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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."
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.
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.