Rumors have been swirling about a Dell smartphone for what feels like an eternity. Sure, the Round Rock crew managed to launch a smartie over in China at the end of the summer, but until last week, a US-bound device was still more vaporware than fact…until now.
According to TechPulse 360, two nights ago, Mr. Michael Dell himself confirmed that the heretofore custom computer manufacturer does indeed have plans to launch an Android-powered smartphone here in the United States in 2010.
As for concrete details regarding features, hardware specs, pricing, or availability (besides Android and a touch screen)…yea, there was none of that. But, at least now we’ve got confirmation straight from the horse’s boss’ mouth.
I don’t think he said “An Android Smartphone”… he just said “A Smartphone” and people are assuming it is the AT&T bound Android Mini 3i.
While I assume it is as well… kinda surprised the news that Dell will launch some sort of smartphone in 2010 has blown up as much as it has on the interwebz
I saw what looks like it might have been this phone running Flash on Android at the Adobe MAX 2009 convention and it was FAST, SUPER FAST!!!
I just know when this comes out you can look for my iCrap on ebay.
*The reason I’m not sure is because at the key note the speaker had the body of the phone covered up with masking tape and said that he could not yet say the maker. But the body shape was VERY similar to what is in this image.
I’ve been waiting 3 long years for something to trump my iCrap so I’m hoping in 2010 this will be it.
I’m reminded of my Dell DJ20… I Hate My DJ20, but I’m glad I didn’t pay money for it. As a company Dell has historically fallen short on genuine innovation, before someone mentions Alienware, they bought/butchered alienware to improve Dell’s name in the innovation market. I mean we are talking about a company whose business strategy was, we let the others develop new technology and then just copy it so we don’t have to spend money on R&D. They were actually proud of this point.