4G has officially made its way to the tablet market. Dell introduced its bigger, badder Streak today and the tablet will bring 4G speed.

As you probably Sherlocked by now, the Streak 7 features a 7-inch screen (compared to the standard 5-inch Streak). The tablet gets a variety of solid specs including a 5-MP rear camera, 1.3-MP front-facing cam and 1 GHz Tegra 2 processor, but its most interesting claim to fame is 4G compatibility, namely on T-Mobile’s network.

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The next HTC powerhouse that will be hitting the scene is the phone called Thunderbolt. Based on ‘net rumoring, the T-bolt will be HTC’s first dual-core phone, carrying a 1.2-gig, dual-core MSM8960 processor. It’s expected to complement that powerful heart with a bevy of other impressive specs like a 4.3-inch screen, 1080p video recording and playback, 8 MP camera in back and 5 MP camera up front. It also has a kickstand and speaker for audio playback.

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Samsung appears to have a New Year’s resolution that revolves around giving Apple some competition. The Galaxy Tab is popularly considered the iPad’s first real rival. Samsung is the power behind Android’s next top-dog smartphone. And now Samsung appears ready to compete against another popular Apple product: the iPod Touch.

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Technology can be quite tragic. Back in the spring when Google first announced Google TV, I and thousands/millions/billions of others were quite intrigued. Was this finally it? Television and Internet together in a functional, intuitive way? Finally? It certainly looked like Google had a shot what with applying its unparalleled search prowess to television and instituting features like dual view.

But then, when it finally came out, it was rather lackluster. Too expensive for a set-top box, not included on top-end TVs and falling short on both the content and interface sides. It wasn’t quite the end-all of Internet TV that we’d hoped. In fact, dollar for dollar, it was less intriguing than a Roku box.

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