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Dell Streak Pricing

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via [engadget.com](http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/10/dell-streak-on-sale-august-13-for-300-on-atandt-contract-550-wi/)
So this oversized phone is more expensive than any other Android phone on the market, and yet it’s running an old version (1.6) of the OS?

Alternately, you can think of it as a “small tablet”, in which case it’s more expensive than the cheapest iPad (unless you want to be roped into a two-year contract), with a much smaller screen and not nearly as much choice in high-quality applications.

Oh, and the 3G provider is AT&T.

Exactly who is going to buy this thing? What phone user wouldn’t rather have a Droid X on Verizon, and what tablet user wouldn’t rather have an iPad? Or better yet, a much cheaper iPod Touch?

Apple is going to have a very good holiday quarter this year. They literally have no competition for the iPad, despite all those devices that were demoed at CES BEFORE the iPad was even announced. They sent every other tech company back to the drawing board, and none of them has come up with anything yet.

It astounds me that Dell doesn’t realize that the current iPhone and iPad form factors were carefully chosen for a reason. Something in between like the Streak is good for neither tablet computing nor phone use.