Bring ‘em Dell, bring ‘em on!

[From Neil S. Patrick (Florida, USA)] In the past couple of days there has been quite a bit of talk about Dell getting back into the Windows Mobile game. Though no one truly knows whether this news means Dell will be selling PDAs again or if this news means they’ll be getting into the smartphone business, but one thing is for sure….we’re in for some really powerful devices. As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, I own a Dell Axim X51v, and even though its about 3 years old know, the specs sill out class many of today’s Windows Mobile devise.

When Dell sets out to enter a new market space that it doesn’t currently have a presence in, it usually tries to push the category forward in some way, whether its from a technology point of view as we’ve seen in the Dell Latitude XT convertible tablet which introduced a revolutionary touch and pen based screen or from a cost standpoint as we have seen with Dell’s countless affordable notebook and desktop computers, which are still able to offer users very good system specs and performance.

It’s with those two possibilities that have me quite excited about Dell re-entering the Windows Mobile market, because it means we’re likely to see some truly super power devices from them or some really well priced devices….or a combination of the two. I still look at my Dell Axim X51v and just think wow, I can’t believe they put a 624mhz CPU in this thing, 256mb of Rom, a 640x480 VGA screen and to top things off, its own graphics accelerator chip, with 16mb of ram no less. Even in the looks department Dell did a fairly good job with the design of the Axim X51v, which even after being more than 3 years old, still looks quite contemporary.

I’m definitely hoping Dell will be able to give HTC a real run for their money, as the Windows Mobile hardware market has been a little stagnant for quite some time now, with devices from 5 years ago still looking almost like identical twins of today’s devices, both in terms of design and hardware specifications. I’m also hoping Dell will be able to make a real business out of Windows Mobile this time around, because Dell's last attempt didn’t really pan out financially, which prompted them to get out of the market place sometime in 2006 I believe.

I guess only time will tell if this news/rumor is true or not, but man do I ever hope it’s true.