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Dell’s missed opportunity leaks

by on07 November 2016


Development abandoned


It has been rumored that Dell is working on a PC class x86 Windows smartphone, but it looks like a picture has finally tipped up, just as the project was abandoned.

Evan Blass has found a snap of what appears to be the PC phone that Dell was supposed to be shipping with an Intel processor. Some thought it was Microsoft’s much-anticipated Surface Phone but it turned out that it was Dell’s rather cool, but abandoned project.

Specifications of the cancelled phone are thin on the ground, but the fact it had a x86 processor suggests that it would be the most powerful smartphone in history.

It would have run Windows 10 Mobile which already supports Intel X86 processors and Vole’s Continuum feature could have taken advantage of the beefy specs. Continuum feature works with the HP Elite x3. It means that the x3 can have a full desktop experience by virtue of connecting an external display, a dedicated keyboard and a mouse.

Now if Dell had got all this to go on a mobile with Continuum it would mean a perfect desktop on a phone. There would be no need for a separate laptop, because all you would need is a laptop dock.

It is not clear why Dell walked away from what would have changed everything in the mobile world. It might have been that it would have been because it could have killed its PC business, but it is also possible that Chipzilla shafted the project with its cancellation of Intel's low-end segment as a restructuring move in May.

Either way it is rather sad.

Last modified on 07 November 2016
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