Quartet of Dell Streaks spotted in the wild in Seattle, testing for AT&T
By Tim Stevens 
posted May 20th 2010 10:33AM
posted May 20th 2010 10:33AM
It's not often you see four unreleased gadgets rather unceremoniously attached to a plank of wood on the sidewalk, but that's exactly what Seattle Times blogger Brier Dudley spotted: four Dell Streaks all in a row. AT&T network technicians were apparently verifying performance of the devices on the company's 3G network and also ensuring their ability to send accurate e-911 information. Among the four was a bright crimson model, but sadly the pink and orange versions we're holding out for were not present on this particular piece of timber. We should be just a few weeks away from the Streak going fully public, at which point you can hopefully find something a little more suitable to which to attach yours.
[Thanks, Kris Hill]
If i saw some standing like that outside in a parking lot with that many phones, then i'd tackle them thinking they're launching a secret nuke code.
@Psyg someone*
@Psyg He's using it to open the portal for Walternate to get his son back.
@N900
+100 for the Fringe reference.
It wouldn't work....atts network would drop the call
@Psyg
Isn't the iPhone the only reason one would want to be overpaying on the crappy AT&T network? Then again, why would anyone want to be overpaying on the crappy AT&T network? I love you Sprint.
@N900 I love Fringe!
@Psyg
what's fringe? i wanna laugh too :(
Will the Bishops ever learn?
@skyblaze
Sucks your internet doesn't have Google :(.
It's a TV show.
@JamesR
nah, just too lazy to google atm =)
@N900 I cant stop laughing...
@ruralDROIDvzw That's why Dell needs to push that T-Mobile version that cleared the FCC. I want it now :(
Hopefully he takes a break at local bar
@MattsZ
he could take a break anywhere for all i care
...so long as he accidentally leaves the Streaks right where they are =)
@skyblaze
Nah the bars here in Seattle are pretty nice, I left my phone once I found it there two days later
-Steve
Sent from my kin
@JeremyBenthem
Wow a kin user on engadget. With all the bashing on from this website I thought I'd never see it...
@JeremyBenthem Pretty sure your phone was still there because it's a kin and nobody wants it.
@redhed
I think that was the joke.
@redhed HAHA COMPLETELY TRUE +100,000,000
@Professor Hubert J Farnsworth
I was trying to be Steve Balmer of Microsoft, guess no one got it
@JeremyBenthem
Oh, sorry.
i wonder if they run 2.1 or 1.6 still.
@PrinceAli
It was a 2.1 phone they said before.
@PrinceAli
It's supposed to ship with 1.6 and then get an OTA update to 2.1 around September.
How do I get all these streaks off my screen?
@Luke
...and into my pocket, I should add.
@Luke
clever...
Can't trust AT&T .. Will mess android to it's best :p
@teknoi Can't trust Dell, allowing AT&T to mess their devices.
I think that about sums up AT&T's networks...a tripod, a piece of wood, and a computer...
@From My Cube
LOL
@From My Cube
sick, sick burn.
@From My Cube The tripod is necessary so that they can raise it ten feet higher. Perhaps then they'll actually get a 3G signal.
@From My Cube
LMFAO!!! Funniest thing I've heard all week, thanks!
"All together now!"
Instant robbery.
I hereby forbid AT&T from streaking in public. Especially upon bare wood.
I just realized that I have the exact same tripod. Very random indeed.
@wildthing
And I have the same exact piece of wood. What are the odds?!
@joe23521
and i'm breathing the exact same air! revolutionary!
I so want one of these, but I absolutely refuse to suffer through another device on AT&T.
DON'T BE FOOLED!! This is the doomsday device being tested in Seattle. He is testing mini wormholes 300ft above him and sucking in large birds in preparation for a 2012 annihilation. If you see him again, PLEASE stomp all his equipment!!
Oh to be an intern and have to do this type of stuff.
Thought streaking in public went out in the 70s!?
Steve Jobs: "Oh shoot, why didnt i think of that?? Multitasking!"
1 year later
Steve Jobs: "Ladies and Gentlemen, i bring you the iBoard. Connect your iPads, iPod, iTouch, iPhone and even your Apple TV all one device!! Truly magical folks"
I've held a near final version of this phone. 1.6 running some sort of customized UI. Back of the phone looks great, phone feels good in hand, but holy bezel on the front, my god. Just tons of it due to the somewhat odd angles at the top an bottom of the phone. 3.2 inch screen is just what you'd expect from it. Solid phone, but nothing amazing at all. Kind of a let down as Dell's first android phone really. I can't say I'd recommend this to any tech guy. Your first smartphone user? maybe. Just seems there is a lot better out there.
@dannyyboyy yeah just ignore what I said... This is the streak, not the Aero... derrrrrrr
Release the damn phone already!!!!
@chodaboy19 mad props homie.
I'm dying waiting for this thing. And it looks like AT&T is NOT going to bloat this guy up. One demo i saw on youtube with the Dell VP of Mobile said that Dell has skinned Android heavily leading me to believe that At & t is not going to mess it up.. but i'm usually wrong to my detriment