One of the leading multinational computer giant Dell Inc has launched its first Android based smartphone named Aero in the US this week. Dell is famous for its personal computers, servers, storage systems, network and other pc peripherals.

Dell announced Aero in March 2010 and launched the product in US on Aug 24th. But currently it is working on an old Android version 1.5 which is a main drawback as most of the other Android based smartphone makers are switching to Android 2.2 or Froyo.

Dell Aero is lightest Android phone and comes with 3.5 inch capacitive touch screen display with 360×640 pixels resolution, 5 megapixel camera with auto focus, 8x zoom and LED Flash, microSD support up to 32GB (2GB Card included), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, GPS with A-GPS support, 3.5mm audio jack, 1000mAh battery etc

• Video streaming. WMV, H263, H264, MPEG4 @30fps WVGA
• POP3, IMAP4, IMAP Idle, Webmail, Microsoft^®  ActiveSync^®
• EDGE class 10 and GPRS class 10
• Quad-band EDGE, UMTS 850/1900/2100
• OMA DRM 1.0 with Forward Lock. Microsoft^®  Janus
• HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
• Virtual keyboard with predictive text/auto completion
• handwriting recognition, QWERTY
• multi-touch UI
• Full media player with content management
• AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, WMA, MPEG, MP4, 3GPP
• 624MHz processor
• Adobe Flash Light
• One Touch access to social networking sites

In Android world 1.5 is a very old OS as many popular Android Apps requires a minimum of version 1.6. This will make a big issue for Aero as now market is flooded with a bunch of new stylish smartphones from Samsung, Motorola etc with latest Android versions. Also Dell has not announced any deadline for an OS update for Aero.

Dell Aero Price : In US Dell Aero sells for $99.99 with new AT&T two-year contract, and $299.99 without.

Dell Aero Price in India : Dell has not officially announced the product in India yet even though India is a major market for Dell for its personal computer products and laptops. In US Dell Aero comes for $299 without any contract which is almost Rs 14,000/-