Customers attempting to purchase the device were directed to a "Good Bye, Streak 5" landing page.

The larger Streak 7 was discontinued on December 2, 2011; Dell continued to sell a 10-inch tablet in China at that time.

[14] Customers on the British O2 mobile phone network were given the opportunity to install Android 2.1 in early September 2010 through an Over the Air update.

The Streak 7 received a tepid reaction from one reviewer due to its poor display and software bugs/glitches at launch.

[1] InfoWorld has suggested that Dell treated the Streak as a "Frankenphone business", where OEMs see tablets as a short-term, low-investment opportunity running Android OS, but this approach neglected the user interface and this failed to gain long term market traction with consumers.