Dell has opened up a pre-order pager for the forthcoming Android-powered Streak smartphone/tablet hybrid, now slated to launch at the end of the month according to the product page.
The Streak features a 5 inch wide 800×480 capacitive touchscreen display running Android 1.6 with a custom overlay along with a 5.0 megapixel main camera, front-mounted VGA camera, microSDHC expansion slot and Bluetooth with stereo audio support. The device will be compatible with AT&T 3G service with no word on pricing at this time.
Wow, Dell–really? July 2010 and the best you could do is Android 1.5? That’s EPIC fail in my book.
its not Android 1.5, the article is incorrect. not much better though – 1.6…
Dell has stated that an upgrade to 2.2 will be available in the near future.
Upgrading right now would likely require a lot more testing, and would delay product launch.
@Nelson
No offense here but I’m not really buying it–both figuratively and literally. Dell can state anything they want but if this device doesn’t sell or has an issue it can and will quickly become the next KIN device. I seriously suggest not buying anything if you can’t live with the OS it ships with and Android 1.x is too old of an OS to have on any device coming out now. Android 2.1 is still lame, but acceptable in the game but to go back to 1.x now is just a poor business decision IMO…