Dell Venue 8 Pro and Venue 8 Do Windows and Android

Name: Dell Venue 8 and Dell Venue 8 Pro
Brand: Dell

by Joshua Gulick — Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 12:00 PM EDT

Dell estimates battery life under normal use to be about 7.9 hours for the Venue 8 and 9.9 hours for the Venue 8 Pro. Having used both tablets for weeks that sounds about right. And as you’ll see, the Venue 8 Pro’s battery life rocked our Web browsing test.

The Dell Venue 8 landed a little behind most of the other Android tablets we’ve tested with AnTuTu’s battery test with about 6.73 hours of battery life. On the other hand, the Dell Venue 8 Pro knocked it out of the park in our Web browsing test, which refreshes a Web page regularly until the battery is exhausted. The Dell Venue 8 Pro lasted 14.1 hours, topping even the Microsoft Surface 2.

Dell Venue 8

Dell Venue 8 Pro

As we mentioned earlier, the Venue 8 and Venue 8 Pro have front and back cameras. We particularly liked the 5MP back cameras. In both cases, the camera software handles auto-focus during the shot and provides basic photo-editing tools afterwards. The shots here are unedited indoor and outdoor photos from the tablets.

Tags: Dell, Android, Intel Atom, Venue, NASDAQ: INTC, NASDAQ: Dell, Windows 8.1

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.