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Behind the Scenes: Dell on the Streak

2010-08-10
what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here about a month and a half ago had the chance actually go to dell's campus in texas and get a chance to walk through and sort of see how Dell works talk to him about their customer service and certainly in the time has passed I have unboxed and looked at probably when the flagship smartphones a dell streak you've seen my review of you see my unboxing obviously my software comparisons I've seen really everything about it but what is Della think about the device themselves during one of the street meetings I was able to bring in my camera and actually show what Dell executives say about what they think about it than you I was filming so it's kind of interesting to sort of hear it from the inside and I sort of asked some questions about how the cleanse position it with the iphone how they view sort of Apple and Android in general I was very interesting it's sort of hear the opinions straight from the horse's mouth so to speak so I hope you enjoy the footage and i'll see you in the next video bye bye some android-based tablet five inches yeah let's connect my turn off oh oh it came on and so you guys know about mastering that demo Steven and I are going to be walking around getting a few of your reactions on videos you first pick on the streak and interact with the street sorry I so cannot be a real quickly the development of Asia rounds we try to achieve a couple different things first of all what some people don't know is we wanted to do this so act as a funny we also wanted to do this bit and the other part is we wanted to create a great mobile web browsing experience that showcase that the web is the publisher independent so one of the challenges on smaller smaller smartphone or devices and look at the web page they don't really always look like they should on laptop but that's good cook is need to find the right balance of a large enough screen is something that's all support so I want to show you what kind of my if you look here you've got this home knock but I have at my house that I with one cable to the TV and think about how many you guys live in the city you finally take suddenly work trying to kill time but it's the movies on here and your home you having me like 20 minutes left your movie you want to finish it if you cook dinner sources one button but in my gosh buggers to sabotage my so that's right your you can watch it's a great experience let's say you get like you know refer to a movie but you really want to watch rest of it by doing something else one cut just one button what resolution does it export 720p another something sure can't go higher this is actually for about a thousand people from the phrase is racer master it were provided a unit as a beta tester and so we did is we completed customers dude so if android window that you can have multiple home screens right you can customize them with whatever pictures you want or widgets applications so for this to get a thousand people some idiots and you complete your custom honest with their pictures but then crossing the finish one videos of them running hey this was a this is a new segment that the kmt here Houston taped a Tiny's was so what my actual creative things that I use this for is it's my navigation my GPS device in my car we have you know accessories like a doctor can you teleconference attend to but can you skype with it too I got a conference well we're talking to another guy communications companies we're not ready to kind of all of our partners it does have a front facing than ever there right yes are facing eg a 5-megapixel what's the process Qualcomm Snapdragon does it support flash it will it a little support flashed end up the one when frodo comes out so one of the great things about devices you can buy two it's not have all the great you know technology do for you that you want today but it's going to be prepared Wow so some of those devices you by then it simply updated it you know in a month right this will support all over the air update so when the carrier pushes out the android update froyo which is to do doc too i think then this will support and then flash 10 dot one is dependent on freud so you'll be able to get those updates right resolution video yeah Wi-Fi yes sorry Wi-Fi bluetooth I have my stick right here something for right now handwriting recognition now it's a pets classic if we do want to harkins mushrooms there there are apps sure your ass bro street is there any is there to catch ya on the side so there's our pots so touch the homeowner in turn can feel it so on the front you have your back button your menu key and your home fighting so it's a real quick if you get like five windows in my skin I came up screams quick touch when today they're cool buttons is just like on your web browser works tab browsing on you can open up close one browser down to go surgery or something else true it's you know you can be browsing talking the fun at the same time you don't have to close one and then I so you've got a good marketing going down much how many thousands of apps occurred there queuing up about an extra 10 grand ten thousand thousand month or something like that so it's growing incredible developers are on board this credits the first one I know internationally it's been picked up by international carriers is any carrier announcement in the US they're all be later this summer so so May twenty-fifth we launched with 0 tues the carrier in the UK and carphone warehouse's the retailer so you can buy off Oh to calm the two retail stores or the carphone warehouse burrito okay or online and I mentioned to to my audience that I was coming to look at gels my building I had a few questions that I promised I would ask ok so the first one that I would ask is is dell planning on entering the mobile space permanently and it's been served little forays here and there is Della something that Dells committed to wear here we have a whole business unit called communication solutions group that that all these devices are coming and the next question they want to ask is how does the dell team view the iphone 4 and head of a few sort of apples design as well then what cocktails so the question would be considered a product like the iphone 4 to be direct competitor or something like this or is it something that's in a completely different markets here and what what market are you trying to target with it sort of seems like an in-between well though I just like I said before we really wanted to create a product that that was capable of providing great web browsing experience but also what you don't see in some of the other tablets is the ability to do this to making phone calls and okay if I mean it's the form factor and the weight really great on you hold this product and play with it larger tablets that are coming out now that they're heavy hearted whole so the emotion days or whatever taxing and this one factory things really right typically you see this is a ultra high resolution display you can see a full web page on the on the display so skinny scrolling what's the screen resolution and does it have an accelerometer yes yes so it'll turn as you return okay and I won't do this doing here cuz it always scares me and I know it's be able to do it but it does have what's called gorilla glass so it's super resistant to scratches and I've given the demo probably about 20 or 30 times in it I you know I've only got so many four-leaf clovers in that pocket not I just prefer oh this is this is my house it's a yeah it's great i know some of the guys that work on the product team I mean they take pens and they're just jamming people are what are you doing it again this really is a whop whop whop said you know you can get fun too I mean it's really optimizer I'm did it first invoice second whereas you know if you want something smaller silence your phone we've got smarter close to have you over here than I can pass around as well and it is this is the first in the streak product line correct so you know we're continually investing and looking at others you know the reform factors depending on what the usage needs are that we hear from folks like you and end up in our carrier partners you know we'll continue to monitor them feedback and and it's team that the mad scientist over here will definitely cook something up there so I'm a mystic with dessert street date in the price for it later this summer in us it's already available in the UK okay we haven't what do you want you paid first you know to be a number of reasons we've had a relationship with o2 for quite some time it was back in December actually telefonica which is their current company but i think what folks need to remember though is a global company right and depending on the carrier in the region and the government rules there are a lot of different cycle comments for getting a certified through the equivalent of FCC here or the carrier's also want to make sure their customers have a great experience so they may want to put it in their labs for you know anywhere from eight to 16 weeks whereas different carriers may have digital my time so it's really combination with many things done where we want to launch its just like fisting time this is this is a global product ready you're going to see it show up every Coosa I bet idea probably 15 to 20 25 emails a day from focusin in France and Germany and Singapore everybody except we're doing sport I I know there isn't a carrier announcement yet but the unlock device does support AT&T 3g networks in the US correct I have 18 x 18 too soon in here right now some folks that are on our beta team I think they're under G t-mobile 0 this what soda okay will be sold unlocked or just carrier yeah it really depends when we make those announcer to make those details right but also I mean if you looked at if you look at like 02 you can buy the product without without a contract it's it's not unlocked without so you can't think to the carrier's stop x 42 but you know again you guys know I would say like pricing I was interested in pricing that again will be announced when we make our nest occur in the US but I know with our partners 02 depending on the contractor by others there's some contract options where the device actually they it's free if you you know if you and I think it's 349 369 pounds out of contrast which we floated about something you
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