Dell Streak 7 To Release On February 2nd
For those of your who are eagerly anticipating the upcoming launch of Dell’s 7 inch tablet device called the Dell Streak 7, rumour has it that the device will be launched in the US on February 7th, which will likely result in a release by Dell Australia some later in the first half of the year.
The launch date was announced by Dell’s carrier partner in the US T-Mobile, whose chief executive Phillipp Humm delivered the news. Mr. Humm also provided some technical details about the device, including confirming that it will indeed be 4G capable, the first ssuch tablet on the market with that capability and promising revolutionize internet speeds.
The device will run on the Android 2.2 operating system, despite most other tablets with impending launches running on the more recent Android Honeycomb. The device is powered by a core Tegra 2 processor, and the 4G capability means speeds of as high as 21Mbps will be possible, making it ideal for streaming media. The Streak 7 comes with a “brilliant 7 inch WVGA touch-screen with Gorilla Glass”, as described in the press release.
The Streak 7 will support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Dell says it will provide users with the required add on so users can have the full internet experience on the device.
As one can tell from the picture, Dell has opted for a stylish classic design, however pricing has yet to be determined. The February 2nd launch date has all but been confirmed, and the timing of the launch is before the imminent arrival of the Playbook from BlackBerry.
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Dell Launch Of 7-Inch Streak Imminent
After a highly successful foray into the market for tablet devices with the launch of its 5-inch tablet Streak, speculation continues to mount that Dell is preparing to release a 7-inch tablet device that is rumoured to be 4G capable. the first such tablet with that capability.
Dell reportedly received Wi-Fi certification for the device from the Wi-Fi Alliance recently, whilst accessory makers have already begun listing leather cases for a Dell 7-inch tablet. Add to that the facts that Dell chief executive Michael Dell waved around a 7-inch tablet in September, with Dell’s President for Greater China recently having promised that a 7-inch device would arrive within weeks and a 10-inch devices within months, there is every reason to believe that the launch of a 7-inch tablet device from Dell is imminent.
Dell is also rumoured to be planning launches of tablets with 3 and 4 inch screen sizes making its product range perhaps the most diverse of all manufacturers featuring tablets of every size from 3 inches up to 10 inches. The 7-inch Streak will most likely run on the Android 2,3 operating system, also known as Gingerbread, and just like the 5-inch version the device will be overlaid by Dell’s proprietary Stage software.
Like its 5 inch counterpart the Dell Streak 7 will feature a 7-inch Gorilla Glass touchscreen display and will have have Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n) for connectivity and there has been some speculation that the device will be available with both 3G and 4G capability. The device is thought to be powered by a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 chip which would make the tablet capable of playing 1080p HD video.
Engadget claims to have got their hands on the story board of Dell Streak 7′s Ad Treatment. In one of the slides, the Streak 7 is shown with front-facing camera, so video calls might be on the cards.
It is likely that the device will be launched at least within the first half of the year in the United States, with Dell Australia launching the device sometime after that.
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Dell CFO Says He Expects Enterprise Customers To Embrace Adoption Of Tablets
Bryan Gladden, Dell’s chief financial officer says he believes that the enterprise segment will come to accept the emergence of tablets as a corporate computing device, and could eventually usurp the laptop as employees primary computer. 
Mr. Gladden made the comments whilst speaking at the Credit Suisse 2010 Technology Conference held on Tuesday and said “I think the tablet dynamic will have an impact within the enterprise,”
Currently laptops are the primary computing device for the enterprise segment, with tablets providing just incremental support, but according to Mr. Gladden, while it may still be to early to measure the impact of such devices on the enterprise space, he believes that in time they could be used on a much wider basis.
“Is there a point in time where it become cannibalistic in the enterprise? Probably,”
Dell’s current tablet offering is in the form of The Streak which was released earlier in the year, featuring a 5-inch screen running the Android operating system. The device has proven quite popular with its main target market of consumers; however Dell is seeking to position it with enterprise customers such as hospitals by including specialized software that enables secure access to remote documents.
Dell Australia launched The Streak in the country a couple of months ago.
On the back of the success of The Streak, Dell says it intends to launch a range of new tablet devices aimed primarily at enterprise customers because according to Mr. Gladden, the company is primarily in the enterprise space and its product development needs to be focused on its corporate customers.
