Dell Mini 5 Clears FCC, Packin’ AT&T 3G

By on February 8, 2010 in Android, Dell Mini 5

Dell Mini 5, in BlackEngadget has found another nugget of information in the FCC’s archives. We already knew from Michael Dell himself that the Mini 5 Tablet/Smartphone/Face Shield is headed to the US, but now we know which 3G Frequencies it will support. As we speculated earlier, the Mini 5 will run on AT&T’s network.

We still have unanswered questions, though. Michael Dell said that the unsubsidized price for the device would be over $1000. We don’t know at this point if AT&T will subsidize Dell’s big handset or not.

If AT&T does pick it up, we still don’t know how it will be offered: as a standard smartphone, or with AT&T’s data-only plans, a la the iPad. With the sheer size of the device, many will be wont to put it up to their face, and a data-only (perhaps data and SMS only?) option might be attractive.

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  • Marky D

    I love it and if they price it right I will be all over it. They need to make it with gorilla glass as that screen is just asking to get cracked. If it has gorilla glass it would be perfect and unbreakable and stoppable. I have read enough people commenting on the screen size being too big but I think it is just right. I am in my 30s and most screens are too small. If you will mostly us it as a phone than a small iphone screen is fine but you can to so much more. Be real who holds a phone to here head these days anyway, heard of speaker phone, bluetooth, headset. I can talk on the phone on a headset and surf and multitasking without having to have the screen 4in from my face. Love Michael Dell just make it with gorilla glass screen and price it around 5 bills.

  • Marky D

    I love it and if they price it right I will be all over it. They need to make it with gorilla glass as that screen is just asking to get cracked. If it has gorilla glass it would be perfect and unbreakable and stoppable. I have read enough people commenting on the screen size being too big but I think it is just right. I am in my 30s and most screens are too small. If you will mostly us it as a phone than a small iphone screen is fine but you can to so much more. Be real who holds a phone to here head these days anyway, heard of speaker phone, bluetooth, headset. I can talk on the phone on a headset and surf and multitasking without having to have the screen 4in from my face. Love Michael Dell just make it with gorilla glass screen and price it around 5 bills.