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We’ve never seen an official price for Dell’s Streak 7 tablet, but we can now readily guess what it will be — thanks to T-Mobile’s website, which is now two for two. You see, the wireless carrier typically lets you pay for devices in monthly installments rather than one lump sum, and StreakSmart discovered the former number is already printed below. As we’re sure you’ve already discerned, that means four easy payments of $82.50 will buy you the Tegra 2-toting 4G tablet — assuming the figure is correct — and now that we’ve perfected our QVC salesman voice, we’ll let you decide whether or not that’s a deal.

Future Dell Streak 7 owners do the fine-print math, figure tablet will cost $330 max on contract originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It looks like Dell isn’t quite sure what to do with Adamo. First, the MacBook Air competitor was bumped from Dell’s marketing roster, then it was reduced from $999 to $899, and now it’s got a price tag of $799. Unfortunately, the price isn’t all Dell is slashing: last October the Adamo was sporting a 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo SL9600 processor and 4GB of DDR3-800 memory, now we’re told it’s functioning on a 1.4GHz Core Duo 2 SU9400 and 2GB of DDR3-800 (with no upgrade option that we can find). Everything else is basically the same for the little guy, and Dell’s Adamo page still offers the suggestion, “Prepare to Fall in Love,” but we’re not entirely sure we’re the ones who need convincing.

Dell Adamo now even cheaper, slightly less powerful originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s time again to look at the rapidly changing face of home computing. The last time we got an IDC report on US PC sales it showed generally rosy figures, with everyone other than Dell growing and Apple making a huge jump. This time we have numbers from both IDC and Gartner, and while they don’t agree on everything, it’s clear things are rather less positive. Overall growth in this quarter is negative (6.6 percent decline for Gartner, 4.8 for IDC) and Apple is now in position number five, dropping from number three, with the other top four comprised of HP, Dell, Toshiba, and Acer — though Toshiba and Acer swap places as you move from IDC to Gartner. Both reports cite tablet sales (i.e. the iPad) as being at least partly responsible for the decline in traditional computer sales, a trend that’s predicted to continue in 2011. Based on what we saw at CES, we’d say that’s a safe bet.

IDC and Gartner: US PC sales drop as tablets shake things up originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Dell Streak 7 might, in many people’s eyes, be seen as what the original Streak should have been — a 4G-equipped tablet with a spicy dual-core filling and the dimensions of a legitimate handheld computer. Unfortunately, it’s launching quite a bit later than its precursor and few will be happy to hear it’s running Android version 2.2 (Froyo) when we’ve just been graced by the brilliant light of Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) on other machines launching within the same time frame. That said, it’s still a gadget, it’s got circuit boards and connectors and tiny, minuscule things, and it’s been tenderly disassembled for you on video right after the break. Why not try to figure out what makes the screen look so bland?

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Dell Streak 7 torn down on video, we still can’t find the reason it’s running Froyo originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Traditionally, CES isn’t a huge mobile event — the biggest phone news has historically been saved for MWC in February and CTIA in March — but that changed in a huge way this week. Looks like 2011 is shaping up to be the year of 4G, and both carriers and manufacturers alike wasted no time jumping on the hype bandwagon with a variety of announcements that promise to make the next few months exciting… and really, really fast. AT&T kicked things off early in the show, but it was just the beginning of a relentless torrent of mobile news that lasted for days and ultimately left us with a pile of devices and network upgrades that should take us at least through the middle of the year. Read on for the recap!

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4G at CES 2011: AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile make big moves originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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