Dell Partners with Baidu for smartphones in China

Dell the IT Services, Computer Hardware and Software giant has confirmed that it is one of the number of companies partnering with Baidu (China’s largest internet search engine) on mobile phones.

A spokesman from Dell stated that the company was developing smartphones which would utilise Baidu’s new software platform for the chinese market. In addition to the partnership with Dell, Baidu have announced that they will be working with a number of other developers and handset makers as part of an alliance to support the Baidu Yi platform.

Baidu Yi is said to be an Android-based platform but Ms Lee has not stated which operating system the Dell smartphones will be using.