By Ian Sherr

Dell Inc. plans to unveil on Thursday several new tablets and a smartphone, key parts of a strategy to attract more consumers and move beyond its core corporate customer base.

The Round Rock, Texas, computer maker plans to introduce a seven-inch tablet, dubbed “Streak 7,” at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new Streak tablet follows a five-inch model Dell launched last summer.

The seven-inch Streak will include 4G wireless Internet connectivity from Deutsche Telekom AG’s T-Mobile USA unit and carries a dual-core processor by Nvidia Corp. The device, which weighs less than a pound, runs a version of Google Inc.’s Android operating system for mobile devices.

“It’s like the original Streak, but much bigger,” John Thode, who manages Dell’s handset device group, told Dow Jones Newswires.

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(Originally published January 7, 2011, in the Wall Street Journal.)