First it was Apple with iPad, then HP with HP Slate and now Dell have jumped into the race of tablets with its Dell Mini 5 inch tablet. Dell Mini 5 is also known as STREAK and it will be the first Android based tablet that will be soon available in the market. Though small in size (between an iPod and iPad), yet it offers two main features that Apple’s iPad lacks i-e multitasking support and a 5 mega pixel camera with auto focus and flash. This Android powered Dell Streak will be released in March / April 2010 with expected price of approx US $1000.

Opera has announced Opera Mini 5 for all Android based cell phones like Motorola Droid, Nexus One etc. Opera Mini is an award winning mobile web-browser well known for its lightening speed and new features. Main features of this released include Tabbed Browsing, Speed Dial, Download Manager, Password Manager and many more. You may download it either by visiting m.opera.com/next from your mobile browser or simply download it to your PC and then transfer it to your cell phone.

As informed earlier, Google Nexus One and Motorola Droid will be the two lucky smartphones which will support Flash 10.1 and now its confirmed. Only devices with ARM Cortex A8 chipsets will be able to run final version of Flash 10.1. Devices with low hardware capabilities can view Flash content via Flash Lite. Taimur Asad of RedmondPie have already tested Alpha version of Flash Lite by playing the famous Facebook game Farmville on his Google Nexus One. So HTC Hero can also view Flash content on their devices with Flash Lite. Flash 10.1 will be available in the 1st Quarter of 2010 for all supported platforms.

According to Antonio Flores of Adobe Systems only those Android phones will be capable of running Flash 10.1, who have ARMv7 (Cortex) processors in it as only these processors are powerful enough to process and run flash based video content on the mobile web. Out of 10 most widely used Android phones in US, only people who have Motorola Droid or Nexus One will be fortunate enough to view flash based video content on their phones. Flash 10.1 final version for Android will be released in the mid of year 2010.

Mozilla has recently released a portable version of Firefox for Windows based mobile phones, next on the track is their mobile project named Fennec, this this project Mozilla will release customized Firefox Browser for Android phones. As per a member of Fennec team, the project Fennec’s testing for Android is going good and soon they we’ll have an alpha release of their product out for Android OS handsets.

Tasmanian_droid a developer at AllDroid have managed to overclock Motorola Droid phone to 800Mhz, 900MHz, 990MHz, 1GHz and 1.3Ghz beating the record of Nexus One Snapdragon chip which was overclocked upto 1.113 Ghz. However Nexus One was found to be running stable at 1.113 Ghz and Droid on 800Mhz which makes Nexus One on the top again. Original clock speed of Motorola Droid is 600Mhz and Nexus One has 1Ghz processor.

Next version of Android will be called Froyo, said by Erick Tseng, Senior Product Manager of Android in an interview with Engadget. Froyo shorts for “frozen yogurt”, the name fits nicely in line with zany naming scheme other names delivered so far including Cupcakes, Donuts, and Eclairs.

Google’s first branded phone named as Nexus One has just been released, and the talks about next version of Google phone are already in the air. People at Mobile01 managed to get their hands on few photos of Motorola Shadow, which acc to them would be next version of Nexus One/Google Android phone. Nexus Two, as they are calling it will have a sliding QWERTY keyboard with multitouch screen.

Sturdy computation is going on between Nexus One, iPhone and Motorola Droid in market these days. Those of you who are struggling to make a choice between these fabulous touch phones, BillShrink shared a nice chart that puts AT&T’s iPhone 3GS, Sprint’s Palm Pre, Verizon’s Motorola Droid and T-Mobile’s Nexus One against each other and show their comparison in terms of specifications and prices. Have a look:

Within the first week of Nexus One’s release, Paul at Modaco forums has managed to release the first ever Android 2.1 custom ROM for Nexus One which packs a custom kernel, and includes busybox, nano 2.09, parted and sqlite tools, Wireless Tethering option (Yay!), titanium backup and more. Note that this custom ROM includes tethering hack of Nexus One which was previously available as a part of add-ons pack for Nexus One.