Many TamsPPC readers enjoy Dell’s Axim handhelds - in fact, one of our authors still used his Axim x51v every day. The axing of the Axim has been covered on TamsPPC before, and it now looks like Dell may feel like returning to the smartphone game.
GigaOM interviewed Michael Dell, the CEO of Dell Inc, who made the following statements when asked about smartphones:
Om: Any plans for mobile phones or smartphones?
Dell: We are certainly looking at the whole smartphone category, but I wouldn’t expect anything anytime soon.
Om: With the emergence of Google’s Android, and with Symbian OS and Microsoft Mobile already on the market, do you think that makes it easier for Dell to get into the phone business?
Dell: What you’ve got [are] industry-standard platforms upon which applications are being built and ecosystems are being created, and that kind of building-block architecture gives us all sorts of opportunities.
Om: You can be a big game-changer in this market, right? You can decide to work with Android or Symbian. Is there a desire on your part to work with one over the other?
Dell: We’re not ready to publicly disclose our plans there…we’re kind of working on that.
Head over to the folks for a well-done interview in case you are interested…
