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“Who is it for? This is my primary question with the Streak,” Hiner reports. “Who would use it? I’ve struggled to find any really good use cases, especially for business professionals. It’s too big to make it your primary smartphone, unless you only make a couple calls a week and mostly use your smartphone for messaging, apps, and mobile Web browsing. And, you’re comfortable with a 5-inch tablet in your pocket or bag.”
Hiner reports, “At $300 (with a 2-year wireless contract), the Streak is $100 more expensive than devices such as the EVO, the Droid X, and the Samsung Galaxy S, but it’s only advantage over those devices is a larger screen. When you factor in that it’s less portable than any of those devices, runs an older OS, and doesn’t have access to many of the latest apps, it’s difficult to make a case for the Streak. If you want to buy it unlocked and just use it over Wi-Fi, it costs $550. That’s more expensive than the 16 GB iPad Wi-Fi ($500), which has an even larger screen (10 inches), far more software, and a much more polished user experience. Again, a tough sell for the Streak.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Plus, with any Dell product, you get to constantly wonder if the company is lying to you, too! What’s not to love?
Get an iPad. We all know it’s what you really want.
HEADLINE: Streak gets smeared by iPad
Designed especially for Apple-haters. Those are the only people blind enough to buy this piece of junk.
I don’t think I need an iPad, but I know I don’t need a Streak.
The Streak is another Dell turd circling the bowl.
@ Mark S.
Dell left another Picasso
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And yet even with all of this evidence against it, the Streak will have the uncritical support of hit-whore bloggers everywhere.
I say well done Dell.
Please continue to make more products that no one will sell. That way your operating margins will get even smaller.
One of the biggest problems with Android is that there are several OS variants around and it is tricky to upgrade them. Dell is using an older version which won’t run all the new apps.
Is that a Streak in your pants or are you just glad to see me?
In other words, the DELL STREAK…. STINKS! LOL
Of course, the iPad 3G has no 2-yr contract, which is the biggest cost component of any WAN device.
THINK about it:
Dell had Apple to COPY from
YEARS of time since iPhone launch
Did not even have to spend R&D time, money, resources on the OS (as someone else did it). They just had to work on the hardware…
and they come up with this fat iPhone Clunker Clone (it’s not even an iPad clone as the iPad is customized to be a tablet with it’s own UI tweaks and apps for the larger screen. The Streak is using an OLD Android OS and doesn’t even run all current android apps much less pad customized ones).
and Dell is supposed to be forefront leader of PC ‘innovation’.
And PC lovers ask me why I use a mac.
$300!?! Fully subsidized!?! A 5-inch screen!?! That’s the most expensive tablet on the market!!! I like our strategy. I like it a lot.
The fact that they shipped this thing with Android 1.6 is simply stunningly, mind-blowingly, crap-tastic.
A smaller version, called the Smudge, is in the works.
It seems being labelled an “i-[anything] killer” is a lot like being fitted with a red shirt on the Enterprise…
I thought this was called the Dell Steak at first. I suppose the dimensions are about right.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending Dell or the Streak!
But… Instead of being sheep and jumping on the latest fad-of-the-day, How about a 21.5″ iMac for $929 (refurbished) and get a real computer. It comes with an actual usable screen, 4Gb ram, a 500Gb HD and a real OS. But here’s the real shocker… There are 10 times the apps available for it (and not the garbage useless apps that crowd the app store). You get a real computer that can actually do something.
I’ll say it again. The iPhone and iPad are IQ tests for people that have too much money and too few brain cells. So, all you sub 3 digit IQ’s out there, hold up your iPads and iPhones!
Streak aka Skidmark.
Any “side by side” comparison makes it clear that “I know iPads, and, Streak, you’re no iPad.”
Take a look; it’s just *so* obvious.
@Uncommon Sense!
brilliant… think I’ll trade my portable device for a desktop… now if only I had the IQ to create a big enough portable desk with power supply….and enough muscle to hold up my machine….
P.S. you don’t need more than 3 IQ digits to work this out!
Dell extends its (losing) streak…
This article by Rob Enderle is 2 months old, but his review of the Dell Streak is pure comedy.
http://www.tgdaily.com/mobility-features/49946-the-dell-streak-better-than-an-ipad-and-an-iphone
Since Rob Enderle loves the Streak, it surely is DOA.
How long until the drastic price drop on this pariah?
Rob Enderle is an idiot.
Of course he likes this Dell piece of shit.
The comments at the end of the article are even more pure comedy… “once Android 2.1 hits…”
Yeah, go on waiting for the search engine company to catch up…
Enderle is such a tool.
@ mmm…
Ok tard! you just keep making fart sounds with your lamb toy while the rest of us do real work on our real computers. Congratulations you have proven my point very well. Now put you helmet back on and get back on the bus…