Leaked Photos of Dell’s iPad Killer

By Cristi | April 16, 2010 | 5 comments

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The Engadget team has managed to snag photos of Dell’s upcoming Streak Tablets. These 7 and 10 inch tablets are the Austin, Texas based company’s reponse to Apple’s popular iPad.

The tablets are part of Dell’s Streak product lineup and will compliment their upcoming 5 inch Android phone. Availability for the 7 inch Streak is rumored for late 2010 while the 10 inch model will be in early 2011 according to Engadget.

We recently reported on several consumer electronics companies planning to introduce tablet devices, this year, to compete with the Apple iPad. So what do you think? Is the Dell Streak a worthy competitor to Apple’s iPad?

[via Engadget]

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Michael Braun

Two things stand out to me:

1. The wide screen display seems good for movies, but useless if the device is used in portrait mode.
2. The front and center Dell logo seems out of place and decidedly not classy.
GFL12

It can hardly be called an iPad killer or anything else this early. But it is very interesting to watch. They can do some pretty slick things with that UI. I like the timing too – if Apple stays on an annual iPad refresh scedule the way they have with iPhone (my poor wallet) – early 2011 may be a good time to have seen this thing as a choice prior to jumping on iPad 2.0.

Still, the mammoth app and content distribution system that Apple has built is hard for ANY hardware vendor to come in and try to unseat. It’s too mature, and they have too much momentum. Anything else will be niche.
mike turner

Along with the Dell product comes Dell customer service. I buy Apple products for many reasons, and excellent Apple customer service is one. I had a problem with my mac book pro, and my computer was picked up on Monday by Fedex, repaired on a Tuesday, shipped back on Wednesday and I had it back in my hands on Thursday. I don’t care what Dell sells, their customer service is no longer a match for Apple.
http://joseq.com JoseQ

Well, what Dell is really known for outside of computers is inexpensive devices that take a small portion of an existing market. You can see this in their monitors, printers, switches and their attempts at PDAs and MP3 players, which I’m sure a lot of people have completely forgotten by now.

This device will look to be catching up to the existing iPad right around the time Apple introduces a newer/better iPad (video-conferencing anyone?). So Dell will really have to do what they do best, and sell theirs cheap.

It is hard to compete with the Apple Store, but if this is running Android, it will at least have a good foot inside the door for apps. If they’re doing everything from scratch, then they should already forget about it.
http://www.freeipadapps.net FreeiPadApps.Net

Tons have tried to imitate the iPod and all of these imitators have come up with inferior products.

However, it’s interesting how iPad imitators will do. While the iPad is new and “revolutionary” – it’s long term success is ultimately on third party developers to supply awesome apps.

Since Dell and many others will likely run off a Chrome OS/Android OS hybrid – many imitators will have access to Android and Chrome developer apps – a smaller but still quality market for apps.