Dell Streak Android Phone Gets Priced at $299 with Contract
Dell Streak Android Phone Gets Priced at $299 with Contract
Posted 07/27/2010 at 1:34pm
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Dell has announced that the US version of their Streak Android phone will be available for purchase today by those that pre-ordered. The phone supports AT&T's 3G bands and will cost customers $299 with a two year contract, and $549 without. The exact ship date was not given. After posting this information, Dell removed the blog post, but we expect the facts to remain the same.
The Dell Streak is a 5-inch Android phone that Dell is fond of referring to as a tablet. At launch, the Streak will have Android 1.6, which sort of astounds us. Android 1.6 came out nearly a year ago. Dell claims that a 2.2 Froyo update will come later this year. The phone runs a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 512MB of RAM, and the 5-inch touchscreen is 480x800 resolution.
The question is, will people in the US respond to a phone this big? The price is a little high, the OS is out of date, and the skin Dell is using looks fairly unattractive. Have any of you pre-ordered it? Does this pricing information scare you off?
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Links of London
December 08, 2010 at 8:51pm
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JanSolo
July 28, 2010 at 8:00am
The only real issue I have with it is the Slowdragon CPU on it. OMAP or a Hummingbird with a discrete GPU would have been a better choice.
Ulrich
July 28, 2010 at 5:45am
I was really excited about this, and was planning to buy it day one... until word came out about it not having Froyo, and that it's a dell "enhanced" version of android that is completely crap.... if they toss Froyo proper on it down the road I'll take another look at it... until then I'm starting to look elsewhere.
Dell you really screwed this one up.
mrnuts
July 27, 2010 at 9:13pm
If I were running Dell, I would have fired the engineer that suggested using Android 1.6 on the spot.
Peanut Fox
July 27, 2010 at 8:17pm
Dell really did not think this through before they executed. For pretty much $100 less for every other Android phone, you can get more features, and it doesn't come preloaded with 1.6. Really Dell? Really? They should just do what Microsoft did to the Kin and yank that thing.
someone87
July 27, 2010 at 4:31pm
I am not a fan of Dell, and since the phone doesn't much that you can't already get for less, I don't see who would bother.
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