These dots are probably a side effect of the Synaptics-provider active digitizer, which should allow for pen input-we weren't able to evaluate this aspect of the tablet in our testing. The biggest annoyance is probably the fact that you can see the digitizer layer sometimes-it’s a small grid of dots you can make out faintly if there’s light reflecting off the front of the tablet.
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Colors and viewing angles are good, and the display gets nice and bright, and Dell recently issued a software update to recalibrate the auto-brightness sensor in response to complaints about dimness from early reviewers.
The screen itself is a 1280×800, 189 PPI number that we would have been pretty happy about in late 2012 or early 2013.
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We've wanted to give Dell's Venue 8 Pro a full review since we went hands on with it back in October-it is in many ways representative of this second wave of 8-inch Windows tablets and shares much in common with other entries like Toshiba's Encore or Lenovo's ThinkPad 8.įinally, there are Windows tablets that can stand up to the likes of the 2013 Nexus 7 or the Retina iPad mini. And, OEMs have actually created some nice hardware to go with it all. Intel has released new, more capable Atom chips with better performance, and Windows 8.1 has made much-needed improvements on the software side. It's been a few months since that first wave of small Windows tablets hit, and things are looking up. They were tablets strictly for die-hard Windows fans, and they fell laughably short of the iPad and the best tablets from the Android ecosystem. Early hardware efforts like the Acer Iconia W3 were cheap in all the worst ways. Windows 8 was initially designed for tablets sized 10-inches-and-up, and many of the OS' features didn't work on small screens (or in portrait orientation).
The Intel Atom chips that powered them were too slow for all but the most basic usage. Let's not mince words: the first 8-inch Windows 8 tablets were no good. MicroUSB 2.0 (supports charging and USB OTG), microSD card reader, headphones Windows 8.1 32-bit with Office Home and Student 2013ġ.33GHz Intel Atom Z3470D (Turbo up to 1.86GHz)