Dell's Streak MID Disassembled and Photographed
Teardowns are always fun to look at, and this one is no exception. However, it is a little bit different in that this is a smartphone teardown like no other. What you're looking at are the insides of the Dell Streak.
The Dell Steak has turned quite a few heads since the beginning of this year. It's only just recently hit retailer's shelves but that doesn't mean people weren't completely taken in by the MID when word of the device first hit during CES. With its 5-inch display, it was almost too large to be a smartphone, but it was definitely too small to be a tablet. And besides, if it makes phone calls and sends text messages, doesn't it deserve to be called a phone?
As usual the fine folks over at iFixit are on hand to help us make sense of the inner-workings of this device. Does the teardown help us decide whether we're going to call it an MID, a smartphone, or a superphone? Not really, but it sure does make for excellent gadget porn.









AT&T works the same as any other network around where I live. Verizon is just puffing smoke. I use AT&T and while I don't like the company a whole lot, it does the same job as any of the others (T-Mobile, Verizon, and whatever other ghetto brands are still out there)
The difference is that I have my doubts as to whether or not ATTs network actually sucks or has it been the fault of 4 generations of crappy Apple antennas?
Anyone have a smartphone that isn't Apple and is on ATT? I'd like to know what you think?
But this looks like just a big phone.
Personally I find the 3.7" size perfect. Big enough to comfortably browse the web in landscape mode, small enough that you can hold it to your head without looking like an idiot.
Holding a phone to your ear to talk is so 20th century. Get with the times buddy and get a Bluetooth earpiece. Best invention for the phone. My phone stays in my pocket when I talk. Just don't buy a cheap one.
I have had a Nokia e71, Blackberry Bold, and Nokia e72, as well as an iPhone 3g on the AT&T network. The Nokia's were by far the best in terms of maintaining a signal, Blackberry second, and the iPhone so bad that I had to return it twice in one month before I decided to get rid of it.
you gotta love the modularity of the damn thing though, @jecastej this level of modularity allows for a future upgrade path for dell, leaving extra spaces allows them to accommodate new IC boards without the need to redesign the whole device, this reminds me of a teardown i done on a Motorola rizr, didn't think much of the phone but i loved how they used connectors that were easy to pop of and plugin again with worrying about tearing the plastic ribbons to pieces, good times.....
I use my friends EVO and I LOVE it, I'm a big guy, all the tiny phones just feel as if they will break if I hold them too tightly. The EVO feels much better to me and about the right size, I have a feeling this one would be perfect for me, it def won't be completely covered in my hands when I talk and won't feel like I can crush it if I close my hand. If it were on Sprint I would be getting the Streak, but Dell decided to go AT&T