http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/ Engadget Comments for Dell consumer products VP hints at a smartphone http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/Apple store - MS store, Dell store?]]>Jul 15th 2009 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/Jul 15th 2009 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/Jul 15th 2009 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/Jul 15th 2009 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/Jul 15th 2009 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/]]>Jul 15th 2009 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/
Hopefully it will draw inspiration from the Studio line.]]>Jul 15th 2009 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/Jul 15th 2009 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/
Motorola's phone division should not be a point of pride on anyone's resume, unless he designed the StarTAC.]]>Jul 16th 2009 6:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/Jul 15th 2009 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/Jul 15th 2009 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/
No computer company makes their own hardware anymore.]]>Jul 15th 2009 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/Jul 15th 2009 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/Jul 15th 2009 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/Jul 15th 2009 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/Jul 15th 2009 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/Jul 16th 2009 12:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/Jul 15th 2009 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/
Dell had a team on the peninsula (between San Francisco and San Jose) doing a music player two years back but they stopped them working on it because another team was doing something that made their product unnecessary. But they still paid them due to contractual obligations. This other team was working on a Dell phone even then.

Also, on another note, Tom Ryan left Lab126 (Amazon division who did Kindle) to work on HP's phone project almost a year ago.

Apparently everybody is jumping in now.]]>Jul 16th 2009 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/dell-consumer-products-vp-hints-at-a-smartphone/
Dell is not the first name I think of with when i think of innovation.

I tend to think "cheap" and "just good enough to be acceptable" as a company credo.

This is a hectic marketplace, apple, google and palm are throwing massive resources at this battle in terms of hardware and crucially OS.

If i was a dell shareholder - i would be preparing for a hit in dividends to write off a project that is deeply unlikely to generate more than it costs to develop and launch.





What on earth thinks it

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Oh really? Don't other fruity companys have this same strategy of not ever telling anything about future products? But it's not okay for Dell to do it? cool engadget

yea go ahead and digg me down (or whatever you call engadget's crappy comment system)

*on topic*
sounds like it might be a pretty sweet phone/smartphone/netbook/MID/whatever it is]]>Jul 16th 2009 3:16AM