[...] renamed the Streak/Mini 5; set the wayback machine to October of last year and you will find us reporting on Michael Dell’s announcement that a device similar to the Mini 3i released in China would find its way to the [...]

Not to get all political, but what government-studies/poli-sci curriculum suggested that socialism, communism, and democratic are in any way the same?

First of, the U.S currently DOES HAVE a democratic government. Capitalism and democracy are in no way mutually exclusive. In fact, we make it our mission to spread the gospel of democracy.

Sigh – As for the phone. I hope the China release will allow Dell to flush out all of the hardware problems that I am sure it will have. I’ve owned Dell computers for 7 years now. Not due to their quality, but due to my good credit with them :). I am not sure how much I trust them to enter the phone market – especially when one looks at what happened to their PDA. Alas, I may end up owning one anyway, mainly because of the ease of purchasing it using my dell account.

[...] already know Dell is working on an Android smartphone and now we learn they have an Android MID (mobile internet device) as well. Vietnamese site [...]

Isn’t that the phone with a SnapDragon CPU in it?

man its killing me see all of these awesome new phones with no physical keyboard

I really hope the U.S. doesn’t transform into some kind of socialist/communist/democratic form of government like China.

Haha, can you imagine if our government took over Google? *shudders*

Looks a little Palm Pre-ish from that picture, even though it is just a glance .

youtube is blocked in China.

maybe these two video interest you.

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTE5NTgyNjMy.html
http://video.sina.com.cn/tech/t/v/2009-08-31/12257162.shtml