Dell Aero is AT&T's second Android phone

Looks like Dell's finally entering the modern US smartphone market with a renamed Mini 3 called the Aero for AT&T. There's some serious Android UI skinning going on here -- it looks like a riff on what we've seen on the Streak / Mini 5 -- but that's all we know specs-wise at the moment. To be honest, we're somewhat concerned that this custom UI skin will be built on top of Android 1.5 or 1.6 instead of 2.1, and that AT&T will mandate a Backflip-style app lockdown -- until we get some hard details all we have is this pic and our usual hope for the future.

[dgrbovic Posted Mar 23rd 2010 2:19PM]

@Reisa
Very good point. People will think it is a cool feature phone. I am getting ready to return my Backflip, which now seems like a google-feature phone compared to this one. I was going to wait for at&t to release the remaining 4 but it seems that it is even more discouraging.

[Dellustrations Posted Mar 24th 2010 2:13PM]

This is amazing. Dellustrations is the firm that did their icons for the phone. You can see the work samples at their site: Dellustrations.com, or on their site profile: http://dellustrations.deviantart.com/art/DELL-Icons-II-155825304 or this link: http://dellustrations.deviantart.com/art/DELL-Icons-141632103

This is an awesome phone and brings innovation to other phones in the market.

[Dellustrations Posted Mar 24th 2010 3:12PM]

This is amazing. Dellustrations is the firm that did their icons for the phone. You can see the work samples at their site: Dellustrations.com, or on their site profile: http://dellustrations.deviantart.com/art/DELL-Icons-II-155825304 or this link: http://dellustrations.deviantart.com/art/DELL-Icons-141632103

This is an awesome phone and brings innovation to other phones in the market.

[michellecarrys Posted Mar 25th 2010 3:59AM]

@mr88 Looks like they plan to use the extra screen real estate (3.5" vs 3.2" standard for similarly spec'd phones) to put an iphone-like navigation bar with a back button and a menu button. all just guesses. Hopefully that bulge doesn't mean it's heavy. Opinions: http://bit.ly/dell-aero-verdict