Dell Venue smartphone review the venue where style and professionalism call home

Being a latecomer to any party is never a good decision to make, and it seems that Dell is about to find that out for itself the hard way now that its first Android-powered smartphone, the Dell Venue, has only been introduced to the market recently when countless other manufacturers have already established themselves as major players in the Android ecosystem. And going up against such big players is definitely not the easiest of tasks, even if Dell has an advantage in the form of the Android operating system beingextremely popular with consumers, which gives it an extremely large market to play with right from the get-go.

However, there is also the possibility that Dell could be adhering to the wise saying of "better late than never", and that it is always better to release a well-tested and stable product that will appeal to consumers as opposed to tacking on cutting edge technologies that have a knack for bleeding end-users a lot more than they are worth. But is that always the case? Well, we are about to find out shortly, right after these hardware specifications.

Dell Venue hardware specificationsProcessorQualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 system-on-a-chip with 1GHz Scorpion CPUMemory512MB RAMDisplay4.1-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display with native 800 x 480 resolutionOperating SystemAndroid Froyo (v2.2.2) built over Linux kernel 2.6.32.9Cameras8MP rear-facing cameraStorage capacity1GB, expandable with MicroSD cards of capacities up to 32GBFrequency bands2G: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100Wireless connectivity802.11 b/g, Bluetooth + A2DP + EDRWeight164g