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Dell Smartphone Mentioned by AT&T CEO

Feb 17, 2009, 8:35 AM by Eric M. Zeman

During his keynote address at Mobile World Congress, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega said that that, "Dell has announced they're entering the smartphone market." This has not been corroborated by Dell.

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drantin

Feb 17, 2009, 5:06 PM

AT&T says...

that he was misquoted, I'm at work now so can't provide the link; but it was updated at engadget.

Eric M. Zeman

He wasn't "misquoted". He said what he said. However, AT&T emailed me the following:

Ralph was just referring to the fact that thereÃ¢â‚¬™s a lot of news coverage about a Dell smartphone and was commenting that OEMs are coming to market al...
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haley72

Feb 17, 2009, 11:51 AM

That would be...

Pretty sweet if Att picked up a Dell smartphone. With all these new "computer" companies devolping cell phones, I think it will be important to the success of them if carriers pick them up. I just hope they dont criple them with all the carrier junk. What do you guys think? Good or bad idea for a carrier to pick up these new phones?

Slammer

haley72 said:
Pretty sweet if Att picked up a Dell smartphone. With all these new "computer" companies devolping cell phones, I think it will be important to the success of them if carriers pick them up. I just hope they dont cripl

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