Dell - Venue 8 7000 Series - 8.4" - Intel Atom - 16GB - Black
Model: V7840-1090BLK
SKU: 1645017
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Customers admire the Venue 8 7000 Series' screen quality and long battery life, frequently praising its crisp display and extended usage time. Positive feedback also highlights its lightweight design and generally good performance. However, the limited internal storage is a common complaint, along with the placement of the speakers.
I was totally awed by the design and qHD screen on the Venue 7840. The screen is the best display I have seen on an Android tablet. I looked at the Samsung Tab Pro 8.4, but TouchWiz was a deal-breaker. I was curious about performance with the Intel Atom chip and it has not disappointed. The is slight lag, but I suspect this may be more Kit Kat related. Apparently Dell has not provided a release date for Lollipop. The camera is a bit gimmicky, the features advertised in the Intel commercial are NOT functional in the software. I found this to be odd. Sony just got popped for advertising unavailable features on the PS Vita. Not that I would ever use the feature, but it was a bummer when I went to test it out only to receive a message that it was not yet available. The 16GB has not been an issue but the is a MicroSD card to expand. I have not had tom use it yet. The chin on the 7840 houses speakers and the front-facing camera. It's a little odd but is a good compromise for the thin bezel on the sides and top. It comes in handy holding it landscape. I use the tablet primarily at right as a reader or as a second screen when I don't wanna watch dumb reality shows the wife is watching. If she gripes about Sports or Sci-Fi I'm watching, the 7840 gives me the option to abdicate and give her the bedroom TV. Live to die another day. Thanks Dell!!
Posted by JT29
I picked this tablet 5 days ago and so far have been really enjoying it. The screen is amazing, the Intel Z3580 with 2GB of RAM absolutely flies, the build quality is top notch, the power/volume buttons feel nice, and I love the way this device feels in the hand. For me, this device has two fatal flaws: 16GB of memory is an ABSOLUTE joke. After taking the immediate OTA update, you are left with 9.XXGB of free space. This is 110% unacceptable in 2015. The ability to add and SD card is nice, but Android has made external storage much less appealing over the years. The second is no MHL or HDMI/slimport support whatsoever. (same as Nexus9) I imagine this is to drive users to the new dell cast, which may be nice, but forces users to drop an extra 80$. Overall, I love the device, but may end up taking it back and waiting for Dell to release a 32GB+ option. If this were included off the bat, I would say without hesitation that this is the best tablet on the market right now.
Posted by Dave82882
I've already written about my experience with the Dell Venue 8 7000 elsewhere so here it is edited for what Bestbuy considers inappropriate language: I've been agonizing over what to do about my light computing needs at home. I've got a workstation laptop at work which I take home, 10lb powerful behemoth which is great for technical work, but not so much when I'm just chilling on the couch or lazing around and doing light stuff. I'd been very tempted by the Surface Pro 3, in part because of my almost 10 years (school, work, grad school) of using thinkpad convertibles, but every time I tried one out, couldn't shake the feeling that it was too heavy for extended couch use and too redundant with the behemoth. I saw news on the 7840's release and was tempted to give it a try, especially since a local BestBuy had it available. Maybe I could leave the Windows ecosystem for my home needs. . . after all, I do have the behemoth when work needs to be done. . . So, I bought both a 7840, liked it, but wasn't quite sure I'd made the best choice. But I was disappointed by all the Windows tablets in BestBuy so I went back to the net to search for alternatives (or reasons to get a SP3) and was reminded of the Nvidia Shield tablet. The specs seemed promising and while it wasn't as high res as the Dell and had subpar reported battery life, the graphics potential seemed really good, so I pulled the trigger and ordered one from Amazon so I could compare them side by side. The Shield has a much better camera, the stylus is great (for those like me who like that stuff), and in certain situations, the Shield speakers are better (otherwise, they sound about the same to the Dell being slightly better), is much better for graphics intense games, and $100 less than a similarly specced 7840. On the other hand, for just about any activity other than intense gaming, the Dell's screen is much better, brighter, higher contrast ratio. The Dell also has better battery life and a bit lighter. The biggest plus for the Shield is when playing high quality graphics games (Grand Theft Auto just isn't going to stress things that much). After being disappointed that the Shield and Dell pretty much were the same when it came to rendering HD video, I was blown away by how much better the Shield was in a graphics intense game - even with scenes where there wasn't much going on, it was clear the Shield's graphics processing was superior. That said, I bet if there was a native Shield video player, it would kick the Dell's butt too. So, for me, I'm keeping the Dell. While it would be nice to pocket the $100 difference, I rarely play games at the level where I'd appreciate the Shield. Most of my use is web browsing and apps where the awesome screen on the Dell excels. That the Dell appears to have 2X+ the battery life (both from reviews and my personal use of the tablets) of the Shield is also a huge factor. Both tablets are gorgeous IMHO and if you are looking for a Android gaming device that doubles as your lazing around tablet, I'd hands down recommend the Shield over the Dell. I entertained getting rid of my FireTv and just keeping the Shield for tablet and TV duty but unless my game playing habits make a big change, I'll stick with the Dell. In unrelated news, this is cool to me because I got the Dell Streak when it first came out - they blazed the Android phablet trail and at least for the moment, are pretty compelling again. Edit: In response to a comment, I went and played with a Nexus 9 for a bit to compare against the Dell, here's what I found: Ok, got to use an N9 for a bit side by side and played a game (Modern Combat 5) on both. The N9 screen is brighter (likely due to a powerful LCD backlight) and resolution-wise comparable to the Dell. The Dell edges it out on crispness and likely sunlight readability. The screen tech in the Dell also strikes a blow in battery life, in just the 30 - 40 minutes I spent comparing the two, the N9 battery dropped twice as much as the Dell. Speaker-wise, they're on par with the N9 slightly edging out the Dell. UI responsiveness was about the same, game play in Modern Combat 5 was identical, though I did notice that the N9 loaded Modern Combat faster than the Dell (they were neck and neck for the first few sets of graphics / textures and other game elements, but then the N9 pulled away - ended up finishing about 5s sooner than the Dell). The Dell screen length and N9 screen length are about the same. So side by side, the N9 looks like someone took the screen and squared it up a bit. When browsing websites, the extra pixels on the Dell did give it a slight advantage when looking at things in portrait mode. In landscape, it was a bit nice to have images be bigger (on the N9). Even though the N9 weighs a bit more than the Dell (and Shield), it actually felt just as easy to hold as the Dell. I'm not sure if it has better weight distribution and perhaps I'd need to hold it for much longer, but over my demo time, my wrist felt the same holding either one. And the camera. Once again, the Dell is trounced camera wise. I'm still keeping the Dell so I"m really hoping there's an update that removes some of the awful camera performance. Note, there seem to be reports of less than stellar build quality on the N9 so you may want to do a comparison of product reviews on a big source like Amazon.
Posted by zboot