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Dell’s five-inch, Android-powered Streak tablet will probably come to a US wireless carrier, and will also be sold unlocked in the US, Dell’s president of communications solutions Ron Garriques said at the D8 conference today.

OCZ has a penchant for doling out new kit at trade shows, and this year’s Computex is no different. The star of the new-release show was the RevoDrive, a PCIe card with between 128GB and 480GB of SSD onboard. The unit we saw here in Taipei was near-final, with a pair of SandForce SF-1200 controllers, a daughter board expansion slot (for possibly combining two in a RAID scenario) and a promised starting price of around $400 to $600 (not to mention read / write times of nearly 540MB/sec). Obviously, this hits well below the multi-thousand dollar PCIe SSD options from Fusion-io and company, and it’s the first time we’ve seen PCIe SSD become even remotely affordable. If all goes well, the RevoDrive will start shipping within a few months. In related news, the company also announced that the Vertex 2 line of solid state solutions will be slimmed down for the 1.8-inch form factor (like you’d find in an iPod classic), but details on pricing or availability were nowhere to be found. Lastly, and potentially most importantly, the company revealed a fresh-out-of-the-lab prototype that could significantly enhance transfer rates from PCIe devices. Codenamed HSDL (high speed data link; shown above), the solution combines an industry standard SAS connector with an OCZ-built PCIe board in order to enable transfer rates as high as 20Gbit/sec. The company said a final product is at least six months out, but it’s already toying with the idea of selling a single and quad-slot card in due time. Peek the gallery below for more of what’s to come.

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Sure, Steve Jobs might be a one-man email PR machine, but his pal Randall Stephenson at AT&T doesn’t appear to be quite as gregarious — as reader Giorgio Galante found out today, sending AT&T’s CEO two emails in two weeks results in a phone call from AT&T’s Executive Response Team and a warning that further emails will result in a cease and desist letter. What did Giorgio’s emails say? The first was a request to bump up his iPhone eligibility date and a request for a tethering option, and today’s outlined his displeasure with AT&T’s new data rates and ultimate decision to switch to Sprint and the EVO 4G. That prompted “Brent” to call Giorgio back and thank him for the feedback, but also politely warn him that further emails would be met with legal action. Ouch. As you’d expect, AT&T just lost itself a customer. We’ve followed up with Ma Bell to find out exactly why they went the lawyer route instead of oh, say, filtering Randall’s email — we’ll let you know what they say.

P.S.- Amusingly, Giorgio says he emailed both Randall Stephenson and Steve Jobs last year about offering tethering and actually got a response from Steve — maybe these two CEOs need to talk about more than data rates and service quality the next time they meet up.

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iPad holdouts, here’s a real alternative. Dell’s first tablet, the ‘Streak’ aka ‘Mini 5′ is set to go on sale towards the end of next month in the U.S.

The device will be available unlocked through Dell’s website and will cost $500 –the same  price as an entry level iPad. The Streak releases later this week in the U.K. and includes a plan that offers the device free with a mobile phone and data contract.

The Streak will be the first real challenger to the Apple iPad. Since Apple launched the iPad in April, it has sold more than 2 million devices. The demand for tablets has spurred other PC makers including Asus, MSI and HP to introduce tablets. But so far, none have made it to the market.

The Streak’s pricing on par with the iPad is a bold move by Dell considering the device feels somewhere between a smartphone and a tablet.

The Streak has a 5-inch capacitive touchscreen, a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, a 5-megapixel camera, a front facing camera for video chat, 3G and Wi-Fi capability. The device also has a Micro SD slot expandable up to 32 GB. It will run Google’s Android operating system, version 2.0 or higher.

Interestingly, Streak has a SIM card slot so you could use it to make phone calls, as long as you don’t feel awkward holding an electronic slab to your ear. Already AT&T has said it will support the Streak on its network.

Specs wise, the Streak is pretty impressive but the question is will the screen size fly with potential tablet users who have seen the 9.5 inch of gorgeousness that the iPad offers?

Check out the demo of the Streak from the D8 conference.

See Also:

• Dell’s Tablet Aims to Stick It to Apple’s iPad
• Dell Streak Tablet Official, Crippled by Android 1.6
• Dell Tablet To Debut on AT&T
• Why 2010 Will Be the Year of the Tablet
• Gallery: 8 Tablets That Aren’t Made by Apple

Photo: Dell Streak/Dell