AT&T Dell Streak Froyo update pushed back to next year

By on Dec 11, 2010 at 12:00 AM
Software December 11, 2010

Dell confirmed on Thursday evening that users of its Dell Streak tablet who purchased the device through AT&T will have to wait until next year to receive an update to Android 2.2 (Froyo). In a post on the company’s Direct2Dell blog, Dell states that Streaks SIM-locked to AT&T’s network will not be updated to Froyo until some time in January. Dell began updating the European version of the Streak to Android 2.2 last month, and stated at that time that AT&T devices would receive the update in December. Dell did not specify a reason for this new delay, stating only that it would continue to work with AT&T to release the Froyo update. AT&T’s version of the Dell Streak currently runs Android 1.6.

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  • http://twitter.com/dperez82 Dan Perez

    I’m sure the 10 people who bought the Dell Streak will be sorely disappointed ;)

    • http://twitter.com/NICKVALENTIN0 Nick Valentino

      I actually ditched my iPad for the Streak. So much better not having to carry that thing around looking like a tool.

      • Anonymous

        You ditched an iPad for a Dell Streak???? Gee man you must look like a real winner with a device that’s to small to be a real tablet and to big to be a phone. I thought the days of having a cell phone the size of a brick was long gone but I guess not. 1988 must be all the rage in your neck of the woods. Hope you continue enjoying Android 1.6.

      • Anonymous

        u ever heard of bluetooth headsets? Its crazy you can make calls from your phone without even touching it!

      • serpentor

        Who puts a phone up to your ear any more? Just use the speaker phone.

      • Amrush71

        Actually, just the opposite — it’s just small enough to be a phone, and just big enough to be a tablet. Great device, if Dell and AT&T would just get their act together on this Android update.

      • JMD

        I have to somewhat agree! The iPad is an extremely effective tool! It’s also heavy,…and at times larger than you want it to be,…and you cannot make phone calls with it. I spent some time with the Dell Streak (…wish it had a better name) at Best Buy and it is a way better sized device to carry around. It’s fast,..has better battery power usage than most other Android devices,…and the screen is just brilliant. I really like the DS,…but not ready to part with my $99 all inclusive T-Mo plan for my BB 9700.

        Also, My next phone will be a 4G phone! …this way, I can ditch my Comcast internet service.

        JMD
        Have Bold Will Travel~

      • Anonymous

        I make calls from my iPad all the time.

      • Anonymous

        You never owned an iPad. Just say you have a streak and are disappointed in your purchase. You son’t have to turn this into an “iPad sucks” sort of thing. You hate the iPad, we get but that alone just proves that you never owned one.

      • serpentor

        I don’t understand what you are saying.

      • C. Andrews

        What? Saying you hate the iPad proves somebody never had one? That doesn’t make any sense.

  • Anonymous

    So if I bought a Dell Streak today, its OS would only be 4 iterations behind? What a deal!

    It all makes sense now. Android is about choice, openness and rooting, meaning consumers can still choose to buy devices that are 4 iterations behind in their OS, OEMs can provide open-ended promises to update, and “rooting” is a must, even as 95% of Android users do not know what rooting is.

    Google is doing a great job of encouraging “activations,” but the user-hostility to the average, non-tech savvy consumer is comical.

  • SKINNI

    I personally think the Streak is nice (witholding the outdated OS). The huge gap that occurs in OS updates is honestly unacceptable however. Android is currently king of the hill but if their devices continue to disappoint with outdated software & updates being pushed out whenever a carrier desires (Usually after they release the next big thing to get people to buy it), I think Windows Phones might actually have a fighting chance.

    Its sad that Dell announced they would skip 2.0 & 2.1 to go straight to 2.2 after devices were rolling out with those OS on them weekly & this was also right before BB did a big push to sell the Streak as well. Now that were on the cusp of 2.3 theyre basically holding off again to allow a few of those devices to line AT&T’s pockets. Next we’ll be hearing theyre skipping 2.2 for 2.3 & itll be here NLT early March.

