Dell has been a major player in the laptop segment and the personal computers for many years .With the launch of the new smart phone Dell Mini 5, Dell is going to enter a totally new arena.
Looking at the phone’s picture, I first got confused whether it is really a phone or a small tablet PC. Well, the size of the phone is too big to be like a smartphone.
I got to know that on Monday, Dell along with China Mobile gave some new details about the Dell Mini 3i smartphone. The smartphone is going to be launched in China for sale by the end of this month.
The various features of Dell’s first smartphone, the device based on Android include:
- instant messaging
- MMS messaging
- SMS messaging
- Bluetooth 2.0
- Dedicated Volume Keys
- Micro SDHC Card Slot
- 3 Megapixel camera
- GPS capabilities
- Mini USB connector
- GSM with Edge
- 3.5-inch, 640×360 capacitive touchscreen
- Accommodation of Micro SD card expandable up to 32GB.
The phone is quadband – GSM/EDGE and its weight is around 105 grams. The phone includes a three megapixel camera with all the latest features such as:
- Zoom
- Auto focus
- Flash
- video capture
- Capabilities of Photo editing
The resolution of touchscreen is 640 x 360 pixels.
A high definition screen of 3.5 inch was already confirmed by Dell earlier this month. Under the cover, OPhone software of China Mobile is used to run the mobile. The Ophone software is a modified edition of Android operating system by Google.
Another feature I liked is that the Dell’s New Mini 5 will be able to provide access to online store, as other Android phones do provide. The online store, in this case, will be Mobile Market of China Mobile. People could download games, applications, ringtones and wallpapers.
This is really exciting that on the home screen, users will be able to execute different applications and can keep latest information about the stock prices, news, sports score, weather etc.
Dell said that for the past one year it has been in collaboration with China Mobile. The collaboration was for the evolution and development of the new Mini 5. The collaboration has proved good for us. China Mobile and Dell have also worked together earlier for the integration of a 3G data card. The data card was for the Chinese Market for Inspiron Mini 10 netbook by Dell. Dell says that China Mobile has more than 500 million customers, and is the largest provider of mobile service in the world.
Above from all these facts about Dell and China Mobile, what matters to me is that I will be able to hold such an exciting phone in my hands in a short period of time.
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