Dell Lightning Windows Phone 7 Photos Leak

[javajolt]

It's been quiet on the Windows 7 Phone front, but that ends now. Photos have leaked of an upcoming Windows 7 Phone from Dell called the Dell Lightning. They look impressive and the specifications are equally impressive. It looks like Dell is serious about getting back in the smartphone business.

Dell Lightning Specs:

•1GHz QSD8250 Snapdragon processor

•WVGA 4.1-inch OLED display

•AT&T and T-Mobile 3G

•Five megapixel autofocus camera

•1GB of flash with 512MB RAM plus 8GB of storage on a MicroSD card

•GPS

•accelerometer

•compass

•FM radio

•Full Flash support including video playback

[riso]

With Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform around the corner, we expect the first devices based on the OS to be powerful beasts, and Dell Lightning, a leaked Windows Phone 7 potrait slider phone, confirms our expectations.

It packs a (now quite standard) 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, a WVGA 4.1 inch OLED display, 512 MB of RAM as well as 1GB of flash memory, a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, and an 8 GB microSD memory card.

The other gizmos which we all expect from a smartphone nowadays – HSDPA, GPS, accelerometer, compass, FM radio – are also present, and Flash support will be that little something you can wave in front of your iPhone-bearing friends. Last but not least, the full qwerty keyboard will definitely make typing easier, but the phone will probably not be light (its exact weight is absent from the leaked specifications).

The shipping date for the device is the last quarter of 2010; check the full specifications out in the image below.

[Image Engadget]

[javajolt]

riso and I tend to have many of the same thoughts and in that line of thinking here again our minds are going in the same direction.  This is going to be Dell's  High-end line up for the rest of this year.  Actually for Dell these are attractive and don't have that huge Dell Branding in a very noticeable position.

Engadget has leaked four new Dell smartphones, Lightning, Thunder, Smoke and Flash, four high-end phones that will use Android or Windows Phone 7 as their operating systems.

First off is the Lightning:





The phones uses Windows Phone 7, has a large 4.1-inch OLED screen, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a full QWERTY keypad, 512MB RAM, 1GB ROM, 8GB of internal storage for music, movies, etc, a 5MP camera with LED flash, and Adobe Flash, DivX and Microsoft Silverlight support.

The phone will be available before Christmas for GSM carriers AT&T and T-Mobile.

Second is the Thunder:





The Thunder, which will also come out before Christmas and has a 4.1" WVGA OLED display. The phone has a 8MP autofocus camera, runs Android 2.1 with a custom Dell UI on top, and will also be one of the first phones to have a built-in Hulu app. The phone will also have Swype, the speed texting input software. Flash 10 support is fully built-in as well.

Thirdly is the Dell Smoke:





The Smoke is a thin slider phone with a full QWERTY keypad, and will run Android 2.2, the first phone to have the upcoming firmware noted in its specs. The processor is a pretty powerful 800 MHz Qualcomm MSM7230.

Additionally, the Smoke has a 5MP camera, 14.4Mbps HSPA support, a microSD slot, Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi support and EDR. There is a second microphone for noise cancellation.

User wanting to smoke will need to wait until Q2 2011.

Finally is the Flash:





The Flash is another "candybar" design, that will run Android 2.2, with custom Dell UI on top. 3.5-inch WVGA TFT display, a 800MHz Qualcomm processor, 512MB of RAM, MicroSDXC support, Flash 10 support, a 5MP autofocus camera with LED flash, quad-band GSM/EDGE, 3G with HSPA support, Wi-Fi with DLNA, Bluetooth 3.0 and a TV-out.

The design is made of curved glass and is only 11 mm thick.

The smartphone should be available in Q1 2011.