    Im a sucker for the next hottest thing because ive gone from the OG Droid to the Incredible, to the X & im waiting for whatever’s hot after CES. Hardware drives me

    • Norm

      I love customers like you. You embody what DROID is all about. Thank you so much for purchasing every DROID. Your lack of social life and sensibility is outstanding!

      • http://www.facebook.com/peterf Peter Fares

        LOL

      • serpentor

        I can’t figure if this is the real Norm or not.

  • Willie Duitt

    @Perspectively One could hardly blame Google’s OS for the delay in getting this device updated. Once the update are there, it’s up to the carrier to trust the OS in its bare form, cut chunks of operational capability out (just to sell the same to the end user), or “test” the hell out of it for half a year. I think we know which AT&T is is up to. Like most of this site’s visitors, I’ve had the pleasure of using every major OS on the market today, and I have to admit Android is probably the one most effectively courting the tech-savvy user.

    • Anonymous

      I generally agree with your post but lets be perfectly honest. Android would be far stronger if Google cracked the whip against its partner carriers and only allowed stock Android on devices. I think most tech savvy Fandroid’s would applaud Google for showing some backbone. As it stands the various carrier iterations of Android and the lack of updates is holding Android back from becoming a unstoppable behemoth. Mark my words as strong as Android has become there could still be a day of reckoning if Google doesn’t do something to get its partner carriers in line with what the users want.

      • serpentor

        I Google did that then Android wouldn’t be open.

      • Anonymous

        Why wouldn’t it be open (its currently not really open by the way)? Keep allowing users to contribute code and its all good. All I’m saying is don’t allow the carriers to take liberties with the OS. Most users hate the skins that the carriers provide and hate the lack of updates. If users want the carrier skins then fine allow the carriers to contribute code on the marketplace or on the Android community threads and the users who want the carrier skins can download and install. Its the best of both worlds people can still mod their handset UI to their hearts content and there will no longer be a waiting list for updates that never seem to come in a timely fashion if at all. Problem solved.

  • http://twitter.com/endlessct9a John C.

    This device was behind the 8 ball when it first came out and it continues to be behind the 8 ball. Might as well take this thing out behind the barn and take it out of its misery.

  • http://twitter.com/JordanTBrown Jordan Brown

    @perspectively

    No see here’s the thing. You can buy a new Streak with Froyo to work on at&t right now. RIGHT NOW.

    But I can’t get the over the air update. EU has it.

    Like the above comment states. My options are android 1.6 with adw launcher, or root and install froyo myself. Thanks to the community, atleast I have an option.

  • http://twitter.com/homescrub homescrub

    Reminds me of how AT&T is with updates. They did the same thing with the BB Bold 9000 on the OS 5.0 update. Took them 19 months. 19 fucking months!

    Note: Official 5.0 from AT&T. Not leaked, or other carrier. Official OS 5.0 release.

    • Anonymous

      In someways that was not an awful thing. The first year of OS5 leaks were really bad on the bold, heck even the current AT&T release has a nasty sound bug. Carriers just don’t want to spend sacks of cash on customer service for buggy software they did not create. At least with Blackberry we can all easily update without the carrier, no hacking or skills needed.

    • http://twitter.com/netposer Rob Baker

      Yeah. ATT really dropped the ball on the 9000. I just updated a co-worker’s 9000 last week and it had 4.6 on it. Thank god for leaked OSs and other carriers.

  • os

    So much potential but Dell just couldn’t get it done. If I were them, I’d continue making PCs and secretly work up something truly great

  • Booboolala2000

    Maybe more people would have bought this product if Dell had at least shipped with 2.1

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rusty-Harris/1057067818 Rusty Harris

    The “wait til January…maybe” thing pushed me over the edge. Downloaded the QDL tool and took matters into my own hand…now on 2.2, VERY painless. I’ll bet that at&t is more the snag than Dell. The last 3 windows phones I had, took forever for the carrier (at&t) to release the update (if at all). I didn’t even bother having the store set up my last windows mobile (tilt2). I said don’t bother, I’ll be wiping it out and installing my own custom rom anyway. But…but..but..(said the store drone), you’ll void the warranty. Girlie…I’ve been messing with electronics since before you were born, it’s not that big of a deal to me.
    I wish carriers would get completely OUT of the hardware side, and just become a provider, and let the hardware makers/software makers control it. I don’t want any of your “value added software” in the first place!

