Michael Dell Claims to be Working on an iPhone Killer: We'll Believe It When We See It

Posted 03/25/2009 at 7:31am | by Paul Lilly

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While giving a speech in Tokyo this week, Dell CEO Michael Dell admitted the OEM is "exploring smaller screen devices," leading to speculation that the company really is developing a smartphone. Of course, smaller screen devices could also refer to netbooks or any number of non-smartphone items, but where's the fun in that?

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

Based on those comments, it's almost as if Dell wants to give notice that the rumors are true, but stop just shy of making a formal announcement. And citing Taiwan-based Commercial Times, news site TGDaily reports a Dell-developed smarthphone almost entered the manufacturing phase before ultimately being rejected from lack of carrier interest.

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