The Dell Streak has crossed the line where phones stop – and by some distance too – but we are still not completely convinced it’s beyond the point where tablets start. Is the Dell Streak sitting on a fence or sitting right in the middle of nowhere?
We’ve reviewed all sorts of devices over the years but never did we have more trouble telling exactly what it is that we’re reviewing. And the device itself doesn’t help us make our mind up either. Sure it has a SIM card but those landscape-oriented buttons reveal its tablet intentions. It all boils down to what you want it to do, not what you think of it, we guess.
Key features:
- Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G support, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA
- Full phone functionality
- 5" 16M-color TFT LCD capacitive touchscreen of WVGA (800 x 480) pixel resolution
- Android OS v1.6 (Donut) with nicely customized homescreen
- 1GHz Snapdragon CPU
- 512 MB of RAM, 2GB internal storage
- microSD slot, 16GB card included in the package
- 5 MP autofocus camera with smile detection and geotagging
- VGA video recording at 30fps
- Wi-Fi 802.11b/g support
- GPS with A-GPS; Digital compass
- Accelerometer, ambient-light and proximity sensor
- Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
- Stereo Bluetooth v2.0
- 10mm slim profile, impressive build quality
- Office document editor
- Secondary video-call camera
- Swype predictive text input
- Very good speaker performance
Main disadvantages
- Too large and heavy for a phone, and too small for a tablet
- Proprietary 30-pin connector for charging and USB connectivity
- Disappointing screen quality and sunlight legibility
- No Eclair/Froyo update yet (most units are still stuck on 1.6 Donut)
- No smart dialing
- No DivX or XviD video support out-of-the-box
- No Flash support in web browser
- No FM radio
- Homescreen has landscape-only orientation
- No USB host or USB On-the-go functionality
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