THE DELL STREAK – A MINI TABLET BETWEEN A SMARTPHONE AND IPAD

The US got the iPad first but the UK will get the Dell Streak before the rest of the world.

Designed to fit in your shirt pocket, The Dell Streak will be the choice of many who want the portability and functionality of a netbook/tablet but the size of a smartphone.

Smaller than the 10″ iPad but larger than the iPhone, the Streak has a 5-inch screen, 800×480 resolution,e reader,wifi, 3G, a back- and front-facing 5MP camera with dual LED flash, a HDMI slot, a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor and 2 GB of internal memoryIt will sell on dell’s site in the US for $500 unlocked- about the price of the basic iPad.

More  Dell Streak features:

• A sharp 5-inch capacitive multi-touch WVGA (800×480)
• Fast 1GHz Snapdragon ARM-based mobile processor from Qualcomm
• 5 MP autofocus camera with dual LED flash that offers easy point & shoot capability and quick uploads to YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and more
• VGA front-facing camera
• A removable  battery
• A 3.5mm headphone jack
• Integrated 3G + Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + Bluetooth 2.1
• UMTS / GPRS / EDGE class 12 GSM radio with link speeds of HSDPA 7.2 Mbps / HSUPA
• A user-accessible Micro SD slot expandable up to 32GB.

• A customized multi-touch version of the Google Android operating system that features Dell user interface enhancements
• Access to over 38,000  apps
• Microsoft Exchange connectivity and integration through TouchDown
• Google Voice support
• Integrated Google Maps with voice-activated search, turn-by-turn navigation, street and satellite views
• Quick access to activity streams via integrated social network app widgets like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube

There are two other models with 7″ and 10″ screens with powerful Nvidia Tegra 2 co-processors that will be realeased later in the year.

Check out the video intro for the device at the All Things Digital Conference