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Dell is resurrecting their handheld business unit thanks to Acer

Categories: Windows Phone
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at 1:06 AM

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Acer’s decision to purchase E-Ten is causing Dell a bit of distress, so much so that they’re planning to get back into the handheld business. Around 1 year ago Dell hired Ron Garriques, former Motorola VP of the Cellphone Division, to help the company get back into the mobile space. Reportedly the handhelds will be built by Foxconn and will be running Windows Mobile and have GPS. As a huge Axim fan, those VGA screens were absolutely stunning at the time, I’m glad to see that Dell is coming back into the game. I would’ve prefered to see them build on top of Android, but it’s too early to tell.

[Via: Digitimes]

[Photo from Dell Axim x51v review]

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.