Dell Looking Glass tablet leaks: Tegra 2 coming your way in November

We'd already heard that Dell was working on larger tablets, and tonight's huge leak brought us tons of info on the Looking Glass, a seven-inch big brother to the Streak 5 that's due out in November. For starters, it's running Android 2.1 on a Tegra 2 processor, with an optional TV tuner module so you can watch ATSC or DVB-T programming on the seven-inch 800x480 display -- the same resolution as the Streak, which is sort of weak. In addition, the render on the slide shows an AT&T U-verse browser, though, which is interesting -- too bad there's no more info about it. RAM is pegged at 4GB, with another 4GB of flash for storage and an SDHC slot for up to 32GB of expansion, and there's a 1.3 megapixel camera. Yep, it's pretty much just a bigger Streak with a different, potentially awesomer processor -- imagine how slick you'll look with this bad boy held to your face on a call.

Dell Looking Glass tablet leaks: Tegra 2 coming your way in November

[KeegdnaB Posted Apr 21st 2010 9:35PM]

Who is this awesome new company with amazing and rediculously sexy new wares and what did they do with Dell?

[Hexen302 Posted Apr 21st 2010 9:42PM]

They need to bring Dell dude back!!!

[justlooking Posted Apr 21st 2010 9:42PM]

Exactly what I've been waiting for. I'm very much looking forward to this one.

[sinkingshriek Posted Apr 21st 2010 9:45PM]

X5 COMBOOOOOO

[bobewreckem Posted Apr 21st 2010 9:45PM]

i fucks wit michael dell heavyyy
dey gets all my monies

[bobewreckem Posted Apr 21st 2010 9:48PM]

is whats pictured on their just a render?or hulu app?=D

[Wesley Posted Apr 21st 2010 9:51PM]

Ahh I was hoping that this would be a Tegra 2 powered smartphone :(

Probably like the streak you can make calls with it, but it is too big to carry in your pocket

[zillah Posted Apr 21st 2010 9:52PM]

4gb of RAM? But why??

[nswprop Posted Apr 22nd 2010 8:16PM]

@zillah
fast

[ibransond Posted Apr 21st 2010 9:55PM]

is the camera in the front the 1.3mp? any back camera?

[marsmissions Posted Apr 21st 2010 9:58PM]

So uh....I don't want to read all of this dell news.....

Where is my iPhone news?

[brnkcv Posted Apr 21st 2010 10:02PM]

4GB of RAM, really? Certainly you mean ROM!

[nswprop Posted Apr 22nd 2010 8:30PM]

@brnkcv
They printed 4GB RAM and 4GB ROM, i seriously think its an error, but will go crazy if its really shipped with 4G RAM!!

[nik Posted Apr 21st 2010 10:03PM]

Is Dell going all out tonight?

"Introducing...the Dell Gangbang."

[Thor e Posted Apr 21st 2010 10:07PM]

Well its got to be better than the apple gimick but I'm still not sure where the tablet fits in the market other than just a fun thing.

[Mrwirez Posted Apr 21st 2010 10:09PM]

IPAD KILLER.. Just feels good saying that..

[SiLeNt KNighT Posted Apr 21st 2010 10:54PM]

@Mrwirez

It's funny because if apple made the iPad have have cr@ppy tech like this thing does people would actually have an excuse to hate the iPad. For now we'll just leave it to fanboys that hate apple because their mom made them eat apples when they were little...or whatever reason they like to use. This thing from Dell is more like a fisher price killer.

[EL MAESTRO Posted Apr 22nd 2010 12:03AM]

@SiLeNt KNighT
lmao @ fisher price killer.

[HoldenMccrotch Posted Apr 22nd 2010 5:17AM]

@SiLeNt KNighT
yeah, i mean, this things camera SUCKS compared to the ipads, oh wait...

yeah, just repeat that sentence, but for everything the ipad contains :)
ipad is poor quality, old processor, poor ram, lack of connectivity (both wirelessly and wired versions :)) and rip off software.

but heck, obviously this thing sucks compared to it...

[nswprop Posted Apr 23rd 2010 1:11PM]

@SiLeNt KNighT
We don't care about truth, reality and specifications, Apple simply rulez no-matter what! Even Dell's slate wins on all fronts and even back, but Fanboys still can make IPAD rulez!!

