Dell’s founder had already spilled the beans and today we’ve got the official announcement regarding the same. Dell Streak (formerly Mini 5) will grace O2 and Carphonewarehouse stores from early next month while US will get in summer.

Dell’s Ron Garriques says “Streak hits the sweet spot between traditional smartphones and larger-screen tablets” that features a 5-inch capacitive WVGA display, 1GHz Snapdragon CPU and Google Android OS.

The Streak also offers various connectivity options like 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and integrates a 5MP camera with dual LED flash, GPS, 2GB internal memory with microSD slot making it expandable up to 32GB.

Streak will run Android 1.6 OS but will release Android 2.2 with Flash 10.1 later in the year.

Exact pricing and tariff details will be unveiled in a few days.

Press Release

Dell’s CEO at the Citrix Systems’ keynote confirmed the release date of its upcoming Android MID, Streak aka Mini 5. According to Michael Dell, they’re looking to release the device first in Europe with O2 Telefonica whereas AT&T will carry it in United States sometime this summer.

Mini 5 sports a 5-inch capacitive display (800×480), runs Android OS and features Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G, 5MP camera with dual LED flash and 1300mAh battery.

[eWeek via Engadget]

We’ve seen a lot of dissections before but it’s a rare sight seeing a teardown of an unreleased (yet confirmed) product. Dell teased us with the Mini 5 aka Streak MID at the CES and now thanks to this teardown from the Vietnamese site, we know few more important details. The innards consist of Qualcomm’s fast 1GHz Snapdragon processor driving the machine along with Wi-Fi, 3G modem and SIM card slot. Interestingly, two microSD card slots were also present, which Slashgear reckons one will be used internally for onboard storage and the other one will be user expandable. There’s also a capacious 1530mAh battery found but it’s difficult to tell the expected run time right now.

Dell had confirmed the tablet to be sold on AT&T but did not divulge its tentative price.

Opera today launched a beta version of its most used mobile browser. The fifth iteration of Opera Mini brings in a lot of new features that tries to make your mobile internet browsing at par with desktop browsing, if not similar. The Mini browser is fast because of its compression technology but the new Mini 5 boasts some new features like new the UI (which by the way is good), tabbed browsing, Speed Dial and Password Manager. It’s a beta so you cannot use the Opera Link (Opera’s sync tool) right now but I assume Link will be integrated when the final build comes out.

Give the Mini 5 beta a try by pointing your mobile’s web browser to this (http://m.opera.com/next).