It looks like Dell is pushing for more mobile devices this year. A series of unannounced Dell smartphones are posted on Engadget, with Dell Smoke, Dell Flash, Dell Thunder and Dell Aero running on Android OS. The company is also said to be launching the Dell Lighting in Q4 this year with Windows Phone 7 OS. Like HTC, the company is also building a custom user interface “Stage UI” on top of the usual Android home screen so that you can manage your tasks without going in to software menu.

Dell Smoke
Equipped with a QWERTY keyboard, the Dell Smoke is an affordable Android smartphone in candy bar design. It will be announced with the upcoming Android Froyo (version 2.2), comes with 2.8-inch QVGA TFT touch screen, 5 megapixel camera, microSD card slot, 3.5mm headphone jack, WiFi and AGPS. According to the source it will be available in Q2 2011 (that’s next year!) so expect to see some changes on the official announcement.
Dell Smoke Specification:
- Processor: Qualcomm MSM7230 800 MHz
- GSM 850/900/1800/1900
- GPRS / EDGE / HSDPA 14.4Mbps / HSUPA 5.76Mbps
- 2.8-inch QVGA, 262K colors
- 5 megapixel camera, auto focus
- microSD card slot
- WiFi
- AGPS
- Bluetooth
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- 59.8 x 10.5 x 120 mm
- Proximity sensor
- Accelerometer
- Digital compass
- 1170 mAh battery

Dell Flash
Coming on Q1 2011, the Dell Flash is a high end Android smartphone with a 3.5-inch WVGA TFT display, 5 megapixel camera, WiFi, AGPS, Bluetooth, TV Out port, microSD card slot and support HSDPA 14.4 Mbps.
Dell Flash Specification:
- Processor: Qualcomm MSM7230 800 MHz
- GSM 850/900/1800/1900
- GPRS / EDGE / HSDPA 14.4Mbps / HSUPA 5.76Mbps
- 3.5-inch WVGA, 262K colors
- 5 megapixel camera, auto focus, LED flash
- microSD card slot
- WiFi
- AGPS
- Bluetooth
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- 59.8 x 11.8 x 120 mm
- Proximity sensor
- Accelerometer
- Digital compass
- 1300 mAh battery

Dell Thunder
While the two Android smartphones above is using TFT display, the Dell Thunder will feature a 4.1-inch AMOLED display and available in Q4 this year. The Dell Thunder will be made in 2 version, one support HSDPA wireless data connection (end 2010) , and another with LTE wireless data connection supported (end 2011). The documents also revealed that it will be able to run Flash 10.1 and eventually integrate Hulu service for video streaming.
Check out Engadget for more info.

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