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We already knew that Chinese search giant Baidu’s been cosying up to Dell to kick-start its very own smartphone ecosystem dubbed Yi (which means “easy” in Chinese), but so far both parties have been mum on the specifics of the hardware. Thankfully, a lucky lady — some sort of microblogging goddess on Sina Weibo — managed to get hold of an engineering sample and was kind enough to share some details. Eagle-eyed readers may recall that this is actually Softbank’s upcoming Streak Pro 101DL Android handset, which has also conveniently just showed up in the FCC database with a V04B moniker and 1,700MHz WCDMA radio — we’ve attached its FCC label diagram after the break. The specs here match what we’ve seen before: a 4.3-inch AMOLED 960 x 540 display, Corning glass (presumably Gorilla Glass), dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm MSM8260, 8GB of ROM and microSD expansion. For those interested, Tencent Tech has reported that we could see the launch of this phone in China as soon as tomorrow, along with a competitive, unsubsidized price tag of CN