Dell Venue Android Powered Smartphone

Until now the Dell Venue device name has only been associated with Windows Phone 7. But now the computer maker has officially launched the Dell Venue——and it’s an Android-running smartphone with a 4.1-inch display with Gorilla Glass, and an eight megapixel camera.

Dell Venue Android Powered Smartphone

The Dell Venue smartphone was formerly launched at Bangalore Fashion week and is based on Android 2.2 Froyo platform featuring a blazing-fast Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon QSD8250 processor.

The Dell Venue smartphone is also equipped with Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, Proximity sensor for auto turn-off, Digital compass, multi-touch input, and comes with 8GB or 16GB of internal memory, 512 MB RAM and 1GB of ROM memory. The handset also features microSD memory card slot supporting up to 32GB expandable memory. In addition to the comprehensive entertainment features of the device, the Dell Venue Android smartphone delivers advanced phone features including GPS + A-GPS functionality with Google Maps 5.0 with  navigation, Android chrome full html browser for mobile devices, Adobe flash 10.1 support and an advanced 8.0 megapixel autofocus camera with 4x digital zoom, and video recording capability.

Featuring dedicated camera key, the Dell Venue smartphone allows video playback that supports  H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, WMV video files and for messaging it offers email client with multiple accounts, POP3, IMAP, ActiveSync, Push Email, Web mail, Microsoft Exchange, SMS, MMS, Native IM client. For connectivity, Dell Venue smartphone offers GPRS Class 12, EDGE class 12 236.8 kbps download speed, 3G  HSDPA with 7.2 Mbps download, 3G HSUPA with 5.76 Mbps download speed, WiFi 802.11b/g/N wireless LAN and Bluetooth 2.1+A2Dp wireless connectivity in addition to microUSB 2.0 port for wired connection.

Some other features of Dell Venue Android smartphone include 3.5mm audio port, internal stereo speakers, and built-in GPS with A-GPS support with Bing Maps, Java MIDP 2.0 support, and includes Audio media player supporting MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ files and video media player supporting MP4, WMV, H.264/H.263 files. It also offers Facebook and Twitter website integration and includes YouTube application with Flash support. Measuring 121 x 64 x 12.9 mm, the Dell Venue Android smartphone weighs 164 gms and comes with Li-ion 1400 mAh battery that can provide up to 6 hrs of talk time on 2G (5 hrs on 3G) and up to 300 hrs of stand-by time on 2G network.

It's hard to deny that Dell's come a long way with the styling of its mobile devices, evolving from the cheap-looking Axim Windows Mobile PDAs (although the X50 series received much love from the community) to the now eye-catching Venue duo. Like the Streak, we've had people inquiring us about or at least eyeing at our Venue -- we're guessing it's mostly to do with the rounded chrome sides contrasting the black body, and the vibrant 4.1-inch AMOLED screen certainly helps as well despite its low visibility under strong daylight. Upon closer inspection, you'll also notice the subtly curved "Shear Design" Gorilla Glass -- which is also featured on the Venue Pro -- that covers practically the entire face of the phone, thus contributing towards the Venue's premium look no matter what angle you look at it from. Funnily enough, Dell didn't place much emphasis on the Shear Design's ergonomic benefits, but some of us feel that the curvature makes our thumb-swiping gesture slightly more comfortable. Maybe it's just us.

All in all, Dell's delivered a solid phone that comes in nice package, as well as a form factor that's no doubt more tolerable for the average joe. For what it's worth, the Venue is certainly a very attractive deal.