AT&T bringing in Dell smartphone?

This past summer, one of the biggest rumors was that of a Dell smartphone powered by Android. There were blurred shots of the device and a lot of people got excited about the company’s first foray in the smartphone market. Then we found out that the Dell Mini 3i was indeed an Android powered smartphone, but it lacked several features (like Wi-Fi) and was only coming to China. Now it looks like Dell might actually be entering the American smartphone market.

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the computer manufacturing giant is getting set to release a smartphone through AT&T. The report states that Dell would in fact be producing an Android smartphone for the carrier. The two companies, however, are saying nothing of the possible deal. AT&T is saying, however, that it plans on carrying Android phones in the future. Dell is only stating that its dedicated to it’s “operator partners around the world to deliver mobile broadband enabled computing devices.”

Being now the only major US carrier that doesn’t have an Android phone at least announced, AT&T is waiting for some sort of phone from Dell wouldn’t be all that surprising. Dell obviously knows how to make cheap PCs that people want to buy on an OS that is familiar to them. With the seemingly large number of Android smartphones coming, it’s possible that the same could happen with smartphones. Surely not everyone with a smartphone on AT&T wants an iPhone. There has to be some people who prefer the carrier over Verizon, Sprint, or T-Mobile for some reason, and for another reason hates Apple. However misguided those people may or may not be, they deserve a choice of a somewhat popular, open source OS from Dell and AT&T.

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