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Pew! Pew! ‘This is Dell Streak in pursuit of apple, suspect is an iPad’

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By: – Abhishek Roy

Supposedly Dell has planned on launching its Streak, a 5″ screen mounted to a chassis resembling the appearance of the Blackberry Storm.

Now I’m not suggesting much, but the least they could have done were to have mad it much more visually appealing. The back has a little gizmo attached to it that might just be the first good reason to prefer buying one to an iPad, if you guessed it right, yup a camera. It’s not just any camera, it’s a 5mpx camera with a dual LED flash. And since they figured it would be a good weapon against the iPad, they put a little Vga camera on the front too!! Now I don’t know what they want u to use that for, but many sources say it would come handy while video chatting. Smart!

Okay as you can see on the image to the left, is something that might be a very new concept to many apple users, COLOR. Okay mind you I am a very big Apple fan, but it’s just not cool to see products that are themed on what Mr. Jobs prefers to wear on company meetings and product launches. The Streak compensates for it’s rather bleah! Styling, with amazing graphics and color themes.

The Streak is rumored to be launched with a basic 2GB inbuilt memory space, but here’s where it gets back at the iPad, it has a MicroSD port, which means it has expandable memory and up to 32GB.

The Streak also provides Bluetooth connectivity, 3G, and Wifi capabilities. This means that now you may not only access the internet to download apps and movies and pictures etc. you have the freedom to transfer files to and fro other portable devices and computers. WOW! Burn iPad Burn!!!

Saving the best for last, it’s powered by (Hold on to your hats) – Android OS. *Faints and falls to the ground*. Okay seriously, not cool. I think they’re not in it for competition, they want to PWN apple real bad. Adding the Android OS, now means that you not only have apps that the iPad has access to, but almost any app that’s Android compatible. It also is a clear indication to the fact that it will be a much cheaper device than the iPad. For those who have great enthusiasm in knowing stats on the Streak, they’ve very conveniently been leaked to scare the opposition even further.

  • A sharp 5-inch capacitive multi-touch WVGA (800×480) display for a great full-screen experience watching video or browsing the web
  • Fast 1GHz Snapdragon ARM-based mobile processor from Qualcomm
  • 5 MP auto focus camera with dual LED flash that offers easy point & shoot capability and quick uploads to YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and more
  • VGA front-facing camera enables video chat functionality down the road
  • A user-removable (and replaceable) battery
  • A 3.5mm headphone jack means many of you can use the Dell Streak as the music source (and more) in your car
  • Integrated 3G + Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + Bluetooth 2.1 (think headsets, external keyboards, stereo headsets, etc.)
  • UMTS / GPRS / EDGE class 12 GSM radio with link speeds of HSDPA 7.2 Mbps / HSUPA
  • A user-accessible Micro SD slot expandable up to 32GB. That means you can store lots of movies, music, photos or other kinds of files.

Source: http://en.community.dell.com

Now for all the Apple fans out there, who I assume have been frowning all this while and cursing Dell and me at the same time, here’s the light at the end of the tunnel for you. The iPad is bigger and has a bigger screen, err… and that’s about it. But on a serious thought, let’s look at the history of apple products that have been challenged over the years, starting from the Macs to the iPods. Apple isn’t about the features and fancy additions and apps. Apple products have always had a special charm about them, their reliability and the feel they give you is unmatched no matter what. No matter how many tricks the android can do its never going to be loved as much as your iPad or iPhone. Things you’re going to hear an Android user talking about is, RAM and transfer speed, and hard discs and this and that, while Apple users say stuff more like ‘Look at how the menus slide, woohoo’ making the Apple user seem like a much more fun person to hang around.

PS: The Streak can also make calls through as GSM sim card. BURN!

Note from the writer: –

LEAVE APPLE ALONE!!! Well since my YouTube acting skills aren’t that good, I thought I’d rather pen this down.

Source: –  http://en.community.dell.com