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Interesting but sounds like vaporware considering there is almost no technical specs given and a "too good to be true" price point. None the less, I hope Dell builds some cool products in the near future.


Pricing it at $50 makes perfect sense if they intend to charge a monthly fee for access to the "Dell Cloud OS" service. It's a worthless little stick without a subscription.


$50 loss leader pricing plus a ~$19 per month (first ~3 months free!) OS service could be a very good way of monetising cheap hardware.


Similar devices already exist.

(http://liliputing.com/2012/06/74-mk802-android-4-0-mini-pc-f...)

Dell probably have good deals with their suppliers, and are hoping on volume, and so could bring the cost down to something where $50 makes sense.




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