Dell Venue
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Dell Venue Overview
The Dell Venue is also known as the long rumored Dell Thunder. It's rockin' a 4.1 inch touchscreen, Android 2.2, and a 1Ghz processor. The phone comes in both AT&T and T-Mobile flavors in the United States, but neither carrier has elected to subsidize it.
Other specs include an 8 megapixel camera, 1GB of internal storage, 512MB of RAM, and more. The Venue launched with Froyo, but it's highly unlikely that it'll go any further than that.
Dell Venue Specs
| General | |
| Form Factor: | Candybar |
| AKA: | Dell Thunder |
| Date Released (YYYY/MM/DD): | 2011/02/04 |
| Size | |
| Weight: | 5.78 ounces |
| Dimensions: | 4.76x2.52x0.51 inches |
| Display | |
| Resolution: | 480 x 800 pixels |
| Size: | 4.1 inches |
| Type: | AMOLED |
| Camera | |
| Video: | 720p |
| Flash: | LED |
| Auto-focus: | Yes |
| Megapixels: | 8 MP |
| Connectivity | |
| GPS: | A-GPS |
| USB: | microUSB |
| Bluetooth: | Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, A2DP, AVCRP, others |
| Wi-Fi: | 802.11 b/g |
| HDMI: | No |
| Multimedia | |
| Headset Jack: | 3.5 mm |
| Radio: | FM |
| Battery | |
| Type: | 1400 mAh Li-Ion |
| Hardware/OS | |
| Operating System: | Android 2.2 |
| Internal Memory: | 1GB |
| External Memory: | microSD/SDHC up to 32 GB |
| RAM: | 512MB |
| Processor: | 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 |
Dell Venue Reviews
CNET The Dell Venue has an attractive, solid design with a large 4.1-inch touch screen. The Android 2.2 smartphone also features a 1GHz Snapdragon processor for smooth performance and comes with a number of extra apps.
Engadget Yes, it's the Dell Venue, and no, you still can't buy one outside Hong Kong or South Korea just yet. All we can speculate is that this Android phone is facing the same manufacturing issues as its WP7 cousin, but hopefully we're wrong.
Phone Arena Fast forward to early this year in February, the Dell Venue finally became a reality by bringing all the wonderful things we saw with its Windows Phone 7 counterpart in the Dell Venue Pro – sans the keyboard though.
Android Central Close your eyes and imagine this: you're a tech giant that has made billions of dollars on desktop and laptop computers. You were once one of the largest tech companies in America, and today you still maintain a large PC market share. But the times, they are a changin', and you realize in order to stay relevant, you'll have to play the smartphone game.
Android Community Because Dell has positioned this phone as a no-nonsense Android 2.2 Froyo smartphone that doesn’t pretend to have the absolute best in any one category of features, instead aiming for a group of people who trust the brand, trust the feel, and trust the look of the phone, so too will this review be short and sweet.
Android Police After being thoroughly unimpressed with the sleek and sexy DROID Charge last week, and knowing that the Venue was next on my device-review checklist, I was prepared for yet more disappointment. Let's face it - Dell has been the butt of quality control, technical support, and advertising (Dude! you're...) jokes for years now.
Pocket Now Once known as the Thunder, the Dell Venue is an Android 2.2 Froyo smartphone which inherits the same high build quality from its Windows Phone 7 counterpart. It's also utilizing Dell's proprietary Stage UI, made famous by the Dell Streak.
ZDNet My Dell Venue Pro is the best Windows Phone 7 device currently available with rock solid hardware, unique portrait QWERTY keyboard, and nice AMOLED display. You may be a bit confused with a similarly named device (I know I was at first), the Dell Venue that is an Android-based smartphone.
PCMag The Dell Venue cell phone is a keyboardless, Android-powered version of the Venue Pro, which runs Windows Phone 7. Sadly, there's little to distinguish the Venue from devices made by more established handset firms, and without an AT&T or T-Mobile subsidy, it costs much more up-front than competing products.
PC World The Dell Venue marks my second encounter with the Android mobile OS on a Dell mobile device and things have definitely improved since the days of the Streak.
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Dell Venue News
Dell Venue Now Available for Pre-Order for $500 Unlocked (AT&T or T-Mobile 3G), Coming February 18th The Dell Venue hasn’t been the most exciting device to follow, but it’s actually a nice-looking device that could attract a few eyes sitting on store shelves. Dell’s just put the thing up for order for $500 unlocked. Dell’s letting customers choose between versions with AT&T or T-Mobile’s 3G bands, so even if you live [...]
How to Root the Dell Venue We still have yet to hear of this thing outside of India and South Korea, but the Dell Venue has been rooted. We’re sure a good chunk of our reader base doesn’t have this phone, but for the sake of anticipation, we’ll inform you guys anyway. A quick download of the drivers needed and a [...]
Dell India Showing Venue Dell India’s website is now showcasing the Android powered Venue, claiming it to be “your own personal express lane to everything”. This 4.1″ display and FroYo powered device invokes the feeling “what else ya got?”, and doesn’t play to the wow factor. That’s not to say this device doesn’t have the specs we can expect [...]
Dell Venue Announced with Android 2.2, No Keyboard KT out in South Korea has outed the Dell Venue – an Android version of the Windows-running Venue Pro. When rumors first began to swirl about the device, we’d heard it’d be getting a full-portrait QWERTY keyboard to somewhat match its older brother, but that seems to have been ditched. Instead, expect a 4.1-inch AMOLED [...]
Dell Venue Takes a Second Lap Around the FCC, this Time Carrying T-Mobile Bands The last time we saw the Dell Venue (used to be Dell Thunder) hanging around the FCC it was poised for an AT&T release with a WCDMA Band II / V radio on board. That version could also find a home on the major three Canadian carriers Rogers, Bell, and Telus. But T-Mobile may get [...]
While word came out earlier in the week that the Dell Venue Pro could be getting an Android version, an FCC filing is pegging a non-Pro version in the form of a rebranded Dell Thunder. As you may recall, the Dell Thunder is an Android phone carrying the same design and spec features of the [...]
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