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Hey how's it going guys my name is Dave 2d and I've been using the new Dell Venue 8 7840 for the past couple of days and I just want to share some quick thoughts with you guys the first thing is the packaging now Dell was never really known for amazing packaging but on a premium tablet like this they're still using that brown cardboard box uh ok the tablet itself super thin I think it's six millimeters which is the thinnest on the market if I'm not mistaken and really nice and thin bezels so when you're holding it it just feels it feels really nice I the one thing that's a little weird is that because of the super thin bezels you're you have a tendency to hold it down by its chin and when you're doing that you're covering the front facing camera you're covering the speakers and you often cover the cameras in the back so not really a flaw but it makes you wonder if they could have you know done something a little different the processor they put in this was the new Intel quad core atom now if you'll snap you overall but there's definitely some lag when it comes to doing the photo editing like the 3d photos which I'll get into later the screen is nice and crispy I find that the colors are good for an OLED without it being too saturated speakers nice and loud it gets a little distorted at higher volumes but that's kind of the nature of tablet speakers now software wise it's missing lollipop I've grown to love the lollipop experience and I think that you know with Dell they're not the fastest when it comes to updating their operating systems on their tablets and stuff so what like I mean KitKat took them I think like six seven months to get when they're running jelly bean so I imagine you know it'll be summer or maybe even like early fall before this thing gets a lollipop so we'll see four point four is it feels dated once you've used lollipop for a while but I think that'll just resolve itself in time now the big thing that a lot of people are buying this tablet for or are interested in this tablet for is the camera now I've used the camera for I'd say like 7080 shots I'm not a huge photography person but I like taking photos and I think the whole concept of the depth the depth changing thing is really cool on paper I remember watching some tech demos at the Intel Developer Forum in September yeah at September or October last year and the tech looked awesome you to be able to it's basically like a light row camera right you can take a picture and adjust your focus after you've taken the picture which seems really cool on paper now when I got this thing I've started taking pictures indoors and I was like wow this thing this thing takes really bad photos but then it turns out the image you see in the live preview is just really crappy the photos are a little better not great but they're better than what it looks like on the screen now in terms of the realsense 3d camera it's pretty cool to play with it for a bit but then for me the novelty wore off pretty quick just because the image quality was relatively poor I've only used a camera for a couple of days so I'm not sure where I stand yet with the whole realsense camera thing on one hand I feel like there's apps out there that can create or at least simulate artificially using software a very similar experience by you know artificially changing the focal point of a photo but it's cool that this thing has hardware and I feel like there are other applications that having three lenses can be used for there's a tool in the camera application that supposedly lets you measure the distance between two points you kind of tap out on the photo but every time I use it the the measurements weren't particularly accurate and it just felt pretty gimmicky overall I think it's a pretty good tablet my issues with the camera I just have high expectations for cool tech like that and I thought that you know with that with the amount of hype it had received from CES and the IDF last year I thought it'd be really cool but maybe just needs a little more testing on my part but yeah if you guys liked the video give it a like and sub if you want to sub it's been nice I'll see you guys next time