Gadgetory

hey guys it's jeff Farina with pocketnow.com and so far you've seen us unbox the dell streak give you a software overview video that shows you the custom interface that dell is implemented as well as give you an in-depth look at the hardware that makes up the device well now it's time to take a look at some of the applications including the browser and a few of these social networking applications that make this device what it is so let's go ahead and get started alright now we're back and we're going to go ahead and jump into some tests and kind of show you how this device performs using certain applications and first up is going to be the YouTube application which we're going to actually show you the video playback performance as well as I kind of want to give you an example of how that speaker sounds so we're going to go ahead and pull up the YouTube application here and we'll search for pocket now of course what we'll do is we'll just pick any random video will select this one here in the very top I'm sure it's hard to hear someone hold it up to my lapel mic and I hope you can tell once again pulling up to my lapel mics it was a little bit easier for you to hear but it sounds brandon has a very distinct voice and it sounds almost like he's swimming underwater it sounds like the speakers on the verge of blowing and it's not turned up all the way either when you turn up all the way obviously it gets worse as the gain increases so that's something Adele really really I mean again this could just be this device here but if it's not if it's with its device wide and III we've heard issues before with this particular device with the speaker if it is Dell Streak wide that's something i don't really drop the ball on hopefully it's just this device but hey we'll see what happens now going back to the playback here as you can see we'll go ahead and we'll actually fast forward a little bit here as you can see the frame rate actually is not bad at all it's keeping up no problem despite the fact that it's happening to power that 5-inch screen you see there's some pretty fast motion it doesn't appear to have the HQ button down here in the right corner however it does play the video back without an issue at all with a decent framerate another great element of the 5-inch screen on the dell streak is going to be in the email application typically with the android devices you have to actually pan and zoom in order to see your entire email i have to pan left and right that sort of thing however the 5-inch screen here really gives you some real estates actually see the entire email for what it is without having to move left and right as you can see here we have an email from gamestop and it gives us all of the information without having to actually undo move left and right in the email application and that's really great as you can see here we can't go left and right fortunately can't zoom it will try and do is will actually hold it in the vertical position here and it looks like we now have the ability yes to go left and right like on typical Android devices some ability to zoom however what this basically means is that if you are i power email user and a lot of your emails contain a lot of graphics maybe some HTML code pictures or just a very large body of text and you want to see the entire email about having to pan and zoom left and right this is going to allow you to be very efficient because of that another application that has actually gained a lot of attention lately is the facebook application for android and that is because it recently received an update so go ahead and opening up this application here you will see that facebook and their developers need to actually rework house is going to work on some devices because we do not have a landscape mode and we will actually hold the device up here even shake it it won't go into landscape mode at all so we're stuck with the vertical which looks identical to what you're going to get on any other android device just a little bigger you have a little more space that you're really not going to utilize you still the ability to scroll through some recent pictures here check your newsfeed that sort of things so really getting to utilize the full aspect of this screen comes down to some of the developers of certain applications and of course you want to go ahead and take a look at the browser now right now we're connected to a Wi-Fi network so we have pretty solid connection we're going to go ahead and open up the browser here it will bring us to our homepage that is Google and then from there we're going to go to pocket now as you can see here right to the Wildfire review that we recently did and it loads fairly quickly but it also loads the pages of holes you can see here you do want to zoom out just a little bit and that's likely because the last time we were browsing we actually had zoomed in on a picture but you can see the entire webpage very very clearly you can read the text without an issue at all so if you were actually holding this phone in front of you right now you can clearly read this paragraph without having to zoom in at all you can zoom totally zoomed out stay totally zoomed out and see all of your text without an issue that makes the browsing experience much easier you do have the multi-touch support as always to zoom right in however the tech sticks a little bit to render when you actually zoom in and out it actually has to render the text changing in the size so you'll get a little bit of a blur until that actually fully renders you can also use the browser of course in the vertical mode which will then require you to pan zoom the whole nine yards but once again as you can see here you can fit the entire website and a decent aspect ratio and now it's time for a gaming test we have raging thunder loaded on both devices here which are the HTC evo 4g and of course the dell streak so we're actually going to go ahead and start a race on both these devices at the same exact time and we'll see which one performs better in terms of frame rate whatever it may be or if they perform the same or else of that you can actually see if the menu here is much easier to read because it is actually much more clear and much wider to the resolution of the device one side note we typically test with asphalt however the asphalt racing is only compatible with Android 2.1 up and of course the dell streak only has one point six so we had to use raging thunder now these are both running at the same exact time going to zoom in here just a little quickly so you can actually see it almost looks as though the colors are a little clearer on the dell streak as far as the detail goes it also looks like the detail on the streak may be a little bit clearer on the car itself you can see some of the fender accents a little bit clearer but that may be because of the fact that it's a bigger screen they've more to work with as far as frame rate goes however it is a close close competition here this game likely doesn't go past 30 frames per second so you're really not going to see a difference between these two devices overall the experience on the streak may be a little better for gaming that's because the screen is bigger it's very close to the dsi XL so this is actually more of a portable gaming system for you by having a bigger screen however you can't go wrong with either the two options here and there you have it thank you for watching everyone please give us a thumbs up and leave a comment if you have any suggestions or questions stay tuned for the next and final video in the series which will be our final word in our full review on the dell streak there will also be a long posting on pocketnow.com so be sure to check there for the full review