology expo in January. If launched on GSM, the unnamed phone is most likely to be carried by AT&T.
Who...
12/05, 12:08pm reply
...will buy this? It seems Dell is just pouring money down the drain...
Feynman
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three words
12/05, 12:10pm reply
DELL DJ = FAILURE
dliup
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beleaguered dell
12/05, 12:19pm reply
didn't the beleagered dell also try to jump on the apple-inspired bandwagon with music playing device some time ago?
i thought michael dell sold the company a while bakc and gave all the money back to the shareholders...
scottnichol
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phone for sure..
12/05, 12:32pm reply
Isn't this Microsoft's new telephony standard: "Phone for Sure"?
Eat them young!
Rezzz
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LOL Dull!
12/05, 12:56pm reply
SHUT IT DOWN and give the money back to its shareholders!!
jarod
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buyback...
12/05, 01:05pm reply
Given Dell's latest flailing strategy and a billion dollar buyback of shares, the vision of this phone emerging is not so much that of Excalibur in the hand of the Lady of the Lake but as a something clutched in the rotting fetid hand of a moulding corpse shoved upwards through a pile of steaming sh*t!!! ...or have I overstated things a bit?
Feathers
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three words
12/05, 02:30pm reply
Dell Axim = Success, genius
gitcypher
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That Reminds Me
12/05, 10:24pm reply
Of the new Dell "All-in-One" commercials. The songs says it should be pretty, but it's ugly as a pile of dung; hard-edges at odd oblique angles, akin to today's annoying styling in the cadillac, not to mention colors of greenish-gray that look like the ugly colors of the lasxt 7 years for them.
That's anything but pretty, and if they work on a handset by the same graphic-designer(s), it's like we all said- a flop from the outset.
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