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what's up everyone John rhett endure from TechnoBuffalo here and I want to give you a software and hardware overview of the Dell Streak as this guy gets ready for its safe Sun release I want to help you decide whether or not it's going to be the smartphone and tablet for you so the Dell Streak is proven to be a very polarizing device just by reading through the comments on TechnoBuffalo in a YouTube channel people either love it and are drooling over the screen size or thinking there's no way that you go to carry a 5 inch tablet with them on a previous video I showed how it's gonna work in shorts and pants whether or not it's gonna be pocketable and how it'll look up to your face hour regardless about how you feel about it there's no doubt the streak is drawing a lot of interest that's sort of the first phone tablet hybrid and this is sitting at a 5 inch screen and sort of give you some sense of perspective to start to tell on camera I'll brain an iPhone 4 hand you can see the size difference so I'll go ahead and pull this back and as mentioned this is indeed a 5 inch screen with a resolution of 480 by 800 starting a Qualcomm one gigahertz Snapdragon chip with 512 megabytes of RAM and 512 of rom and microSD expansion all the stuff you'd expect from a high-end smartphone so let's talk a little bit about the hardware as well are you gonna get a front-facing VGA camera for video chat or take picture of your video can you sprint or another third party of your choice you've got three Android buttons here you notice that they actually are aligned for landscape orientation this does have an accelerometer while you're using the operating system itself the accelerometer is not support its you're always going to be in portrait hence the buttons are aligned almost facing downwards so you've got a home button a menu button and a back button on the top of the device which could also be the right hand side opinion how you're looking at it is where all your buttons are going to be 3.5 milimeter headset jack volume rocker power and lock and a camera switch the bottom is where you've got Dells proprietary connector it's the only way to connect it to power or the sync to your computer on the back you have a five megapixel camera with dual LED flash removable battery which is a little bit over 1500 milliamp hours and a speaker grille sort of hidden right behind that removable back overall it's a very nice phone it feels built quality feels very nice and is relatively thin despite its size let's take a look at the home screen and sort of what Dell is done this is running Android 1.6 Dell hasit will be upgradable to a more recent version of Android presumable 2.2 but for right now you are using a skinned Android 1.6 so because this has such a high amount of screen real estate Dell did a very nice job customizing the top menu bar on traditional Android devices you pull down the terrain you can see our notifications well that is present here on the street instead of taking it to the next level so you've got sort of a wide variety of sort of trays I suppose that you can pull down here so the left as we're gonna get your menu so you can actually limit that and then pull up your most recent or most viewed and if you want to get more go ahead and of course hit more or less moving on over here you can get access to Dells what they call rooms and each screen here supports up to 6 is technically called a room and go ahead and have that you can close or add rooms so we've got five open right here and go ahead and open another one each one will support its own background as well as you can see it's sort of scrolling and also you can see and as I move around the dots up top right here signify what room I meant now I'm at the very end if I scroll over it'll jump back sort of your home room or whatever your bedroom if you want to call it aesthetically the second one from the left and if you hit the home button and it'll jump you all the way back there so moving on over we have notifications for all of your phone functions so alarm battery and the rest of them and this next one here the actually I skipped over is where all of your tradition on vacations would be this would be what you're familiar with an Android device where your emails would show up wherever it is you had said this is where the notifications would be right here on the top so the customization doesn't really stop there Dell is sort of encapsulated all the icons as you can sort of see a browser Zen zone box Maps market and the rest and of course being an Android device you do have full access to the Android Marketplace and the applications do scale or the screen size to get in scroll through and it's very smooth now on a device this big you're probably wondering as I was how it was reading text going to look and I'll come for all the server again and they final review I just want to give you a bit of demonstration so here we are on TechnoBuffalo you can see that things are very bright a scrolling is very smooth I've had some Gregg's with the scrolling on Android devices in the past this one is buttery smooth and works really well see the physics engine depending on how fast and with my finger this responds very nicely a pinch-to-zoom is supported oh that's not as smooth bacon so state that does work and there's a lot that you can view sort of on one screen this is a screen where you can use the accelerometer rotate it and if you want to view a page like this viewing text serve in this aspect mixed need straight going to be a fantastic ebook reader now with Kindle apps and Nook apps you've access to just a ton of books on Android devices and this may be a perfect screen size to start reading books a 4.3 maybe a bit small 3.7 maybe a bit small five-inch is really a nice sort of compromise let's go ahead and jump back and take a look at some of the other dell customizations because of course there are a few more I'll show you what some of them look like here let's go ahead and take a look at some of the dell widgets of course we'll hold down the screen and I should mention the reiterate in case you're wondering this is a capacitive touchscreen sort of most all modern smartphones are let's go ahead and jump into widgets and are some sort of Dell customized widgets there's a Facebook widget you've got some Adel RSS feed calendar widget sort of some nice additions Twitter they've included here right out of the box nothing revolutionary that Dell is done here they've left Android mostly untouched they're big customizations however are this bars across the top which really are nice especially having a screen this big it lends itself to a lot of utility on a smaller more traditional phone you couldn't have these separate sections on your device so let me go ahead and remind you guys one more time have a go aura or house them all it's mine means you sort of make up your mind with it's right for you so here we got the Detroit X a 4.3 inch phone and you can see that there is just a bit of size difference there as well go ahead and zoom out just a little bit so if you're considering getting a Droid X or another 4.3 inch phone for example the Evo 4G notice at that point 7 inches is present but it's not that larger made from a 3.5 inch foam with the iPhone to the 5 inch is much bigger about the transition from 4.3 to 5 is nothing really earth-shattering any guys hope you enjoyed this sort of overview hardware and software of the Dell Streak as you decide whether or not this is going to be right for you and just sort of a quick recap this unit is going to be available unlocked from devil sometime they here it does support 18 T's 3g ban your main no word on the novel supports t-mobile's 3g bans or perhaps a CDMA model may be released for Verizon or Sprint really no word on that quite yet I suspect we'll hear something in the next few weeks ago sir you're up and get close to a full release of the Dell Streak so I am John Retton jerk from TechnoBuffalo check out the website for tech news and give me a follow on Twitter for some exclusive content at twitter.com slash John for Lakers links all the stuff will be down below and doobly-doo cool it to the vlogbrothers I'm John Rhett injure and I'll see ya in the next video buh-bye you