Dell to launch Streak in June - the iPad's first Google-powered rival

DELL will release an iPad rival based on Google's Android operating system in June.

Unlike the iPad, Dell's Streak runs Flash and makes phone calls / Picture: Dell

DELL will release an iPad rival based on Google's Android operating system in June.

Called "Streak," the tablet will have a 5-inch screen, wi-fi, Bluetooth and work on a 3G network.

Users can download music, interact with social networking sites, send email, text and instant messages and make phone calls.

It has turn-by-turn navigation with Google Maps, a 5MB camera with flash and a removable battery.

Streak will have 2GB of internal storage.

Memory can be expanded up to 32GB allowing it to store as many as 42 movies or 16,000 songs.

Later in the year, the tablet will support Adobe Flash 10.1 - something that Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices do not.

Flash is widely used for online video.

The Streak is designed to be larger than a smartphone but more portable than a laptop.

It is 15cm wide, nearly 5cm high and 1cm thick.

A Dell spokeswoman said the Streak is designed to be an internet-enabled device that lets users make phone calls.

The tablet will be released in June in the United Kingdom through stores of mobile phone company O2 and its Web site O2.co.uk, at the Carphone Warehouse and Dell.co.uk.

Prices and internet data plans will be released before the product launch.

The tablet will be available in the US later in the summer.