Dell Smoke smolders in an non-traditional Android form factor

By Phil Nickinson  | Apr 21 2010 | 9:15 pm  | 6 Comments

Dell Smoke

And as if on cue, here comes the next phone from the major Dell leak currently under way. The Smoke brings a front-facing QWERTY keyboard to Android -- something a number of us have been clamoring for for quite some time now. But that comes along with a 2.8-inch QVGA display. Trade-offs, ya' know. There's also a 5MP camera, Qualcomm MSM7230 processor at 800MHz, Flash 10.1 support and 512MB of ROM/256MB of RAM. That's all packed into a 10.5mm-thick body with 1170mAh battery. This guy wet your whistle any? [Engadget]

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NickF227 says:

That's....interesting.

I wish it was square-er, though, like the Pixi.

clehmann#wp says:

Same here. If there is anything blackberry did right, it was the curve's form factor. This is definitely one to keep your eye on.

jeffree#wp says:

Trolling is a art form.

ulnek says:

an non-traditional? >_<

NickF227 says:

I just thought of something....did anyone ever manage to get Android on the Blackjack II? I know they got it on a lot of WinMo phones, and it should be a nice way to test out this form factor with Android, well, minus the whole touch screen.

jeffree#wp says:

OH MY GOD.

Finally. Been waiting for this form factor FOREVER it seems. Moving from a centro, with this style keyboard, its pretty freakin hard to imagine life without a keyboard, or one of those huge landscape ones.