Dell's Android smartphone gets pictured

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Leave it up to our team of global ninjas — we’ve just got a shot of what we’re told will be one of Dell’s Android devices coming later this year. Yes, you heard that right — multiple handsets coming from Dell. It’s been rumored for a while, but we’re able to confidently report Dell is looking to introduce both 2G and 3G model devices in the near future. We don’t have any hard specs or even a name for the device pictured above, but we are able to report one thing: that UI is worse than Samsung’s TouchWiz interface cross-bred with a sea mammal.

Thanks, Daddy G.!

20 Comments
  • gquaglia

    Dell is garbage. We use them at work and just about all them have needed hardware service with in only months of purchase. I’m sure their first phone will be just as big a POS as their computer hardware.

  • grrr

    too much color. _ _ _ _!?!

  • 5th

    3rd

    bring in the Tour Bitchez!!!

  • Don’t-hate

    Dell is lame.

  • Gauntlet Down

    So much for Dell buying Palm.

  • alen

    strange, most of the Dell PC’s i’ve come across seem to last for years. i’m giving a 5 year old Inspiron 6000 laptop to my inlaws next week.

    i have a conspiracy theory after Apple announced Exchange 2007 support for Snow Leopard that MS is angry with their “partners” and that Apple and MS have a secret deal to work together on some things. I think this helps my case. Dell and HP are now using Android to compete with MS, so MS is helping Apple steal Dell and HP’s most profitable customers with a MBP who’s pricing is no in line with the higher end Dell and HP offerings

  • alen

    and with a $99 iPhone on the market, this baby better be free with 2 year contract if they hope to compete with Apple

  • kenny817

    @ grrr

    Pick me pick me! I can fill in the blanks!!!

    *raises hand*

  • jeff

    when was the last time Dell made anything you wanted?

  • coryB

    It looks freakin Ginourmous

  • Abhishek

    If I get high and I have that phone, I think I can keep myself pre-occupied for the next few hours.

  • AgBand

    @alen:

    You’re joking right? To quote Billy Madison, “At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.”

  • FlamingSkullAfire

    Nothing can be worse than Verizons UI, and i’ll take this UI over anything Verizon has to offer any day!

  • celz

    dell makes some good comps we have a few and they held up.. and the axim is what 3 or 4 years old and more powerful than any smartphone ever released on us soil.. i think dell getting in the mix is a good idea if they pick up at the axim because thats still ahead of what u can buy today

  • semicoln

    Dude, maybe I will get a Dell. The US is desperate for more Android based phones. And pleeease release it on something other than Tmobile.

  • gadgetchic

    is that ui assessment based on actual usage or the picture?

  • http://twitter.com/mellenger Andrew

    I don’t think Apple and Microsoft have a secret arrangement or anything. I think Apple made a deal with MS to license ActiveSync for OSX on the iPhone.

    They worked out the kinks on the iPhone and are now rolling some of the functionality up to the Intel version of OSX. Parts of Quicktime X are from the iPhone OS codebase as well.

    I think most manufacturers have seen the error of locking yourself into one vendor over the last 5 years or so. Apple with IBM for processors and now Dell with Microsoft OS’s.

  • Thomas

    FTFA: “that UI is worse than Samsung’s TouchWiz interface cross-bred with a sea mammal.”

    It is almost identical to an iphone’s “home” screen. What about this UI makes it so bad in your opinion that isn’t also bad on the iphone?

  • Intosh

    If you had to service all your Dell computers after only a few months of use, then you should probably question the users. Maybe they have no idea how to properly use a computer. Seriously, the company I work for and numerous Fortune 500 companies have been using millions of Dell for years. If Dell computers were so bad, they would have been long gone from the corporate market. I mean come on, remove your dorky hater’s hat and be serious a bit here…

  • Taipan

    If Dell Equipment had all the issues you wrote about I am sure your company would have turned them in unless of course they are a company that just turns the other cheek. Let them buy Apple next time.

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