Dell to launch Android phone with AT&T

Dell and AT & T Plan, a smartphone until next year for Google Android, according to a report, such as Dell seems year’s long flirtation with the wireless industry ready for the next step.

The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Dell Android smartphone running, which created another design win this year for the mobile operating system from Google. AT & T's involvement will also mark the fourth American company with plans to support Android, and it is particularly interesting, since the status AT & T as the exclusive carrier of Apple's iPhone.

Previous rumors about the involvement of Dell smartphones over the years, but the Wall Street Journal has a relatively constant flow of stories had this year on plans to develop the market for Dell. In August, Dell has been in China, as it is called a "proof of concept" device without a keyboard and a touchscreen. This is the AT & T phone in the report describes, but the report also says that the phone would be otherwise.

Dell and Google declined to comment on the report.

It's shaping up to be quite a year for Android, after a slow start. Google introduced the project in autumn 2007 with the first Android phone in late 2008. But since then, nine mobile phones were launched with the operating system without the two phones without a name for the network of Verizon known Tuesday Verizon and Google.

It quickly became the operating system of choice for phone makers that do not wish that Apple and Research In Motion strategy followed to design the entire device itself. Wednesday Report came as a Windows Mobile 6.5 devices have been demonstrated, with lackluster ratings during the CTIA conference and a major revision of Windows Mobile is not expected until next year, handset makers are in touch Android.

Motorola, HTC, Samsung and come with all Android phones and Nokia has been rumored to consider whether Android for smartphones and netbooks. Dell is obviously not a phone manufacturer. The commitment to mobile computing is on the ice since it killed its Axim PDAs in 2007, but stable this year, suggesting he wants to be in one of the most dynamic markets in the sector Technology has declined in the moment.

The potential problem for Dell is a differentiation, since relatively similar, all Android phones hit the market within months of each other on several carriers. Motorola has chosen its own UI layer on Android as Motoblur in hopes of attracting buyer’s phone, and it is not clear in any reports if Dell has similar investments in the software.