Dell Streak 16GB- Launched in UK

Dell Streak – Hits the market in UK on June 4^th, 2010. A tablet phone with 5” wide screen running on Android 1.6 (upgradeable to 2.2 Froyo).

I being a techno gadget freak, in a quick foxy action searched the entire web to know about it and there are quite a few impressing and remarkable things I got to know.

So without wasting any more time I am moving on to its initial reviews and features that I gathered:

The first and foremost thing is its 5” capacitive touch screen. Is it a smartphone or a tablet PC, well I’d say it is definitely a smartphone. The large screen is pretty impressive as I could see from several video demonstrations with pretty good visibility even under sunlight.

Which brings me to another feature of the mobile – Camera. It’s bundled with a 5MP camera, dual LED flash and a VGA secondary camera for video calling. The picture & video quality is good.The nightshots are hopeless though. It supports a number of formats for playback (going by the review of some users, it also support DivX format, though external codecs needs to be installed). It was found to be erring during playback of some full length movies of H264 format, but WMV works just good and clear. But nothing to fret, these are just software issues and Dell guys can fix this easily, I guess.

The phone can be used in both portrait and landscape mode and given the jumbo size, landscape usage seems right. The virtual keyboard has also got a numeric keypad which is the first ever of its kind, but unfortunately it’s not convenient to use. There should have been an option to hide it. As of know there isn’t one.

No FM is there, and the specs are not clear if the hardware is present or not.

A 3G enabled set is bound to have a heavy usage and the effect shows on the battery. But on initial speculations I found the power to be impressive.

Also 2.2 Froyo update is in the air. Flash support is also coming in few weeks.

The CPU is mighty Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz, which makes sure that you have a delightful usage of the phone.

Another important feature I would like to mention is the memory. Well this cute gadget has got 512MB Rom, 512MB Ram, a 2GB non-accessible memory for applications installation and a 16GB SD card.

Other features worth mentioning are:

GPS	Yes – with A-GPS support
Wi-Fi	Yes. 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth	Yes v2 with A2DP
JAVA	Yes with MIDP 2.0
3G	HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
GPRS/EDGE	Class 12
Speakerphone	Yes, 3.5mm audio jack

And in the end, the exciting part. The screen is made up of Gorilla glass, which is said to be unbreakable and scratch proof. Believe me I saw a video  where an engadget engineer tortured the streak screen by banging  a pen tip furiously all over and nothing happened to it. Not a single scratch.

The gadget looks promising and is here to stay. I after a long search of 1 year, am feeling like I got a smartphone of my choice. Am waiting for its release in India.

General	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 900 / 2100
		HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
	Announced	2010, May
	Status	Available. Released 2010, June

Size	Dimensions	152.9 x 79.1 x 10 mm
	Weight	220 g

Display	Type	TFT capacitive touchscreen
	Size	480 x 800 pixels, 5.0 inches
		– Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate – Multi-touch input method – Proximity sensor for auto turn-off – Touch sensitive controls

Sound	Alert types	Vibration; MP3 ringtones
	Speakerphone	Yes
		– 3.5 mm audio jack

Memory	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	Practically unlimited
	Internal	16 GB storage, 512 MB ROM, 512 MB RAM
	Card slot	microSD, up to 32GB, buy memory

Data	GPRS	Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
	EDGE	Class 12
	3G	HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
	Bluetooth	Yes v2.0 with A2DP
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, v2.0

Camera	Primary	5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash
	Features	Geo-tagging, face and smile detection
	Video	Yes
	Secondary	VGA videocall camera

Features	OS	Android OS, v1.6, upgradable to v2.2 (Froyo)
	CPU	Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, IM
	Browser	HTML
	Radio	No
	Games	Yes
	Colors	Black, Red
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support
	Java	Yes, MIDP 2.0
		– Digital compass – Social networking integration – MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player – MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA player – Google Search, Maps, Gmail, – YouTube, Google Talk – QuickOffice document viewer – Photo viewer/editor – Adobe Flash 10.1 – Organizer – Voice memo/dial – T9 – Home dock with HDMI out and car charger in the retail package

Battery		Standard battery, Li-Ion 1530 mAh