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Dell Mini 5 puzzled the world for a while with his new material. it’s not just another Android-based MID, but a quick fiddle with it reveals the full-fledged 3G phone inside. Key features include 1.6 Android, five-inch 800 x 480 capacitive touch screen, QSD8250 Snapdragon chips (when the processor 1 GHz), Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS and WCDMA radio.

It’s about 152mm x 78mm x 10mm at 8 ounces for the dimensions. Memory-wise there’s 405MB RAM and 1.63GB of internal storage. Many of the apps support both portrait and landscape modes, although landscape mode only works one way. In fact, it’s neat for people who love to read in portrait mode, while lying in bed. Scoreboard application is only available in portrait mode and does not seem to work, plus we have not yet found a way to initiate or receive video calls, leaving the front facing camera at 640 x 480 useless except for some random self-portraits. Hopefully the final creation of programs will have these fixed.

The main camera offers 5 megapixel images of acceptable quality, along with a decent 640 x 480 video capture, but with a small rolling shutter effect. App accompanying cameras richness of the configuration of two modes: scene, white balance, brightness, contrast and resolution. Additional settings for the photo mode, turn the flash, timer, Multi-Shot, Shutter Sound, GPS location, and flicker adjustment.

Dell Mini 5 has a mono speaker on the back, loud and surprisingly clear, but, of course, supplied earphones sound better. Those who like Bluetooth stereo headphones glad to know that our mini-5 is compatible with A2DP and AVRCP, which are particularly useful for devices of this size.

Dell may not be the first to forage into the scene of oversized smartphones, but it looks like the combination of Android, Snapdragon, 3G affordability and resurrection Tablet trend can give a Dell mini 5 enormous potential. Even the battery matches the latest 3G mobile technology, despite the wide screen and fast processor.