Dell makes Aero official, $99 on AT&T

By on Aug 24, 2010 at 1:15 PM
General August 24, 2010

Today, Dell announced that their Aero Android handset would be available on U.S. wireless carrier AT&T for $99 with a two-year contract; $299 contract-free. The device has a 3.5-inch multitouch display, 624 MHz processor, quad-band GSM, tri-band UMTS/HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, micro-SD card slot (expandable to 32 GB), 1000 mAh battery, 5 megapixel camera with flash… and Android 1.5. The Aero has a pretty attractive spec sheet for a $99 handset, aside from the nearly two year old OS. Thoughts?

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  • JJFNIGHTS80

    Yet another ugly ass phone since the Backflip. I’m not going to upgrade I’ll wait till my contract is over if AT&T DON’T GET MORE 1GHZ SnapDragon phones. I’m getting sick of you AT&T. Plus the X10 have 1.6v is why I’m not getting it. N I don’t want the Captivate either

  • Jason

    It’s 1.5 because the don’t want it upstaging their premier Dell Streak running…1.6. I agree this is just a ploy by Dell to sell whats hot. I am not an android user, but this is an insult to the smartphone community. Why anyone would buy this with the quality options being offered by HTC and Samsung (forget Moto, with all the upgrade problems they’re having) is a mystery to me.

    • Topher86

      Because the average consumer knows the difference?

  • GN

    I agree also….im stuck with AT&T for another year or so. I don’t understand myself, why other providers are getting all the high end phones, while AT&T sits back, and collects royalty off the Iphone. If they are going to lose the Iphone contract to another provider soon, I think they might be a day late and dollar short, come time to earn more trust from the consumers, waiting too late to pick up high end phones…(not just windows) based..

  • GN

    Im trying to block out of my mind, that this THING, would even launch with anything less the 2.1 also….that goes for the ‘streak’ as well….give me patience…”please”

  • Joe B.

    Androids are great phones just not on AT&T. Their specs/functionality are so gimped on their network. Are they purposely making them shitty as to not offend their god Steve Jobs? 1.5 being loaded on a “New” Android release is epic fail.

  • zack

    I think it’s funny that people still rant about how there is no Android fragmentation.

    And while I’m on the subject, can OEMs PLEASE stop skinning the damn OS? I hate it that hardware companies feel competent enough to skin and change an operating system from a world class software company. It causes fragmentation and can often make Android far uglier.

    Android is great but being open really hurts it in my opinion.

  • http://www.twitter.com/eranevenkesef Eran Even-Kesef

    ho hum

  • Droid does

    not impress

  • Arun Kapur

    What was Dell thinking when they designed this thing? It sounds like RIM with the Torch all over again.

  • 4GFan82

    Sad to say, but I see it being offered on Amazon for a penny like on day 1 of its release or is already out? Who cares, AT&T’s coverage is such total crap, regardless of which OS version of Android it is running, can you make, receive, and maintain signal long enough to finish a phone call longer than 5 minutes?

  • 4GFan82

    …hate if you will, 97% of Americans may be covered, but a majority are covered in a technology known as Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution, a.k.a. EDGE! Hello 2004? But it looks like a nice phone, though. Nice to see Dell jump in the Android game. Hope they don’t play the GSM support in the US game like Nokia… Even though CDMA isn’t the standard, it’s got the largest foot print here in the US. If you wanna make it, gotta go GSM and CDMA. Just ask RIM, Samsung, and HTC. They’ll tell ya.

  • strider_mt2k

    The innards are also 2 years old.

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