Dell Will Sell Smartphones in U.S. in 2010, Michael Dell Reveals
In a dinner conversation, the CEO addresses a number of other topics, including the impending public launch of Microsoft's Windows 7 ("You'll love your PC again!"), the 2007 EqualLogic acquisition ("This company had about 3,300 customers when we acquired it; we've added 10,000 new customers"), and the increasing dominance of the server in the data center.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Dell CEO and founder Michael Dell told a reporter Oct. 13 that his company plans to market an Android smartphone in the United States sometime early next year.
Dell made his revelation in a separate conversation after finishing a 75-minute appearance with the Wall Street Journal's Don Clark, staged before an audience of about 300 in a dinner program sponsored by the Churchill Club.
Dell has been rumored for several months to be announcing an agreement to provide its Android-powered smartphone to AT&T for the U.S. market. Dell confirmed this to tech journalist Jean-Baptiste Su of TechPulse and the French News Agency and told him that it will happen probably in the first months of next year, Su told eWEEK.
Dell launched its mini 3i smartphone last August in partnership with China Mobile, which uses a specially designed version of Google's Android software called oPhone OS. However, for the U.S. version of this phone, Dell may use an older Android version and make minor user interface and service tweaks, Su wrote in his blog.
Earlier in the evening, Michael Dell had hinted about his company's ideas for the smartphone business during the conversation with Clark.
"The Internet in your pocket ... and new platforms that are coming out are pretty interesting. Some of them resemble things that we're pretty familiar with, in terms of open systems and the ability to compete in an open ecosystem," Dell said. "I think you'll begin to see us show up there, gradually."
The CEO addressed a number of other topics, including the impending public launch of Microsoft's Windows 7 ("You'll love your PC again!"), the 2007 EqualLogic acquisition ("This company had about 3,300 customers when we acquired it; we've added 10,000 new customers"), and the increasing dominance of the server in the data center.
"A lot of what goes on in the data center is being gobbled up by servers," Dell said. "We see switching, for example, rapidly collapsing into the servers. You've got virtualized switches, but even the switches that aren't virtualized -- they're now sitting inside blade chassis.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Dell CEO and founder Michael Dell told a reporter Oct. 13 that his company plans to market an Android smartphone in the United States sometime early next year.
Dell made his revelation in a separate conversation after finishing a 75-minute appearance with the Wall Street Journal's Don Clark, staged before an audience of about 300 in a dinner program sponsored by the Churchill Club.
Dell has been rumored for several months to be announcing an agreement to provide its Android-powered smartphone to AT&T for the U.S. market. Dell confirmed this to tech journalist Jean-Baptiste Su of TechPulse and the French News Agency and told him that it will happen probably in the first months of next year, Su told eWEEK.
Dell launched its mini 3i smartphone last August in partnership with China Mobile, which uses a specially designed version of Google's Android software called oPhone OS. However, for the U.S. version of this phone, Dell may use an older Android version and make minor user interface and service tweaks, Su wrote in his blog.
Earlier in the evening, Michael Dell had hinted about his company's ideas for the smartphone business during the conversation with Clark.
"The Internet in your pocket ... and new platforms that are coming out are pretty interesting. Some of them resemble things that we're pretty familiar with, in terms of open systems and the ability to compete in an open ecosystem," Dell said. "I think you'll begin to see us show up there, gradually."
The CEO addressed a number of other topics, including the impending public launch of Microsoft's Windows 7 ("You'll love your PC again!"), the 2007 EqualLogic acquisition ("This company had about 3,300 customers when we acquired it; we've added 10,000 new customers"), and the increasing dominance of the server in the data center.
"A lot of what goes on in the data center is being gobbled up by servers," Dell said. "We see switching, for example, rapidly collapsing into the servers. You've got virtualized switches, but even the switches that aren't virtualized -- they're now sitting inside blade chassis.
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