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Early Hands-On Preview of Dell's Streak 7 Tablet
MojoKid writes "Dell recently started shipping their Streak 7 tablet and it's the highly anticipated big brother of Dell's 5-inch tablet, the Streak 5 that came out in September of 2010. The larger Streak 7 goes up against stiff competition with the likes of Samsung's Galaxy Tab, though the Streak 7 is retailing slightly lower with or without a contract through T-Mobile. Regardless, the Dell Streak 7 offers some pluses over the Galaxy Tab, like its 5MP rear-facing camera, but comes up short in other areas, such as its lower resolution (800x480) display — versus the Galaxy Tab's 1024x600 display. The Dell Streak 7 also has NVIDIA's Tegra 2 dual-core 1GHz processor under its hood for a rather snappy Android 2.2 experience, as you can see here in this early, hands-on preview of the device. In early benchmark testing, the Streak 7 is looking pretty strong versus the Galaxy Tab, which comes in neck-and-neck with the Streak 7 in Neocore, at around 54 FPS."
From delaying updates, slacking on them, to a VERY overpriced galaxy tab next phone I get won't be a samsung (the one I have now is) The Venue 7 is dual core, and cheaper then the Galaxy tab. It also owns the Ipad from what I can see
Which one will be able to be upgraded to Honeycomb? I wouldn't buy an Android tablet before their tablet version of software became available, regardless of the hardware. Are there any upgrade paths that *either* vendor (Dell or Samsung) has specified? I feel some early adopters will be left out in the cold.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
Let me know when honeycomb is out. Since these devices are all going to be treated as abandonware there's no point in buying into a dead end that will be obsolete in months.
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
I'm still holding out on Toshiba's still unnamed offering. That thing is going to be the IPad killer if anything will be. But what's up with the thing still not having a brand name?
linky: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/21/toshiba-launches-flashy-tablet-teaser-site-still-doesnt-have-a/
Power drain appears to be drastic.
Screen rez being lower than the Tab is going to be annoying.
And releasing a 2.x version device NOW when if they'd wait a couple of weeks they could do 3.0?
Then again, the Tab was nobbled by not allowing regular voice calls in the US.
But at least it's price is better, but overall a lesser experience when Android Tab makers should be aiming far higher.
Dell, what are you doing?
How to make a decent 7" Android Tablet /think/ of less on a 10" device.
Tegra appears to work well. Don't be afraid of standardising on it.
Latest version of Android, whatever version that is.
Full Bluetooth support so we can pair up devices
HDMI output so we can use it with bigger screens if we want to.
Speaking of HDMI port, if you need to use a non-standard port then split out the hdmi? well, if you have to, but make a standard USB port too for us to charge/connect upto.
Voice calling as an option, not limited. Let me choose to pay a phone company 50 bucks a month and make you more money, don't limit us
Standard Android UI, no motoblur/horrible stuff we only load a newer launcher over anyway
1024x600 at least (Tab's display really is bright and clear. Should be the bare minimum rez for future devices, 7" at least, and don't even
Decent speakers (again, the Tab does pretty good here)
Clean edges. Glass fronted. Tab/Ipad/Streak, cover the full front of the screen. Not try and jam in terrible trackpad controls like the cheap version being sold in BestBuy atm.
Rootable. (if you want to put the entire bootable OS part on a seperate SDcard inside that's not easily accesible? Go for it, but these devices WILL be hacked. Making it repairable as people learn helps make a better device for customer/client.)
Accept that some people will use them landscape, some portrait, take into account button/headphone positioning. Don't try and force landscape. (again, launchers help us get around this, so... save some time!)
More blue LEDs please
Waiting for an amusing sig.
Engadget has a much better and more detailed review of the device. They disliked the poor screen resolution and really dinged it for the abysmal battery life. The most they could get out of it was 6 hours if their usage was light.
Battery life with screen at 65% brightness, WiFi on, playing standard definition video.
Dell Streak 7: 3:26
Archos 70: 6:00
Samsung Galaxy Tab: 6:09
Archos 101: 7:20
Apple iPad : 9:33
The Galaxy Tab outclasses this thing in just about any conceivable manner.
Except competitors already have NFC, competitors already had >200PPI on PDAs, phones, and tablets well before the iPhone 4 launched (though in fairness, the jump to ~330PPI did leapfrog all but one or two), etc.
Personally, much as I'd like the battery life of an ARM tablet over an Atom machine, until they can match my U820's 1280x800 5.6" screen, I'll get by with the 820 and an N900.
The next Pad supposedly has the same resolution display, but a screen that's improved in terms of glare and angled viewing.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The OP is probably referring to phones. Here's an analysis of how long it's taken the various manufacturers to release updates. Samsung has taken roughly three times as long as either Motorola or HTC to get Froyo out. They've also been accused of withholding updates unless carriers paid them for it, but no one was able to confirm that for a certainty.
Based on their past history, I have a feeling that they won't be upgrading the Galaxy Tab to Honeycomb, but that's just my opinion. Sorry, but the data supports the OP's point of view. He may have an axe to grind, but he has plenty of justification.
If you are reviewing a new tablet based on FPS and hardware benchmarks then I bet you are one of those people who still can't understand why the iPad is owning the market.
Your search terms, chrome gives a long term cookie, doubleclick and google-analytics to track you after you selected what to do. orkut for who you like, gmail for emails, google docs ect. (on average)
So if your Dell Streak can take Linux and any telco you found to be cheap/value it would better.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
What is with these names, anyhow? Streak? Pad?
What's next? Stain? Chunk? Smear? Dingleberry?
By whom? Who is anticipating this aside from a handful of people on gadget blogs?
This is running smartphone OS on a tablet that's kinda-sorta not really a tablet and has been disowned by Google as "not ready."
Sometimes I wonder if the editors here are even paying attention.
By the way, Engadget gave it a pretty dismal score as far as gadgets go. 4/10
> What's next? Stain? Chunk? Smear? Dingleberry?
Please, no. Think of the poor Microsoft marketing department who must find a less appealing name than anything else out there. The last thing we need to see is a multi-billion dollar ad campaign for the "Microsoft Herpes Phone".
Log in or piss off.
I don't have much time to type so a quicky here: what a load of crap.
I read a lot of bad comments here re: Samsung and updates and Tab quality / speed. Samsung updates just fine, the international model of the SGS for example has had Froyo for almost half a year now. Just not your carrier branded models. The Tab slow ? No way. If you're running a couple of apps, it lags less than the iPad does. The Tab is a great device - though soon there will be much better - but the Streak simply isn't it. The only really slow thing on the Tab is the stock browser, which has a bug which causes it to crawl with larger pages. Leaked firmwares and other browser builds don't have this issue. I have a LOT of Android devices, the Tab is by far the fastest device.
And who decided to benchmark these devices with Neocore ? That person should be banned from doing reviews for life. Neocore is from Qualcomm, which has by far the weakest GPU. Neither the Tegra 2 nor the Hummingbird have any problem running Neocore at the maximum speed possible before the frame limiter kicks in, at - surprise surprise - around 55 fps.
i won't buy it cos i can't make phone calls on it without add-ons
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
Got any backup for claiming Apple prevents returns? No you don't. People don't want to return their Apple stuff, they just want to whine when it isn't perfect.
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NFC on a 10" tablet is silly; you need NFC on phones. Nokia has had that for years, and Google is getting it. Apple? Nothing.
As for resolution, 1200x800 or so is fine for a 7"-10" tablet; higher resolutions give you a little more snap, but otherwise are wasted. They can wait a few more years until batteries and processor catch up.
is the numero uno top maximum priority most people look for in a phone.
Right.