Alienware Planning Android iPhone Killer?

meteorit found a story about rumors of an Alienware phone based on Google's Android phone OS. As Dell has a history of bombing with handhelds, it would be interesting to try the Alienware brand instead. And I'm not exactly sure where they get off claiming that their drawings are the first pictures of the thing. Cheesy renderings designed explicitly for your website are not quite pictures of a product... they are artists impressions.

Touch sensitive keypad!

[Aaron Isotton]

Oh my god! It even has a touch sensitive keypad! Now that's unheard of!

Re:iPhone killer?

[aplusjimages]

I think they mean it's literally an iPhone killer. You see this isn't just an ordinary phone. It's what a ninja would be if it were a phone. These ninja-phones, if you will, act as your everyday phone, but when in close proximity to an iPhone the ninja-phone transforms into a ninja star or katana and literally kills the iPhone and it's owner. So you see it is the iPhone killer.

This will destroy the iphone...

[malevolentjelly]

...in the market of "13 year old boy's imaginations".

I was thinking maybe they should add something that looks like a jet intake, a sub-woofer, some neon underglow, flame stickers on the side, and maybe some spinnaz.

I am pre-emptively naming it the Dell Alienware AREA 51 EXXTREME XENOMORPH. Its default ring tone would be "Crawling in my skin" by Linkin Park. I hope it has Myspace Mobile.

Re:Anyone else think...

[ATL_gadget_grrl]

I defy you to find me one woman who would carry that thing...

Re:Anyone else think...

[Provocateur]

You posting on /., you could still shorten that to

I defy you to find me one woman.

It's almost perfect

[spintriae]

All it needs is a Flowmaster.

Re:iPhone killer?

[hitmark]

erotic? remind me to never borrow a phone from you...

Re:iPhone killer?

[Anonymous Coward]

... well there's no real keypad to get sticky. It just wipes right off.

Re:Anyone else think...

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, I think it looks like a stick of deodorant.

Re:Anyone else think...

[Hognoxious]

Oh, have you heard about the Coca Cola iPhone killer? It looks like a soda can.

Have you heard about the Starbucks keyboard? Well thanks to you, I now have one.