Dell to introduce Android based Pocket Internet Device
According to a rumor from WSJ, Dell engineers are working on a pocket sized mobile internet device that would run on Google’s Android OS. The device is aimed at the market between netbooks and smartphones without the usual cellphone capabilities and will be based on ARM chips rather than usual insistence of Dell on Intel or AMD chips. The reason of using ARM chips is to increase the battery life of the device which is not possible even by using Intel’s not-so-power-hungry Atom chips. This market is yet void of any real competitors other then iPod touch. It might be release later this year along with Microsoft’s Zune HD or the device may never be materialized at all.
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From Dynamism’s latest Viliv X70, it seems that they are really targeting the niche market of Mobile Internet Devices. These kind of devices have a special type of consumers who don’t like ebook readers as they have very limited capability and they also don’t like the netbooks because they are too much bulky at times. Viliv X70 is ideal for those like to read books in their devices and want to see a movie just after that and then want to search something over the internet or do all of them at the same time. Here is the full specs of this UMPC.
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