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I have been using the Streak over the weekend. It does fit in my trouser pocket and in my shirt pocket and in my wife's little purse. Thanks to it being incredibly thin, it doesn't feel that big in the trouser pocket - though it makes the shirt pocket sag a little. In Houston, I swapped in a T-Mobile SIM card - it quickly jumped onto the T-Mobile network. I see the H instead of the 3G and download speeds were about 1Mbps. I guess this is T-Mobile's new 3.5G HSPA network. Google maps and google navigate were a pleasure on the large screen. You need two average sized hands to dial a phone number. Not easy while driving a car (yeah, I know my mom told me not to do that....). Voice recognition was decent for an Android 1.6 device. In online reviews, people complain that it is akin to holding a waffle to your ear, etc. but my office desk phone receiver is bigger. Thanks to the size the microphone is located right where your mouth is and I expect my voice to carry over louder drowning the background noise. Don't see a second noise canceling microphone. The device came with corded 3.5 mm ear phones and it rapidly synched with my car bluetooth hands free. Speaker phone quality is also good. Battery life has been decent....lasts me over a day with about an hour of browsing and a couple of hours of speaking on the phone. Battery life can be significantly extended by using 2 great free android Aps: Advanced Task Killer and Apndroid. Apndroid allows a one touch switch (widget on the home screen) to turn on or off the internet. And it does it within a reasonable couple of seconds. This way I use the blazingly fast internet and fantastic screen only when I need it. Advanced task killer kills battery draining aps that I don't need all the time. On the whole I am glad I got this phone/mini tablet. Unfortunately Documents to Go ap does not work in edit mode on this yet. I hope they support it in the near future. Dell installed the k9 email as the default email. It does pull up attachments. Quickoffice comes with this device for Word/Excel/pdf reading but no editing.
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