From a hardware perspective, the Streak has front and rear-facing cameras. The rear-facing camera is a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and a dual-LED flash. The front-facing camera is a VGA-quality camera that can be used for video conferencing from the Streak.

The Streak also offers expandable storage capacity with an SD memory card slot capable of accepting up to 32Gb cards. Business professionals will appreciate the ability to store more data, or to easily transfer data to or from the Streak using SD memory cards.

Business professionals will also find value in the removable battery. Apple has made a point of designing the iPad with exceptional battery life, but it will still run out eventually. With the Streak, a second fully-charged battery could be carried as a standby and swapped out if necessary when the battery runs down.

Arguably, the biggest advantage that the Streak has over the iPad as a tablet for business professionals is the operating system. The iPhone OS is a proprietary, tightly-controlled platform, while Android is an open source OS. There are pros and cons to each approach, but for IT administrators and business professionals the pros heavily favor the openness of Android.

Android has tremendous potential for providing the foundation for a formidable iPad competitor, and the Dell Streak has impressive hardware specs which--if you ignore the diminutive display--also compete favorably with the iPad. Unfortunately, I am still left feeling like the Streak is a smartphone, and not a tablet.