Dell Streak

The Dell Streak is a hybrid device which is a combination of a smartphone and a tablet. It’s packed with a lot of features mentioned below.

• It has a 5-inch capacitive multi-touch WVGA (800×480) vivid display that is slightly larger than many of the smartphones and optimally designed for mobile web, video and movies.

• The multi-touch version of the Google Android operating system has been customized to feature the Dell user interface enhancements.

• It comes with integrated social networking widgets and has access to over 38,000 apps that can be downloaded from Android Marketplace.

• It features a fast 1GHz Snapdragon ARM-based mobile processor from Qualcomm providing a seamless multi-tasking experience.

• It comes with integrated 3G + Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + Bluetooth 2.1 (think headsets, external keyboards, stereo headsets, etc.)  to keep you always connected.

• It also features UMTS / GPRS / EDGE class 12 GSM radio with link speeds of HSDPA 7.2 Mbps / HSUPA.

• It has a swappable Micro SD slot expandable up to 32GB that ensures capacity to store up to 42 movies, 32,000 photos or 16,000 songs.

• It comes with an integrated A-GPS & e-compass system connected to real-time maps and also containing Google Maps’ live traffic functionality, Text-to-voice and turn-by-turn directions to help in keeping the eyes on road.

• The Streak multitasks playing the favorite tunes and receiving calls at the same time.

• It also feature a rear 5 MP autofocus camera and a VGA front-facing camera, with dual LED flash that offers easy point & shoot capability and quick uploads to YouTube, Flickr, Facebook.

• The battery in Streak is easily replaceable therefore providing an alternative of carrying a second fully-charged battery if necessary.

• Like most of the new generation laptop and netbook products, Dell Streak will ship with cushions made from compostable bamboo.

Android is gaining tremendous popularity day-by-day and a device like Streak brings out the best of it. But still Streak is just a smartphone and not a Tablet therefore somewhat limiting it’s competition. So the question still remains that if this will be the iPhone killer?