Dell smartphone plans
Posted on February 11, 2009, under Mobile World News.
Dell, which has been struggling to reclaim its share of the PC market and recently undertook a massive internal reorganization, has already started shrinking its computing devices with the long-anticipated netbook it unveiled in September. But the company, like many PC makers, is struggling for a way to cope with flattening computer sales, even as the smartphone arena continues seeing double-digit growth.
If the rumors are to be believed, the release of a Dell smartphone could come later this month at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona.
Dell’s cagey answer on whether that would indeed be the case didn’t satisfy Shapiro. He tried again, and Dell got serious. Talking of the convergence of the PC and smartphone markets, Dell said he expects the coming years to produce an emerging class of devices that fill in the screen-size gaps between notebooks and devices like Apple’s iPhone, and his company will be right in the thick of it.
Dell, chairman and CEO of the eponymous company, also cited partnerships with major wireless carriers like AT&T and Vodafone as further evidence that the computer giant is focusing heavily on mobile computing. Smartphones are rapidly displacing generic cell phones as the phone of choice. Will they replace your laptop some day? More importantly, will your boss approve that idea?