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Hands-On With Dell's Streak Android Device

Posted by timothy on from the 5-inch-abs dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Dell Streak, the Android-based 5-inch tablet (which has also been called out as a smartphone) is set to ship starting in July, both from a US carrier and direct on Dell.com for $500. Even though Dell has not disclosed the name of the carrier, some experts believe that it will be AT&T because the Streak is a 3G GSM 850/1900 device and AT&T is the only major US carrier that supports those frequency bands. According to a hands-on, Streak is a sharp-looking device with a black front and candy-apple red back that unfortunately shows fingerprints easily. On the upside, Streak's curved body is comfortable to hold. Streak runs a customized version of Android 1.6, but Android aficionados will have to get used to the unusual button layout. Its 800x480-pixel screen makes images look tight, and web pages will benefit from the horizontal resolution. The 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the same as in the HTC Incredible and Sprint EVO 4G, functions snappily. There's a 5-megapixel camera on the back, a VGA camera for video calling on the front, and a MicroSD memory card slot under the back cover."

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  1. This article is boss by negRo_slim · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can someone please quantify "sharp" for me?

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    1. Re:This article is boss by goombah99 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Y'know sharp like the edges of a Archos MP3 brick when the ipod came out. Holding one of these huge things to your head to talk will have everyone laughing like it was an episode of Bean. This will get the brown Zune prize for 2010.

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    2. Re:This article is boss by subspacemsg · · Score: 3, Funny

      Huge iPhone like device. Not something you want to hold up to your ear, bluetooth recommended just to hold down the Geek-factor.

      http://www.androidcentral.com/dell-streak-coming-att-later-summer

      Speculation about carrier based on the frequencies is at best guesswork, because new radios can be swapped into the design very easily. Most radio chipset manufacturers can give you a radio with the same pin-outs and die size for any flavor of cell system you want to talk to, and the programming interfaces are all standardized as well.

      It could be on sprint tomorrow if they wanted.

      Bluetooth is holding down the Geek factor? lol

    3. Re:This article is boss by iamhassi · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sure, it's as sharp as the images are tight

      I think Michael Bolton from Office Space wrote this review.

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  2. Does it come with... by dustin_0099 · · Score: 5, Funny

    a free Xbox 1 controller?

  3. Re:Bad Form Factor by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

    The obvious way to improve it would be to move the microphone and speaker to the side, and maybe change the shape to be more like a taco and less like a phone book.

    Side Talkin' never went out of style.

  4. One question before I run out and buy it by bedouin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can I sync it with my Dell DJ?

  5. Open Source fails again! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    epic fail. fill up my pockets you bitches.

    love,

    steve jobs

  6. Re:Bad Form Factor by MechaShiva · · Score: 2, Funny

    Be fair. It's less bulky than most tissue boxes so that's got to count for something, right?

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  7. Slashdot is pro-Apple by CrashandDie · · Score: 2, Funny

    Streak is a sharp-looking device with a black front and candy-apple red back that unfortunately shows fingerprints easily.

    Man, you can't have a single article about a mobile device on Slashdot without Apple being mentioned these days.