Dell Streak Tablet Android Phone
Posted by adminAug 29
- Android-powered tablet/smartphone with 5-inch multi-touch display and 1 GHz Snapdragon processor
- Enabled for AT&T’s fast 3G HSDPA network; integrated GPS for navigation using Google Maps or optional AT&T Navigator
- Wi-Fi networking; 5-megapixel camera/camcorder with dual LED flash; Bluetooth stereo music; microSD expansion to 32 GB; HDMI output
- Long-lasting, removable 1530 mAh lithium-ion battery; released in August, 2010
- What’s in the Box: Streak, rechargeable battery, charger, stereo headphones with microphone, USB cable, 16 GB SD card, carrying pouch, quick start guide
Product Description
Streak is a 5-Inch Android based device which amalgamates the power and functionality of a larger screen device, with the compactness and convenience of a small smart phone. Streak provides users with an exceptional handheld browsing experience because of its bigger screen size as compared to small phones, and also incorporates a host of other features that are available on a smart phone.Amazon.com Product Description
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Dell Streak Tablet Android Phone
It’s big, huge, it’s a monster!! This by far, the most fascinating experience I’ve ever got from phones.
I had htc tytn, fuze, nokia n900, iphone 3gs and they all look and feel like ordinary phones, nothing really special about them.
But this monster has changed and revolutionized the way I think and feel about phone.
The design is mouth watering, hard solid, it feels so secure in my hands.
The display is eye popping. It may not have IPS screen or Super Amoled display, but it’s still a bright and crispy display.
The screen size is big enough for me to leave the ‘pinch zoom in and out’ away upon browsing the web.
The OS is sick (still running android 1.6 but soon to be froyo 2.2).
>>Update: Software is a bit buggy and may go blank screen for seconds but I can live with it. Not to mention the up coming update (android 2.2)
Battery life is pretty descent, standard smart phone, 1 fully charged per day.
And hey, you wont see ‘everybody’, I mean ANY body around the corner using this phone!!
For me, that’s essential.
Rating: 5 / 5
I give it 4.5 stars. 5 stars for the hardware. 4 stars for the current state of Android, which is solid, but lacking some polish.
The Streak won’t be for everyone, but if you’re someone who spends most of their time staring at the screen of your “phone” rather than holding it up to your ear, the Streak might be for you. I love mine.
I have an iPhone 3GS and recently got a Dell Streak. The iPhone will fit in smaller pockets, is more stylish, has a better selection of games (both quantity and quality), and the user interface just has more polish all around. However, what I always find myself trying to do on the iPhone is read. I want to read eBooks, PDF files, web pages. I’ve tried and tried, but it’s just too small. An iPad would solve that problem, but I also need a phone, and camera, and I know I won’t carry an iPad with me everywhere, which defeats much of the utility I find in my iPhone. I realized that what I want was really something like a giant iPhone, an iPhone with the biggest screen I could cram in my pocket.
The Dell Streak is like my check-list for an ideal device come to life. It has phone, WiFi, bluetooth, GPS, forward AND back facing cameras, a flexible operating system and, most importantly, a huge (for a phone) 5″ screen that is bright enough to be readable even in sunlight (a little better than my iPhone, for comparison). While the Android 1.6 it comes with currently is not as polished as iOS, it makes up for that lack of polish in lots of little ways in terms of useful functionality. Unlike iOS, I can easily copy my files of different kinds over to the device simply by plugging it in and treating it like a mounted hard drive or SD card. There aren’t a whole host of restrictions put on the device to prevent you from actually accomplishing useful tasks on-the-go. Use a bluetooth keyboard? No problem. Download files from internet to copy to computer later? No problem. And so on.
Size is always a question for people with the Streak. It’s big enough that you will probably notice it in your pocket a lot more than you would an iPhone, but it’s really a lot more comfortable in my pocket than I might have thought. It’s thin and light (it supposedly weighs more than my iPhone, but it’s hard to tell) and that helps compensate for the large area. It definitely IS pocketable. No doubt about that. A lot of people seem to worry about looking ridiculous making calls on it. It seems fine to me and I never feel self conscious using it like a phone. In any case, you have to ask yourself what you are going to do with a smartphone. Are you going to be holding it up to your ear all day talking on it like a phone, or are you going to spend most of your time holding it in your hands staring into it’s tiny screen? More and more people are using their phones mostly for the latter, to text friends, browse the web, play games, and so on. The actual phone part of the smart phone is increasingly a secondary function. So why not get a smart phone that is optimized for what you actually do with it, which is browse the web, text, and so on?
I really think the Streak is the optimum size for this kind of use. 5″ feels OK in my pocket, not invisible, like my iPhone sometimes feels, but OK. Any bigger than 5″, like the 7″ tablets in the pipe, will be too big to carry in a pocket at all. And 5″ is big enough that I can start to really use it as an eReader on the go. Load up Kindle, Nook, and some PDF reading software, and you’ve always got a library in your pocket.
[Edit:] I forgot to mention that it’s great for navigation. Not only is the screen big enough and bright enough to see while you’re driving (with the car mount), but the built-in Google Maps navigation works really well. So for me, it’ll earn it’s worth just as an eReader and a turn-by-turn navigation device. The fact that it can do so much more is almost gravy.
Rating: 4 / 5
Coming from over 2 years with my iPhone 3g and even a month with my Girlfriends iPhone 4, this is an amazing phone. Android is not as polished as iOS is, but it runs just fine. Android gives you so many options to make the phone your own, it’s great. I do miss the huge game market for iphone, but I’m sure that will slowly change. I see complaints about the version of Android on this phone everywhere, but if you really look into everything, this phone has all of the hardware capabilities you will ever need, plus some!! The PDMI used for the charger/doc is soon to be the next big thing and offers usb3, hdmi out, among other things. So this phone is awesome as it is, and will for sure get even better. I love the size, the quality, and the style………add to that a great working phone/tablet/browser/sms/camera etc, machine and all is right with the world.
Rating: 4 / 5
This phone is amazing. Small enough to be a phone, big enough to be a tablet. OS needs upgrading, but this definitely is a breakthrough in usability for a phone. Almost replaces a PC or is at least a very suitable companion. 5 stars and it will only get better (and faster) when the OS is upgraded from 1.6 to 2.2.
Rating: 5 / 5
I just got it from Dell yesterday and it is huge as a phone but it works beautifully. I just encountered one problem: the power suddenly shut off without any warning, re-charging it was to no avail. Finally, placing a piece of paper between the battery and the battery cover solved the problem. I think there must be a poor electrical contact or something. Anyway, I am very please with the device.
Rating: 5 / 5