The new Dell Streak tablet offers many of the features that iPad offers and more. It has 5 in WVGA touch screen TFT LCD screen with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. There are 5 MP and VGA dual cameras (front and back) with LED flash. With outer dimensions of 6 x 3.1 x 0.4 in, the smartphone is very slim and weighs just 0.5 lbs. An iPad Alternative?

Dell Streak tablet has built in 3 GB memory (ROM + RAM) and an extendable 16 GB micro SD card available for the user. The processor is 1 GHZ Snap Dragon 8250 processor and OS is Android 1.6. The smartphone has 1530 mAH battery that can last up to 24 hours under normal usage. It has excellent video playback facility. There is QWERTY keyboard along with number pad and a double width button for entering emoticons.

The best iphone alternative is confirmed! The HTC Desire with Android on it, it is affordable feature packed, fast and going to give the Apple iPhone a run for its money.

Nokia, the Finnish mobile phone leader has entered the growing netbook market with the release of Nokia booklet 3G netbook. Made of aircraft grade aluminium chassis, the lightweight netbook is sleek and sturdy.

With dimensions of 10.4 x 7.3 x 0.78 inches, the netbook weighs just 2.75 lbs. The low power consuming Intel Atom Z530, 1.6 GHz processor powers the netbook having 1 GB, DDR2, 533 MHz RAM. The hard disk is 120 GB, 1.8”/5mmH/SATA, 8 MB cache, 4200 RPM drive. The 10.1” 1280 x 720 pixels display is LED backlit and the images are clear and crisp.

Google has begun the New Year 2010 with a bang with the release of the much anticipated Google Nexus Mobile Phone last week in US. It is coming to UK soon. Designed by Taiwan’s HTC and running on Google’s very own Android OS version 2.1, this smartphone has a 3.7” OLED 480 x 800 pixels display. OLED displays are more bright and colour rich compared to TFT LCD screen. It has 512 MB RAM on board and a 1 GHz Qualcomm 8250 Snapdragon processor which makes it faster than either Apple’s iPhone or Motorola’s Droid (aka Milestone).

Palm Pre is the latest mobile phone from Palm, Inc. packed with a no. of features. What makes the mobile phone unique are the apps that are loaded on to it: right from entertainment, social networking, news to navigation, 16 of them in all. It is a mobile phone and a netbook rolled into one! In fact the thin line between a mobile phone and a netbook is blurring with the introduction of devices like Pal Pre which is a fine example of the convergence of computing and communication technology.

The Motorola Milestone is the latest mobile phone from Motorola and the first to run on Android 2.0 OS, the Google’s operating system for mobile devices. It has been released for sale in U.K. just this week and is already receiving rave reviews. It directly competes with Apple’s iPhone in many respects.

Called Droid in U.S. and Milestone in U.K., the device has been designed to bring desktop computing experience for mobile phone users. One can perform tasks like web browsing, emailing, instant messaging etc. using Motorola Milestone. It has already sold 800,000 handsets in U.S. since its release in November.