Dell Launches its Streak Android Tablet in India

Dell’s much awaited Android Tablet, the Streak has been launched in India today. The Streak  boasts of a not so large 5 – inch display which makes it  dimensionally smaller than some of the full fledged tablets out there. That said, let us also not forget that the Streak also doubles up as a full fledged GSM mobile phone, unlike most of its competitors.

The Streak, as mentioned earlier has a huge 5- inch display. Its arguably the biggest display you’d come across on an Android based mobile phone. Like the iPhone 4 and the Nokia N8, it has a scratch resistant Gorilla glass display. Under the hood, there is a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 processor with ample RAM (all of 512MB).  A 5 megapixel camera takes of the imaging bit. Its aided by an LED flash for low light photography. There’s a front VGA camera as well that could be useful once 3G is more widespread here in India.  Music buffs would be happy to see a 3.5mm audio jack on the device. The microSD card slots on the Streak can take cards of up to 32GB – which according to us is more than sufficient.

The Streak in its current form runs Android 1.6 and would get an update to Froyo by the end of this year.  The launch of the Streak comes at a time when Samsung is about to launch its Galaxy Tab tablet in India. Unlike the Streak however, the Galaxy Tab already runs Froyo and is expected to be priced at around the Rs.40,000 mark. Another thing that both the Galaxy Tab and the Dell Streak needs to be bothered about is the arrival of the Apple iPad in India. Apple is yet to officially bring the iPad to India.

The Dell Streak will set you back by a cool Rs. 35,000 here in India.