Dell Streak & Android 2.1

I had the opportunity (as did many others) over the last few days to download and install the new Android 2.1 update released by Dell & O2. On the whole the process was painless: download, run, wait, and reboot. In all about 30 minutes (over a WiFi connection).

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Dell Streak’s Battery Life (Update)

Yesterday I managed to complate a full day with the Dell Streak on it’s battery - starting out at about half-eight before finally plugging it back in at just before midnight: A solid 15 or so hours of use. Much better than the four hours I managed to get on Friday on the way to Nottingham.

So what happened? Well, it was more than just not using it! In fact, for about 8 hours it was playing music while I was at work together with the odd bit of surfing the web and chats on MSN. However, to do this, Autokill was the answer.

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The Dell Streak (First Thoughts…)

This week I signed up with O2 for the new Dell Streak: The new mini-tablet (or large Smartphone) based on the Android operating system. I’m not going to make this a long review just yet, as I haven’t really managed to spend enough time with it.

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