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Dell—once a top tier Windows Mobile PDA vendor—has been working on a delivering smartphones built on Microsoft and Google's mobile-device platforms. Today, we may have gotten a first look at its Android-run model, as an image (via Brighthand) of a handset (one that looks a lot like Palm's Pre model, at least in shape) is now making the rounds through the Internet rumor mill.

The picture includes a Dell logo right on the front of a device running Google's Android paltform. No other details were made available, of course.

The company's founder and CEO, Michael Dell, confirmed Dell's smartphone plans a few months ago.

"Well, if [Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo] says that the telephone is the future of computing, then, you know, we're in the computer business, so I guess we must be in the phone business," according to Dell, in an interview with Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, at a luncheon hosted by the Northern Virginia Technology Council in February.

It is still not known exactly when Dell plans on delivering its new smartphones.

Back in March, an analyst reported that Dell's smartphone plans hit a snag. According to Shaw Wu, a research analyst at Kaufman Bros., both Windows Mobile and Android-run smartphone prototypes failed to wow carriers.