Dell Venue 8 Pro 5000 Tablet With Windows 10, USB Type-C Launched

Dell has refreshed one of its popular Windows tablets to stuff more processing power in it and upgrade the software. The company on Monday announced the launch of its latest Dell Venue 8 Pro 5000 tablet, the Dell Venue 8 Pro 5855. The improvements compared to the old Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet include a full-HD display, cellular connectivity support, and Windows 10 operating system out-of-the-box.

The company is currently selling its latest Dell Venue 8 Pro 5000 Series tablet from its official website, where the starting price is listed as $449 (roughly Rs. 30,300).

The original Dell Venue 8 Pro was launched back in 2014, and has since seen several iterations. The Dell Venue 8 Pro 5000 (2016) sports an 8-inch full-HD (1920x1080 pixels) display - a nice improvement over the HD (1280x800 pixels) display its predecessor shipped with.

The new Dell Venue 8 Pro is powered by a quad-core Intel Atom x5-Z8500 SoC clocked at 1.44GHz (up to 2.24GHz), coupled with 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of eMMC internal storage. It also supports microSD card, which you can use to add up to 128GB storage to the device.

The Venue 8 Pro 5855 also comes equipped with a USB Type-C connector, and has a Micro-SIM card slot. Other features of the new Dell Venue 8 Pro includes a 2-megapixel front-facing camera and a 5-megapixel rear shooter. The new Dell Venue 8 Pro also offers support for NFC, Wi-Fi 2×2 802.11ac with Miracast, and Bluetooth 4.0. There's a 19.5WHr Lithium Ion battery, and on the software front, the new Venue 8 Pro runs 64-bit Windows 10 Home or Pro.

Virtual reality set to transform filmmaking

Chris Milk stepped onto a TED Conference stage and took the audience on an awe-inducing trip into the future of movies. While much of the early attention on virtual reality has focused on use of the immersive technology in video games, Milk and his US startup Vrse are using it to transform storytelling and filmgoing. "We have just started to scratch the surface of the true power of virtual reality," Milk said. "It's not a video game peripheral. It connects humans to other humans in a profound way... I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world." He had everyone in the Vancouver audience at TED , which ended Friday, hold Google Cardboard viewers to their eyes for what was billed as the world's collective virtual reality experience. Google Cardboard gear is literally that -- cardboard

Explained: Camera Improvements in the New HTC 10

With the HTC 10, the Taiwanese company is promising to undo the past wrongs in the cameras of its previous flagship phones. The camera has long a weak point in HTC devices. At first, HTC sacrificed image resolution in the M8 and made the size of individual pixels larger to capture more light (what HTC called Ultrapixel). But the resulting 4 megapixel images were often fuzzy, especially when cropped or enlarged. To fix the issue, in its next flagship - the M9 - HTC went with smaller individual pixels in a 20-megapixel camera last year, but it still underperformed in extreme situations, such as indoors and close-ups. In the HTC 10, the company attempts to strike a balance with larger individual pixels (1.55µm), but not as large as before and a 12 megapixel sensor in its camera coupled with a ƒ/1.8 lens. HTC accepts that in the imaging performance in the M9 was not up to the kind of spec of what they really like to see in a flagship. HTC is giving a slight boost to the selfi...

Freedom 251: 30,000 Units Sold, Components for Up to 2.5 Million Will Be Imported

Ringing Bells, the makers of the Rs. 251 smartphone - the Freedom 251 - confirmed to Gadgets 360 on Tuesday that it has still only accepted payments for 30,000 units of the phone. It also added that the components for these phones will be imported, and only assembled in India, not made here. Ringing Bells stopped accepting orders on February 19, and claims to have received over 70 million registrations. The company President and Director both repeatedly stated that the price of the phone would be made possible through economies of scale, and making the phone in India to cut out import costs. Economies of scale? However, in a discussion with Gadgets 360 the company revealed that it had only sold 30,000 units of the phone on day one. The company has now confirmed that it has not sent out the payment emails to anyone else who registered - "we were working out details of cash on delivery, which we are announcing now, so we will be sending emails to the first 2.5...

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