Dell to launch 7-inch Streak next year

BANGALORE, INDIA: With lot of talks about the small size of Dell's tablet Streak, the company is looking at launching the bigger version in a few months and stay in the competition-driven market.

Addressing the media, during the earnings call at Dell's quarterly financial results announcement today, Steve Felice, president — consumer, small and medium business, Dell, said, “We are looking at the launch of the 7-inch version of our tablet called Streak somewhere around early next year.”

Though he declined to divulge further details he added that the 10-inch tablet from Dell will come around latter half of the year. The present model has a scree size of 5 inches.

He shared that the company is buoyant about the tablet business and is glad to see the performance of the consumer business.

The performance of Streak and the bullish expectation of the company comes with the concern for their mobile unit. According to a report by Wall Street Journal, Ron Garriques, president, Communication Solutions, for Dell is parting ways from Dell, as the company is closing down its mobile unit.