14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that Dell is quietly pulling its tablet/phone hybrid Dell Streak device from the stores without notice
Until now, the device was removed from the company's webstore and authorized sellers and major retailers.
The reason behind Dell's decision seems to be the deployment of an update that should be pushed on all Dell Streak units.
According to the guys over at Engadget, who contacted Dell's customer service in order to purchase a Dell Streak, one of the company's officials said that the device has been pulled from stores to receive an update and not because it is discontinued.
Furthermore, the said person also stated that the issue had nothing to do with Google's Android operating system and that, if everything went according to plan, the Dell Streak would be back in stores some time in early August.
Although one may wonder what kind of software update a manufacturer requires to pull its entire stocks on the market, unless it's a physical problem that needs to be quickly corrected.
Dell Streak is a Mobile Internet Device (MID), also known as 'tablet', and is one of the few that feature phone capabilities.
Even though the tablet was initially delivered with Android 1.6 (Donut) on board, Dell has deployed the Froyo upgrade for most versions of the device.
The Streak comes with a 5-inch capacitive touch screen with multi-touch support and 480 x 800 pixels resolution.
Equipped with a single core Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 processor clocked at 1 GHz and complemented by an Adreno 200 GPU, Dell Streak was one of the fastest devices available on the market at launch.
In addition, the device sports a 5.0-megapixel camera with autofocus, dual-LED flash and video recording capabilities (VGA@20fps), as well as a secondary front-facing camera for video calls.
It comes with HSDPA (7.2 Mbps) support, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and Bluetooth connectivity, as well as GPS with A-GPS and Digital compass.