Like a burst water-main, PC maker Dell, yesterday announced leaked three new phones. Yes, you read that right, phones. And not content with just driving a whole new device direction for the company, they’ve also pretty much covered half the OS market, with a handset championing Microsoft’s Windows 7 Phone, as well as two models running Google’s Android.

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The trio are spectacularly named Lightning, Thunder and Flash, in a fire-and-brimstone kind of way. Lets take a look at the individual handsets.

The Lightning specs look like this: Windows 7 Phone, running on a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, with 1GB Flash-ROM, 512MB RAM and 8GB of MicroSD card storage. 4.1-inch OLED display, Wi-Fi, 3G and Bluetooth. 5MP autofocus camera, GPS, accelerometer, FM radio. Flash is fully supported, including video playback.

The Thunder has no firm specs to speak of so far, but here’s what we’re hearing. A drop-dead gorgeous, 4.1-inch OLED screen, showing off Dell’s own Stage user interface, over Android 2.1. There’s apparently also full Flash support. Perhaps the same 1GHz Snapdragon CPU as used in the Lightning, and an 8MP camera?

Sadly the specs for the Flash are even more vague. The rumor-mill indicates some wow!-highlights though. CPU is reputed to be a a Qualcomm MSM7230 core clocked at 800MHz, with 512MB each of RAM/ROM, expandable to 64GB via microSD. Display should be a 3.5-inch WVGA LCD. Camera looks like a 5MP with autofocus, image stabilization and smile/blink detection. 3G will be HSPA capable of 14.4Mbps down and 5.6Mbps up. Wi-Fi, TV-out, Bluetooth 3.0 will all be present. The device seems destined to run Android Froyo (2.2), perhaps with the Stage user interface.

Phones from Dell? What exciting times we live in!