Dell, a brand very synonym with affordable PC has confirmed their entrance into the smartphone market. It’s Dell Mini 3, if you wondering what would the first smartphone from Dell be called.

Dell is partnering with various carriers to market their smartphone. What’s more interesting is, on the press release, Maxis is listed as among the earliest carriers that going to sell this phone.

In addition Dell has existing agreements with other leading global telecom providers, including Vodafone in Europe; Australia/New Zealand, AT&T and Verizon in the U.S.; M1 and Starhub in Singapore; and Maxis in Malaysia, creating more opportunities to meet the needs of a connected lifestyle.

Given Maxis position as the leading carriers in the local market, it’s obvious why Maxis is the primary target. But it’s too early to predict how Dell Mini 3 will be performing, and how it will help Maxis to further strengthen it’s position.

Dell Mini 3 will run on Google Android (hopefully 2.0), and although no spec has been released, here is what I found from BGR.

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE class 12
• Size: 68.6cc
• 103g grams weight
• Dimensions: 58 x 122 x 11.7mm
• Display: 3.5″ nHD 640×360 LCD, 18-bit, 262K colors
• OTA capable
• Microsoft Exchange support
• Google, AIM, Yahoo and MSN IM support
• 3 megapixel auto-focus, flash, 8x digital zoom camera with 30fps video shooting mode, built in photo editor
• USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
• A-GPS
• On-screen QWERTY keyboard, hardwriting recognition, multi touch UI
• MicroSD slot

And here how its looks like, courtesy of dailymobile.