Dell 5-inch slate press pics want you to study them

Fresh from the CES vaults comes these images of Dell's 5-inch slate or, as the presser says, the "5-inch tablet concept." It runs Android, it may be called Streak, and we've got hands-on pics of it here. But you're not here for the ad hoc shots full of arms, hands and dirty fingernails; you're here for the glossy press pics, so we won't keep you any longer. Jump into the gallery and get your ogle on.

Dell Tablet Concept

[dedparrot Posted Jan 7th 2010 4:02PM]

@NewL it does you idiot

[glamajamma Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:27PM]

Is this supposed to be a phone?

[ddhboy Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:32PM]

@glamajamma I know right? It certainly looks like a nicer phone than the one they sold to AT&T

[sweet greggo Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:39PM]

@glamajamma

Okay, so someone needs to standardize naming these things. Where does a pmp end and a tablet begin? A 5" screen is too freakin small to be considered a functional computer.

[sweet greggo Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:44PM]

@sweet greggo

NetPad(TM)

Never mind, figured it out myself.

[jerry924 Posted Jan 7th 2010 2:16PM]

@sweet greggo Not so fast... There is a historic demonstration of a fully capable portable computer with a 5" screen... I've seen it working. http://oldcomputers.net/sx64.html

[Spiny Norman Posted Jan 7th 2010 3:57PM]

@jerry924

Ha. My brother still has his SX-64. He fires it up once in a while for old times sake.

[Edmunn Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:27PM]

Let's go jump the band-wagon.

[alecfz Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:28PM]

dayummmmm

[erwin Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:28PM]

it's the slate year...

[Why should I have all the fun Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:36PM]

@erwin

That's MR. Slate to you Flintstone

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/tCfizNYuFKY/0.jpg

[LAY Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:28PM]

Oh yes they call him the Streak!

[ADzurka Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:29PM]

Looks like a blackberry storm but bigger ?

[HyperIntel Posted Jan 7th 2010 4:22PM]

@ADzurka

First thing I thought when i saw it too.

[bachviet Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:29PM]

Not bad looking at all. Slap an AWS band on it and I'm in for one.

[joelaf Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:30PM]

Judges will also accept Smudge or Smear as a correct answer.

[PhineasJW Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:36PM]

Much better color now. But --

Too small for a slate. Too large for a cell phone.

Why not chop 3/4 of an inch off it Dell??

[Firehazel Posted Jan 9th 2010 10:44PM]

@PhineasJW It's hard to justify what category we put it in. How about Personal Connections Device? You can call with it, Check vital mails and socials, surf the net. Like a phone plus a... a...
I don't know!

[WixosTrix Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:38PM]

Now this is a nice (perhaps sexy) looking device. That Dell Mini phone, yuck. This is what that that Dell Mini phone should have looked like instead of the cheap plastic look.

[tazmond Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:43PM]

I'm reading Engadget on one of these right now, except mine says Archos on it...

[tazmond Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:44PM]

@tazmond In case you were wondering-
http://www.archos.com/products/imt/archos_5it/index.html?country=us&lang=en

[tylersmyler Posted Jan 7th 2010 2:42PM]

@tazmond

can yours make phone calls?

[s2m0 Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:48PM]

Looks nice to me.

[streetsmart Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:51PM]

Now is the mighty battle between computer guys and mobile guys.....mobile kept on enlarging and computer kept on miniaturized....lets see who wins this battle

[NewL Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:55PM]

@d no, it really doesn't. Go spam elsewhere.

[NewL Posted Jan 7th 2010 1:57PM]

Looks nice, but it's screensize is just stupid. Too in-between a normal smartphone and a proper tablet.

[TareG Posted Jan 7th 2010 2:38PM]

@NewL
Dell finally hit the hot, useless spot. The HD2 should be as big as a phone is allowed to be. 7" is as small as a tablet should be. 5" is meainingless.

[HighestRanked Posted Jan 7th 2010 2:15PM]

I want to see what this thing is actually meant to do and what it does.

[dedparrot Posted Jan 7th 2010 4:03PM]

@HighestRanked http://www.dellstreak.com/ there's a video of someone using one.

[InnocentEd Posted Jan 7th 2010 2:18PM]

The sideways Home button makes me think not a phone...but who knows

Its def better looking than the Fugly3 that AT&T is getting

[TareG Posted Jan 7th 2010 2:35PM]

With Snapdragon and Android 2.1, it could be "not bad"... but I still long for a front camera, and a keyboard...

[Ed T Posted Jan 7th 2010 2:53PM]

Throw it against the wall, see what sticks - now that's a strategy for success. I think this one has fail written in capital letters.

[dedparrot Posted Jan 7th 2010 4:03PM]

http://www.dellstreak.com/

[dedparrot Posted Jan 7th 2010 4:04PM]

@dedparrot it has a video of someone using it and more info

[jinushaun Posted Jan 7th 2010 4:31PM]

The dimensions make no sense!!! Too small to be a useful tablet, too big to be a phone!

And why does this look a billion times better than the ugly Mini 3?! Argh! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

[htchero Posted Jan 7th 2010 6:21PM]

i think it looks sweet, but not sure what it is. shrink it a lil and call it a phone or stretch a bit and make it a slate. certainly better looking than their phone. am liking it the more i stare at it.