Aha! So this is why the red Dell Streak has been so hard for some people to track down: the cherry casings are hanging out in China and being sold as part of cheap knock-off tablets that surprisingly seem to be packing some pretty decent specs.
The WELLDONE tablet PC/phone hybrid, as I guess it's called, combines a 1.2GHz Cortex A8 processor, 512MB memory, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and 3000mAh removable battery with what appears to be a PDMI connector for charging (and docking?), a mini USB port with OTG host functionality, and HDMI out via an optional and unseen dock. It's all packaged in an 8.07" x 4.25" x 0.56" tablet that features a 7-inch WVGA resistive touchscreen, tips the scales at about 13 ounces, and can be used to make phone calls too.
Wait a minute, a 7-inch screen? So it would seem.
This, of course, means that the often MIA red Streaks were in fact not in China all this time, as the red bodies being used here are actually for Streak 7-alikes that only look like Streak 5s with rotated buttons that prioritize portrait use.
I think it's just a consistent typo, personally, as almost everything about this WELLDONE device looks exactly like a 5-inch Streak.
I guess the only way to find out for sure is to actually buy it; and at a shipped cost of only $216 (one tablet plus shipping through DHL), that may not be such a bad idea.
[AliExpress] Thanks, curtis!
I suspect very much that the “mobile phone function” is more akin to Wifi calling, or it has the Tri-Band GSM (No HPSA) good for China only…
I just did a rough estimation of the length of the screen on this thing based on the comparative size the PDMI port in the photos, and the math only comes close to making sense if it is indeed seven inches on the diagonal.
Wow! Is that a usb port I see!?! OMG! Veeeerrrrryyy tempting!!!! ….DJSteve should look into one so he could port gingerbread! LOL
Btw, if I could get reliable assurance of adequate build-quality and confirmation that it would make calls on the Rogers network in Canada, then I would get this thing in a heartbeat!
those motherflowers!
look where the tiny mic hole is, this makes calls?
any word if that 3000mah battery will fit the streak5?
Now THIS doth look promising . . i’d even get a 7″ for this one O.o
Any word on wether or not it will be available in english or german?
Most likely, with a resistive screen, it doesn’t support multitouch or swiping.
Contrary to JMS’ conclusion, I’d guess this is indeed a 5″ screen based on the “PDMI”(?) port size, the size of the 2 prong (CEE 7/16?) transformer.
The supposed PDMI port is marked “DC IN 5V”. Combined with the USB port for data, which might also support the HDMI over USB standard, makes it questionable as to what this port actually does.
Either way, it would be much more interesting with a capacitive screen, even at $100-$150 more.
It says it supports Multitouch.
Resistive Screen is less responsive.
But not neccessarely bad.
Sorry, but you’re incorrect in your “analysis” regarding the size of this tablet: whatever the actual purpose of the port labelled “DC IN 5V”, a comparison of the size corresponding plug with the female end of the USB cable in the same photo indicates that it is the same size as a standard PDMI port (22 mm) – which makes the opening in the casing about 24 mm, or nearly an inch. As seven of these port-openings would fit end-to-end along the long side of the screen, it’s clear that the screen’s length is slightly less than seven inches. You can google Pythagoras to see how the math works from there . . .
Thats why I gonna move to blackberry tablet and smartphone.i cant take this android emitation drowning all over the place and is cheaper and pack with better spec.they cant do that on blackberry or even ios platform.but I still love my streak 5 and my new blackberry playbook.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. The form factor of the Streak is the best I’ve seen in any mobile device, everyone should be copying it…
7 inch is too big though, unless it comes with a matching high resolution. Even the Streak 5 takes some time to get used to. Plus, this thing looks thicker than the Streak.
I will be ordering it, I have talked to the seller and it can make calls as well as use 2g data plands which is fine because my local carrier only offers 2g and unlimited talk/text/data for $35! I plan on cloning my sim and using this for surfing the web. I will report back when I receive the tablet with my review.
Clone your SIM? Isn’t that a little naughty?….
I bought a gallaxy tab on amazon with full phone function. It rocks! I switch my sim between my streak and tab. How does one clone a sim?
I just learned cloning today’s current sim cards can’t be done.
You learned wrong.
Take it from somebody working for Vodafone . .
Double and Tri Card means you can get 3 identical cards, but only one can be logged in at any time, so the last device you activate can use it, everything else gets booted of the net.
Ultra card means you can get 4 cards with one number, but you can have more than one device logged in at a time. But only one can call, another can surf the web and another can do SMS at the same time.
you can’t have 2 calls at a time or use the web with 2 devices simultanously. But that’s where tethering comes into play anyway.
What 3G bands?
I will probably buy it if Jenn recommends. Though 800×480 is still disappointing – right?
BTW people – have you seen the Galaxy Reader? 5″ wifi device that makes me drool. Just that for some reason its not also a 3G device. Silly Sumsung.
cloned SIM for a cloned tabletphone..
Im going to clone some money…
just kidding
Um… this isn’t a Dell Streak knockoff?
Probably trying to emulate this Galapagos phone: http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/smartphone/product/003sh/feature_1.html
I recognized it right away. There are two versions of it, one that’s like a huge cellphone and one that’s a normal sized cellphone.
in real this set inst worthy of that and i think do what you can but knockoff stands for it
I had a long conversation with the seller and find out the model he is selling now has now sim slot and when they release the version with sim slot it will be $100 more..I passed and ordered a 7″ capacitive screen Dreambook with sim slot off ebay for $197 shipped!(from USA seller no less!) Also, as the other poster noted you can clone certain sims and mine is one that can be so I wont have to exchange the sim back and forth, tethering is fine but I’d rather have a sim in it full time, so, for my carriers $35 unlimited phone/text/data I will have my Streak and a 7″ tablet..not bad
Just read an interesting post on ZDNet about the 4.5″ Samsung Infuse: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/samsung-infuse-4g-are-smartphones-becoming-tablets/48364?tag=nl.e539
What I found interesting wasn’t so much the article itself, which was an asinine repeat of the “smartphones should not be allowed to be bigger than 4 inches” tripe that was prevalent when the Streak-5 came out — rather it was the comments, which seemed to indicate that the appetite for Streak-like smartphones is growing. That would bode well for continued production of the large-screen smartphone form-factor.