Michael Dell Confirms Smartphone Plans

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.

According to a recent report, Dell has been showing both Windows Mobile and Google Android smartphones to a variety of wireless carriers, who all passed on them because of "lack of differentiation" with other models.

According to unconfirmed sources, Dell has dropped its initial designs, but Michael Dell seems to be contradicting that. On the other hand, he is being very vague about possible release times, so the internal deadlines he mentioned may include time to significantly improve the design of the Dellphone.

Source: ComputerWorld and DigiTimes