Las Vegas: Dell Inc unveiled a new 7-inch touchscreen tablet that will run on T-Mobile's high-speed 4G network as the PC maker expands its aggressive move into the mobile market.
The Streak, which runs on Google's Android software, has a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and support for Adobe's Flash multimedia software.
Dell also gave a sneak peak at a 10-inch tablet that the company is working on and announced a new smartphone, the Venue, which also runs on Android. But there is no wireless carrier for the phone, which will be sold by Dell.
Dell announced the new products during a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show on Thursday. The tablet will be available in the coming weeks, but Dell did not provide a price. T-Mobile USA, the No. 4 U.S. carrier, is a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG.
Dell is one of a slew of companies rolling out Anroid-based tablets at CES, including Motorola and Toshiba Corp. But Steve Felice, who runs Dell's consumer and small and medium-sized business unit, maintained that Dell is adding in enough unique features to differentiate its tablet.
Felice said the company still plans to launch a tablet-based on Microsoft's Windows, but said the next version of the software may be a better fit for tablets.
Dell launched its first smartphone in 2009 and branched into the tablet market in 2010 with a 5-inch Streak model.
But analysts say Dell's mobile products have yet to gain traction. The executive in charge of Dell's mobile group, Ron Garriques, is leaving the company this month. Garriques was a high-profile hire when he arrived at Dell in early 2007.
Dell, which vies with Acer Inc for the No. 2 slot in the global PC market, still gets more than half its revenue from PC sales, although the company is trying to diversify into higher-margin businesses such as storage.
Dell CEO Michael Dell has promised that the company will make a big push into the mobile market.
Shares of Round Rock, Texas-based Dell rose 2.5 percent to $14.22 in afternoon trading on the Nasdaq.
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