[Dell Streak 7] medseven:
The Acer A100 is a year newer than the streak 7, its motherboard, chipset, screen, wifi adapter, will all be slightly newer, more energy efficient than the streaks.

It also comes with honeycomb 3.2, so it wont be putting any of its energy trying to ping (looking for) a mobile network. Even the wifi only version of the streak 7 does this, being android 2.2 (a phone built OS), one of the benifits mentioned of honeycomb for the streak 7 in all the 'honeycomb coming for streak 7 articles' you might read. So you won't need to worry about the phone.apk and all that anyways. (With the wifi version airplane mode would of done it anyways!)

"Who brings out a wifi only gadget that try's to ping mobile phones networks, for any reason, then tries to pass off blame to the way the used the Android linux code"

I've been considering the move to an Acer for a while now. Theres about £50 difference in it here in the UK. These are portable touchscreens, seeing as they have the same function, the ONLY difference i see really is the screen and the battery. There is nothing else.

You say the screen resolution isn't that much to you. Not on numbers maybe, but this is nothing but a screen you touch, and will be doing for however long you use it. All have the same function, so really screen res and battery are the only difference. And trust me, you can tell, it may not sound a lot when looked at with numbers; 800×480 vs 1024x600. But that % difference on a small screen makes a huge difference.

As far as battery is concerned, the battery of the dell may have 40% more (mah) than the Acer. And I believe your friend. I can get almost 2 days out of my streak with airplane mode and the cpu underclocked with general wifi use. But despite the Acer's battery is smaller, most the components are a year newer and alot more energy efficient. So for a general use I believe they would be about the same, but the Acer's screen would look nicer the whole time. !!

At the same time, if you were deciding to play games or watch movies the whole time, the things that will push and pull from the cpu, gpu and tegra 2 chipset, you will get more time out of the streak 7 and its bigger battery. The tegra 2 setup draws as much power as it did a year ago when asked.

I've been a proud owner of the streak 7 for nearly a year now. And I cant say its a bad toy. Its a fun unit. But I don't see Dell in the tablet market. They have released 2 (or 3 if you count the streak 5). I see them now as a company who try and catch their PC and laptop market with the and cash in with the occasional tablet. And yet cannot do it aswell.

Acer, have made many and many, and are obviously putting a lot of resource all year into doing so. Android tablets and windows. They have been making tablets a lot longer than dell, and have made more, and will be doing so. Dell will use their PC/Laptop brand to sell one every now and then and cash in.

And I know when I come to upgrade a year or two from now, the Acer I have will be worth more, and I will spend that time looking at and touching a nicer touch screen!!! That can do the same. Maybe with a little less battery life when im pushing with games. And there's a guaranteed fact I will get more software upgrades and support.

"Who brings out a wifi only gadget that try's to ping a mobile phone network, for any reason, then tries to pass off blame to the OS they choose to use, and even after a year of potential update's still havn't sorted it"