Dell Venue, Android phone for Profesional user

Known as PC vendors, Dell is trying to enter the world smartphone market has been dominated by the iOS and Android. Beginning with a Dell Streak, Dell is updating its Android product line by presenting Dell Venue. Although still using Froyo OS, but the Venue has been equipped with highclass features like 8MP camera and 720p HD video recording capabilities.


Wrapped in plastic casing which is surrounded with metal trim, Dell Venue highlight the impression of a very elegant and tough. The back of the phone using a contoured plastic coating to prevent the Venue regardless of the hand grip.


In the front view, will find the dominance of the touch screen which comes with two touch buttons: back, menu, and home. On the right side of the phone, present the volume button and camera shutter button. Just beside it, We can find a switch button to activate vibrate mode. The existence of this button is very useful for us who are busy meeting that requires quiet. Well there is a hole at the top of the 3.5 mm jack and power button that also serves as a key lock.


While in the back, looking 8-megapixel camera and flash. While the speaker holes can be found on both sides of the bottom of the phone body. At the top of the screen, the Dell pair the phone speaker holes and proximity sensors.


The theme of professional, Dell has provide Venue with 1 GHz Scorpion processor. To support its performance, Venue has also equipped with 1GB of ROM and 512MB RAM.
For the battery itself, Venue still use lithium ion batteries with 1400mAh capacity. With such a small battery, we certainly can not expect a long standby time for the Venue.

Like other Android phones, Venue has been used with amoled capacitive touch screen measuring 4.1 inches. Convex-shaped screen has also been protected with a layer of scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass. GPU Adreno 200 at Venue will surely give satisfaction in enjoying the graphics that appear on the big screen. Dell uses the screen with 480 x 800 pixels resolution and pixel density of up to 228 ppi. However, in the outdoors under the sun, we can not see the display on the menus clearly.

Dell has graced the venue with Stage UI which displays seven unique panels of Music, Social, TuneIn Radio, Stage Widget, Picture, Browser and Email Accounts.
Direct access to the email account on a panel of email and favorite websites through the web panel, the position of Venue as a phone designed for professionals. With the Social Panel, we can see the tweet and newsfeeds from Twitter and Facebook directly from the front screen. Not only see, We can also write a tweet or update status.


Being on the $400 price range, performing daring to present the powerful 8 megapixel autofocus camera, reinforced with flash and digital zoom up to four times. To improve the results of the pictures taken, Dell added a row of settings such as focus, exposure, scene modes, color effects, contrast sharpness and so on. To take a picture of the homescreen, We can do this by tapping the camera icon on the panel Picture.

For the picture itself, is quite clear both inside and outside the room. However, we will see a greenish effect on the resulting images. As for the focus is less work perfectly, which is characterized by face tracking features that are less agile in responding to the movement of objects.

To support its function as a smart phone, Dell has equipped Venue with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA connection and Wi-Fi 80 211 b/g receiver. For its internal connectivity, we can take advantage of Bluetooth and data cable.

To support roaming activity in cyberspace, Dell also equipped with an HTML browser Android, which has supported the flash player. Facebook and Twitter applications have also been implanted into the Venue.


Comes with the latest OS, Venue also has been equipped with distinctive features such as Android Android Market, Google Search, Google Maps, YouTube and Gmail. In the Venue, Dell also has instilled QuickOffice application that allows you to read, edit, and even create a new file format word and excel. As for powerpoint and pdf feature is only available for read only.
In the Venue, We can also take advantage of Zinio Reader apps to read the magazine for free or pay-in ebook format.

In the audio sector, Dell has been equipped with various features and application support is fairly complete. Includes artist, album, song and playlist, we can decorate the songs according to taste. Not only that, even this sector becomes a shortcut when we want a song that is playing as a ringtone.
In the video sector, support for 3GPP, AVI and MP4 players dominate the video data that we have. However, all of which will be run by the presence of micro SD as the data source. Luckily Dell has 16GB memory card included in sales package.

Venue benchmark test results using a Quadrant Standard Edition managed to get a score of 671, lower than the Samsung Galaxy S. Obtaining a benchmark score that was compiled Dell Venue is quite disappointing when viewed from the hardware specs it has. While successfully obtained when using the LINPACK MFLOPS score 30,178.

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