Dell enters the US smartphone battles with the Aero on AT&T, running an ancient version of Android
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The Aero has a 3.5" capacitive display with 360x640 pixels of resolution, 5MP camera with autofocus and flash, and a 2GB microSD card included in the package. Nothing is missing in terms of connectivity either - the Dell Aero has 3G, Wi-Fi and GPS.
The only parameters holding it back seem to be the fairly slow 624MHz Marvell CPU, and the Android 1.5 (Cupcake) it is running. Dell has customized the UI thoroughly, but still, why a two-year old Android version, Michael?!
On the other hand, it is very light at 3.67 ounces (hence the Aero name, we guess), and the "superset" version of Cupcake has Flash Lite for music and video streaming, as well as documents editing, phonebook and calendar integration with Facebook, handwriting recognition, and Microsoft Active Sync e-mail capabilities. No release date for the Dell Aero is announced yet.
Peep at the gallery and video below, and tell us what you think.
source: Direct2Dell
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6 Comments
1. gcastle (unregistered) posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:48 0 0
Worst spokesman for a tech product ever. Dish washing detergent maybe, but a smartphone?!?!?!?
6. zerglisk posted on 25 Aug 2010, 18:10 0 0
wow, this is such a sexist statement, lol She also speaks in such an extremely slow manner, omg.. I cannot bear with her slowness.. lol
2. oldbto posted on 25 Aug 2010, 08:48 0 0
Is there some reason from a bussiness standpoint that they would put 1.5 on this phone. Hardware wise it seems Ok for someone not needing the lastest and the greatest but won't cupcake preclude them from using goggle navigation and maybe some other programs?
3. oldbto posted on 25 Aug 2010, 08:56 0 0
No. no. no. Just ran video. Home, menu and back keys are on the side. No way can that be easy to use.
4. dsw (unregistered) posted on 25 Aug 2010, 09:28 0 0
im going to invoke lol she used invoke alot i think thats the new word for phone reviews when you do something on a phone
5. pingpong posted on 25 Aug 2010, 13:39 0 0
So basically this is a Dell UI disguised in a 1st gen myTouch? I'll pass lol
