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The Streak ships in a black box with artistic ‘squiggles' along the edges – its a modern design which we like, however our PR sample had a huge sticker on the front which covered the product name and imagery. We need to shoot from the rear, sorry 🙂
The Streak is encased in a protective ‘egg shell' style surrounding which offers plenty of protection during shipping.
The box contains a plethora of items – a manual, several guides, including warranty information. a USB adapter, a charging device, and a little protective sleeve for on the move. The headphones are actually reasonable quality ‘freebies' with various size ear buds included.
The adapter is set for european and UK plug points and the connecting USB cable plugs into the bottom of the device to charge and sync with a computer.
It is very similar to the Macintosh iPhone connector (but slightly thicker), but isn't the same, so don't try and fit this into your iPhone!
The rear of the unit has a little door which can be slid open to reveal the SIM card slot, expansion card slot and battery. There are two gold contacts that touch the metal battery cover, if you remove the cover then the Streak turns off. The battery needs to be removed to get access to the SIM card and microSD slots. A 16GB MicroSD ships with the unit and there 2GB of flash memory onboard for storing apps – 18GB out of the box is an impressive configuration.
The Streak ships with a 5.0 megapixel camera on the rear and we will have a look at image and video quality later.
The build quality of the Streak is excellent, I think it is one of the best looking devices I have used and over the last couple of weeks I felt reassured that the unit wasn't going to break, even with fairly rough handling. It is thin (9.98mm) which means it doesn't feel bulky in a pocket but isn't that thin you are worried about it breaking under pressure. Any bigger and I think it would be unpleasant to carry around. I am a huge fan of the Apple iPad but there are sometimes I just don't want to travel with it on short journeys due to the size.
When calling on the Streak I found that people would look over at the physical size wondering what on earth I was holding. It certainly doesn't look like an ‘average' smartphone. Most importantly however, talk quality is excellent and right up there with the BlackBerry phones.
that was a great review, its better than I thought 🙂
This is a really nice phone – good size !
Screen is good, but man that camera sucks big time. most phone cameras are crap anyway. all those megapixel ratings are meaningless.
Well this is quite good, better than I expected. I mean I read the review on engadget but they are more mainstream, nice to get some technical analysis here. Seems like a solid buy. price isnt too bad either I suppose.
Dell stream is lovely, my friend bought one from O2, his contract is far too much though. he is paying out the ass for it.
I agree with reviewer. Android is lovely but current revision is quite slow at times.
phones now as well? lol this keeps getting better. good review Zardon. not sure on the product however, it looks quite big in the first photo on page 1. still might be too much for a phone IMO.
Good review. why can companies not make a unit with a good camera though, why is this so hard??
I almost bought the new iphone last week, this might be better !
Looks a lot better than I expected. battery life is really strong, my iphone drives me nuts, every day recharging even when I dont use the fucking thing.
I hate the battery in my phone, swore id get one with good battery life next time. This however is asking for a hefty price plan, and im not paying a fortune for pay as you go for it either.
So tempted to get t his on a monthly pay plan – was holding back for ipad 7 inch, but this looks amazing. I never use the camera on these anyway.
I was tempted until I saw the camera quality. picture quality isnt bad but video is horrific. my old sanyo camera is better than that 🙁
Damn this is really sexy, but ive no money left. I hate this site so much 🙂
Like it, but not quite enough to spend 400+ on it
What a really good design from Dell, I like the maps option, looks really good on such a big screen. Im tempted.
Great review ! loved the testing and still some way to go before its going to compete with the iphone on performance. android is young and its shaping up well. I want o support this platform so badly. just need to work out some funds to get one like the Dell Streak
This is really beautiful ! I cant believe dell made something this attractive, most of their laptops look really ugly.
Hello, first time here, thank you for the excellent review. i am getting this for my boyfriend for his birthday. I hope he will love it.
I only found this site last week and its my home page, please keep up all the reviews and excellent news. very good work all round.
Dell Streak is quite nice but some way to go before they get apple sales.
Really looks awesome. I hope to pick up one of these within the next couple weeks. Zardon you just affirmed my choice to pick one up. So one question….Is the home screen always landscaped then? I assume so and it’s not that big of a deal just curious.
Hello, Mugen Power just released the 4800mAH Extended Battery for for Dell Streak,
it should be last triple time with 1 charge than the stock battery!
http://mugen.hk/mugen-power-4800mah-extended-battery-for-dell-streak-m01m.html
good review. i like my new streak. it’s easy to manuever and the apps are fun. it’s got great games and it helps me with my business. great unlocked cell phones. the wifi and email are great for keeping in touch with my clients. my wife and daughter love theirs for the games. keeps em quiet in the car seems some people have a problem with the size but i’m ok with it. much better than my tiny unlocked blackberry phones. anyways i got 3 and i like it. ipad was too big and my old pearl was a little ant compared to this. also got my phone unlocking and blackberry unlock codes for free! got my last couple streaks at unlockthatphone.com pretty good. 2 thumbs up on this device.
Dell streak camera sucks big time. it takes scrapie pictures, music player suck too the sound not even come close to iphone 3gs. Firmware still 1.6. come on. where is the update?. Just an average phone comparing to iphone 4.