[camerondearsley Posted Apr 21st 2010 10:12PM]

So much Dell today!!!
(engadget. com/blockdell

[katmaikni Posted Apr 21st 2010 10:18PM]

Hate to nickpick, but the slide say 4Gb for RAM and Flash, while 32GB for removable...
That's 4Gb is 512 megaBYTES guys... which is more reasonable though.

[HowardtheDuck Posted Apr 21st 2010 10:23PM]

Why are all of Dell's thins on AT&T? I mean, is there anybody out there who actually likes AT&T? I don't think so. There phones are great, but who cares about the phones when you can't call on them?

[SiLeNt KNighT Posted Apr 21st 2010 11:00PM]

@HowardtheDuck

I rarely have problems with AT&T. When Verizon gets 8 million new iPhone users per quarter i guarantee they won't seem as "dependable". iPhones account for over .5% of all Internet usage while the Android market as a whole accounts for .04%. Huuuuuge difference in bandwidth.

[palomosan Posted Apr 21st 2010 10:53PM]

Dell is dealing.

[palomosan Posted Apr 21st 2010 10:55PM]

The only bad thing I see here is that all of those frequencies are to be AT&T, that's a bad thing.

[gepeto Posted Apr 21st 2010 10:56PM]

Now that Sun is owned by Oracle, I'd be scared of releasing something called like that..

[Ed T Posted Apr 21st 2010 10:58PM]

800 x 480? Thanks for playing Mr. Dell, you and your "optional TV tuner" (LOL) can go home now.

[bachviet Posted Apr 21st 2010 11:08PM]

Screw the Mini 5. I am getting this 7" Dell tablet instead.

[Protokol Posted Apr 21st 2010 11:54PM]

Their mobile efforts are admirable, but will a sizable portion of the population actually buy any of these products? My guess is no. Their product line-up seems convoluted. Sure, choice is a good thing, but when a slew of products are offered, customer service and quality control typically go out the window.

[politicalslug Posted Apr 22nd 2010 12:19AM]

The spec sheet has to be wrong. A resolution of 800x480 at 7" running on a Tegra2? At that resolution on a screen that size you'd easily be able to distinguish individual pixels. It would look horrible and make text virtually unreadable. And that resolution certainly wouldn't require the use of Tegra2. My guess is you guys misread the resolution but got the correct SoC.

[politicalslug Posted Apr 22nd 2010 12:22AM]

@politicalslug

I stand corrected. The spec sheet is all over the place though. Giving memory sizes in gigabits instead of gigabytes. And seriously, this screen is going to look like utter garbage with a resolution that low on a screen that large. Perhaps the PR folks making the announcement screwed up.

[Raytem Posted Apr 22nd 2010 12:40AM]

Why all these tablets hitting market so hard after iPad release? Why does it have to be after Apple does something? There were touch screen phones there before but iPhone changed the market. There were tablets there before but iPad will change the market. Good luck for Dell. As much as it sucks with its support hopefully it doesn't disappoint its costumers again. You go all PC fanboys, it does have everything that you cried about that iPad doesn't have now it better take over the world.

[Winters75 Posted Apr 22nd 2010 1:06AM]

I wonder if a Dell engineer will lose one of these tablets in a bar and Gizmodo will buy it..

[BoomHeadshot Posted Apr 22nd 2010 11:51AM]

Looks really great, is actually something I'm interested in. At 7", it would be a great device for around the house. Recipes, watching news while eating breakfast in bed, quickly showing someone a video "they have to see" on youtube, even comfortable browsing the web on the couch. We'll have to see which size works best for this (5", 7", 10").

[AlwaysThere Posted Apr 22nd 2010 1:57PM]

They've got to up the resolution on that thing.

[Pacooter63 Posted Apr 22nd 2010 3:15PM]

The TV tuner accessory looks to be of dubious value, at least in my area... ATSC reception is tenuous at best, given the relatively low transmitter power, short range, high directionality, and the all-or-nothing nature of digital broadcasts. Even with an external antenna.

[samipower Posted Jun 24th 2010 1:43PM]

NILAY PATEL you say : imagine how slick you'll look with this bad boy held to your face on a call.

but i think that it is not true because in specifications i can not see that dell streak 7 inch can call , gsm/umts mobile??

dell streak 5 inch , yes can call , but dell streak 7 inch not call

and a-gps use 3g, dell 7 inch have not gps

dell 5 inch yes hace gps and agps

dell streak dvb-t not internal are external optional i can read.