Dell Aero

[Joe Coolcool]

Whatever happened to the Dell Aero? It was announced a few weeks after the Backflip was released and now it looks like three other Android phones will be released before it.

[ATTDroids]

[dandroid]

I forgot all about that phone. It's still listed on AT&T's site: DELL AERO



Introducing the Dell Aero Smartphone
The lightest Android™ smartphone ever coming soon to the nation's fastest 3G network!

• Share your life in a snap. Pictures from the 5 MP camera can be quickly and easily uploaded to Flickr®, Facebook®, Picasa™, YouTube and TwitPic.
• Watch media come to life on the 3.5" nHD display
• Stay connected with social networking apps fully integrated into your phonebook and synched to your calendar!
• Enjoy PC-like web browsing experience with Flash Lite® support for streaming audio and video content
• Connect to 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots
• Navigate using the onboard GPS system while talking hands-free
• Google Mobile Services supported on Aero.
  • Android™ market place
    YouTube™
    Google Maps™
    Google Talk™
    Gmail™
    Google™ search

[Joe Coolcool]

Yeah. I wasn't really interested because with a UI that heavily customized, that thing would never get updates, but it is curious that even Dell and At&t seemed to have forgotten about it.

[dandroid]

Maybe all these reports of the Dell Streak launching soon on AT&T is really for the Dell Aero..

[jmgib]

Maybe all these reports of the Dell Streak launching soon on AT&T is really for the Dell Aero..

No, they're different devices. There hasn't been alot of fanfare about the Aero though. Really, it's about as ignored by the general Android community as the Backflip has been. I believe from what I had seen about it's specs, it's relatively underpowered as the Backflip is also.

[ingram]

Yeah. The Dell Streak is like an even bigger EVO 4G. I may be wrong, but I think I read somewhere that it has a 5in. screen. I remember hearing about the Dell Aero, and I never garnered interest either because of the UI. Something about it seems not so Android-ish.

[Joe Coolcool]

I'm sure that people saw this UI and thought iPhone and they were not interested.

[ingram]

It's like iPhone mixed with a little bit of Vista... Ehh.

[Joe Coolcool]

It's like iPhone mixed with a little bit of Vista... Ehh.

I never liked vista or the iPhone, so I guess that would explain why this turned me off.

[ingram]

i liked the iphone because of its speed. it's quick loading up apps and its transitions are smooth. but vista was just horrible all around.