Dell has officially announced that it will be launching its Streak tablet in the UK with an exclusive deal with mobile network provider O2 in June, making official the release of what used to be the “Dell Mini 5” in Europe.

Still no word on the coloured Mini 5's Dell first showed off

That Dell’s Streak tablet is coming to Europe in the coming months won’t come as very much of a surprise, given the fact that rumours had indicated that we’d be seeing the Streak released in June in the UK already, and with some even going so far as to intimate that the device would be released exclusively through O2. That much seems to be kind of par-for-the-course when it comes to the Streak though. Back when the Mini 5 was still being kept relatively quiet, Michael Dell himself let the cat out of the bag when he showed the device off to the press.

For those who haven’t encountered the Streak before, the device itself is a 5-inch touch-screen affair, as the name suggests, with a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdrahon processor, 16GB of memory and a 5 megapixel camera. Like so very many Android devices, the Streak runs a customised version of Google’s mobile operating system.

According to the folks at Engadget, who managed to get some hands-on time with the device, the Streak is still running Android 1.6, which could be an indication that by the time it’s released the device’s OS could already be well out of date, and Dell doesn’t seem to be planning to get an update ready before the device launches. Instead, it’s promised a update to Android 2.2 will be made available “later this year.”

The Streak is certainly an interesting device, but it could well en up being a nice piece of hardware hurt by the fact that it’s being released with a dated version of the OS, and given all that Android 2.2 has to offer, that update can’t come soon enough.