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hey what is up guys and cabbie HD here and normally when you think of Android tablets you don't think of Dell I needed it uh but they're starting out 2015 on a pretty hot note with their first entry into the high-priced mid-sized Android tablet category with this this is the Dell Venue 8 7000 so obviously the design is the number one thing that's gonna stand out here first of all it's the world's thinnest tablet actually didn't know that when I got it it's six millimeters thin although not exactly sure that's a good thing being so thin it has square edges and being thicker wouldn't make it any more difficult to hold or anything and it's actually kind of hard to pick up off a flat table so I wouldn't mind it being a little bit thicker or a little bit more rounded to house some extra battery but there you have it it's super thin and when you take a step back is probably going to remind you of the sharp aquos crystal that I reviewed not too long ago but blown up into a tablet size so it has the three thin bezels around the top and sides and one big chin with a front facing speaker and front facing camera on the bottom and this is a pretty polarizing design I think it's actually really cool for a phone but it's a bit different on a tablet phones these days are mainly for use with one hand in portrait mode but tablets like this are more often used with two hands so it gets switched to landscape a lot this Dell tablet really seems like it's meant to stay portrait and stay in one hand because when you turn it sideways things get weird you know as the speaker's supposed to be on the left side or on the right side there's no palm rejection technology like iPad set so you got to be careful about how you hold it on the thinner side I don't know it seems like the design is better suited towards phones but you can make it work now this speaker on the chin here it's a stereo speaker actually and it gets pretty loud which is difficult to muffle by accident but there's no stereo audio image since everything is coming from one side which is a shame because it's actually a really good speaker but you do have of course this good chunk of metal over here on the side to grip to hold it and I gotta say it's overall a very well-built tablet got handed to Dell with the metal chassis and the tactile very clicky buttons I liked I'm sure you could bend it if you tried hard enough but at least you don't sit on your tablet so the one thing that actually did annoy me the build materials was this glass on the back it does house the rear facing cameras I'll talk about in a bit but it's a serious fingerprint magnet which is not pretty and also the first one of these tablets that I had shipped to me from Best Buy the packaging was a little bit bumped in just a little bit on the corner but because the tablets it's so close to the edge of the packaging this little bruise turned out to be a big crack on the corner of the tablet the weakest spot obviously this isn't going to happen to everyone but I have to mention it but my new one obviously has no problems so these midsize tablets are getting more and more beautiful and powerful and this is in addition to both of those trends so it's rocking an 8.4 inch 2560 by 1600 OLED display and it is beautiful you can see with these dull live wallpapers and all kinds of stuff it is seriously one of the best-looking tablet displays I've ever seen it's sixteen by nine so it handles videos well movies look fantastic and that's really what these tablets are all about right media consumption and also gaming gaming looks really good again if you can get past the weird grip ergonomics and the one sided speaker this is about as good as games can look on an Android tablet super bright colorful vivid saturated great viewing angles and everything it's really nice and with all these pixels gaming performance is also very impressive but now I'm just you know playing regular not super intense games like Leo's fortune and Riptide gp2 and Real Racing 3 but it handles them all really well and I guess you could say portrait games are its specialty with audio coming out from the front facing speaker feels kind of like this thing was built for breaking Temple Run records anyway pass gaming all these pixels tend to make near stock Android elements look pretty small but also very sharp and in everyday performance with this 2k display I did see dropped frames not really like lag or slowness but definitely dropping frames which made animations look like they stutter even though they go the correct speed it's roxeanne android 4.4 kitkat hopefully lollipop very soon to improve performance a bit and it's fairly lightly customized so nothing too crazy like a heavy skin but some stuff is added for the Dell and Intel experience but it stays pretty close to stock Android in the look and feel so it's rocking an Intel Atom quad-core processor at 2.3 gigahertz and two gigs of ram and has little additions like max audio which stays permanently in your notifications but it's really just a shortcut to a super simple equalizer and stuff like my dell in quick settings and other things to flip to silence and intel smart video they all kind of sit buried in the settings little things that I use maybe once or twice to demo them but then never really found myself using again so I just really use it like any any other Android tablet really and the rest of the experience is pretty familiar so it's great for that stock android kitkat is compelling to use here in portrait mode which is fine it's just weird because it feels like a giant phone experience instead of a small tablet experience the tablet has three camera sensors on the back that are pretty much impossible to take a picture with without blocking them somehow but they're supposed to combine to take 8 megapixel photos and also record depth information using intel's realsense technology it might remind you of what the HTC One m8 did with its duo camera sorry Dale I didn't really use it Alabama much it's a tablet and I don't really use my tablet to take pictures for any sort of exotic reasons other than to just have one to scan barcodes or something so it's there I only really used it once because it required the Dell gallery app to actually take advantage of any of these features it looked like it worked ok but yeah it didn't really use it so at the end of the day this is one of the more head-turning interesting looking Android tablets out there and it's a risk it's not necessarily my favorite design I still think there are better ways to do a mid-size tablet but I'm glad Dell took the risk and taking risks is good that being said I don't think I would recommend this as my first choice for a tablet in this midsize category there are still over things like the Nexus 9 the iPad Mini retina and even the Nvidia shield tablet that I think are all better buys for this approximate size and price I would probably recommend this more if it was 100 bucks less but still good on Dell for taking the risk and it's their first dip at getting their feet wet in the premium Android tablet category I would still give the edge to this in the display department over pretty much any other mid-size tablet but it depends on how much you weigh that against the other things so there you go that's the Dell Venue 8 7000 thanks for watching this review and if you enjoyed it feel free to hit that thumbs up button below and also there's a subscribe button below if you want to see more videos like this again thanks for watching and talk to you guys in the next one peace