Sure, some may have had a good ole laugh at the Streak 5, arriving with enough display real estate to border on tablet territory — in fact that’s what Dell sold it as. Fast forward a year, and it looks like that weighty slab of phone — or tiny tablet, depending on your interpretation –was simply ahead of its time. Most phone manufacturers are now skating around the five-inch mark, and Samsung even went a little further. With the Galaxy Note recently paying a visit to the FCC, we thought it was time to see how these two barely-phones stacked up against each other. We’re leaving the technical specs aside at this point — you can check the reviews for those — but we can still line them up and take plenty of photos of the resulting face-off. The full gallery awaits below.

Samsung Galaxy Note vs. Dell Streak 5… fight! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:17:00 EST.