Dell Streak 4G table launch at CES 2011 features, specifications and price

introduced at the ongoing Consumer Electronic Show at Las Vegas by the technology giant Dell. The latest 7-inch touchscreen tablet by Dell is one more to join the tablet bandwagon at this year’s CES which is largely seen as the tablet show by experts. Dell Streak touchscreen tablet features Google’s Android software v 2.2 Froyo and runs on T-Mobile’s high speed 4G network.

The launch of Dell Streak touchscreen tablet is seen as Dell’s aggressive move to make it big at the tablet market this year and to launch its product amongst the tough rivalry posed by the iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab and Motorola Droid Xoom that also got launched at the CES 2011.

The Streak tablet from Dell features a dual-core processor by Nvidia Tegra 2 and offers support for Adobe’s Flash multimedia software. T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG which is USA’s no. 4 carrier will run Dell Streak on its 4G network and according to the company the tablet will be available in coming weeks.

Dell ventured into the tablet market in 2010 by introducing a 5-inch Streak model and still has long way to go to make a splash in the tablet market already dominated by Apple’s iPad and other tablet players that have proved their mettle recently to become iPad’s biggest rivals such as the Tab or Xoom Droid.

Dell Streak tablet is the first 4G product by both Del and T-Mobile. Dell Streak tablet also called Streak 7 is a true successor of the 5-inch Streak launched by Dell last year. The other specifications of Dell Streak 4G include 7-inch WVGA TFT multi-touch display with Gorilla Glass technology with 800 x 480 pixel resolution. Powered by Android v 2.2 the tablet has Dell Stage 1.0 UI layered over it. We can expect the Dell Streak 4G tablet to get an update to the other Android versions such as Gingerbread and Honeycomb.

Dell Streak features also include a 5 MP camera at the rear with 720p HD recording, a 1.3 MP camera with video call facility, full HTML supporting webkit based browser and 16 GB of internal memory that can be expanded further to up to 32GB via microSD card. The connectivity features of Dell Streak 7 4G are Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 and built-in support for 4G network. The tablet also supports Microsoft Exchange e-mail, calendar and contacts. The price of Dell Streak 4G tablet is yet to be announced by Dell.

At the CES 2011 Dell also introduced Dell Venue, its latest smartphone that runs on Android but without a wireless carrier and gave a sneak peak into another 10-inch tablet that the company is still working on.