Breaking: Dell Lightning with Windows Phone 7 and LTE Support Leaks

Humberto Saabedra

Dell Lightning

Image courtesy of Engadget

The first images and specifications for Dell’s first Windows Phone 7 device have surfaced in the Lightning.

The Lightning is a vertical slider with a 1GHz QSD8250 Snapdragon processor, QWERTY keyboard, WVGA resolution 4.1-inch OLED display, AT&T and T-Mobile 3G support, 5.0 megapixel autofocus camera, 1GB of flash with 512MB RAM plus 8GB of storage on an internally installed MicroSD card, GPS, accelerometer, compass, FM radio, and full Flash support including video playback.

The release date according to the documentation is set for the fourth quarter of the year, with additional documentation detailing LTE support via software update in the fourth quarter of 2011, suggesting that the device will ship with LTE radio hardware at launch ahead of AT&T’s LTE network rollout.

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