Yesterday, I was talking about a rumour, today I can tell you it’s a fact, there’s a dell smartphone in the works! This has been rumoured since Dell released the Dell Axim X5, someone said there’d be an X7 converged device, and we were off to the speculation races.

Lot’s of Windows mobile users are affectionate about the Dell Axim, whatever the designation, because they were the most powerful PDA’s for their time, HP were running second best at the time, and Palm had been superseded. 

When Dell stopped support for the Axim in 2007 [Wow! two years ago] the user4 mourning created a wailing wall across many user support sites. Even JAMM grew out of a bunch of Dell axim users networking and getting together!

So when the supposed deity, Michael Dell says yes, we are actually working on a smartphone, it’s big news, or is it!

Michael Dell has reportedly confirmed that his company is developing a smartphone, though he didn’t divulge when this will be available.

The CEO of Dell is on a business trip through Asia, and when speaking in Tokyo said "It is true that we are exploring smaller-screen devices."

He went on to say:

For the last three years, we have integrated 3G radios into our notebooks. We already have agreements with many mobile carriers around netbook devices, so it wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect that we would have smaller mobile Internet devices or smartphones in the future.

When speaking in Taipei, Michael Dell reportedly went even further, stating that his company’s first smartphones are meeting internal deadlines, and are not delayed, as has been reported earlier.

Considering the fact that the Axim was a HTC built device, and the latest released devices from HTC, what will dictate the necessary specifications for a Dell smartphone, to make it attractive to carriers, let alone users?

The Axim x51v was Dell’s premier PDA, a 624 MHz processor and 64 Mb of ram, which two  years later seems a little lacking for a Windows Mobile device. It’s been widely reported that the offering from Dell has been widely rejected by carriers, and some personal conjecture on that is, they don’t have a decent manufacturer tied down.

With HTC’s incredible power up, and by that I mean, at least a 520 MHz processor and 256 Mb of RAM, and that’s the base level for current devices. We are seeing devices with 800 MHz and I Gb processors, from various manufacturers!

It begs the question, where is the Dell phone coming from and will  it be competitive?

Who’s gonna make it?

And will it be competitive in today’s market?

Via Brighthand

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