We hear from sister site SlashGear about the Dell Streak MID, which will use Android as its Operating System. Chinese Commercial Times is claiming that AT&T will be the US carrier of this Dell device, and that it will be built by Qisda. An exact release date was not given, just the year, which is 2010.
Now at this point in time, all this is just rumors, but it is kind of weird and funny that the company that hasn’t release a single Android device and the company who doesn’t want to release an Android phone in the US – at least not yet – join forces to release this device. Maybe it makes sense, maybe I’m just crazy, nevertheless, it is weird. Don’t you think? Let us know in the comments what you think is going on.
Anyway, the Dell Streak seems to be a nice device, and as far as we know, it sports a 5-inch WVGA 800 x 480 touchscreen, WiFi, Bluetooth and 3G WWAN connectivity. It also has a 5-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, a microSD card slot for extra storage, and a 1,300mAh battery.
1) a physical 5 row keyboard (like the HTC G1 or HTC Touch Pro 2)
2) telephony capability (GSM/WCDMA voice, SMS, and hopefully MMS)
3) a better battery
4) ability to act as a mifi (wifi tethering gateway for devices like your laptop/netbook)
5) bonus points for a tilt screen, USB host/OTG (plus charge/data via mini-USB client), 3.5mm headset, and some form of video out (mini-DVI-I preferred)
Then I might be interested. But, as it is? not so much.
(actually, #'s 3 and 4 alone could get me interested in it... but only as an AT&T mifi with some perks; but without #4, it has to have all of the other features in order to capture my interest)