Did it get hot in here all of a sudden or is it just this extremely sexy prototype we're looking at? Yes, the Dell Thunder that boomed onto your internet screens
back in April is back, and this time we've got video of it too. Our tipster reports an 8 megapixel camera with LED flash on the back -- which includes 720p video capture capabilities -- along with a
removable 1,400mAh battery. His prototype's running vanilla Android 2.1 at present, though the final units can probably be expected to ship with Dell's custom skin on top. Screen resolution is purportedly 800 x 480, though judging by that 7 x 4 icon grid up there and our tipster's own experience, it could be even higher; the 4.1-inch display looks to indeed be of the OLED variety, as our earlier leak had indicated. All that and it has the looks of a pocket-sized supercar. Enough teasing, skip past the break for the video.
P.S. With Thunder now confirmed as an honest to goodness device (and not just renders), the rest of the April leak would seem to be validated including the Windows Phone 7
Lightning handset, the 7-inch
Looking Glass Android tablet, and the two mid-range
Flash and
Smoke Android devices.
[Thanks, Fahad]
posted August 12th 2010 4:23AM
dear android device makers,
enough with the custom skins. Or at least give your customers a choice.
800 x 480 my *ss. Unless Dell is scaling down the app icons that screen res is a LOT higher.
At this point, if a smart phone doesn't have a front-facing camera, I feel like it is behind the curve, despite any number of other respectable specs.
Maybe I'm a bit slow, but why all the excitement? Sure, it's a nice phone, but there's hardly anything groundbreaking here. Specs are pretty much standard for a high-end android device. The only thing this has over the galaxy-s is a LED flash.
all i hopes this means is we are close to seeing the lightning revealed in full. the only phone in that leak i actually cared about.
If you pay actual money for Dell hardware, you blew it...damn thing will malfunction in less than 6 months...F Dell!
@Calikid 6 months is a marked improvement to failing on day 1 like the iPhone 4
I heard that Dell plans to launch this new phone on the same day as the Droid Pro, the Verizon iPhone, the Evo 4G 2 and the Blackberry Molotov Cocktail.
I'm sure it will turn out well.
Dell doesn't seem to be messing around the mobile game. I was a little skeptical of what they would be able to pull off, but they're coming out with guns blazing.
Now where's teh vid of the lightning?! That's the phone I'm really lookin forward to!
Forget this. I want either the lightning or flash. The Dell flash is quite sexy IMO.
Dell, please, stick with vanilla Android.. Cause you are TOO SLOW to develop software (thinking about Dell Streak running on v1.6 still)
Looks sweet! I don't know about the chrome though. Isn't it out of style? Not that I care anyway.
Did no one notice that it only has three buttons on it like WP7 device, when android devices always have 4?
@S4Rs
Wow, good catch.
@S4Rs
But I do notice that on their WP7 devices it's a Windows button in the middle not a Home button, which is much more Android-like :-). It is weird for it to not have a search button but then again it is a dev phone, so it's probably not a final version of any phone.
Knowing Dell, they'll screw this up somehow by, either releasing it very late, pricing it way above its competition, delaying firmware updates, or what have you.
I ceased expecting anything competent from them, apart from the occasional, non-junky, laptop.
Where is the back button?
theres no way thats old, you can clearly see the colors changing when the camera is held at a different angle with respect to the screen.
If you think that's an AMOLED display you've obviously never seen one in person before. The color shift from off angles is an obvious sign of an LCD as are the terrible black levels (amoled can display absolute black).
Its a great design... mot as great as the Lighting but great non-the-less.
Not gonna lie, only having three buttons *really* makes this look like a WP7 phone. The look of the phone as a whole kinda reminds me of all the WP7 prototypes we've seen so far, too.
I hope they make cdma versions!