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Dell Streak review

The Dell Streak is the first in a stream of Android tablets to appear on the market. We review it to see if it’s in the same league as the Apple iPad

14 Jul 2010

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If you throw in phone calls, you can expect to get about five to six hours of talk time. Pretty impressive if you ask us, especially when you consider there's a large screen to power.

On a side note, you may recognise the USB portit's almost identical to Apple's infamous proprietary connection, although don't try to swap between the two.

It's really quirt irritating - in a time when there are many companies attempting to produce a universal charger culture -that companies such as Dell and Apple break the mould by throwing in a larger proprietary port. It takes away the ability to charge all of your devices with one universal charger.

The Dell Streak is much more effective as a small tablet than as a large smartphone. We wouldn't recommend even purchasing one with voice activated.

It's a shame that the device is so slow though, and running on Android 1.6 just isn't acceptable on such a hyped device. Although it will be updated in future, as it stands, we were expecting more.

Verdict

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.

Connectivity: GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 900/2100 Display: 480 x 800 pixels, 5.0 inches OS: Google Android 1.6 Camera: five megapicels, 2592x1944 pixels, autofocus, dual LED flash GPS: A-GPS Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor Wi-Fi: 802.11bg Dimensions: 79.1x10x152.9mm Weight: 220gg Battery: Li-Ion 1530 mAh