With all the hoopla surrounding Apple’s newest iPhone operating system and Palm’s upcoming Pre, Dell’s proposed venture into the smartphone universe has been overshadowed. Largely, that’s because Dell hasn’t introduced anything — yet.
The original release date for a device was rumored to be in February. When a predicted smartphone didn’t materialize at Mobile World Congress [...]

It was originally thought to be a mistake when a predicted smartphone was not present at the Mobile World Congress. Now, it is believed that Dell rethought the project due to “lack of carrier interest.”

Senior Analyst Shaw Wu noted recently in a research note that plans have not been totally taken off the radar for [...]

THE Google Phone, widely touted as the first serious rival to the Apple iPhone, is being launched in Australia today through Optus.
Made by Taiwanese electronics company HTC, and dubbed the Dream, it is the first smartphone in the world to use Android, an open-source computer-style operating system built by Google and based on the Linux [...]