“While Google hoped its Android platform could take on the iPad this year, its licensees are finding it difficult to even compete with Apple on the low end,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider.
“On example, Dell’s Streak 5 (aka Mini 5), has just been discontinued,” Dilger reports. “Dell introduced the Streak 5 (originally named Mini 5), a hybrid small tablet/smartphone in May 2010, with both a 5 inch display and 3G calling features that placed it somewhere between Apple’s iPod touch and iPad.”
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Dilger reports, “The Streak 5 originally shipped with Android 1.6, but was updated to Android 2.1 (incurring the wrath of customers who complained about the over the air update adding bugs and taking away existing software features) and finally Android 2.2 Froyo last winter. It will not possible to upgrade to Android 3.0 Honeycomb or the forthcoming Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich… The company still sells its 7 inch Streak.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: That 7-inch Streak is dead, too. It was DOA. <a href="here” target=”_blank”>Dead On Arrival.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dow C.” for the heads up.]
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The Streak… a name to conjure with…
I knew they should have made it Zune brown;-)
Streak or skidmark?
Steve Jobs shouting across the work cubicle in his house to his resident secretary, “Get me Michael Dell on the phone!”
Secretary, “Michael Dell on the line for you, sir.”
Steve, “Oh hello Mchael, has Dell’s wining streak come to an end?”
What Dell “winning” streak? 🙂
Cue CSI “yeah!!!!!!”
Que The Who
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Burn, baby burn!!!!!!!!!!
Boom!
Remember the Streak…every time we flush the toilet!
Streak = running naked in public and hoping the authorities don’t catch up to you.
Streak = emperor’s new clothes.
Streak – that brow shitstain in your pocket!
ΗΑΗΑΗΑ!! Streak reminds me a movie with Will Ferrel, who was drunk and streaking alone in the dark!!! Nice name!
‘Old School’. Fun movie.
Was it ever alive?
Just a continuation of Mike Dells never-ending losing streak.
Brown Zune = turd in a bowl
Streak = skid mark
I’m definitely seeing a connection here.
What is with this “More blood on Apple iPad’s touchscreen” CRAP? Why are you trying to demonize Apple by makApple just makes great products because they know what they are doing.
Long standing tradition here at MDN, beginning with the iPods’ “blood on the clickwheel” of the hoard of ‘iPod killers’ brought forth by clueless tech companies that made their name by selling cheap crap with useless features that were difficult to use if you even wanted to use them. History now, but fresh memories for those of us who championed Apple when they were climbing back from beleaguered.
Balmer- may he run Microsoft as long as it takes!
I have been an Apple fan since long before anyone considered the mac to have any kind of panache.
I am glad that Apple is ruling the roost in the areas it chooses to compete. That said, even I a staunch Apple supporter, am getting tired of the blood on stories and comments.
I love Apple’s victories and market shares. I just think that I don’t need the blood on whatever stuff. We can all read and see and enjoy, how Apple, the company,most analysts counted out, and relatively few people cared about before Steve’s return, has come back to dominate in so many ways.
I don’t need any blood on to feel good about Apple’s success.
Why not elevate your thinking about Apple as a winner.
When a sports team dominates, people come to expect it. After they have beaten lontime rivals a few times, there is no need to talk in the simple minded terms of blood on etc.
And yes I have lived thru the windows users sneers at any mention of Apple.
I just smile a lot now!
Well I’m just glad that your not in charge of apple because obviously steve jobs isn’t afraid to get a little blood on his hands when it helps the company.
Are you really that blockheaded to think that Jobs would use such a lame analogy?
Of course he wouldn’t. But I would. And I’ll have u know I’m very proud of the analogies that I make.
@MAChiavelli – To quote the late, great David Niven, “Probably the only laugh that man will get in his life is by… showing his shortcomings.”
@Paul I. To quote eminem. “shut the f*ck up”
When you give away free software, it is permissible for google android to make colossal blunders that cost their partners millions of dollars and reflect poorly on their brands. Google does not care about Dell’s brand.
Shouldn’t that be “streak” of blood on the touchscreen (or blood of Streak)?
Off topic, but what has happened to ChrissyOne? I’ve not seen a comment from her in quite some time.
Give her a shout
http://chrissyone.wordpress.com/
Streak 3 you’re out!
Could someone tell me when iOS 5 comes out? I know I probably sound like an idiot since you guys are all geniuses. But yeah, so when does it come out?
No one knows for sure until it arrives, but best guess is at or near the time of release of the next iPhone.
Probably September although there are rumors that it could be October. Apple said, in the fall.
Uh oh, the Dell Streak reminds me of …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_Stars
That’s so gross!
Hey, somebody *please* fix the syntax of the MacDailyNews Take.
“Blood” on Apple’s iPad Touchscreen???
Really? Blood?
Com’on MDN. What a worthless analogy.
How about “The mother of all Motherboard Ash Heaps that lie in the shadows of Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iOS”?
Remember good ‘ole Saddam Hussein’s infamous “Mother of all Battles” phrase in the first Gulf War?
It’s always sad for people who invested money into any dead devices… Sometimes it was just because few bucks missing to get an Apple product.
Now, if it was just for some “anti-Apple-fanboism”… than: better think twice before spending your bills!
I have nothing but Dell pc in my home until i got my 3Mac’s and all I can tell every one is buy a Mac you will be greatfull and thank steve for the best I do
Thanks steve
Steve
That is what the idiots get for using Rob Enderle for thier consultant.
Was the money returned to investors? 😉
Over 80% of the laptops in universities are Macs. Dell, can you see the tsunami yet?
It is not dead. Only in the US they took it off. Here is a complete list of where it is still running strong and available directly from Dell:
France
Germany
India
Japan
Korea
Malaysia
Romania
Singapore
Pakistan
Philippines
United Kingdom
Define “running strong”.
I had the Iphone 3gs 32gig. I bought the Dell Streak. I will never get duped into buying Iproducts again. I really don’t care for Dell PC’s but their 5 inch phone has been a blessing for me. It’s actually a fantastic device that lets me do so much more than the Iphone could and mostly for free. The only thing wrong with it besides its name is the way it was sent to market. I hope someone will continue the large format it has with the all powerful android os.