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Michael Dell: We're Working on a Mobile Internet Device
Gearlog — ... While giving a speech in Tokyo today, Michael Dell dropped some less than subtle hints that his company is working a smartphone-like device. "It is true that we are exploring smaller-screen devices," he told the crowd. "We don't have any announcements to share today, but stay tuned as when we have new news we will share that with you." ...

5Words for March 24th, 2009
Technologizer — News, hot off the grill: In defense of Facebook’s redesign. Dell’s working on smaller devices. Google Street View: Kill it! A cloud-based game console. Skype: biggest long-distance carrier. A botnet that attacks Linux. Warner’s made-to-order ...

The Dell Phone Does Exist
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek — ... In fact, I was a bit surprised to see Michael Dell give such strong hints on March 23 that the company might bring a smart phone to market. Clearly, the company has to deliver more "smaller-screen devices," as he put it. But Dell must know that he can't afford another highly-visible bomb. The company is under huge pressure to prove it can innovate its way out of the strategic purgatory in which it is stuck--caught between premium players like Apple at the high-end, and ferociously competitive ones like Acer at the low-end. To try something totally new and have it fail would ...