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Dell Streak review

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The Dell Streak is an able tablet, it’s just a shame that it’s so sluggish and it runs on Android 1.6.

Hopefully an update will bring with it better memory management to speed the device up a little and better business features including Exchange email – otherwise we’ll be very disappointed.

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Wow, what a dreadful article

First off, let's take a look at the 2nd page - you mention that it has Android 1.6, and then a couple of paragraphs down you seem SHOCKED that it's running Android 1.6 - who wrote this? A 6 year old?

You refer to the Streak having a lower resolution than the iPad? Well, maybe because the iPad is physically 4 times the size!!!

Next, you say it's too big to use as a phone? It's less than an inch longer than an iPhone - does that mean that the iPhone is also too big to use as a phone? Only if you actually ARE 6 years old, then every smart phone will be too big for your head :-P

Lastly is a little thing that you might want to do, it's called RESEARCH!
You see that large interface on the bottom, it's large for a reason - the Streak can plug into a dock which has a HDMI output. Can you expect to do that on any other smart phone? I think not!

Try taking into consideration the functionality that the Streak has that other phones don't have, and then you'll be able to review the item properly, instead of this half-asses "review", but you might have to do some RESEARCH first to do that properly, and Gods forbid you actually do that...

By PhilA on Friday Jul 16

This is a harsh review!

Maybe the reviewer looked at a prototype model, but this was a pretty harsh review in my opinion and the comparison with the iPhad is rather odd - this is a very different device and about half the size of the Apple tablet! I have been happily using my Dell for Satnav (google maps navigation), exchange push email, sending text messages and viewing office documents while on the move. It also makes for a really good web browsing experience compared to HTC smartphones that I've used. I've not experienced the 'sluggish' performance mentioned here at all. In fact, reviews usually mention how snappy and responsive the Streak is! I've certainly not had any problems with the speed of the device and I can easily multitask between reading emails and switching between multiple web pages using the browser. Text copy&paste works for me from the browser too. I'm really happy with my Dell and when the upgrade to Froyo comes later this year I will be able to enjoy Flash webpages too. However, except for the odd page which doesn't load fully due to limited flash support, this device already does everything I need. YouTube and BBC iplayer are both already catered for in separate free apps, for example. As a "Free on a £25/month contract" product, with a 3GB data allowance per month, it seems like really good value to me.

By Decimal on Thursday Jul 22