Dell’s Smart Phone. Seems Real This Time!
Dell Computer, a Round Rock, Texas–based computer maker is looking to enter the smart phone market and is currently toying with phones based on Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating systems, reports the Wall Street Journal. The news confirms rumors first reported last January. Later, Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell dropped some mobile-related hints in an interview with me in July 2008.
When I asked him about the possibility of his company going after the smart phone market - commodity hardware platforms married to industry standard operating systems are Dell’s business – he danced around the issue. “What you’ve got [are] industry-standard platforms upon which applications are being built and ecosystems are being created, and that kind of building-block architecture gives us all sorts of opportunities,” he said. Given the sharp growth in non-PC devices like smart phones and net books, I am not at all surprised that Dell is chasing both those markets.
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