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hey what's going on guys so mark then sang it from TechnoBuffalo and today we're gonna be reviewing the Dell Venue 8 7000 series I've been using this tablet for about two weeks now and I think it's time to give you guys our full review and see whether or not it's worth that hefty $399 price tag so we're gonna split this review up into two different categories what I like and what I don't like so let's go ahead and start with what I like about the tablet first is the screen the 8.4 inch 2560 by 1600 pixel resolution screen on the Dell Venue 8 7000 is gorgeous it's OLED so you can expect the colors to look great blacks or black the colors are saturated and it also offers wide viewing angles which is great I also like the display is almost bezel is except for that huge chin at the bottom where the camera and stereo speakers sit it is weird holding the tablet in portrait and landscape mode since the body is a bit uneven I really can't get enough of the super thin bezels it makes reading and watching movies even better since there's just so much screen to look at comparing it to the shield tablet or the Nexus 9 you can see right away how thin the bezels are onto Dell Venue 8 7000 also the colors look so much richer compared to the other 2 thanks to that OLED panel another thing that I really like about the Dell Venue 8 7000 is the build quality this tablet is the world's thinnest tablet coming in at just 6 millimeters thick and every bit of it just feels like a premium tablet comparing it again to the Nexus 9 and shield tablet you can see just how thin Dells device really is it's got an aluminum body along with a glass panel on the back which we'll talk about later in a video and overall it's just a well-made tablet the buttons on the sides are very clicky there's a micro USB port on the bottom for charging and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack next to it and storage is also expandable at 228 gigabyte via a micro sd card I also like this comes with an almost stock Android experience out of the box it's not heavily skinned just a few software tweaks and apps from Dell and Intel like my Dell which is those own information app about the tablet where you can check for the warranty get online support and more there's also Dells own camera app in gallery app but otherwise everything is mostly stock Android unfortunately there's no Android 5.0 lollipop available just yet but Dell said they're working on it so we should that's you hit the tablet in the near future now in terms of performance inside the Dell Venue 8 is a quad-core Intel Atom processor clocked in at 2.3 gigahertz with 2 gigabytes of RAM now playing games on this is great I was playing asphalt 8 Real Racing 3 Angry Birds go and all performed really well no these aren't intense games whatsoever but I was able to play games at a very suitable framerate now I did notice some occasional drop frames going in and out of apps or swiping through the home screen but nothing too serious it's not lag it's definitely dropped frames and hopefully when the device receives Android lollipop this little problem should be fixed battery life is also a plus I get about 12 or so hours of usage thanks to its huge 5900 milliamp battery maybe a bit more it really depends on how you intend to use the tablet I read a few books watch youtube videos watch suits Netflix and played some games and came away really impressed with the battery life now let's talk about what I didn't like about the tablet and it pretty much revolves around the cameras and the funky economics while it feels premium and I liked aluminum build but the design is just weird because of that huge chin at the bottom it does take some time getting used to there's also no palm rejection technology like the iPad so you'd really have to be careful where you put your other hand when using tablet in landscape mode or even portrait mode another thing I'm not a big fan of are the cameras it's a tablet so I'm not really expecting the image quality to be good I think it's silly to take pictures with your tablet but let's talk about the front-facing cameras first now since the camera on the front is placed at the bottom of the tablet it's really weird to take pictures holding the tablet like how it's meant to be held in this case you have to turn the tablet upside down and use it this way in order to get a decent shot moving on to the back cameras there's an 8 megapixel shooter in the back alongside two other cameras to capture depth information it's using intel's realsense technology to create a high definition map that allow you to measure and refocus images with just a tap of a button but the results I got were pretty unnatural now with all that being said I'm giving the Dell Venue 8 7000 a TechnoBuffalo score of 8 out of 10 well mostly every part of this review is positive would it be my first choice as a tablet probably not I had the chance to play around with the Nexus 9 for a bit which John absolutely loves and he reviewed the Nvidia shield tablet which I was really impressed with I thought it the best tablet i've used at the time but if the Dell Venue 8 7000 was only $100 cheaper maybe even $50 cheaper I'd seriously consider it the thinner profile great looking screen and longer battery life are definitely appealing and if you can get past the funky organ aam excite think you'd be pretty happy using Dells mid-size high-end device thank you guys so much for watching if you liked this video make sure to give it a thumbs up and if you haven't subscribed yet make sure to hit the subscribe button I'll see you guys in the next one