Dell Aero is 'the lightest' Android phone yet, poses for pictures
By Vlad Savov 
posted March 23rd 2010 8:27AM
posted March 23rd 2010 8:27AM
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posted March 23rd 2010 8:27AM
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Where are the android buttons? Back menu home?
@Alexpeegs
exactly...how are you going to use this effectively with no keys
@annoyingposter3
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. although the arrow button on the side could also be a back button. perhaps the button below the volume rocker on the side serves as a home button? all just guesses ... i really don't see a dedicated search button, but the UI is so thoroughly rebranded from google that i could imagine dedicated search wasn't as important to them (who knows, it might have just brought up Yahoo anyway!)
@Alexpeegs
The home button is on the left side, above the mini-USB.
@Alexpeegs Lightest, but I must say the fattest as well. Reactions- http://j.mp/aero-by-dell-impressions
nHD is 640x360, the same resolution as the Brazilian and the Chinese Dell mini3i (and Nokia's S60 Touch phones, by the way)
@Cesar Cardoso : So the "n" stands for "not"?
@Cesar Cardoso I'm getting tired of all these new acronyms. FHD for 1920x1080. 720p for 1366x768. HD+. And on and on... How about they just start listing the damn resolution already!
2007 hardware released with 2009 software.
If I was in an AT&T store and saw this next to an iPhone...it would be Android ftw!
I have to say, Dell looks to have done a great job on this.
That facebook image look incredibly photoshopped...
@juree "hints" at what it will look like... *cough*
@juree - somebody call PhotoshopDisasters stat! The "designer" has never heard the word perspective I guess...
@juree
It hasn't just been photoshopped. It's been photoshopped, and then photoshopped again! All with an Apple Pro Mouse!
Looks and sounds promising.
What mini-USB? im about to puke
@Alexpeegs WTF? You seriously don't know why mini-USB is???
The phone itself looks good, but bring on the Mini 5 I say!
@XChrisX
the dell mini 5 and htc evo split me in half! they tore me in half! mini5 with its larger screen, and evo with its screen, Sense, and 4g
@masta vaan Agreed on the EVO being a 4.3" 4g packing slab of hot sex. However with true wimax being so spotty at the moment, that's not a huge selling point for me. Being on AT&T and just utterly board to death with my iPhone I think the Dell Mini 5 wins.
@XChrisX Have to see if AT&T locks down the Mini 5. Is Dell going to sign its bootloaders to keep it from being hacked? Wait and see what happens would be my call...
My biggest fear purchasing any new Android device is the fear that it won't get updated to the latest most tasty version of the OS. I have a Samsung Moment on sprint and remember being promised 1.6 only to be sitting here in March months later now waiting for 2.1 :( It seems that if you're not buying the newest flagship model ie nexus 1, droid, that you'll be waiting and waiting for updates.
Can't wait looks like vista though but still of da chain!
528MHz CPU...
Yawn..... Double the CPU speed and it will generate some sales... As it stands, its a match for the HTC G1, My Touch, etc... All fairly long in the tooth and begging to be taken out back & shot for being so slow...
@TFNN 528 Mhz isn't bad. The stock Droid is 550 Mhz and with 2.1 and a stock kernel it is pretty damned quick. Granted when rooted and using a custom ROM and kernel to overclock to 800 Mhz - 1 Ghz it sure makes things snappier but nothing that is deal breaking.
@Darkseider Damn, I thought it was 800 mhz stock, and people are buying it?
My G1 is slow as hell
@TFNN You have to remember that there is also a dedicated GPU in the Droid which helps. Not to mention that when a stock Droid is put up against a stock Nexus the difference in overall performance is minimal.
@Darkseider Ahhh, thanks, I was unaware of the GPU, makes a huge difference...
@TFNN MHz isn't everything. Droid uses a newer ARM architecture (Cortex-A8) than your G1 (ARM9). Clock-for-clock, it's much faster.
640x480? that screen doesn't look very 4:3
@Karate Tortoise
640x360
Great, mobile phones were SOOO hard to carry.
-_-
Well, if you can make it the best, the fastest, the smallest.... might as well make it the "lightest".
Shouldn't that be Picasa not Picassa ?
@NuShrike And "Flickr" instead of "Flick."
Time to throw this iPhone and get the android phone btw Dell when is tablet coming ---the ipad kiiller
These pictures must be fake. If it was an AT&T phone, it'd have at least 4 different AT&T icons on the screen -- AT&T Music, AT&T Navigator, AT&T this and that... All in the middle of the screen. In addition to that, there would be a dedicated hardware button that takes you directly to one of those. That's how AT&T rolls.
@Gorilla800lbs
What's funny is I don't see people complaining about Verizon doing this. Take a look at the Devour some time. They are in business to make money and it's their version of the phone. It's really not hard to NOT press a button such as Navigator. Really, it's not.
@Waltah
It makes it even easier when you hide the icon
I wonder how much the plan will be a month. If it's cheaper than my iPhone plan, I may get it for my wife. She needs to upgrade from her Razor flip phone!!!! Always wants to use my iPhone for somthing!! Got to admit though, this is a slick looking phone so far, but how fast us it.
@Hexen302
Price will be the same as every smartphone on AT&T. Standard voice plan plus $30 data. That price won't be going down any time soon.
From the front it looks a bit like a palm pre.
@InternetExplorer That was before Apple turned the cell phone industry upside down and made people realize there's REAL money to be made.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own a single Apple product, so don't brand me as an Apple fanboy. Thanks.
I know that it is a Dell product... but I do like what they have done with the user interface! No so keen about the hardware... so can I have that GUI on my Hero please?
Since Palm appear to have decided that, broke as they may be, they don't want any of that Yuro money from my rich country, I want one of these !
But with a keyboard and accelerometer.
Dell ?
Anyone ?
Another android phone that's old before its released *yawn* thanks anyway dell..
@InternetExplorer Smartphones use computer parts, and one day might be considered more of a mobile computer than a phone, especially if texting continues to take the place of phone calls.
That said, the computer market is more cut-throat than when Dell said that, hence the need to diversify. Also, the revenue point, and the revenue going to one of it's competitors (though not in the windows market) has already been made.
They call it Aero, AND it looks like Vista. Subtle.
These clowns aren't original enough to create a distinct name, never mind a smartphone. Aero? It's one thing to rip off Microsoft, but for an Android phone?