smart computer use?

I just like that wording. Well said. Kind of. I want to present more things like that when people inquire me about things.

The quote:

Dell’s rumored smartphone probably does exist after all. That is, if you believe the ambiguously crafted words of the company’s CEO, Michael Dell, who said that yes, Dell is kind of working on the iPhone-killer after all.

That quote (and interesting story) comes from the TG Daily.

Lot’s of hunches floating around that Dell wants to get into smartphones:

It is true that we are exploring smaller screen devices,” Dell said at a speech in Tokyo yesterday — warning that the company has yet to make an announcement. While Dell’s “smaller screen devices” may indicate a tablet PC or a netbook as well, most of us have no doubts that Dell is eyeing the smartphone market. The huge slump in the computer sector, combined with the smartphone market’s unusual resilience to the recession, gives PC makers many incentive to expand their business into the mobile phone market.

So, what’s Dell going to bring to the table in the smartphone world? Maybe not much of anything new afterall, other than more choice, is what I picked out of this little tidbit:

Taiwan-based Commercial Times reported yesterday that world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics, Hon Hai Precision Industry (also known as Foxconn), has already received orders to build Dell’s smartphone. However, it appears the actual manufacturing was probably halted as carriers rejected Dell’s phone, citing the “lack of differentiating features” as reported by Kaufman Bros analyst Shawn Wu.

Even then, if Dell can offer up a slick-working device that proves to be useful and something that people “can’t live without”, I might start to look somewhere other than my Blackberry. But until that day…

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