“I think we’ll have … capabilities and hardware, whether that’s a 10-inch Windows-based device that starts to look and feel a lot like a notebook, or whether it’s an Android device that fits into the virtualized desktop sort of environment and runs current applications in a different operating system environment. As you look at 3G, 4G-enabled devices that will be … a prevalent resource for a salesperson for instance, clearly you’d want to have a carrier as a part of that offering,” Mr. Gladden said.
A number of companies have already begun to adopt tablet devices such as the Apple iPad for functions such as inventory assessment, remote access and email.
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Dell Streak The Answer To Our Prayers?
So twitter was set ablaze recently with news that computer manufacturing giant Dell intends its first official launch of its Android based tablet, the 5-inch Dell Streak. Amid all the buzz the news generated, there was one minor but extremely important detail which was missed, the Streak is not really an Android based tablet device, but rather it is an Android powered phone.
Now this should take nothing away from the slick looking device, but just so everyone knows, the device is much more comparable with a 4G phone than it is to tablet devices produced by computer manufacturers who are named after a fruit.
Dell unveiled its Mini 5 back in January, but provided scant detail until yesterday, prior to that there were leaks that the device would be named The Streak, plus the occasional product shot. The device is powered by Google’s Android operating system, and has all the features you would associate with a phone, alongside 3G capability, Wi-Fi connectivity and Bluetooth support.
The phone runs standard Android applications and it is quite likely it will be made available in Asia later in the year.
The phone has:
• 5-inch screen,
• 1GHz Snapdragon processor,
• 2 GB of internal storage (with support for up to 32 GB of additional SD storage).
• Earpiece on the top of its front side and a microphone on the bottom.
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4G Is the Word
US telecoms giant Sprint made headlines this week when it unveiled a super fast and super slick 4G Wi-Max phone manufactured by HTC at this week’s CTIA wireless show, shocking and awing the coterie of journalists assigned to cover the event.
And so it would seem that 4G is rapidly emerging as the new buzzword in the lexicon of the cognisati.
After much debate over whether the technology would be adopted by consumers, it has become increasingly clear, that a catchy alias for a technology that by its very name suggests technological superiority over the current standard will most certainly capture the public’s imagination.
Though the HTC 4G handset has been the centre of attention this week, the earliest adopters of Wi-Max were and are the laptop manufacturers.
Lenovo’s ThinkPad range in the US will now support both 3G and 4G wireless the company announced this week. Lenovo’s laptops have had 3G capability for quite some time now, but the company now plans on bundling 4G capability in products such as the ThinkPad Edge.
According to Clearwire the Wimax provider whose parent is Sprint, more than 30 computers have 4G capability that can be used on its network.
Muddled 4G
Migration to 4G broadband capability by laptop manufacturers has indeed been slow, due to the fact that a technological standard has yet to emerge and it was not immediately clear what 4G actually meant.
Over the last year a combination of two next generation wireless technologies has been adopted by laptop and phone manufacturers which are known as Wi-Max and LTE and are both dubbed as being 4G, which even Bill Morrow, chief executive of Clearwire admits is too complicated, saying that life would be far simpler with just one global standard.
For example Lenovo’s ThinkPad edge supports Wi-Max which is advocated by Sprint whilst Dell’s 4G enabled laptop supports LTE, which is still very much nascent, but will be rolled out by telecoms giants AT&T and Verizon over the next couple of years. To add to the confusion Dell has not been completely consistent with its adoption either, with some laptops such as the Inspiron Mini 10 netbook being bundled with Wi-Max 4G modems as well.
4G 101
Purchasing a 4G enabled laptop from a wireless provider largely solves the problem of which technology to choose, since the carrier makes the decision for you, selling laptops that are compatible with its service.
However many consumers and businesses prefer to buy their laptops directly from the PC manufacturers or consumer electronics retailers, and the choice of which technology to opt for becomes a problem. For this group of buyers, a crash course in 4G technology is almost certainly going to be necessary if a clear winner does not become apparent.
There is however lots of time for consumers and businesses to cram the finer points that exist between LTE vs Wi-Max.
In Australia Perth became the first city in the country with a 4G network, when vividwireless (a subsidiary of the Seven Network) switched its service on last week. The debate in this country rages over whether Wi-Max is even suitable for Australia .
In America both 4G networks are still in the early stages of their roll out. Sprint has so far launched its service in 27 US cities, with plans to add an additional 15 during the course of 2010, whilst AT&T and Verizon subscribers won’t have 4G access until 2011.
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