Dell's 'iPhone-killer' spotted in the wild

Jonny Evans
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August 17, 2009
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Dell’s iPhone-class contender has made a quiet debut in China, with images of the new device emerging just days since news of the computer maker’s plan came to light.

Not a great deal is known about Dell’s iPhone in China launch spoiler, bar that it has a higher resolution screen than an iPhone: a 3.5-inch touchscreen with 360x640 resolution, compared to the iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen with 320x480 resolution.  It most likely runs a version of Google's Android OS.

It’s also known to feature a 3.2MP camera, Bluetooth, a 950mAh battery, a mini USB port and a microSD card slot, said MobileCrunch. There’s no WiFi or 3G support, though - which is par for the course in China.

Comments (12)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 17, 2009 - 5:00am

iPhone Killer?? HAHAHAHAHA!!! Get serious! The only reason to put that as the title for this story is to invoke an argument between fanboys.

Take a look at the specs and it's very clear the only phone this will be killing is something from a few years ago.

Move along, nothing to see here.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 17, 2009 - 6:05am

Well said my friend

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 17, 2009 - 5:39am

Ouch almost half the battery power of the iphone...

phymon (not verified) | August 17, 2009 - 5:55am

It seems like u got a mistypo the iPhone's screen res is 480-by-320-pixel at 163 ppi took from Apple's site

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 17, 2009 - 6:02am

Thats the same thing... its just ones horizontal and ones vertical.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 17, 2009 - 6:05am

This is going to run Google' Android OS? Why call it killer. They should call it dead before born.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 17, 2009 - 6:07am

Dell kill iPhone ? HOHOHOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!

Technist (not verified) | August 17, 2009 - 6:53am

DoA.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 17, 2009 - 7:18am

just wait for it cause now people are gonna start screaming at apple to give them higher resolution on their iphones

knubs (not verified) | August 17, 2009 - 8:17am

call it what it is, a linux appliance that tracks your every move with google, a bit like this site (as well as most sites) with googleanalytics ;)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 17, 2009 - 9:38am

another bad clone...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 19, 2009 - 5:44am

Exactly, another Chinese clone with the DELL name on it.