The “Lighting” is to run Microsoft’s Windows 7 Phone and is said to offer “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 (non-user-replaceable, we’re assuming), GPS, accelerometer, compass, FM radio, and full Flash support… [however] Microsoft’s told us Flash won’t make it into the OS initially,” Nilay Patel reports for Engadget.
Full article, with images, here.
Dell’s “Thunder” wil run Google’s Android 2.1 and offer similar specs as the “Lightning.”
Full article, with images, here.
More Dell leaks of even lesser interest here.
[Attribution: CRN. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Robert S.” for the heads up.]
Nice, a big list of technical features as usual… But nothing to do with them.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Dell trying to play the buzz game… Ha! Ha!
New motto?
“Let’s go down with a thunder”
J.A.i.R – Just Another iPhone Rip-off.
FLASH IS DEAD – JOIN THE HTML5 REVOLUTION!
Dell produces an iPhony
Please, why all this ‘killer this’, ‘killer that’ malarkey?, why cant we all just get along?
And while were here what’s with these macho names, how about Daisy and Kitty, now isnt that much more pleasant for all concerned and of course then when they arent what they claim you can avoid all the embarrassment.
sorted.
And with the track record of the two OS’s being used. The Thunder will come before the Lightning.
Once I was swimming s Turtle Creek
Man them snappers all around my feet
Sure was hard swimming ‘cross that thing
With both hand holding my ding a ling
Snap Dragon !
Isn’t it counterintuitive to have two similarly named devices with different OS’s? Oh, that’s right, this is Dull.
The best part is reading the comments to the endgadget article
I love these iphone killers, everytime one of these pretenders comes up with a new phone apple upgrades the one i’ve aready got. that is the real difference between apple and all the rest, apple can support its product after launch day
by the way anyone seen cars cause thats all i hear when they say lightning and thunder
@ Neilkachu, you may have something there. Like calling the biggest guy in the gang “Tiny,” why not a rocket-powered super motorcycle called the “Daisy,” or a tricked-out smartphone named “String Phone.”
P.O.S. both of ’em…
How many “killers” does this make? I’ve lost count.
Yaaawwwnnnn
I heard Jason Chen paid $5 worth of cigarettes for this scoop from his jail cell in Redwood City…
Tenacious little bastards, aren’t they? Clueless, but tenacious.
FM radio baby!!! Nothing can stop them now.
Maybe Apple should follow the Flash lead by MS: full support for Flash when you get it on the phone, but forget to mention that it is not possible to install it in the first place.
…but, but it has FM radio! That will make the phone a huge hit.
++ to Hotinplaya’s comment. My favorite part about the articles are the comments on Engadget
Haha. With flash? It’s dead already.
Kind of pretty, but the iPhone 4 that Gizmodo stole, looks as nice.
Typical of the iPhone wannabes, they are launching devices that compete with previous iPhone versions. And it’s all about the OS.
More innovation away from Apple means more innovation within Apple. Bring it on! Jobs lost the desktop race to Microsoft, and you can bet the last thing he wants is to lose the mobile war to anybody. News like this will (hopefully) mean even cooler and cooler stuff from Apple in the coming months and years.
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