Hey gang, welcome to this week's edition of the SlashGear Week in Review! This is the last edition before Thanksgiving in the US, so if you celebrate the holiday have a great one! We put up our review of the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Tab this past Sunday. We figure that the Tab has more flexibility in some areas than the iPad but has an overall rougher feel.
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‘dell’ Stories
SlashGear Week in Review – Week 46 2010
Dell Inspiron Duo official: $549 from early December [Video]
Dell has come clean on the Dell Inspiron Duo convertible hybrid netbook/tablet, which will begin shipping in the first week of December 2010. The 10.1-inch tablet will kick off at $549, which gets you Intel's dual-core Atom N550 processor paired with 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard-drive and Broadcom's Crystal HD video accelerator; the display, meanwhile, is a 1,366 x 768 capacitive touchscreen.
Video demo after the cut
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Dell shutter independent mobile division; Ron Garriques out
Dell's Venue Pro may be building a small following of eager QWERTY WP7 users, and the company's Streak MID/phone hybrid had headline appeal, but the company's mobile aspirations are generally proving tougher to achieve. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Dell's president of mobile solutions, Ron Garriques, will leave the company on January 28 2011, and the division he led be shut down.
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Tablets underwhelming claims analyst; Samsung “dramatically revise” Galaxy Tab production
Tablet's may be fashionable among tech fans right now, but it seems actual sales may not match the hype. According to Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar, Apple's iPad production is set to top out at under 2m per month by the end of the year (where predictions of over 3m per month had been made), while Samsung is tipped to have "dramatically revise[d] down production volumes" after "poor sell through" of the Galaxy Tab.
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: November 16 2010
What'll it be today? A big fat Beatles announcement by Apple? Yes! A brand new LG Android phone leak with 8MP photos, 1080p video, and HDMI? Yes! Perhaps devices with flippy screens - so many flippy screens? Yes! Any way you look at it, today is a real diverse day in tech news, everything from an app called Giftmeister to the world's first Android TV. But wait, aren't the holidays coming up rather soon? That's it! The thread is releases for the gift giving season! Hooray for capitalism and the push for greater technology for the sake of spreading love!
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Dell Inspiron Duo hybrid netbook on sale November 23?
Dell's Inspiron Duo screen-flipping tablet could launch as early as next week, if CNET's sources are to be believed, though hard specifications for the 10-inch hybrid netbook are still unclear. Powered by a dual-core Intel Atom processor, and running Windows 7, the Inspiron Duo's eye-catching trick is its rotating screen: the netbook can be opened and used with a regular laptop form-factor, or the multitouch panel swivelled around and the lid closed, turning it into a slate.
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Froyo for Dell Streak due by end of November as OTA update
Dell has confirmed that the UK variant of the Dell Streak will be seeing an Android 2.2 Froyo update before the end of November. According to a message posted to the Dell UK Facebook account, UK users will be the first recipients of a staggered roll-out that sees Froyo pushed OTA direct to the Streak itself.
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Dell Venue Pro WiFi Issues Real, Can Access the Matrix
Windows Phone 7 is still new to the United States, so users are still in the process of discovering new things. We've already found out that the Samsung Omnia 7 and Focus are actually able to tether via USB, and now it looks like the Dell Venue Pro has a secret of its own, too. Furthermore, Dell has come forward and acknowledged that the device does indeed have some issues with its WiFi.
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: November 11 2010
Welcome to your very first edition of the SlashGear Morning Wrap-up, made to cover all those massive amounts of updates and releases our peeps in earlier timezones publish before most of the USA is even awake! Inside today's edition, you'll find a teardown of the lovely Boxee, a hands-on look at the Wall Street Journal app for Android tablets, a legal fight between Motorola and Microsoft, and a possible update for Apple users to iOS 4.2, plus much much more!
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Dell “Opus One” is 2nd-gen high-res Streak for March 2011?
File this firmly in the rumor category for the moment, but according to StreakSmart's anonymous sources, Dell is readying a second-gen Dell Streak for release in March 2011. According to the information - which a Dell rep apparently shared during an internal briefing - the tablet/phone hybrid is internally codenamed "Opus One" and will keep the 5-inch form-factor of the current Streak, but update the screen to a higher resolution panel and the processor to a dual-core chip.
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Dell Venue Pro Already Seeing Some WiFi Issues?
If you couldn't tell, Dell's Venue Pro Windows Phone 7 device is a hot device at the moment. You can only find them in Microsoft Stores at the moment, which are pock-marked across the country, but initial results show that it's pretty hard to get your hands on one. But, being an early adopter doesn't always (usually ever) mean that you're going to get a perfect performance right out of the box, and it looks like Dell's smartphone is suffering from some issues. Namely, connecting to some WiFi locations.
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Plan on Getting a Dell Venue Pro from a Microsoft Store Today? Run, Don’t Walk.
The rumors are true, the Dell Venue Pro is, in fact, available today at Microsoft's seven flagship stores today, and they're flipping out the door like hotcakes. The fine folks at Engadget called up one of those stores and asked about availability getting a response of yes, but good luck. If you do happen to get to one of the stores in time, you'll be paying $199 for a new line or eligible upgrade, or $449 for just the device.
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