Dell Venue 8 7000 Series Tablet is a Crazy Thin Aluminum Beauty

Dell is refreshing some of their Venue tablets, including a stylish new look for the Venue 8. The Venue 8 7000 Series will be made of machined aluminum, with good enough specs inside to ensure that the tablet performs as well as it looks. The Venue 8 7000 series will boast an 8.4″ 2560 x 1600 OLED display (361 ppi), which scores extra aesthetic points by being edge-to-edge. That machined aluminum body is very thin at 6 mm (the thinnest tablet, for what that’s worth, which I suspect diminishes every time someone makes the claim), and the whole thing weighs just 305 grams (0.67 pounds). Inside, there’s a quad-core 2.3 GHz Intel Atom processor backed by 2 GB of LPDDR3 RAM, which will run Android 4.4 KitKat out of the box. Cameras look like standard fare, with an 8 MP rear camera and a 2 MP front camera, but there’s a little more to that rear camera. It’s an Intel RealSense Snapshot Depth Camera, making the Dell Venue 8 7000 Series the first commercial tablet to carry one. This camera will be able to map out depth for all pictures taken, which opens up some interesting 3D editing possibilities in ...