Dell’s building an Android phone to be unveiled next month? We’re not holding our breath.

January 31st, 2008 | Category: Pdas / Tablet Pcs

Stick that one firmly in the rumor category, since all the verbiage that’s been thrown around about that story still traces back to one restricted source: a slightly ill-informed exposition done up in MarketingWeek in the UK. The write-up cites unspecified “senior industry sources,” and goes on about how that is Dell and Google working closely together on what is more or less the “Gphone.” Since we have no reason to believe Google is going to jeopardize its Android OS by getting extra-friendly with one specific manufacturer, the primary weight we can give to that rumor is that fact that Dell picked up a former Motorola executive, Ron Garriques, to run its Global Consumer Group early last year. Other rumors have cropped up by the years about Dell moving in that direction, so it certainly wouldn’t signal the apocalypse whether a Dell-branded Android phone does show up at that rumored unveiling at 3GSM, but giving how early

on Android is at the moment, we’ll believe it when we see it.

[Thanks to everyone who sent that in]

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Original post by Paul Miller