Dell Bets on Smartphone Sales in India

Better late than never. That seems to be Dell’s (DELL) mantra as it seeks to launch its first smartphone in India–the world’s fastest growing and second-largest mobile phone market–to take on the combined Hewlett-Packard-Palm threat it now faces.

“We will launch a smartphone in India later this year,” Steve Felice, president of Dell’s consumer, small and medium business division, said in a post-earnings conference call with Asian journalists Friday.

Dell will also bring more smartphone models to China in addition to the one launched earlier this year, he added.

The move can’t come too soon.

Rival Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), which leads Dell in overall PC market share globally as well as in India, agreed to buy Palm Inc. (PALM) in April this year for about $1.2 billion. H-P is expected to use the acquisition to add smartphone market share to its market leadership of worldwide and Indian PC sales.

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