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[abatis]

We have very old news around MGN that Dell was going to venture into a Pocket PC Phone Handset similar to HP offerings. Never happened. Apple joined the phone crowd with their dumb-downed smartphone announcement, now Dell follows the herd.

(Digitimes -March 3) Dell plans to venture into the handset industry and will initially target the PDA phone segment that will position the company to compete with rivals such as Hewlett-Packard (HP), Palm and RIM (Research in Motion), according to sources at Taiwan handset makers. Dell's recent hiring of Motorola's former head of mobile device unit Ron Garriques to run its consumer unit further strengthened the credibility of market rumors, the sources noted. As a leading PC vendor, it is also natural for Dell to choose PDA phones for its attempt to move into the handset industry since the PDA phone is easy to link with PC functionally, the sources added.

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[smeg36]

Very interesting. There have been rumors of Dell entering the phone market for years now. I've been a very big fan of the many Dell PPCs I've owned, so I expect good things from a phone.