Dell has jumped on board the Android train, releasing their first smartphone for the American market: the Dell Aero for AT&T. It’s available for $99 on a two year contract through AT&T, or $299 for the phone outright, available through Dell, and soon through AT&T.
To put it bluntly, this device is incredibly underwhelming. They’ve taken the three required hardware buttons for Android, and moved them to the side of the phone. It runs Android 1.5, but using a complete re-skin, so you can’t even tell what it’s based on. 5MP camera, 3.5-inch (640 x 360p) capacitive touchscreen, and 624Mhz Marvell processor. In its favor, I kind of dig the styling, and Dell claims it’s one of the lightest Android smartphones, at 3.67 oz. That’s pretty good, I suppose.
It’s just that it’s running an old OS, thoroughly out of date hardware, and the product demo video below? The most boring launch video I have ever seen. Dell, if you want to get seriously into the smartphone market, you’re going to have to do substantially better than this. Hopefully Thunder and Lightning will blow us away.
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