  • Drew

    Wow, who is running that fucking clown ship that is DELL?? Venue Pro is having it’s share of issues also. Some asses need firing pronto!!!

  • Anonymous

    Froyo in 2011, don’t bother, DOA.

    Problem with android folks…

  • Granadm2

    I have a Dell Streak. I love it. I tried an Ipad. hated it. its too big to be used comfortably. its too closed without jailbreaking and i felt like a douchebag just touching it.

    To be honest with you, 1.6 with dell’s overlay isnt THAT bad.

    I still get asked about mine 10 million times a day but i dont have to act like a douchebag just to own one

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rusty-Harris/1057067818 Rusty Harris

    Which is why I said screw it, downloaded the QDL repair tool, spent a few minutes reading the tutorial, and 20 minutes later, I’ve got the 2.2 update. Personally, I think at&t is more to blame for the lack of the update.
    The last three windows phones I had were all at&t, and it appears the only phone at&t cares about is the iphone. Maybe once Verizon gets it, at&t will concentrate more on the rest of the phones out there. You walk into an at&t store, and you first think you’ve walked into an Apple store ;)

  • Winski

    Yawn… Dell in the tablet/mobile market….Har…Har…Har…… have they and Microshaft announced they are getting out of that market yet?? It’s going to eat them alive….

  • Anonymous

    It’s obvious many of the people commenting know next to nothing about the Streak. XDA and Modaco are all over this. There is already a pretty simple, brick-free solution for getting Froyo on the Streak, as long as you can install a driver. I’ve already got Froyo on my Streak and it’s a whole different device. Much faster and obviously access to more apps.

  • Friedpaco

    so i sold my streak on thursday after reading this. picked up one of those refurb ipads for $100 off. should be here on tuesday, best decision ever

    • serpentor

      How can you say that? You haven’t even gotten the iPad yet. And they’re two completely different form factors with different use cases.

  • Carsly

    not true. I have a streak on AT&T that had been running 1.6 but 2.2 was pushed to my device today. seamless install and enjoying the froyo.

    • Anonymous

      You must have been using a USA version of Dell’s unlocked Streak. AT&T hasn’t released their own version of the Streak Froyo build to anyone. I just manually updated my Streak to the one and only official Dell Froyo in existence (build 10688) with QDLtool and my baseband changed to one ending in 00 (the one on unlocked Streaks).

  • http://twitter.com/so_rudez Rudy

    i really want an android phone but i would be extremely annoyed by shit like this.

  • HO

    …sorry for my ignorance, is there a way to do that on a cellphone?, I mean spread a picture to 2 or more phones??

  • Anonymous

    pathetic… same bs as with captivate
    promise and delay
    promise (lie) and delay
    take the money and dont deliver
    great way to do business

  • DeathStarKiller

    AT&T sucks, I hope they’re downward spiral ends in their demise. How great it would be to watch the once powerful monopoly be crushed under the weight of their own dumbass ideas and crappy network.

  • Anonymous

    Why is anyone, media included, so surprised about this news? This was planned by AT&T from the beginning. AT&T said from the very beginning they wouldn’t be releasing Froyo or any other major Android updates to any of their locked Android phones in 2010. AT&T is still working on approving newer handsets that will come with Froyo preinstalled. Somehow phone manufacturers either got confused or got their hopes up too soon.

  • Sonofevil77

    I have the streak and absolutely love it. Even on 1.6 I
    t is nice. Ditto will make it one of the best I have owned. I had the Evo and lived that but hate sprint so back to at&t I went. I have a iphone 4 also and just swap SIM cards.

  • Ewilliams2099

    Fuck Dell and AT&T there we are jan 12 jan 13 and still no update even after they promise if don’t get my update by jan 14 i’m taking the phone back and i’ll never buy Dell again and will cancell my contract with at&t these two moron conpanys deserve each other Dell is an ediot for fucking the streak release and att is a moron for not releasing the update shame on att and dell if i dont get ma update by fri. Jan 14 im returning this phone!!!

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