Dell bid “Goodbye” to the Streak 5 this week, saying “It’s been a great ride.” But in reality, the tablet was short of Dell’s best effort to rival the iPad.

Dell is now banking on 7- and 10-inch tablets, much closer to the form factor of the .

When it was in August 2010, the Dell Streak 5 had a few birth defects: its 5-inch screen was only 0.7-inch larger than that of the Droid X smartphone, and the resolution was lower than iPhone 4's 3.5-inch Retina display. The Streak also came with a then-year-old version of Google Android OS (1.6), when the current version at the time was 2.2 (Dell later updated the software to 2.2).

The Streak 5 also had a pricing problem. When it launched it cost $300 with a two-year AT&T contract, or $550 without -- $50 more expensive than the cheapest (original) iPad, when bought unlocked as a tablet. For these reasons, the to fend off the iPad’s growth. Dell did not publish any sales numbers related to the Streak 5.

didn’t think much of the Streak 5 either.