MacDailyNews Take: Dell drops a loaf – again.
Derk reports, “The Dell ‘Streak’ offers a 5-inch screen, weighs about 8 ounces and has a 5-megapixel camera. It measures 6 inches by 3 inches, and therein lies its main issue.”
“What is it?” Derk wonders. “It’s not an iPad, which is clearly like a magazine page. When you hold an iPad, it’s not a phone. It’s a tablet. It is big. It is not something you’d make a phone call on. It’s something you take notes on, or read a book on or look at a photo on.”
Derk reports, “The Streak is way too big for a phone, but it’s a phone. It’s too small for a tablet, but it’s a tablet. And at $300 (with a two-year cell contract) it is too expensive for everything.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: You only live once; don’t settle. Go get the iPad you really want.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Kevin N.” for the heads up.]
Countdown on Dell…
You mean the Dell Skid Mark.
Imagine this caption under a pic of Nelson from the Simpsons:
“Ha ha!”.
Without OSX and iOS Dell is doomed!!!
Windows 7 oh no !, new ad campaign.
Hope they get 3Par then they will really fall of a cliff.
Good Move.
3Par? Didn’t data centers fold 10 years ago? VM ware, web computing. Boring….
Next?
The Dell LosingStreak continues.
By definition, streaks are meant to be wiped. Streaks are temporary. Dell is continuing their losing streak by streaking across the tablet domain, leaving a brown streak that only a bare-bottomed streaker could be jealous of.
Man, the Streak not doing well? No way! Dell needs to liquidate and give all of its cash to the shareholders.
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@BMWTwisty
“Skid Mark” is good.
And I’m thinking of other appropriate DELL product names;
Say,
DELL Smear.
DELL Wipe.
DELL Shart.
DELL Dignity.
That should cover whatever DELL comes out with in the next year or two.
Maybe they should close and give all the Monet to the stockholders?
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of fellas.
@kcwookie
I’ll take a Monet!
Michael Dell and Steve Ballmer are the best friends Apple could ever wish for; long may they reign.
Sounds like the only streak there is is the one in the product managers droors
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Thats what the idiots get for hiring Rob Enderle for a consultant.
I disagree with the analyst. The tablet may not be a big media attention grabber, but its definitely a tablet.
The one thing people forget is that the iPhone started off as a tablet before Apple shifted gears and decided to use the design to build a phone.
The iPhone is a tablet, a small one. The iPad isn’t a big iPodTouch, the iPodTouch is a small iPad.
The distinction between what is a phone and what is a tablet will blur and vanish in the upcoming years. The ability to make calls with your “pad” (no matter who makes it) will be assumed.
This will be much like the way that the concept of the PDA vanished and it was assumed that your phone would handle all of those functions.
The reason that the Dell Tablet is not making a splash is that there is really nothing compelling about it.
Look at Amazon’s new e-reader, not something I’d call a tablet at all but simply an e-reader. It’s doing well, getting great reviews, and the primary reason is the Kindle Ecosystem combined with the price of a great little Kindle.
I’ll probably buy one of those because $140 is cheap to be able to keep the kindle at my bedside or even in my pocket.
Dell. The commercial branding for /dev/null.
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Keep going DELL. Also, make sure you keep that Enderlenutjob on board to consult with on future products. Whatever he says, make it and spend tons of money to do so.
I love how the article writer refers to Dell’s failure as “uncharacteristic”. Seriously? Because it seems to me that Dell failing at releasing any non-computer device is just about as characteristic as you can get. Dell Ditty, anyone?
——RM
they should call it the Dell ‘Shrek’ haha
@ joey g
No! Shrek has much more elan and eclat than Dell could even imagine…
Sorry Dell nice try monkeys……3 streaks and you’re out………
sounds like they’re trying to hit 2 markets at once (smt ph and tablet) and missing them both
surely i’m not the only 40+ guy that would like a bigger screen on a phone
or a slightly smaller ipad that i could take calls on with a bt headset
price isnt great either
and this time i agree with the mdn take
5 in screen for a phone seems a tad big 4in is ok though. Would be nicer to see an iPhone with a bigger screen.