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Dell Streak Android Tablet Sells for Just $300

by Maria on Aug 11, 2010

After months of dancing around the details, Dell confirmed that AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) will launch its Android-powered Streak tablet, with a 5-inch screen, for $300 with a two-year contract beginning Aug. 12.

This week, a second big computer company, Dell, is joining the new tablet war in the U.S. But Dell's first offering in the category, called the Streak—first introduced in the U.K.—is very different from the iPad, and somewhat peculiar. It's much smaller—with just a 5-inch screen—and makes cellular voice calls, something the iPad can't do.

It is really a tweener device, a design compromise. Depending on how you use it, the Streak can be considered a giant smartphone or a minitablet. Dell is positioning it as a tablet, but, to me, it's more of a very large smartphone, but one that, for many, will be too large to carry around comfortably.

Dell's Streak runs on Google's Android operating system, with access to some 70,000...Read More >>