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AT&T's first Android phone: A Dell?

By Tim Conneally | Published October 7, 2009, 3:30 PM

Dell has smartphones on the way, but it's not talking about them yet.

In fact, the first Android-powered smartphone on AT&T's network could be coming from Dell, according to reports Wednesday afternoon.

Citing unnamed "people briefed on the plans," The Wall Street Journal today claimed that Dell will have a smartphone on AT&T as early as 2010.

In September, a 3.5" touchscreen Dell smartphone known as the "Mini 3i" was shown running Open Mobile System (OMS), an Android-based operating system central to China Mobile's "OPhone" platform. That platform thus far has been supported by Lenovo and HTC subsidiary Dopod, with many more to come.

The smartphone that Dell is saying is not really its Mini 3i, at least not yet.

The Texas PC company, however, has thus far been hesitant to discuss its movement in the Chinese mobile sector, even though China Mobile has highlighted Dell's participation in the Android-based OPhone project several times.

Dell declined comment today to Betanews and others on its plans for smartphone distribution, domestically or otherwise.

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Rafafanck
Oct 8, 2009 - 5:55 PM

did you see that lots of new phones, are coming like iphone: with lots of colored icons, and touch screen, it seems like one of those china fake copies of the iphone

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Bogunch
Oct 8, 2009 - 12:27 PM

Slow news day?

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bousozoku
Oct 8, 2009 - 10:48 AM

You have to wonder if it will be as successful as their music player line was. Dell and AT&T seem well-suited for each other.

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