The Wall Street Journal reports that a resurgence in corporate spending buoyed sales for Dell in the recent quarter, but declining prices continued to weigh on the computer giant. The company said its profit for the quarter that ended April 30 rose 52 percent from a year earlier to US$441 million, as revenue jumped 21 percent to US$14.87 billion. Yet those increases came as Dell’s gross profit margin declined to 16.9 percent from 17.6 percent a year ago, despite the company’s three-year effort to cut costs. The report adds that Dell’s move into higher-margin mobile devices has also been slow. The company last year formed a division to sell mobile phones, but so far only has products selling in China and Brazil. Sales of mobile devices are “very, very small in the context of the company,” said Dell’s finance chief, Brian Gladden. A separate Dow Jones Newswires report states that Dell will introduce more smartphone models later this year in China, the world’s largest mobile phone market. The company had launched a model with China Mobile in the January-March quarter. Dell will also start selling a smartphone in India, the world’s fastest-growing and second-largest mobile phone market, and will launch a five-inch tablet in Europe and in the US starting in the second half of this year.