That was the real message in Dell's decision to swap out some 25,000 BlackBerry smartphones deployed across its workforce in favor of Dell's own forthcoming Venue Pro, a Windows Phone 7 device.

Dell's partners are largely indifferent to the launch of the Dell Venue Pro smartphone last week, although they question the company's mobile strategy and its choice of the Windows Phone 7 platform.

Dell smartphone rumors are starting to heat up as new info firms up the possibility that Dell is getting ready to announce its smarthphone to the Chinese market via China Mobile. The purported ...