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Here is a little gallery of pictures of my new Dell Streak comparing it to my iPod touch, Nexus One and my Archos 5 Internet Tablet.

The Streak is an extremely slim device but feels a tad large for phone use. For web browsing the larger screen is perfect and produces good colours. Only the AMOLED screen on my Nexus One looks better but the Streak has the advantage of better visibility in sunlight.

Compared to my Archos 5 Internet Tablet, the streak is faster and more stable than Android on the Archos. Both run Android 1.6 so there is no advantage over the other except for full support for Android Market on the Streak with copy protected apps. Only the non copy protected apps show up on my Archos with the Android Market hack.

Overall I’m impressed with the streak and having 1,664MB of app storage avaiable compared to my Nexus One’s 196MB and my Archos 5′s 138MB means that the Streak will have plenty of storage for apps. The included 16GB Micro SD card leaves plenty of room for media too.

I’m very happy with it so far!

Hardware shown:

• Apple iPod Touch 32GB (In Belkin case)
• HTC Google Nexus One
• Archos 5 Internet Tablet
• Dell Streak

Sources: Dell Streak o2 UK, Dell

This is technology bliss for me.

Currently we’re driving up the M25 with my Nexus One navigating us to our destination with my wife driving. It is also acting as a portable hotspot for my iPod touch.

FroYo + iPhone OS = win.

Rovio have posted a quick video of their excellent game, Angry Birds running on Android (A Motorola Milestone to be exact).

Angry birds is one of my favourite games on the iPhone/iPod touch and it’s great to see it coming to Android. A must buy for anyone with an Android handset!

Apple have had to postpone the iPad’s worldwide launch due to high demand.

Apple iPad

Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad™. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April.

The iPad will now launch worldwide at the end of May with preorders starting on Monday May 10th. iPad fans are sadly going to have to wait a few more weeks unless happy eBay scalpers get your cash.

Source: Apple

Opera’s bandwith saving browser has been approved by Apple and is now availabe for download.

The browser connects to Opera’s servers which compresses websites server side and the compressed site is sent to the phone.

This can result in vastly improved browsing speeds when browsing using a slower GPRS or Edge connection and even helps full on 3g connections!

Available now in the Apple app store.

I saw this app mentioned in the comments of an article recently and the comment sparked my interest when it said that bTunes was just like the iPod app from the iPod touch and iPhone.
In the video below you can see the similarities between the two.

Its pretty good but is missing things like coverflow. One useful enhancement it has is the ability to go to the next or previous track by simply swiping on the album art left or right or double tapping on the album art to pause and resume playback.

It also features a homescreen widget and lockscreen controls so you have plenty of ways to control playback. A good app overall and it is available on the android market.
Sources: bTunes, Android Market

It seems that the original iPhone and iPod touch’s time for iPhone OS updates is over.  According to an iPhone preview OS page, both of the first gen devices are excluded from updates.

iPhone OS 4 Compatibility

iPhone OS 4 will work with iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and the second- and third-generation iPod touch this summer, and with iPad in the fall. Not all features are compatible with all devices. For example, multitasking is available only with iPhone 3GS and the third-generation iPod touch (32GB and 64GB models from late 2009).

If this leaves first gen owners on iPhone OS 3.1 is unknown but it seems the pioneers of iPhone OS will be stuck without updates.

So iPhone OS4 is getting multitasking but what do you get with your iPhone or iPod? Read on to find out!

First gen iPhone/iPod touch: No update to OS 4.0
Second gen iPhone 3g/iPod Touch: Update to OS 4.0, no multitasking.
Third Gen iPhone 3gs/iPod Touch: Update to OS 4.0, including multitasking.

There you have it. First gen owners get nothing, 2nd gen owners get an update but some features missing and 3rd gen owners get everything announced today!

iPhone, iPod touch and iPad fans must be getting excited now. In less than 2 hours, Apple will be showing the world a preview of iPhone OS 4.0.

For those of you unlucky enough not to be there (myself included) here are some liveblog links of the event:

• Computerworld
• Engadget
• Gizmodo
• Slashgear

The wait is almost over!

Wow, Apple have kept the news coming thick and fast recently haven’t they?

This time Engadget are reporting that Apple are due to host an iPhone OS 4 preview event on April 8th.

Not too far away. Lets see what they bring to the popular operating system.
Source: Engadget