Comments on: Dell’s Android smartphone gets pictured

By: Taipan

Taipan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:10:37 +0000

If Dell Equipment had all the issues you wrote about I am sure your company would have turned them in unless of course they are a company that just turns the other cheek. Let them buy Apple next time.

By: Intosh

Intosh — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:39:19 +0000

If you had to service all your Dell computers after only a few months of use, then you should probably question the users. Maybe they have no idea how to properly use a computer. Seriously, the company I work for and numerous Fortune 500 companies have been using millions of Dell for years. If Dell computers were so bad, they would have been long gone from the corporate market. I mean come on, remove your dorky hater’s hat and be serious a bit here…

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:08:30 +0000

FTFA: “that UI is worse than Samsung’s TouchWiz interface cross-bred with a sea mammal.”

It is almost identical to an iphone’s “home” screen. What about this UI makes it so bad in your opinion that isn’t also bad on the iphone?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:53:23 +0000

I don’t think Apple and Microsoft have a secret arrangement or anything. I think Apple made a deal with MS to license ActiveSync for OSX on the iPhone.

They worked out the kinks on the iPhone and are now rolling some of the functionality up to the Intel version of OSX. Parts of Quicktime X are from the iPhone OS codebase as well.

I think most manufacturers have seen the error of locking yourself into one vendor over the last 5 years or so. Apple with IBM for processors and now Dell with Microsoft OS’s.

By: gadgetchic

gadgetchic — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:21:44 +0000

is that ui assessment based on actual usage or the picture?

By: semicoln

semicoln — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:15:13 +0000

Dude, maybe I will get a Dell. The US is desperate for more Android based phones. And pleeease release it on something other than Tmobile.

By: celz

celz — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:30:14 +0000

dell makes some good comps we have a few and they held up.. and the axim is what 3 or 4 years old and more powerful than any smartphone ever released on us soil.. i think dell getting in the mix is a good idea if they pick up at the axim because thats still ahead of what u can buy today

By: FlamingSkullAfire

FlamingSkullAfire — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:37:48 +0000

Nothing can be worse than Verizons UI, and i’ll take this UI over anything Verizon has to offer any day!

By: AgBand

AgBand — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:52:00 +0000

@alen:

You’re joking right? To quote Billy Madison, “At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.”

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:59:19 +0000

If I get high and I have that phone, I think I can keep myself pre-occupied for the next few hours.

By: coryB

coryB — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:41:35 +0000

It looks freakin Ginourmous

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:49:23 +0000

when was the last time Dell made anything you wanted?

By: kenny817

kenny817 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:46:09 +0000

@ grrr

Pick me pick me! I can fill in the blanks!!!

*raises hand*

By: alen

alen — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:43:51 +0000

and with a $99 iPhone on the market, this baby better be free with 2 year contract if they hope to compete with Apple

By: alen

alen — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:41:18 +0000

strange, most of the Dell PC’s i’ve come across seem to last for years. i’m giving a 5 year old Inspiron 6000 laptop to my inlaws next week.

i have a conspiracy theory after Apple announced Exchange 2007 support for Snow Leopard that MS is angry with their “partners” and that Apple and MS have a secret deal to work together on some things. I think this helps my case. Dell and HP are now using Android to compete with MS, so MS is helping Apple steal Dell and HP’s most profitable customers with a MBP who’s pricing is no in line with the higher end Dell and HP offerings

By: Gauntlet Down

Gauntlet Down — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:17:59 +0000

So much for Dell buying Palm.

By: Don't-hate

Don't-hate — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:17:26 +0000

Dell is lame.

By: 5th

5th — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:06:37 +0000

3rd

bring in the Tour Bitchez!!!

By: grrr

grrr — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:56:43 +0000

too much color. _ _ _ _!?!

By: gquaglia

gquaglia — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:53:41 +0000

Dell is garbage. We use them at work and just about all them have needed hardware service with in only months of purchase. I’m sure their first phone will be just as big a POS as their computer hardware.