14 DAY TRIAL // Back in September, Dell unveiled an interesting new tablet. The company called it the Venue 8 7000 tablet and said it would arrive with a Moorefield processor on the inside.
But what distinguished the product from others on the market was its extreme thinness and the fact that it took advantage of Intel’s RealSense 3D camera technology.
Going back to its anorexic frame, the tablet beat the Sony Xperia Z2 one which is just 0.25 inch / 6.4 mm or the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 or 10.5 with its 0.26 inch / 6.4 mm frame.
Dell Venue 8 7000 is the sleekest tablet out there
Since Dell announced the product, Apple also launched the iPad Air 2 that comes with an amazing 0.24 inch / 6.1 mm profile. But the Venue 8 7000 is still a tad skinnier, boasting an impossible 6 mm / 0.24 inch.
Back when Dell introduced the tablet, it didn’t mention anything about pricing or availability date, but we speculated the tablet will sell for a pretty high price tag, which indeed turns out to be the case.
The Dell Venue 8 7000 Series will ship out in late November for $499 / €394 a pop. The info has been made available via the Dell website, where folks with a voucher can request a free tablet.
The voucher is worth $499 / €349, so we assume this is the final price of the tab. No word on where one can get such a voucher, tough.
Dell Venue 8 7000 spec roundup
Anyway, for those of you who missed our earlier coverage on the tablet, here it goes, a memory refresh. The Dell Venue 8 7000 Series tablet consists of an 8.4-inch OLED display with 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution, which draws power from an Intel Atom Z3500 series chip.
As we mentioned above, the device takes advantage of Intel’s RealSense 3D camera, which can shoot 3D video.
But wait, that’s not all; the technology also enables gesture-based controls, so one can interact with apps or games by virtue of hand waves and such, pretty much in the vein of the Xbox Kinect motion controller.
The tablet is one of the first Android tablets to ship out to customers with a RealSense camera. Couple that with the high-resolution display, portable form factor and extreme sleekness, and the tablet is bound to attract some customers’ attention.
But given the fact that the tablet will be sold for the same price as an entry-level iPad Air 2, it will be interesting to see what consumers ultimately end up choosing.